Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bow
browd
cowed
cowed
adj
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
Frightened into submission.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cow
crowd
crowd
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
dekow
devow
devow
verb
(obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.
(obsolete) To give up; to devote.
dhows
dhows
noun
plural of dhow
dowdy
dowdy
adj
Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
noun
A plain or shabby person.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.
dowed
dowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dow
dowel
dowel
noun
(construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
verb
(transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
(transitive) To furnish with dowels.
dower
dower
noun
(law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
verb
(transitive) To endow.
(transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
dowie
dowly
downe
downe
adv
Obsolete spelling of down
downs
downs
noun
plural of down
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of down
downy
downy
adj
(UK, Norfolk) Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
Sharp-witted, perceptive.
noun
A blanket filled with down; a duvet.
dowry
dowry
noun
(less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
(obsolete) Dower.
A natural gift or talent.
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
verb
To bestow a dowry upon.
dowse
dowse
noun
Alternative form of douse (“strike”)
verb
(intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”)
Alternative form of douse (“to strike”)
dowve
drown
drown
verb
(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
(transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(transitive, figurative, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
endow
endow
verb
(transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
(transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
(transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
ewold
gowds
gowdy
howdy
howdy
intj
(chiefly US, informal) An informal greeting.
noun
(Scotland) A wife, a midwife.
verb
(transitive) To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
indow
indow
verb
Obsolete spelling of endow
jowed
lowed
lowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of low
mowed
mowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mow
nowed
nowed
adj
(heraldry) Knotted; tied in a knot.
odawa
owned
owned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of own
rowdy
rowdy
adj
Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
noun
(Victorian slang) money; ready money.
A boisterous person; a brawler.
rowed
rowed
adj
Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of row
showd
sowed
sowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sow
sword
sword
noun
(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon device with a grip- a hilt (a pommel and cross guard), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
verb
To stab or cut with a sword
towed
towed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of tow
vowed
vowed
adj
Undertaken in accordance with a vow; solemnly promised.
verb
past participle of vow
waldo
waldo
noun
A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.
wando
widow
widow
noun
(card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
(informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
(typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
(uncommon) A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.
A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.
verb
(transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
(transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
(transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.
(transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
woads
woads
noun
plural of woad
woady
woady
adj
Resembling woad.
woald
woald
noun
Alternative form of weld (“the herb”)
wodan
woden
woden
Proper noun
The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war.
wodge
wodge
noun
(chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial) A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad
wodgy
wodgy
adj
(colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) bulky, solid
wolds
wolds
noun
plural of wold
woldy
woods
woods
noun
(military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
(usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
plural of wood
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wood
woody
woody
adj
(botany) Lignified.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
(obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
Covered in woods; wooded.
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
noun
(climbing, slang) A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
Alternative form of woodie.
wooed
wooed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of woo
woold
woold
noun
Archaic form of weld (“dyer's rocket”).
verb
(nautical) To wind a chain or rope around in order to strengthen (especially a mast or yard).
words
words
noun
(meiosis) Angry debate or conversation; argument.
Lines in a script for a performance.
Lyrics.
plural of word
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word
wordy
wordy
adj
The story was long and very wordy.
Using an excessive number of words.
world
world
noun
(archaic) Age, era.
(by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
(countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
(fiction) A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
(informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.
(metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.
(tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
(uncountable, with "the") The Earth.
(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
(with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
(with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
A very large extent of country.
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
The Universe.
verb
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
To make real; to make worldly.
would
would
noun
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
verb
(archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
(archaic) Wanted to.
(chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
(chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
(obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
wound
wound
noun
(criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
verb
(transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.