HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
2. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
3. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

Proper noun

1. The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.

noun

1. (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
2. (obsolete) A procuress or bawd.
3. (obsolete) Any elderly woman.
4. The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
5. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

noun

1. Abbreviation of authentication.
2. Abbreviation of authoritarian.
3. Abbreviation of authorization.

verb

1. (informal, computing) To authenticate.

adj

1. Clipping of automatic. (of a gearbox / transmission)

noun

1. (India) An autorickshaw.
2. (chiefly attributively) An automobile.
3. A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
4. A setting for automatic operation.
5. An automatic gearbox / transmission.

verb

1. (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.

noun

1. (boxing) A boxing match.
2. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
5. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
6. A fighting competition.
7. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.

prep

1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

verb

1. To contest a bout.

adj

1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

noun

1. (Scotland) A lantern.
2. (Scotland) The moon.

noun

1. (South Africa) A ridge or small hill.

noun

1. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
2. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
3. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
4. (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
5. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
6. A push or shove; a butt.

verb

1. (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
2. (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
4. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
5. (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
6. To push with the horns; to butt.
7. To spring or rear up.

adj

1. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.

noun

1. (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
2. (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
3. (slang) A disappointment.
4. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
5. (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
6. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
7. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
8. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
9. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.

verb

1. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
2. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
3. (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
4. (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
5. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
6. (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
7. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
8. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
9. (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
10. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
11. (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
12. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
13. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

noun

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

noun

1. plural of but

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
2. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
3. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
4. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
5. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
6. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
7. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
8. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
9. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
10. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
11. (obsolete, West Country) Hassock.
12. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
13. (slang) A used cigarette.
14. (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
15. (slang, metonymically) Body; self.
16. (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
17. A mark to be shot at; a target.
18. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
19. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
20. A thrust in fencing.
21. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
22. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
23. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
24. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
25. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
26. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
27. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

verb

1. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
2. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
3. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

intj

1. (archaic) An expression of impatience.

noun

1. A repeated short, low vocal sound made by guinea pigs, thought to express interest or curiosity.

verb

1. (intransitive) To produce this sound.

Proper noun

1. name, an alternative spelling of Canute (Scandinavian Knut) in historical context.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A dwarf.
2. (mining) A cross-measure tunnel or drift.
3. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

adj

1. (neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt.
2. Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
3. Of or relating to a cult.

noun

1. (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
2. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
3. The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.

noun

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, countable, vulgar) An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK, vulgar, positive, countable) (with words funny, good) A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
3. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, countable) An objectionable object or item.
4. (vulgar, countable and uncountable) A woman, women, or bottom (i.e. submissive partner, not the top) as a source of sex.
5. (vulgar, countable) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
6. (vulgar, offensive, countable) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man).

adj

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
2. Short or concise.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.

noun

1. Abbreviation of custody.
2. Abbreviation of customer.

adj

1. (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
2. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
3. Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
4. Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
5. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
6. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
2. plural of cut

verb

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

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

noun

1. (anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
2. (botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
3. (obsolete) guidance, direction
4. (physics) a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
5. a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
6. an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors

verb

1. to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
2. to enclose in a duct

noun

1. (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
2. (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
3. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
2. (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
3. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
4. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.

abbrev

1. (Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't.

noun

1. (Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
2. (UK, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

verb

1. (Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.

noun

1. (astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
2. (colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.
3. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
4. (figurative) A low or mean condition.
5. (figurative) Something worthless.
6. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
7. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
8. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
9. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
10. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
11. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

verb

1. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
2. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
3. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
4. (transitive) To remove dust from.
5. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

noun

1. (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
2. (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
3. A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
4. That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
5. The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
6. The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of étui

noun

1. (Polari) Pound sterling: the currency of Great Britain; money generally.
2. (historical) An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 410 grams.

adj

1. Nonstandard form of first.

noun

1. (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.
2. (nautical, historical) A type of small galley.
3. A strong musty smell; mustiness.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.

verb

1. (obsolete) To whistle.

noun

1. (vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman.

verb

1. To be frivolous and waste time.
2. To experiment by trial and error.

noun

1. (Britain, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
2. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
3. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
4. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
5. A block used for a fulcrum.
6. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
7. An excess, too much.
8. Something that fills up an opening.
9. That which is swallowed.
10. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
2. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.

noun

1. (obsolete) taste; relish
2. (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
3. (uncountable, pathology) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
4. (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To spurt.

adj

1. (UK dialect, West Country) Pronunciation spelling of great.

