HANGMAN SOLVER

abbrev

1. (obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).

noun

1. (botany) The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
2. (colloquial, darts) A dart.
3. (computing) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
4. (graph theory) A directed edge.
5. A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
6. A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).

verb

1. (computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.
2. (intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
3. (intransitive, botany, of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
4. (transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.

noun

1. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
2. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
3. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
4. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.

verb

1. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
2. (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
3. (transitive) To give (an award).
4. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.

adj

1. Conscious or having knowledge of something.
2. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To warn.

noun

1. A device for cutting the awns from grain.

Adverb

1. At work; in action.

noun

1. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
2. (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
3. (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
4. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
5. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
6. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
7. A peasant; a farmer.
8. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
9. Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
10. One who bows or bends.
11. One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

verb

1. (obsolete) To lodge.
2. To embower; to enclose.

noun

1. (dance, music, historical) Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”)
2. (dance, obsolete) A type of dance move or step.
3. A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

verb

1. (intransitive) Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.
2. (intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
3. (intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
5. (transitive) To pour abuse on; to scold.

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A boar.
2. (chiefly Britain) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
3. Physical strength; muscularity.
4. Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.

verb

1. (intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.
2. (transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.

noun

1. plural of brew

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brew

adj

1. (US) Latino
2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
3. (of Asians) South Asian
4. (of East Asians) Southeast Asian
5. Having a brown colour.

noun

1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
2. (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
4. (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
5. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
6. (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
7. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
8. (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
9. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
10. A brown horse or other animal.

verb

1. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
2. (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
3. (intransitive) To become brown.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
5. (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
6. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.

noun

1. plural of brow

verb

1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
4. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of cowrie.

noun

1. (figurative) A very slow pace.
2. (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
3. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
4. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
5. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
6. The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).

verb

1. (intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
2. (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
3. (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
4. (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
5. (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
6. (intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
7. (transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
8. (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
9. (transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

noun

1. plural of craw

noun

1. A group of people, especially in Louisiana, who support a Mardi Gras float in parades, as well as other charity work.

noun

1. plural of crew

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crew

noun

1. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
4. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
5. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
6. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

verb

1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
2. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
3. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
4. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
6. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
7. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
8. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
9. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.

adj

1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
2. (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
3. (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
4. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
5. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
6. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
7. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
8. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
9. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
10. (forestry) The top of a tree.
11. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
12. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
13. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
14. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
15. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
16. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
17. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
18. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
19. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
20. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
21. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
22. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
23. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
24. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
25. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
26. Splendor; culmination; acme.
27. The dome of a furnace.
28. The highest part of a hill.
29. The highest part of an arch.
30. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
31. The raised centre of a road.
32. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
33. The topmost part of the head.
34. The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
35. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

verb

1. (archaic) past participle of crow
2. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
3. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
4. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
5. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
6. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
7. (slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
8. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
9. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
10. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
11. To declare (someone) a winner.
12. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
13. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
14. To hit on the head.
15. To place a crown on the head of.

noun

1. plural of crow

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crow

noun

1. (historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.

noun

1. A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment.

noun

1. (law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
2. (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
3. (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

verb

1. (transitive) To endow.
2. (transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.

noun

1. (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
2. (obsolete) Dower.
3. A natural gift or talent.
4. Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.

verb

1. To bestow a dowry upon.

noun

1. (archaic) Grass growing as a weed among corn.
2. (archaic) Ryegrass, darnel, cockle, tare, or wild oats.

verb

1. (UK, dialectal) To drench with water.

noun

1. A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
2. (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
3. (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
4. (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.

adj

1. Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
2. Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

verb

1. past participle of draw

noun

1. plural of draw

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draw

verb

1. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
2. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
3. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
4. (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
5. (transitive, figurative, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

adj

1. (especially in botany) Miniature.

noun

1. (astronomy) A star of relatively small size.
2. (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
3. (now often offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
4. An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
2. (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
3. (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
4. (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
5. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

Proper noun

1. name, a rare variant of Irwin.

Proper noun

1. name from the Norman French for Edward
2. derived from the given name

noun

1. plural of ewer

noun

1. (historical, UK) An office or place of household service where the ewers and table linen were kept.

det

1. Fewer women wear hats these days.
2. comparative degree of few; a smaller number.

noun

1. (Canada, US) A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
2. A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.

verb

1. (intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
3. (transitive) To communicate by frowning.
4. (transitive) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.

noun

1. plural of frow

adj

1. (archaic) musty, rancid

Proper noun

1. A peninsula in southern Wales.

noun

1. (by extension) A similar sound made by a human.
2. (by extension) An aggressive grumbling.
3. (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
4. (jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
5. A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
2. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
3. (intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
4. (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
5. (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.

adj

1. (US) Of a person: adult.
2. Covered by growth; overgrown.

verb

1. past participle of grow

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow

noun

1. One who hews.

Proper noun

1. name transferred back from the surname.

