(heraldry) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abase
abated
abated
adj
(decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abate
abboud
abdali
abdest
abdest
noun
(Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
abdias
abdiel
abduce
abduce
verb
(transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
abduct
abduct
verb
(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
(transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
abedge
abends
abends
noun
plural of abend
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abend
abidal
abidal
noun
(obsolete) The act or condition of abiding; residence, stay.
abided
abider
abider
noun
(obsolete) One who abides, or continues.
One who dwells or stays; a resident.
abides
abides
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide
ablend
ablude
ablude
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To be unlike; to differ.
aboard
aboard
adv
(baseball) On base.
(nautical) Alongside.
Into a team, group, or company.
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
prep
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
Onto a horse.
We all went aboard the ship.
abodah
aboded
aboded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abode
abodes
abodes
noun
plural of abode
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abode
aborad
aborad
adv
(anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)
abound
abound
verb
(intransitive) To be copiously supplied
(intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
(intransitive) To be highly productive.
(intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
(intransitive) To revel in.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.
abrade
abrade
verb
(intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
(transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid
(transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
(transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
(transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
abraid
abraid
adv
Alternative form of abread
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
(intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
(transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.
(transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.
abreed
abreed
Adverb
Abroad. 1976
abreid
abroad
abroad
adv
(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
(dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
(sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
noun
(rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad.
prep
Throughout, over.
abrood
abrood
adj
(obsolete) Upon a brood; hatching eggs.
adv
(figurative) Mischief.
(obsolete) Upon a brood; on a hatch.
absurd
absurd
adj
(obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
Dealing with absurdism.
Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
noun
(obsolete) An absurdity.
(philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
abused
abused
adj
(obsolete) Deluded, deceived.
Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
Overused; used profligately or in excess.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abuse
abydos
abydos
Proper noun
A ancient city in Egypt with archaeological interest.
A city in Asia Minor at the Hellespont.
adabel
adobes
adobes
noun
plural of adobe
adobos
adobos
noun
plural of adobo
adsbud
adsorb
adsorb
verb
(transitive, chemistry) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption
adverb
adverb
noun
(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
(modifying a verb)
(programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
verb
(rare) To make into or become an adverb.
albedo
albedo
noun
(alchemy) One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.
(botany) The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.
(physics, meteorology, astronomy, optics) The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.
ambled
ambled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of amble
amebid
arbyrd
ardebs
ardebs
noun
plural of ardeb
aubade
aubade
noun
(music) A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.
(music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
(music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.
babied
babied
adj
Spoiled or coddled.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baby
baburd
bached
bached
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bach
backed
backed
adj
(in combination) Having specified type of back.
(in combination) Having specified type of backing.
(obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of back
badaga
badaga
Proper noun
A Dravidian language spoken primarily in the Nilgri Hills of southern India.
The indigenous people of the Nilgri Hills of southern India.
badass
badass
adj
(US, sometimes considered vulgar, slang, negative connotation) Belligerent and troublesome.
(US, sometimes considered vulgar, slang, positive connotation) Having an extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable.
noun
(US, sometimes considered vulgar, slang, negative connotation) A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior.
(US, sometimes considered vulgar, slang, positive connotation) A person considered impressive due to courage, skill, daring, audacity, and/or toughness.
badaud
badaud
noun
A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.
badawi
badaxe
badder
badder
adj
(nonstandard or obsolete) comparative form of bad: more bad.
baddie
baddie
noun
(informal) A person of bad character, especially in a work of fiction.
(neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.
badged
badged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of badge
badger
badger
noun
(in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
(obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
verb
To pester, to annoy persistently; press.
badges
badges
noun
plural of badge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badge
badgir
badgir
noun
(India, historical) A windcatcher.
badhan
badian
badian
noun
(dated) star anise
badman
badman
noun
(historical, US) A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
badmen
badmen
noun
plural of badman
baffed
baffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baff
bagdad
bagged
bagged
adj
(colloquial) Having been caught or successfully hunted.
Having been placed in a bag.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bag
bagpod
bahada
bahada
noun
Alternative form of bajada
baidak
baidar
baidya
baidya
noun
Alternative form of vaidya (“practitioner of ayurvedic medicine”)
bailed
bailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bail
bairdi
bairdi
noun
Chionoecetes bairdi, a species of snow crab.
baited
baited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bait
baized
baized
adj
Covered with baize.
bajada
bajada
noun
(US) In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
balada
baldad
balded
balded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bald
balden
balden
verb
(intransitive) To become bald
(transitive) To make bald
balder
balder
adj
comparative form of bald: more bald
baldie
baldie
noun
(birdwatching, slang) The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
(informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.
(slang) A fish, the baldchin groper.
baldly
baldly
adv
In a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
baldur
balked
balked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of balk
ballad
ballad
noun
A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
A slow romantic song.
verb
(intransitive) To compose or sing ballads.
(obsolete) To make mention of in ballads.
balled
balled
adj
(in combination) Having a specified kind or number of balls.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ball
bammed
bammed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bam
bandar
bandar
noun
A rhesus macaque.
banded
banded
adj
Divided into bands.
Marked with bands of colour.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of band
bandel
bander
bander
noun
(birdwatching) Someone who bands birds
A device for putting metal bands around crates.
bandhu
bandie
bandit
bandit
noun
(military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
(sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
An outlaw.
One who cheats others.
One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
bandle
bandle
noun
An Irish measure of two feet in length.
bandog
bandog
noun
(archaic) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.
(figurative, literary) Anything that behaves like a bandog; something or someone who pursues doggedly.
(obsolete, slang, cant) A bailiff or prison guard.
(specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs.
bandon
bandon
noun
(obsolete) Disposal; control; licence.
bandor
bandos
bandos
noun
plural of bando
bandur
banged
banged
adj
Alternative form of bhanged
Having the hair styled in bangs.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bang
banked
banked
adj
Of a cheque, deposited in a bank.
Piled high.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bank
banned
banned
adj
Forbidden; not allowed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ban
barbed
barbed
adj
(heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals).
(of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.