HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine.

Proper noun

1. definition

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ache

noun

1. (obsolete) usher

noun

1. plural of ache

verb

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

intj

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a sneeze.

noun

1. The sound of a sneeze.

verb

1. (colloquial) To sneeze loudly; to make an "achoo" sound.

noun

1. (obsolete, pathology) dandruff (or similar condition)

noun

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.
2. The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

noun

1. (philosophy, often italicized) The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.

adj

1. Resembling an arch; having arches; arched; arching

noun

1. (anarchism, usually derogatory) A political theory or practice that supports hierarchy and authority; the opposite of anarchy.

noun

1. (obsolete) The dale of a stream or rivulet.

adj

1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

noun

1. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
2. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
3. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
4. (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
5. (obsolete) The process of baking.
6. A bank; a sandbank.
7. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
8. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
9. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

verb

1. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
2. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
3. (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
2. (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
3. (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
4. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
5. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.

verb

1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
2. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
3. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.

noun

1. A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
2. The wood of the beech tree.

noun

1. (obsolete) Malt liquor.
2. The sound one makes when belching.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
3. (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
4. (government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
5. (law) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
6. (law, figuratively) The place where the judges sit.
7. (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
8. (sports, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.
9. (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
10. (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
11. A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
12. A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
13. A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
14. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
15. A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
16. The dignity of holding an official seat.

verb

1. (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
2. (transitive and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
3. (transitive) To furnish with benches.
4. (transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
6. (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
7. Alternative spelling of bentsh

noun

1. A birch-bark canoe.
2. A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
3. A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
4. Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

verb

1. To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
2. To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
2. (UK, obsolete, university slang) Tea (the drink).
3. (archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
4. (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
5. (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
6. (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
7. (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
8. (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
9. (obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
10. (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
11. (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
12. (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
13. (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
14. (vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
15. (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
16. (vulgar, offensive) A woman.

verb

1. (vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
2. (vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
3. (vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Boche.

noun

1. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
2. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
3. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
6. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
7. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

verb

1. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
3. To repair or mend clumsily.

noun

1. (archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.
2. (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.
3. (paleontology, informal) brachiopod

noun

1. (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.

noun

1. (South Africa) Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
2. A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.

noun

1. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
4. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
6. (smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
7. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
8. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
9. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
10. An informal body of friends.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
2. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
3. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
4. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
5. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.

adj

1. (slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

noun

1. (slang, LGBT, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

noun

1. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
2. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
3. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
4. Misspelling of cachet.

verb

1. (transitive) To place in a cache.
2. (transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.

noun

1. (historical) A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.
2. (historical) A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.

noun

1. An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.

noun

1. plural of caph

noun

1. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
2. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
3. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
4. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
5. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
6. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
7. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
8. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
9. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
10. (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
11. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
12. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
13. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
14. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
15. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
16. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
17. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
18. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
19. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
20. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
21. A slight remembrance; a trace.
22. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
2. (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
3. (intransitive) To get pregnant.
4. (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
5. (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
6. (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
7. (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
8. (transitive) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
9. (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
10. (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
11. (transitive) To be hit by something.
12. (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
13. (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
14. (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
15. (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
16. (transitive) To charm or entrance.
17. (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
18. (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
19. (transitive) To grip or entangle.
20. (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
21. (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
22. (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
23. (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
24. (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
25. (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
26. (transitive) To travel by means of.
27. (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
28. (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
29. (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
30. (transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of.
31. (transitive, figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
32. (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
33. (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
34. (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
35. (transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.
36. (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
37. (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
38. (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.

Proper noun

1. A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.

Proper noun

1. name and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.

noun

1. (obsolete) A chase.

verb

1. (obsolete) To chase; to pursue.

noun

1. A snack or light hasty meal.

verb

1. (ice-skating) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
2. Of birds: to make a sudden harsh call.
3. To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

noun

1. Alternative form of shako

noun

1. plural of chad

noun

1. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
2. Heat excited by friction.
3. Injury or wear caused by friction.
4. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
2. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
3. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
4. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
5. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
6. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.

noun

1. (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
2. (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
3. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
4. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
5. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
2. (transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
3. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

noun

1. (dialect, Scotland, Northern England) The jaw.

noun

1. A parasitic fungus of trees, usually birch, found on the circumboreal region of the Northern hemisphere, Inonotus obliquus.
2. The irregular conk of this fungus, used in East European folk medicine to treat a number of conditions.

noun

1. (Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
2. (chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
3. (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
4. (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
5. (surveying) A long measuring tape.
6. (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
7. (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
8. A livery collar, a chain of office.
9. A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
10. A series of interconnected things.
11. A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
12. A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
13. That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.

verb

1. (computing) To be chained to another data item.
2. (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
3. (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
4. (figurative) To obligate.
5. (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
6. (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
7. (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
8. (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
9. (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
10. (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).

noun

1. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
2. (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
3. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
4. (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
5. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
6. (slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair. (the execution device).
7. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
8. An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
9. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

verb

1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
3. (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

noun

1. plural of chai

noun

1. A Brazilian bird, the crested screamer, often domesticated and used to guard poultry.

noun

1. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
2. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
3. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
4. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
5. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
6. (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
7. Tailor's chalk.

verb

1. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
2. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
3. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
4. To manure (land) with chalk.
5. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
6. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

noun

1. (East Africa, chiefly Kenya) An informal cooperative society, usually for pooling and investing savings.

