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noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of earth

noun

1. (Buddhism) One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
2. (Jainism) One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

noun

1. (Hinduism) One of the four aims of human life in Indian philosophy, along with dharma (righteousness), kama (desire), and moksha (liberation). The concept is variously translated, with translations including "meaning"/"purpose"/"goal" and "wealth".

noun

1. (UK, obsolete, dialect) A place of shelter for cattle.

noun

1. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
2. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
3. (sports) position on the field of play
4. A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).
5. A job or position, especially on a ship.
6. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
7. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)

verb

1. (astronautics) To use a device to bring a spaceship into its berth/dock
2. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to
3. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth/berthing

adj

1. A familial relationship established by childbirth.

noun

1. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
2. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
3. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
4. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
5. Misspelling of berth.
6. That which is born.

verb

1. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
2. To bear or give birth to (a child).

noun

1. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.
2. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

noun

1. (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.
2. A diagram.
3. A graph.
4. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
5. A navigator's map.
6. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
7. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
8. A tabular presentation of data; a table.
9. A written deed; a charter.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
2. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
3. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
4. (transitive) To record systematically.

noun

1. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.
2. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

noun

1. (physics) the weight of 1 litre of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure. Equal to approximately 0.09 grams.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of crwth

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. Obsolete spelling of dearth

noun

1. (obsolete) A drought.
2. (obsolete, uncountable) Dryness.

name

1. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; Our planet, third out from the Sun.

noun

1. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
2. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
3. (archaic) The human body.
4. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
5. (metonymically) The people on the globe.
6. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
7. (uncountable) Soil.
8. A region of the planet; a land or country.
9. Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
10. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
11. The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
12. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
13. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.

verb

1. (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.
2. (intransitive) To burrow.
3. (transitive) To bury.
4. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

noun

1. (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
2. (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
3. (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
4. (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether
5. (uncountable) Starting fluid.
6. (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
7. (uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
8. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
9. (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).

verb

1. (transitive, slang) To viciously humiliate or insult.

noun

1. (chiefly Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”)
2. An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.

adj

1. Misspelling of fourth.

adv

1. (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
2. Forward in time, place or degree.
3. Out into view; from a particular place or position.

prep

1. (obsolete) Forth from; out of.

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
2. (archaic) Alternative form of firth (“an arm or inlet of the sea”).
3. (obsolete) A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.
4. (obsolete) Sanctuary, asylum.
5. (rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.
6. A forest or wood; woodland generally.
7. A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.
8. Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.

noun

1. (business) Highly speculative investment.
2. (figuratively) unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel
3. The idle rich;
4. Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
5. foam

verb

1. (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
2. (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
3. (transitive) To cover with froth.
4. (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
5. (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

prep

1. (Scotland) out or outside

noun

1. (Germanic paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
2. (Germanic paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
3. A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
4. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
5. A dam or weir for catching fish.
6. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters

noun

1. (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
2. (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
3. A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
4. A small horizontal brace or girder.
5. The distance measured around an object.
6. The part of an animal around which the girth fits.

verb

1. To bind as if with a girth or band.

noun

1. (historical) A place of protection, a sanctuary.
2. (historical) Security, peace or protection guaranteed in particular instances in Old English law.
3. (obsolete) Guaranteed security, sanctuary, safe conduct.

noun

1. plural of hart

noun

1. (slang, derogatory) One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy.
2. One who hates.

noun

1. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
3. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
4. (figurative) A wight or being.
5. (figurative) The centre, essence, or core.
6. (obsolete, except in the phrase "by heart") Memory.
7. (uncountable) One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
8. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
9. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
10. Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
11. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
12. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

verb

1. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
2. (transitive, humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
3. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.

noun

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz

noun

1. (geology) An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land.

noun

1. (rare outside place names) A wood or grove.

noun

1. plural of hurt

verb

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

adj

1. (informal, often childish) hurting; painful.