Noun

1. The Jewish population of the world collectively; the Jewish population of a locale.
2. The land of the Jews; Judea.

noun

1. Alternative form of jawar

adj

1. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
2. Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
3. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
4. comparative form of low: more low

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
2. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
3. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
4. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
5. (transitive) To bring down; to humble
6. (transitive) To depress as to direction
7. (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
8. (transitive) To make less elevated
9. (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
10. (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
11. (transitive) To reduce the height of
12. (transitive) to pull down
13. Alternative spelling of lour

noun

1. An open boxcar used on railroads.

noun

1. One who mews; a cat.

noun

1. A farm machine used in hay production (sickle mower, finger-bar mower).
2. A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns.
3. A person who cuts grass.

Proper noun

1. A lake on the border between Zambia and Congo.

Proper noun

1. A river in Poland and Belarus.

Noun

1. The historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal, and creators of its historic heritage and civilization.

adj

1. comparative form of new: more new, more recent.

noun

1. (Lancashire, Northern English dialectal) The alder tree.
2. (dated) A smuggler

noun

1. (nautical, slang) The captain of a ship.
2. One who owns something.

noun

1. One who paws.

adj

1. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.

noun

1. (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
2. (colloquial, dated) A large amount or number.
3. (countable) The ability to affect or influence.
4. (metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
5. (metonymically, archaic) An army, a military force.
6. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
7. (physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
8. (set theory) Cardinality.
9. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
10. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
11. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
12. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
13. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
14. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
15. Electricity or a supply of electricity.
16. Physical force or strength.
17. The ability to do or undergo something.
18. The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.

verb

1. (transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
2. (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
3. To enable or provide the impetus for.

noun

1. (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
2. (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
3. A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
4. Alternative form of porn.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fish for prawns.

noun

1. (colloquial) The act of prowling.

verb

1. (intransitive) To idle; to go about aimlessly.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To collect by plunder.

noun

1. plural of prow

noun

1. The muntjac, or barking deer.

adj

1. comparative form of raw: more raw

adj

1. (dialectal, rare) Foggy, misty (and dreary).

adv

1. In a raw manner.

noun

1. Synonym of renewal

verb

1. (now rare, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive.
2. (rare) To repeat.
3. (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
4. (transitive) To begin again; to recommence.
5. (transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
6. (transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with new pews.

verb

1. (transitive) To saw again or anew, as with, especially, recutting (remilling) lumber by remaking boards into thinner boards.
2. simple past tense of resee

verb

1. Alternative spelling of re-sew

verb

1. To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted.

verb

1. (transitive) To wax again.

verb

1. To wed again.

noun

1. A gunlock.

verb

1. (transitive) To wet again.

verb

1. (transitive) To win again or anew.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of rewin

noun

1. Alternative form of rowen (“aftermath”)
2. Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.
3. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.

adj

1. Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.

noun

1. (Victorian slang) money; ready money.
2. A boisterous person; a brawler.

adj

1. Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of row

noun

1. A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
2. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
3. The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply the spur to.
2. (transitive) To fit with spurs.
3. (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
4. (transitive, figurative) To incite; to goad.

noun

1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

noun

1. A rowing machine.
2. One who rows.

noun

1. One who saws; a sawyer.

noun

1. A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
2. A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.

noun

1. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
2. (billiards) Backspin.
3. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
4. (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
5. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
6. (nautical) A ship's propeller.
7. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
8. (slang) Salary, wages.
9. (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
10. (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
11. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
12. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
13. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
14. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
15. A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
16. An Archimedes screw.
17. An amphipod crustacean.
18. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.

verb

1. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
2. (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
3. (intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram.
4. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
5. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
6. (transitive) To contort.
7. (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
8. (transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
9. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.

noun

1. (obsolete) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
2. (obsolete) A scroll.

noun

1. Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.

noun

1. (India, historical) A native trooper.

noun

1. (now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.
2. A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
3. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
4. One who sews.

verb

1. (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

noun

1. (derogatory) An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
2. Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha).
3. Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha).

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beshrew; to curse.

noun

1. (historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.

adj

1. Obsolete form of sour.

noun

1. One who or that which sows.

noun

1. (medicine, US, dialect) thrush

adj

1. (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
2. Made of straw.
3. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

noun

1. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. (countable) A drinking straw.
3. (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
4. (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
5. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

verb

1. (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
2. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

verb

1. (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
2. (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
3. (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
4. To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.

verb

1. Obsolete form of strew.

noun

1. (Philippines) A homosexual man.
2. (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
3. (countable, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
4. (countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
5. (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
2. (transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of swear

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense of swear

noun

1. (countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.
2. (obsolete) A faint or swoon.
3. (uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.

verb

1. (intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
2. (transitive) To grind down.

noun

1. (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
2. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
3. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
2. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
3. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
4. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
5. To breed multitudes.
6. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Black.
2. (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
3. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.

noun

1. (IE dialectal) Variant of swath.
2. (UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
3. Obsolete spelling of sward

verb

1. (transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.

adj

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Dull; lazy; slow.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) Heavy.
3. (Northern England, Scotland) Niggardly.
4. (Northern England, Scotland) Reluctant; unwilling.
5. (Northern England, Scotland) Top-heavy; too high.

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
2. A swear word.

verb

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
2. (transitive) To administer an oath to (a person).
3. (transitive) To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
4. (transitive) To take an oath that an assertion is true.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
2. (UK dialectal) Heavy.
3. (UK dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined.