HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative form of aleph

noun

1. (Islam) A West African cleric or religious teacher.
2. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
3. (international standards) Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae).

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given names Alfred and Alfonso.

noun

1. The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا (ʾalif).

noun

1. (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
2. (informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
3. A cabless railroad engine.
4. A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
5. A small island, near a larger island.
6. A young cow or bull.
7. A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).
8. Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
9. The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

noun

1. A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]

noun

1. (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod.
2. A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
3. Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”)

adj

1. (slang, US) Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.

noun

1. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
2. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
3. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
4. A failing grade in an academic examination.
5. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
6. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

verb

1. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
2. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
3. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
4. (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
5. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
6. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
7. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
8. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
9. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one’s expectations.
10. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
11. (transitive) To neglect.
12. (transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
13. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
14. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
15. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) The razorbill.

intj

1. (nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.

noun

1. (chiefly Canada, US, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
2. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
3. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
4. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
5. (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
6. (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
7. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
8. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
9. A loss of greatness or status.
10. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
11. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
12. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
13. That which falls or cascades.
14. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
15. The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard

verb

1. (UK, US, dialect, archaic) To fell; to cut down.
2. (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become.
3. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
4. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
5. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
6. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
7. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
8. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
9. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
10. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
11. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
12. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
13. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
14. (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
15. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop.
16. (obsolete) To sink; to depress.
17. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
18. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
19. To be brought to the ground.
20. To come as if by dropping down.
21. To come down, to drop or descend.
22. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
23. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
24. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.

noun

1. (anatomy) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
2. (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.
3. (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
4. (anatomy, dated) A chelicera.
5. (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.

noun

1. (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
2. Any such cake or bread, now especially an Irish speciality such as a soda farl or potato farl.

verb

1. Obsolete form of furl.

adj

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
4. (archaic) faithful, loyal

adv

1. In a feal manner.

noun

1. Alternative form of fail (“piece of turf cut from grassland”)

verb

1. (obsolete) To press on, advance.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To hide.

noun

1. (archaic) The sense of touch.
2. (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
3. A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
4. A vague mental impression.
5. A vague understanding.
6. An act of fondling.
7. An intuitive ability.

pron

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

verb

1. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
2. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
3. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
4. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
5. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
6. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
7. (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
8. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
9. (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
10. (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
11. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
12. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

adj

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Much; many.

adv

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Greatly, much, very

pron

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Many (of).

adj

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.
3. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
4. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

adv

1. Sharply; fiercely.

noun

1. (archaic outside UK) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
2. (archaic outside UK) A wild field or upland moor.
3. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
4. (obsolete, rare) Anger; gall; melancholy.
5. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
6. A cutting-down of timber.
7. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
8. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
9. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

verb

1. (now colloquial) past participle of fall
2. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
3. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
4. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
5. simple past tense of fall

adj

1. That has been experienced or perceived.

noun

1. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
2. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
3. A felt-tip pen.
4. A hat made of felt.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
2. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.
4. simple past tense and past participle of feel

noun

1. plural of filum

noun

1. (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
2. (chess) one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
3. (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
4. (computing) The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
5. (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
6. (slang, archaic) A cunning or resourceful person.
7. A collection of papers collated and archived together.
8. A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
9. A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
10. A roll or list.
11. A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
12. Course of thought; thread of narration.

verb

1. (archaic) To defile.
2. (intransitive) To move in a file.
3. (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
4. (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
5. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
6. (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
7. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
8. (transitive) To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
10. To corrupt.

noun

1. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
2. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
3. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
4. An amount that fills a container.
5. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
6. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
7. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
8. The filling of a container or area.
9. bass fill

verb

1. (intransitive) To become full.
2. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
3. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
4. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
5. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
6. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
7. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
8. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
9. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
10. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
11. To enter (something), making it full.

noun

1. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
2. (uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
3. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
4. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

adj

1. Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.

noun

1. (numismatics) Subdivision of currency used in many Arab countries.
2. (rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.

noun

1. (informal) Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.