noun

1. (mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

noun

1. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
2. (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).
3. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
4. Intellectual taste; fancy.
5. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To blow in gusts.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To taste.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
2. (Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.
3. (by extension, informal) Courage; determination.
4. (informal) Content, substance.
5. (informal) One's innermost feelings.
6. (informal) The essential, core parts.
7. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
8. plural of gut

verb

1. (Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
2. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
3. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut

noun

1. Obsolete form of gut.

adj

1. (obsolete) Haughty.
2. (obsolete) Having high standards or quality.

noun

1. (Rhodesia, slang, ethnic slur) A black African.

noun

1. A hunting expedition.
2. A pack of hunting dogs.
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. The act of hunting.

verb

1. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
2. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
3. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
4. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
5. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
6. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

adj

1. Pained.
2. Wounded, physically injured.

noun

1. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
2. (archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
3. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
4. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
5. A husk.
6. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be painful.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

noun

1. plural of hut

verb

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

noun

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk.

adj

1. Factually right, correct; factual.
2. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair.
3. Proper, adequate.
4. Rationally right, correct.

adv

1. (degree) absolutely, positively
2. (sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.
3. By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
4. Exactly, precisely, perfectly.
5. Moments ago, recently.
6. Only, simply, merely.
7. Used to convey a less serious or formal tone
8. Used to show humility.

intj

1. (slang) Expressing dismay or discontent.

noun

1. A joust, tournament.

verb

1. To joust, fight a tournament.

noun

1. The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
2. The plants from which this fibre is obtained.

noun

1. plural of jut

verb

1. third-person singular of jut

noun

1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) An idle upper-class man-about-town

noun

1. A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
2. A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

noun

1. A slow-burning match or torch.
2. Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.

verb

1. (Scotland) To emit smoke.
2. (Scotland) To walk while smoking a pipe.

noun

1. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
3. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
4. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.

verb

1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

noun

1. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
2. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
4. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

verb

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
2. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

noun

1. The leatherback turtle.

noun

1. (figure skating) A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.

noun

1. A reef islet formed by broken coral and sand, surrounding an atoll.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of might corresponding to US regional dialect.

noun

1. (Rhodesia, slang, originally military, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person, usually a man.
2. (slang) mangina

verb

1. (Australia, slang) To vomit (usually while drunk).

noun

1. Alternative form of musth
2. Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
3. Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
4. Something that is mandatory or required.
5. The property of being stale or musty.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become musty.
2. (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
3. (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
4. (modal auxiliary, defective) Used to indicate that something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
5. (transitive) To make musty.

adj

1. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
2. Not having the power of speech; dumb.
3. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
4. Silent; not making a sound.

noun

1. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
2. (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
3. (phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop.
4. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
5. A mute swan.
6. A person who does not have the power of speech.
7. An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
8. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

verb

1. (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.
2. (transitive) To cast off; to moult.
3. (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
4. (transitive) To turn off the sound of.

noun

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.
2. (chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.
3. (usually derogatory or humorous) A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
4. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
5. Alternative form of matha

adj

1. Abbreviation of neuter.

adj

1. (colloquial) Insane, mad.
2. (colloquial) Very fond of (on) someone.
3. (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.

intj

1. Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
2. Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.

noun

1. (poker) An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
2. plural of nut

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To expel; to remove.

noun

1. plural of out

verb

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

noun

1. A Maori club / pounder

intj

1. A representation of the sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas; a representation of the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.

noun

1. The sound made by a sudden release of steam or gas; the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.

noun

1. (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
2. A fit of sulking or sullenness.
3. Alternative form of poult
4. One's facial expression when pouting.

verb

1. (Scotland) To shoot poults.
2. (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
3. (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
4. (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
5. (transitive) To say while pouting.

noun

1. (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
2. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
3. (nautical) A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
4. (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
5. A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
6. A point in the game of faro.
7. A wild guess.
8. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
9. The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
10. The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.

verb

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
2. (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
3. (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
5. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
6. (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
7. (rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
8. (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
9. Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
10. To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
11. To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
12. To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.

noun

1. (Philippines) A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.

noun

1. plural of put

verb

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

noun

1. (Britain, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.
2. (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
3. (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.

verb

1. (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
2. (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
3. Obsolete form of put.
4. To make a putting sound.
5. To move along slowly.

noun

1. (slang, derogatory) Fool, idiot.
2. (slang, derogatory) Jerk.
3. A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.

