HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of wag

verb

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

noun

1. (Britain, law, archaic) Often in the form waif and stray, waifs and strays: an article of movable property found of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
2. (by extension) A very thin person.
3. (by extension, botany) A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized.
4. (nautical, chiefly whaling, historical) A small flag used as a signal.
5. A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
6. Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
7. Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.

verb

1. (transitive) To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.

noun

1. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
2. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
3. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.
3. (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of wale (“to choose; to select”)
5. (slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
6. (transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.

noun

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
2. Alternative form of wean

verb

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.
2. Misspelling of wane.

noun

1. (obsolete) A plank six feet long and one foot across.

verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
2. Nonstandard form of were.

noun

1. plural of wai

intj

1. (informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.

noun

1. (computing) Short for wait state.
2. (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
3. (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
4. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
5. A delay.
6. An ambush.

verb

1. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
2. (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
3. (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
4. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
5. (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
6. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
7. (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

noun

1. (New Zealand) A Maori canoe.
2. (poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.

noun

1. (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
2. (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.
3. (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
4. (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
5. (often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
6. A number of vultures assembled together.
7. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
8. The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
9. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

verb

1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
3. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
4. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
5. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
6. (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
7. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
8. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of waqf

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Command; control; possession.
2. (UK dialectal) Power; strength.
3. Forest; woods.

verb

1. (UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
2. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
3. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
4. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
5. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
6. A ridge or low barrier.
7. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
8. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
9. The texture of a piece of fabric.

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.
2. To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
3. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
4. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.

noun

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.
2. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.

noun

1. (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
2. (UK, finance, slang, dated) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
3. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
4. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
5. (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
6. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
7. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
8. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
9. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
10. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
11. A distance walked.
12. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
13. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
14. A trip made by walking.
15. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
4. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
5. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
6. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
7. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
8. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
9. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
10. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
11. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
12. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
13. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
14. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
15. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
16. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
17. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
18. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

intj

1. (US) Pronunciation spelling of well.

noun

1. (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
2. (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
3. (anatomy, zoology, botany) A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
4. (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
5. (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
6. (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
7. (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
8. (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
9. (often in combination) A barrier.
10. (role-playing games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
11. (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
12. (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
13. (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
14. A barrier to vision.
15. A point of defeat or extinction.
16. A point of desperation.
17. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
18. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
19. An impediment to free movement.
20. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
21. Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
22. The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

verb

1. (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
2. To boil.
3. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
4. To well, as water; spring.

adj

1. (archaic, nautical) unsteady; crank

verb

1. (intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To roll; tumble
2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To turn; cast; hurl; fling; overturn

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) The belly.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.

noun

1. The common American eider.

noun

1. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
2. A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
3. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
4. A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
5. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.

verb

1. (transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

noun

1. (Scotland, slang) A child.
2. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.
3. (literary) The end of a period.
4. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
5. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
6. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
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verb

1. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
2. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
3. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
5. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.

noun

1. (colloquial) Penis.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) The cheek; the jaw.
3. Alternative spelling of whang

verb

1. (transitive) To batter; to clobber; to conk.
2. (transitive) To throw hard.
3. To continue to talk about a specific subject.

noun

1. (countable, slang, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
2. (countable, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An undesirable person.
3. (countable, uncountable, fandom slang) Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
4. (uncountable, chiefly vulgar, fandom slang and Internet slang) Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
5. (uncountable, slang, vulgar) Nonsense, rubbish.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
2. (intransitive, vulgar, chiefly fandom slang and Internet slang) To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
3. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate; to give a hand job to.

noun

1. plural of wan

noun

1. (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
2. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
3. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
4. (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
5. (uncountable) Poverty.
6. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

verb

1. (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
2. (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
3. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
4. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
5. (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
6. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
7. (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
8. (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
9. (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
10. (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
11. (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.

adj

1. Spoiled by wet; said of timber.
2. Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; said especially of sawed boards or timber cut too near the outside of the log.

noun

1. (nautical) A fairleader.
2. (nautical) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.

noun

1. (UK, rural dialect) wasp
2. plural of wap

verb

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

noun

1. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
2. (UK) A division of a forest.
3. (archaic or obsolete) A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
4. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
5. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
6. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
7. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
8. A minor looked after by a guardian.
9. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
10. A section or subdivision of a prison.
11. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
12. An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
13. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
14. An object used for guarding.
15. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
16. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
17. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
2. (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
3. (transitive) To defend, to protect.
4. (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches (usually followed by off)
5. (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.

adj

1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.
2. (poetic) Aware.

noun

1. (Ireland) Crockery.
2. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
3. (in the plural) See wares.
4. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
5. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed.
6. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
7. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.

verb

1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
3. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
4. Old eye dialect spelling of were.