noun

1. (Britain, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
2. (Internet slang, ACG) A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
3. (UK, archaic, slang) An apron.
4. (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
5. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
6. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
7. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
8. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
9. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
10. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
11. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
12. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
13. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
14. (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
15. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
16. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
17. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
18. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
19. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
20. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
21. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
22. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

verb

1. (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
2. (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
3. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
4. (computing) To signal (an event).
5. (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
6. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
7. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
8. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
9. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
10. (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
11. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
12. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
13. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
14. To fail, such as a class or an exam.
15. To furnish or deck out with flags.
16. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
17. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
18. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

noun

1. (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
2. (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
3. Anti-aircraft shell fire.
4. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.

noun

1. (archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
2. (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
3. A freak or whim; an idle fancy.

verb

1. (drumming, transitive, intransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.
2. (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.

noun

1. (chiefly UK, Australia) Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.)
2. (chiefly US, Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
3. (informal, fandom slang) A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly.
4. (numismatics) A coin die. (Compare planchet.)

verb

1. (architecture) To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane.

noun

1. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
2. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
3. (obsolete) A young prostitute.
4. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
5. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
6. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
7. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
8. A hinged leaf.
9. A side fin of a ray.
10. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
11. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

verb

1. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
2. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
3. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

adj

1. (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
2. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
3. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
4. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
5. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
6. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
7. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
8. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
9. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
10. (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
11. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
12. (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
13. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
14. (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
15. (of measurements of time) Exact.
16. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
17. (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
18. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
19. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
20. At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
21. Having no variations in height.
22. In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
23. Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
24. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.

adv

1. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
2. (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
3. (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
4. Bluntly.
5. Completely.
6. Directly; flatly.
7. In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
8. So as to be flat.

noun

1. (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
2. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
3. (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
4. (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
5. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
6. (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
7. (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
8. (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
9. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
10. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
11. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
12. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
13. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
14. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
15. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
16. (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
17. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
18. (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
19. (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
20. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
21. (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
22. A flat sheet for use on a bed.
23. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
24. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
25. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
26. A wide, shallow container or pallet.
27. An area of level ground.
28. Short for flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
29. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
2. (intransitive) To dash, rush
3. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
4. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
5. (transitive) To dash or throw
6. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
7. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
8. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To beat or strike; pound

noun

1. (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
2. (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
3. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
4. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
5. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
6. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
7. A storm of short duration.
8. A sudden burst of noise and disorder
9. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
2. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

noun

1. A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
2. The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
3. The flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fright; a scare.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be fear-stricken.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
3. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To frighten; scare; terrify.
4. To lash or whip.
5. To strip the skin off; to skin.

noun

1. (derogatory) A thing of no significance.
2. A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove fleas from (an animal).
2. Obsolete spelling of flay

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flee

verb

1. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
2. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
3. (transitive) To escape from.

noun

1. (rare or dialectal) A house; home.
2. (rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.

adj

1. (UK, dialect) shallow; flat

noun

1. (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.

verb

1. simple past tense of fly

noun

1. (countable) An act of flexing.
2. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
3. (countable, slang) The act of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.
4. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
5. (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
6. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.

verb

1. (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
2. (intransitive, slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority.
3. (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
4. (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
5. (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be frightened.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To frighten.

noun

1. (computing) A data file containing computer animations.
2. (informal, slang) A French policeman.

adj

1. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
2. (informal) Disrespectful, flippant.
3. Sarcastic.

intj

1. (UK, euphemistic) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

noun

1. (US, slang) A slingshot.
2. (archaic) A fillip or light blow.
3. (firearms, uncountable) The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
4. (informal) The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
5. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
6. A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
7. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
8. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").

verb

1. (intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
2. (intransitive, informal) To switch to another task, etc.
3. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
4. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
5. (transitive) To throw so as to turn over.
6. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
7. (transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
8. (transitive, computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
9. (transitive, finance, slang) To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.
10. (transitive, informal) To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
11. (transitive, informal) To hand over or pass along.

adj

1. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

noun

1. (dated, slang) A homosexual.
2. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
3. A fluttering or darting movement.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
2. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
3. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
4. To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
5. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
6. To move quickly from one location to another.

