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verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of acknow

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize
2. (transitive, obsolete) To recognize.

verb

1. present participle of acknow

verb

1. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in
2. (transitive) To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour)
3. (transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.
4. (transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
5. (transitive) To report (the receipt of a message to its sender).

adj

1. Able to be acknowledged.
2. Worthy of acknowledgement.

adj

1. Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of acknowledg
2. simple past tense and past participle of acknowledge

adv

1. Confessedly, admittedly.

noun

1. (most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. One who acknowledges.

noun

1. plural of acknowledger

verb

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

adj

1. (obsolete, specifically) Expressing esteem or gratitude.
2. That acknowledges, in various sense; (especially) that notices or recognises someone or something.

noun

1. (archaic) The act of acknowledging something.

verb

1. present participle of acknowledg
2. present participle of acknowledge

noun

1. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
2. (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
3. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
4. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
5. A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
6. A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
7. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
8. The act of acknowledging
9. The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

verb

1. (obsolete) Acknowledged; confessed (often with "of" or "on"), revealed, disclosed, realized
2. (obsolete) Recognized, confessed, disclosed, revealed, realized

adj

1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

adj

1. Filled with awe.

adj

1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

adv

1. in or into a state of being wrecked

noun

1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

noun

1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

noun

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

noun

1. A handsaw that has a reinforcement along its back edge.

noun

1. plural of backsaw

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

noun

1. (sports) Alternative form of back wall

adj

1. (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
2. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
3. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
4. (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
5. (figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
6. (figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
7. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
8. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
9. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
10. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
11. Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
12. Late or behindhand.
13. Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
14. Reversed in order or sequence.
15. Situated toward or at the rear of something.

adv

1. (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
2. (obsolete) In the past.
3. At, near or towards the rear of something.
4. By way of reflection; reflexively.
5. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
6. In a reversed order or sequence.
7. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
8. Toward or into the past;

noun

1. The state behind or past.

noun

1. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

adv

1. In a backward direction.

noun

1. Reluctance.
2. The state of being backward.

noun

1. plural of backwardness

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. A back alley.

noun

1. (nautical) The flow of air so deflected

verb

1. (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
2. (transitive) To wind backwards.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

adj

1. Native to or located in a remote rural location.
2. Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. (informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
2. A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
3. An uncivilized person.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

adj

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

noun

1. A contention, retort, or reply.
2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.

noun

1. (obsolete) The thread-like worm found in filanders, the disease of hawks.

noun

1. (computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. A portion of something that is wrapped backward.

verb

1. (computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. To wrap around the back of something.

noun

1. plural of backwrap

verb

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

noun

1. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

noun

1. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
2. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. (archaic) A fine fellow.

noun

1. plural of bawcock

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

noun

1. (Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

noun

1. Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

noun

1. Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
2. Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
3. Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance.

noun

1. plural of blackwater

noun

1. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)

noun

1. (uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
2. African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
3. Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
4. Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
5. Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

noun

1. (obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
2. (sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.

noun

1. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. (computing) Synonym of backscatter.
2. (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
3. (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
4. (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
5. An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.

noun

1. plural of blowback

adv

1. In terms of brackets (in various senses).

noun

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall

noun

1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
2. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
3. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

noun

1. A saw, in a metal frame, used to cut lengths of wood.

noun

1. plural of bucksaw

noun

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

noun

1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
2. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

noun

1. plural of bushwhacker

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

noun

1. cabinetmaking
2. furniture made by a cabinetmaker

noun

1. One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.

noun

1. A cage or cage-like structure.

noun

1. (historical) A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.
2. (idiomatic) Something that is easy or simple, or that does not present a great challenge.
3. (music) The style of music associated with such a contest.
4. (performing arts) The dance, or strutting style of dance associated with such a contest.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform the cakewalk dance.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cakewalk

noun

1. A performer of the cakewalk dance.

noun

1. plural of cakewalker

verb

1. present participle of cakewalk

noun

1. plural of cakewalk

noun

1. Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.

noun

1. A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery
2. The thread used to make the wicks of candles

noun

1. plural of candlewick

noun

1. Objects made from canes (slender, flexible plant stems).

noun

1. (figurative) A corrupting or destructive force.
2. Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.

noun

1. plural of cankerworm

noun

1. The plant Taraxacum officinale.

noun

1. The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull

noun

1. carpeting generally

noun

1. The work required to deal with cases in any profession where a "case" has a specific definition (e.g. legal, social work, planning, etc.).

noun

1. a social worker

noun

1. plural of caseworker

noun

1. A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.

noun

1. (by extension, "the catwalk") The business of making clothes for fashion shows.
2. (nautical) An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
3. A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway
4. Any similar elevated walkway.