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.
2. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.
3. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) Work.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

adj

1. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
2. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
3. (archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
4. (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
5. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
6. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
7. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
8. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
9. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

noun

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
2. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
3. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
4. (transitive with to) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
5. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
6. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
7. (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
8. (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.

verb

1. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
2. (intransitive) To give warning.
3. (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
4. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
5. (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something).
6. (transitive) To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty.
7. (transitive, intransitive, of a clock, possibly obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour).

noun

1. (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
2. (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
3. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
4. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
5. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.
6. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
7. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
8. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
9. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
10. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
11. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
2. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
3. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
4. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
5. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
6. (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
7. (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
8. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
9. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
10. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
11. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
12. (transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
13. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
14. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
15. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.

noun

1. plural of war

verb

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

noun

1. (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
2. (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
3. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.

adj

1. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
2. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
3. thrifty, provident

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

noun

1. (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
2. (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
3. (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
4. (nautical) The blade of an oar.
5. (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
6. (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
7. A liquid used for washing.
8. A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
9. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
10. A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
11. A shallow body of water.
12. A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
13. A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
14. Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
15. In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
16. In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
17. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
18. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
19. The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
20. The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
21. The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
22. The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
23. The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
24. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
2. (intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
3. (intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
4. (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
5. (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
6. (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
7. (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
8. (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
9. (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
10. (transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
11. (transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
12. To clean with water.
13. To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
14. To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

noun

1. (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
2. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
3. Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)
4. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
5. Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

verb

1. To move like a wasp; to buzz

noun

1. Obsolete form of waist.

verb

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.

noun

1. (historical, England, dialect) A ford.
2. (obsolete) A fordable stream.

noun

1. plural of wat

noun

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

verb

1. Alternative form of waulk

verb

1. To wail, to cry plaintively.

noun

1. (figuratively) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
2. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
3. (poetic) The ocean.
4. (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
5. (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
6. A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
7. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
8. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
9. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

verb

1. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
2. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
3. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
4. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
5. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
7. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
8. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
9. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
10. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
11. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
12. Obsolete spelling of waive

adj

1. (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
2. (heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
3. (slang) drunk
4. Full of waves.
5. Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
6. Moving to and fro; undulating.
7. rising or swelling in waves.

noun

1. (possibly dated) Alternative form of wavey (goose).

noun

1. (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) water

verb

1. Alternative form of waul

noun

1. plural of waw

verb

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

adj

1. (regional, colloquial) Angry.
2. Resembling wax in texture or appearance.

noun

1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A cobbler (shoe repairer).

noun

1. (informal, US, sometimes figurative, usually preceded by a) A distance.
2. plural of way

adj

1. (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
2. (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
3. (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
4. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
5. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
6. (photography) Lacking contrast.
7. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
8. (slang) Bad or uncool.
9. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
10. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
11. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
12. Lacking in vigour or expression.
13. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
14. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
15. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
16. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
17. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.

noun

1. (by extension) Boon, benefit.
2. (literary) Welfare, prosperity.
3. (obsolete) Wealth, riches.
4. A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
5. Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).

verb

1. To mark with stripes; to wale.

noun

1. (Scotland, Ulster) A small child.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
3. (transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
4. (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
5. (transitive, by extension, obsolete) To raise, to help grow toward maturity

noun

1. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing
2. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
3. (uncountable) fashion
4. Dated form of weir.

verb

1. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
2. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
3. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
4. (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
5. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
6. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
7. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
8. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
9. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
10. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
11. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
12. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
13. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
14. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
15. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.

noun

1. The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand.

noun

1. Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.

intj

1. The sound of a forceful blow.

noun

1. a forceful blow
2. the sound of such a blow; a thud

verb

1. to strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact

intj

1. The sound of sudden blow or hit.

noun

1. (Scotland, obsolete) The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.
2. A blow; a hit; a whop.

verb

1. (US, intransitive) To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
2. (US, transitive) To strike hard and suddenly.
3. She whapped down on the floor.

adv

1. Appalachia form of where

adv

1. Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions.

det

1. (interrogative) Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
2. (relative) Any ... that; all ... that; whatever.
3. (relative) Which; the ... that.
4. Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'.
5. Used to form exclamations.

intj

1. (Britain, colloquial, dated) Clipping of what do you say? Used as a type of tag question to emphasise a statement and invite agreement, often rhetorically.
2. An expression of surprise or disbelief.
3. Indicating a guess or approximation, or a pause to try to recall information.
4. What did you say? I beg your pardon?
5. What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.
6. What! That’s amazing!

noun

1. (countable) Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
2. (countable) The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
3. (obsolete, uncountable) Something; thing; stuff.

particle

1. (Manglish, Singlish) Emphasizes the truth of an assertion made to contradict an evidently false assumption held by the listener.

pron

1. (fused relative) Anything that; all that; whatever.
2. (fused relative) That which; those that; the thing(s) that.
3. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
4. (relative, nonstandard) That; which; who.

noun

1. Entelea arborescens, a malvaceous tree endemic to New Zealand.

intj

1. Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
2. Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.

verb

1. (transitive) To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".

noun

1. (countable and uncountable) The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.
2. (countable) The plant Isatis tinctoria.

verb

1. To dye with woad.
2. To plant or cultivate woad.

noun

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”)
2. (chiefly in the plural, now rare) An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
3. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
4. (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
5. A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
6. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
7. A wraparound mortgage.
8. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
2. (figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
3. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
4. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
5. (transitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
6. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
7. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

Adjective

1. angry; vexed; wrathful

verb

1. (obsolete) To betray.
2. (obsolete) To denounce (a person).
3. (obsolete) To reveal (a secret).

noun

1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
2. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.

verb

1. To cry out; to howl.

noun

1. (colloquial) A particularly boring event.
2. The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.

verb

1. (intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
2. (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
3. (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
4. To present a wide opening; gape.
5. To say while yawning.

noun

1. a yelp or bark
2. loud or coarse talk

verb

1. (intransitive) clamor, utter loud complaints
2. (intransitive) to talk loudly and coarsely
3. (intransitive) to yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise

noun

1. (pathology) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
2. plural of yaw

verb

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

adj

1. (archaic, medicine) Pertaining to, or afflicted with, the disease yaws.