noun

1. (slang) Alternative form of flicks (motion pictures)
2. The soft fur of some animals, especially the beaver.

noun

1. (UK, slang) Spittle or phlegm, especially a piece of spittle or phlegm that has been spat out.

verb

1. (UK, slang) To spit or to gob.
2. To flop; to move or behave in a loose or uncoordinated way.

noun

1. A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.

noun

1. A low, flat mass of floating ice.

noun

1. (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
2. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.

verb

1. (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
2. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
3. (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
4. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
5. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
6. (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
7. (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.

adv

1. Right, squarely, flat-out.
2. With a flopping sound.

intj

1. Indicating the sound of something flopping.

noun

1. (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
2. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
4. (slang) A flophouse.
5. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
6. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
7. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
2. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
3. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
4. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
5. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
6. (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
7. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).

noun

1. A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.

noun

1. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
2. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
3. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
4. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
5. (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
6. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
7. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
8. Smoothness or continuity.
9. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
10. The emission of blood during menstruation.
11. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
12. The rising movement of the tide.

verb

1. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
2. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
3. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
4. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
5. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
6. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
7. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
8. (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
9. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
10. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
11. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

noun

1. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

verb

1. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

adj

1. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”)

noun

1. (obsolete, countable and uncountable) A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
2. A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
3. An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
4. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

noun

1. plural of flu

adj

1. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

noun

1. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
2. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
3. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
4. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
5. A state of ongoing change.
6. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
7. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.
2. (transitive) To melt.
3. (transitive) To use flux on.

noun

1. (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
2. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

noun

1. (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
2. (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
3. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
4. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
5. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
6. (hunting) The track of an animal.
7. (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
8. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
9. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
10. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
11. A very thin sheet of metal.
12. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
13. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.

verb

1. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
2. (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
3. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.
4. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
5. (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
6. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
7. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
8. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

noun

1. (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
2. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
3. (collective) A group of sheep or goats.
4. (computing theory) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
5. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
6. (figuratively) Home, family.
7. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
8. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
9. (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
10. A bend or crease.
11. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
12. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
13. An act of folding.
14. Any correct move in origami.
15. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
2. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
3. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
4. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
5. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
6. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
7. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
8. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
9. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
10. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
11. To confine animals in a fold.
12. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
13. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of foal

adj

1. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
2. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
3. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
4. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.

noun

1. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
2. (music) Short for folk music.
3. (plural only) A particular group of people.
4. (plural only) People in general.
5. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
6. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

adj

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of following.

adj

1. (informal) Foolish.

noun

1. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
2. (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
3. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
4. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
5. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Buddy, dude, man.
6. (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

verb

1. (archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
2. To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
3. To trick; to deceive.

adj

1. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
2. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
3. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
4. (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
5. (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
6. (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
7. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
8. Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
9. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
10. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.

noun

1. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
2. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
3. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become clogged.
2. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
3. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
4. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
5. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
6. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
7. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
8. To come into contact or collide with.

adj

1. (obsolete) foul

noun

1. (archaic) A bird.
2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

verb

1. To hunt fowl.

noun

1. (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
2. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
3. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.

verb

1. To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
2. To provide with fuel.

adj

1. (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
2. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
3. (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
4. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
5. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
6. (of garments) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
7. (of physical features) Plump, round.
8. (of the moon) Having its entire face illuminated.
9. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
10. Complete; with nothing omitted.
11. Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
12. Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
13. Filled with emotions.
14. Having depth and body; rich.
15. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
16. Total, entire.

adv

1. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.

noun

1. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
3. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.

verb

1. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
2. (transitive) To baptise.
3. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.

verb

1. (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)

noun

1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
2. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

verb

1. (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
2. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.

noun

1. (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
2. (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
3. (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
4. (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
5. (obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
6. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
7. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

verb

1. (Oxbridge slang, transitive) To award a degree to somebody who has only just passed sufficiently.

adj

1. (of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
2. (of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
3. Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
4. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.

adv

1. In some part approximating a half.
2. In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
3. Partially; imperfectly.
4. Practically, nearly.