Proper noun

1. A pet name for Martha.

noun

1. That which causes merriment.
2. The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.

adj

1. (colloquial) More or greater than.
2. (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).
3. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
4. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
5. Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
6. Toward the north; northward.

adv

1. Toward the north; northward; northerly.

noun

1. (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
2. (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
3. Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).
4. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 0° (being directed towards the North Pole); conventionally upwards on a map.
5. The up or positive direction.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn or move toward the north.

noun

1. (countable, astronomy) A certain type of flat eyepiece.
2. (countable, chemistry) An isomer of a benzene derivative having two substituents adjacent on the ring.
3. (countable, imaging) An orthophoto.
4. (countable, photography, dated) An orthochromatic plate.
5. (uncountable, medicine) Orthopedics.

adj

1. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
2. Alien.
3. Different.
4. Second.
5. See other (determiner) below.

adv

1. (obsolete) Otherwise.

det

1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.

noun

1. An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
2. The other one; the second of two.

verb

1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
2. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.

Proper noun

1. A city in central Scotland.
2. The state capital of Western Australia.
3. A small town in Tasmania.
4. A town in New York.
5. A hamlet in North Dakota.

noun

1. A ratchet wheel.
2. A white mark on a horse's face.
3. Alternative form of rach
4. Alternative form of rotche

verb

1. (intransitive) To sail by tacks.
2. (transitive) To streak.
3. (transitive) To stretch.

adj

1. (poetic) Ripening or blooming early.

adv

1. (obsolete) Quickly.
2. (poetic) Early in the morning.

noun

1. An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

verb

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of reach
2. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To reck
3. To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

adj

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) (of persons) Fierce; cruel; savage; stern; zealous; ardent; keen.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) (of things) Terrible; dreadful; severe.

adv

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Furiously; violently; wildly.

adj

1. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
2. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
3. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
4. (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
5. (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
6. (geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
7. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
8. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
9. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
10. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
11. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
12. Healthy, sane, competent.
13. Real; veritable (used emphatically).

adv

1. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
2. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
3. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
4. Exactly, precisely.
5. Immediately, directly.
6. In a correct manner.
7. On the right side.
8. Towards the right side.

intj

1. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
2. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
3. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
4. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
5. Yes, that is correct; I agree.

noun

1. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
2. (surfing) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
3. A legal, just or moral entitlement.
4. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
5. The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
6. The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
7. The right hand or fist.
8. The right side or direction.

verb

1. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
2. (transitive) To correct.
3. (transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
4. (transitive) To set upright.

noun

1. (dialect) A small stream.

verb

1. (US, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.
2. (especially Pennsylvania Dutch English) To squirm; to move around frequently.

noun

1. (music) Alternative spelling of rute

noun

1. plural of ruth

noun

1. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
2. An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
3. An interior lining in a blast furnace.

verb

1. To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

adj

1. (baking, of pastries, metallurgy) Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
2. (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
3. (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
4. (cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
5. (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
6. (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
7. (finance, dated) Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.
8. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
9. (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
10. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
11. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
12. (of a person) Of comparatively small height.
13. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
14. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
15. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
16. Having little duration.
17. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
18. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

adv

1. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
2. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
3. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
4. Unawares.
5. Without achieving a goal or requirement.

noun

1. (US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
2. (baseball) A shortstop.
3. (finance) A short sale or short position.
4. (finance) A short seller.
5. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
6. (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
7. A short circuit.
8. A short film.
9. A short version of a garment in a particular size.
10. A summary account.

prep

1. (finance) Having a negative position in.
2. Deficient in.

verb

1. (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
2. (obsolete) To shorten.
3. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
4. (transitive) To shortchange.
5. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
6. (transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

noun

1. plural of tahr

adv

1. Alternative spelling of thar
2. Obsolete spelling of there

adj

1. (obsolete, regional Britain) Stiff, unsocial, rough in manner.