noun

1. (Ireland) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions
2. (architecture, obsolete or rare) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief
3. (colloquial) Clipping of champion.
4. (colloquial, in the plural) Clipping of championship.
5. (heraldry, obsolete or rare) the field of a shield
6. (informal) buddy, sport, mate (as a term of address)
7. (informal) champagne

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
2. To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.

noun

1. plural of cham

noun

1. (India) Chickpeas.
2. (India, cooking) A dish principally made from chickpeas or chickpea paste.

noun

1. (often italicized) A traditional harp of central and southwest Asia

noun

1. (India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.

verb

1. (US) To eat noisily; to champ or chomp.

noun

1. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
2. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
4. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
4. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

noun

1. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
2. (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
3. (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
4. (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
5. Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
6. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

noun

1. (archaic) The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
2. Alternative form of chappe (“rainguard”) (piece fitted to a sword's crossguard).
3. The lower metallic cap at the end of a sword's scabbard.

noun

1. Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.
2. plural of chap

verb

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

adj

1. Obsolete form of chapped.

noun

1. A green alga of the genus Chara.
2. Shortened form of charabanc

noun

1. (cooking) Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.
2. (uncountable, cooking) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.

noun

1. (Northern England) A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.
2. Alternative form of char ("turn, task, chore, worker").

verb

1. (intransitive) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.

noun

1. (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
2. A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
3. A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
4. Charcoal; coke.

verb

1. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
2. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

noun

1. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
2. (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
3. (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
4. A flock, group (especially of finches).
5. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
6. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
7. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
2. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
3. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
4. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
5. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of char (fish)

noun

1. plural of char

verb

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

noun

1. (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.
2. A diagram.
3. A graph.
4. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
5. A navigator's map.
6. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
7. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
8. A tabular presentation of data; a table.
9. A written deed; a charter.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
2. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
3. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
4. (transitive) To record systematically.

adj

1. (obsolete) Cared for, regarded as precious; cherished.
2. Careful, cautious, shy, wary.
3. Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious.
4. Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.

adv

1. Synonym of charily: carefully, cautiously, warily.

noun

1. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
2. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
3. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
4. (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
5. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
6. (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.
7. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
8. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
9. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
10. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
11. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
12. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
13. A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
14. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
15. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
16. The cavity of a mold.
17. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.

verb

1. (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
2. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
3. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
4. (transitive) To follow at speed.
5. (transitive) To groove; indent.
6. (transitive) To hunt.
7. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
8. (transitive) To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
9. (transitive) To seek to attain.
10. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
11. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
12. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
13. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.

noun

1. (by extension) A large difference of opinion.
2. (geology, planetology) A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.

noun

1. A small South American subspecies of tiger cat (Leopardus pardalis mitis), native to Argentina and Paraguay.

noun

1. plural of chat

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) Synonym of jungle cat (Felis chaus)
2. Obsolete spelling of chiaus

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I have

noun

1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.

noun

1. plural of chaw

verb

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

noun

1. (Judaism) One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to the personality.
2. A large, fast-growing leafy perennial Mexican shrub which is popular in Mexico and Central America as a leafy vegetable, cooked and eaten like spinach, from species Cnidoscolus aconitifolius or Cnidoscolus chayamansa.
3. A teahouse in Japan.

noun

1. plural of chay

Proper noun

1. A suburban village in Sutton on the border of London and Surrey

adj

1. (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
2. (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
3. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
4. Low and/or reduced in price.
5. Of little worth.
6. Of poor quality.

adv

1. Cheaply.

noun

1. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
2. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
3. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
4. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
5. Price.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.

noun

1. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
2. (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
3. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
4. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
5. Someone who cheats.
6. The weed cheatgrass.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
2. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
3. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
4. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

adj

1. (heraldry) Divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.

noun

1. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
2. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
3. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
4. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
5. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
6. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
7. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
8. A control; a limit or stop.
9. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
10. A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
11. A small chink or crack.
12. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
13. An inspection or examination.
14. Any fabric woven with such a pattern.

verb

1. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
2. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
3. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
4. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
5. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
6. (poker) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
7. (sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
8. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
9. (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
10. To act as a curb or restraint.
11. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
12. To control, limit, or halt.
13. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
14. To inspect; to examine.
15. To leave in safekeeping.
16. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
17. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
18. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
19. To verify or compare with a source of information.
20. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).

noun

1. (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
2. (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
3. (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
4. (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
5. (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit. .
6. (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
7. (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
8. Either side of an axehead.
9. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.

verb

1. Don't cheek me, you little rascal!
2. To be impudent towards.
3. To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.

intj

1. The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

noun

1. A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
2. A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound

verb

1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
2. To express in a chirping tone.

noun

1. (archaic) One's attitude, mood.
2. (chiefly Canada, US) Cheerleading, especially when practiced as a competitive sport.
3. (countable) A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.
4. (countable) A cry expressing joy, approval or support, such as "hurrah".
5. (now uncountable) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness, especially food and entertainment prepared for a festive occasion.
6. (obsolete) One's facial expression or countenance.
7. (uncountable) A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.

verb

1. (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
2. (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
3. (transitive, figurative) To feel or express enthusiasm for (something).
4. (transitive, intransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To encourage to do something.

noun

1. plural of chef

noun

1. (Turkish units of measurement) A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
2. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously .15–.35 kg).
3. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.

noun

1. A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid. [from 17th c.]
2. A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism. [from 19th c.]

verb

1. (intransitive, Northern England) To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
2. (intransitive, Northern England) To speak rudely or out of turn.

noun

1. Alternative form of sheng (Chinese wind instrument)