verb

1. (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.
2. (slang) Waste time.

adj

1. (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.
2. Quaternary.

noun

1. (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.
2. (obsolete) A pustule.
3. (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.
4. Alternative spelling of khat.

verb

1. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.
2. (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.

adj

1. (usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

noun

1. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

verb

1. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
2. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
3. (transitive) To leave (a place).
4. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
5. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
6. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
7. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
8. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
9. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
10. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
11. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
12. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

noun

1. (Scotland, obsolete) The brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla).
2. (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
3. (chiefly Scotland, archaic) A violent movement; a heavy or stunning blow or stroke.
4. (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
5. (countable) A group of disorganized things.
6. (countable, archaic) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.
7. (countable, archaic) A noisy disturbance; also, a disorderly argument or fight, a brawl; (uncountable) disturbance of the peace, commotion, tumult.
8. (countable, dated) A fashionable assembly; a large evening party, a soirée.
9. (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
10. (countable, obsolete) A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
11. (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
12. (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
13. A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
14. A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
2. (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
3. (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
4. (intransitive, Scotland, archaic) Especially of the sea, thunder, wind, etc.: to make a loud roaring noise; to howl, to roar, to rumble.
5. (intransitive, archaic) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
6. (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
7. (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
9. (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
10. (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
11. (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
12. (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
13. (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
14. (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
15. (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
16. (transitive, intransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
17. (transitive, intransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
18. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly Scotland, archaic) To beat or strike (someone or something); to assail (someone or something) with blows.

noun

1. (by extension) The smallest child in the family.
2. (networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
4. (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
5. (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
6. A bow.
7. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
8. The smallest animal of a litter.
9. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.

noun

1. (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
2. A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.
3. A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust").
4. The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
2. (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
3. (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
4. (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
5. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.

noun

1. (archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
2. (now rare) Repentance; regret; remorse.
3. (obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.
4. (obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.

noun

1. plural of rut

verb

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

noun

1. (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
2. (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
3. (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
4. (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
5. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
6. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

verb

1. (intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.

adj

1. (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close
2. Closed; not open.

noun

1. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
2. A door or cover; a shutter.
3. The act or time of shutting; close.
4. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

verb

1. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
2. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
3. (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
4. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
5. (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.
6. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

noun

1. (rare) Only used in ex situ.
2. (very informal) Short for situation.
3. Only used in in situ.

noun

1. (archaic, derogatory) A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman.
2. (obsolete) A female dog.
3. (obsolete) A maidservant.
4. (obsolete) A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination.
5. (obsolete, derogatory) A bold, outspoken woman.
6. (vulgar, by extension) A prostitute.
7. (vulgar, derogatory) Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man.
8. (vulgar, figuratively, often derogatory) A disloyal individual; someone who does not commit to a particular thing.
9. (vulgar, figuratively, often derogatory) Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree.
10. (vulgar, often derogatory) A sexually promiscuous woman or girl.

verb

1. (slang, vulgar, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.
2. (vulgar) To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner.

noun

1. (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
2. (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
3. (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
4. (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
5. (uncountable) Soot.
6. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
2. (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.
3. (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.

noun

1. An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

noun

1. (chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
2. (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
3. (obsolete) A blockhead.
4. (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
5. (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
6. (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
7. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
8. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
9. An old and worn horseshoe nail.
10. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
11. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
12. Stub iron.
13. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
14. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

verb

1. (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
2. (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
3. (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
2. (by extension, collective) A group of such animals.
3. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male.
4. (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
5. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
6. (engineering) A stud bolt.
7. (jewelry) A small round earring.
8. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
9. (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.
10. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
11. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
12. A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
13. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
14. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
15. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
16. Clipping of student.

verb

1. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
2. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
3. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.

noun

1. (obsolete) Unfermented grape juice; must.
2. (obsolete) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To ferment.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

noun

1. (Newfoundland) A person who lacks intelligence.
2. (billiards, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
3. That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow.
4. The condition of being stunned.

verb

1. (snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball
2. (transitive) To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
3. (transitive) To shock or surprise.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A support.

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To support, prop up.
2. (obsolete) To stutter.

noun

1. The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.

noun

1. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
2. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
3. (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
4. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
5. (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
6. (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
7. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
8. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
9. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
10. A full set of armour.
11. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
12. Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
13. Petition, request, entreaty.
14. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
15. The full set of sails required for a ship.

verb

1. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
2. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
3. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
4. (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
5. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
6. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of sup