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) An intestine; an entrail; gut.

adv

1. (obsolete or pronunciation spelling) there

abbrev

1. Misspelling of they’re.

adv

1. Misspelling of there.

det

1. Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
2. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).

adv

1. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
2. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
3. (location) To or into that place; thither.
4. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
5. In this world, used to say that someone or something exists; see pronoun section below.

det

1. Misspelling of their.

intj

1. Used to express victory or completion.
2. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.

noun

1. That place.
2. That status; that position.

pron

1. (colloquial) Appended to words of greeting etc.
2. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
3. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
4. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
5. Used with other verbs, when raised.

noun

1. A unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units, often used in the context of natural gas.

adj

1. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

noun

1. (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
2. (baseball) third base
3. (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
4. (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
5. (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.
6. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
7. One of three equal parts of a whole.
8. The person or thing in the third position.

verb

1. (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
2. To divide into three equal parts.

noun

1. (archaic or dialectal) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
2. (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot.
3. (historical) A thrall.
4. (mining, possibly obsolete) A long adit in a coalpit.
5. (mining, possibly obsolete) A short communication between adits in a mine.

verb

1. (historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
2. (obsolete) To throw (a projectile).
3. (transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
4. (transitive, possibly obsolete) To pierce; to perforate, penetrate, cut through.

noun

1. (botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
2. (figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
3. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
4. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

verb

1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).

adj

1. Informal spelling of thorough.

noun

1. (archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

verb

1. Eye dialect spelling of thought.

verb

1. (transitive) To fasten about.

noun

1. (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.
2. A person who is three years old.
3. Anything measuring three units, as length.
4. The digit/figure 3.
5. The playing card featuring three pips.
6. Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

num

1. A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
2. Describing a set or group with three elements.

verb

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of throw
2. simple past tense of throw

noun

1. Optional singular for thrips, an insect of the order Thysanoptera.

noun

1. A beating, vibration or palpitation.

verb

1. (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
3. (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.

noun

1. (figuratively, usually in the plural) A hard struggle, especially one associated with the beginning or finishing of a task.
2. (usually in the plural) The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.
3. A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.
4. Any severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm.
5. Synonym of froe (“a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood”)

verb

1. (intransitive) To feel throes; to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.

noun

1. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
2. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
3. (veterinary medicine) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
4. A distance travelled; displacement.
5. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
6. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
7. Obsolete spelling of throe
8. One's ability to throw.
9. The act of throwing something.
10. The flight of a thrown object.

verb

1. (American football) Synonym of pass
2. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
3. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
4. (figuratively) To send desperately.
5. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
6. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
7. (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
8. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
9. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
10. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
11. (transitive) To imprison.
12. (transitive) To install (a bridge).
13. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
14. (transitive) To project or send forth.
15. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
16. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
17. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
18. (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
19. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
20. (transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
21. (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
22. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
23. (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
24. To organize an event, especially a party.
25. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
26. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

adj

1. Made of or woven from thrum.

noun

1. (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
2. (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
3. (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
5. (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
6. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
7. (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
8. (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
9. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
10. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
11. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.

verb

1. (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
2. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
3. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
4. To make a monotonous drumming noise.

noun

1. (agriculture, chiefly in the plural) Either of the rear hip joints where the hip connects to the upper leg in certain animals, particularly cattle; often used as a reference point for measurement.

verb

1. Alternative form of thirl

Proper noun

1. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses.
2. The full body of written Jewish law, including the Tanakh, the Talmud, the Mishnah and the midrashic texts.
3. The whole of Jewish law, both written and unwritten.
4. The encompassing philosophy of Judaism.

Noun

1. A specially written scroll containing the five books of Moses, such as those used in religious services.
2. A book containing the five books of Moses.

noun

1. (Commonwealth) A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
2. (US) An arsonist.
3. A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
4. A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.

verb

1. To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).

noun

1. (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
2. (chiefly Canada, US) (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
3. (chiefly Canada, US) (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
4. (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
5. (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
6. (chiefly Canada, US, metonymically) A container into which things are discarded.
7. (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
8. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
9. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

verb

1. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
2. (US) To discard.
3. (US) To disrespect someone or something
4. (US) To make into a mess.
5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
6. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
7. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.

noun

1. (countable, archaic) A pledge or promise to marry someone.
2. (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, or promise.
3. (countable, archaic) The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.
4. (countable, uncountable, archaic) Truth; something true.

verb

1. (obsolete) To pledge to marry somebody.

noun

1. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
2. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
3. (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
4. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
5. (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
6. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
7. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
8. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
9. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
10. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

verb

1. (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
3. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

Proper noun

1. The father of King Arthur.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A ford.

noun

1. (botany) The whortleberry, or bilberry.