(nautical) A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.
douw
dowd
dowd
noun
(archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
dowf
dowf
adj
(of a sound) Dull; hollow.
Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.
dowl
dowl
noun
Alternative form of dowle
down
down
adj
(African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
(baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
(colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
(informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
(normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
(not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
(not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
(not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
(obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
(of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
At a lower level than before.
Facing downwards.
Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Having a lower score than an opponent.
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
adv
(UK, academia, dated) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
(comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
(sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
(sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
As a down payment.
At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
Away from the city (regardless of direction).
Forward, straight ahead.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
From less to greater detail.
Into a state of non-operation.
On paper (or in a durable record).
So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
noun
(American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
(UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
(botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
(crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
(dated) A grudge (on someone).
(especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
(usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
A downstairs room of a two-story house.
A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
Down payment.
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
prep
(colloquial) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
From north to south of.
From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
(intransitive, rare or obsolete) To go or come down; to descend.
(transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
(transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
(transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
(transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
(transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
(transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
(transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
dowp
dowp
noun
Alternative form of doup
dows
dows
noun
plural of dow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dow
dowy
drow
drow
noun
(fantasy role-playing games, countable) A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
(fantasy role-playing games, uncountable) A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.
(rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
gowd
owed
owed
adj
That owes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of owe
towd
whod
woad
woad
noun
(countable and uncountable) The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.
(archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.
noun
(archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
wood
wood
adj
(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
noun
(US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.
(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
(countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
(countable, often as plurale tantum) A forested or wooded area.
(music) A woodwind instrument.
(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
(uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
Firewood.
verb
(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
(reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees.
(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
word
word
intj
(slang, African-American Vernacular) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
(slang, emphatic, stereotypically, African-American Vernacular) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
noun
(computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
(computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
(group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
(in the plural) See words.
(meiosis) A minor reprimand.
(now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
(obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
(obsolete) A proverb or motto.
(telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
(theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
(theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
(uncountable) News; tidings
A brief discussion or conversation.
A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
A promise; an oath or guarantee.
A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
(transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
(transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
(transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.