intj

1. (theater) A call reminding performers that the performance will begin in thirty minutes.

noun

1. (UK, archaic) A child ticket.
2. (numismatic slang) Clipping of half-dollar.
3. (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
4. (slang) A half sibling.
5. (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
6. (sports) abbreviated form for half marathon.
7. Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
8. Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (Britain) half a pint of beer or cider.
9. One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.

prep

1. (UK, Ireland) Half past; a half-hour (30 minutes) after the last hour.
2. (rare, see usage notes) A half-hour to (preceding) the next hour.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To halve.

noun

1. (Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
2. (advertising, dated) Two pages.
3. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
4. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
5. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
6. (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
8. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
9. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
10. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
11. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
13. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

verb

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

adj

1. Obsolete form of lief.

adj

1. (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
2. (politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
3. Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

adv

1. On the left side.
2. Towards the left side.
3. Towards the political left.

noun

1. (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
2. (politics) The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
3. (surfing) A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
4. The left hand or fist.
5. The left side or direction.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”).
2. simple past tense and past participle of leave (“permit”).

adj

1. (archaic) Beloved, dear, agreeable.
2. (archaic) Ready, willing.

adv

1. (archaic) Readily, willingly, rather.
2. I'd as lief have one as t'other.

noun

1. Alternative form of lif

intj

1. (obsolete) Synonym of God's life (“an oath”)

noun

1. (baseball, softball, cricket) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.
2. (biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
3. (colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
4. (countable) A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
5. (countable) A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
6. (informal) Social life.
7. (uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
8. (uncountable, insurance) The life insurance industry.
9. (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
10. A biography.
11. A particular aspect of existence.
12. A particular phase or period of existence.
13. A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
14. A worthwhile existence.
15. An opportunity for existence.
16. Animation; spirit; vivacity.
17. Existence.
18. Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
19. Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
20. One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
21. Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
22. The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
23. The most lively component or participant.
24. The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
25. The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
26. The span of time during which an object operates.

verb

1. (aviation) To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.

Adjective

1. Last in first out (describing a stack data structure).

noun

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
2. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
4. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
5. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
6. (figurative) An improvement in mood.
7. (historical slang) A thief.
8. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
9. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
10. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
11. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
12. A liftgate.
13. A rise; a degree of elevation.
14. An act of lifting or raising.
15. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
16. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
17. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
18. The amount or weight to be lifted.
19. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

verb

1. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
2. (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
3. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
4. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
5. (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
6. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
7. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
8. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
9. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
10. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
11. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
13. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
14. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

Verb

1. To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship.

noun

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
2. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
3. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
4. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

verb

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt (from loaf of bread)
2. (Internet slang) To be in catloaf position (for cats or other animals)
3. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty

noun

1. (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
2. (obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
3. (obsolete, except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
4. (textiles) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
5. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
6. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.

verb

1. (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
2. (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
3. (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
4. (transitive) To propel high into the air.
5. (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

noun

1. (anatomy, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The hand, especially, the hand outspread and upturned.
2. (anatomy, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The palm of the hand.
3. (nautical) The after part of the bow of a ship where the sides begin to curve.
4. (nautical, obsolete) A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship.
5. The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca).

noun

1. (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
2. (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
3. (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
4. (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.

verb

1. (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
2. (nautical, of a boat, intransitive) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up)
3. (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
4. (nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.

noun

1. (countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person.
2. (uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff.
3. (uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
4. (uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (Britain, dialectal) refuse from plants.

adj

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of reflexive.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply the Rolfing massage technique to.

adj

1. (molecular biology, immunology) Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
2. (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
3. (obsolete) Same, identical.
4. Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.

noun

1. (botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
2. (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
3. (molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
4. An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
5. Identity or personality.
6. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
7. Self-interest or personal advantage.
8. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

pron

1. (commercial or humorous) Myself.
2. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

verb

1. (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
2. (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

noun

1. (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
2. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
3. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
4. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
5. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
6. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
7. A wolf spider.
8. Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
9. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
10. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

verb

1. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.
2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.