HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
2. An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.

adj

1. (dated, Britain school slang) Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
2. (dated, Britain school slang) Relating to such an excused absence

noun

1. (dated, Britain school slang) A note excusing a student from classes due to illness
2. (dated, Britain school slang) An excused absence from classes due to illness
3. (dated, local dialect) A particularly high tidal wave on some rivers, esp. the Trent

noun

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center.
2. (figuratively) Usually as under the aegis: guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship.

Proper noun

1. The goddess/personification of good health and the glow of health, one of the daughters of Asclepius.
2. Short for one of the main belt asteroids.

adj

1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
2. Wide open.

adv

1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
2. Open wide.

noun

1. (countable) A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.
2. (uncountable) Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.
3. (uncountable, Christianity) The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.

adv

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.

noun

1. (countable) A marble made from agate.
2. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
3. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
4. (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
5. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
6. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.

noun

1. A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity.

adj

1. (not attributive) Gazing.

noun

1. Obsolete form of agendum.

noun

1. (inorganic chemistry) nitrogen trichloride when it was used as a bleaching agent and improving agent in flour

noun

1. (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
2. (gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
3. (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
4. A person who looks for work for another person
5. An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
6. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
7. One who exerts power, or has the power to act
8. Someone who works for an intelligence agency

noun

1. plural of ager

noun

1. (historical) In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound or raised work.
2. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
3. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.

noun

1. (US, informal) A student or alumnus of such a school.
2. (US, informal) An agricultural school, such as one of the state land-grant colleges.
3. (informal) Marble or a marble made of agate, or one that looks as if it were made of agate.

adj

1. (chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
2. Characterised by quick motion.
3. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.

noun

1. (chiefly software engineering) Agile software development.

adv

1. Alternative spelling of agley

noun

1. A catkin.
2. Alternative spelling of aiglet.
3. The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying.

adj

1. (Scotland) Wrong; askew.

adv

1. (chiefly Scotland) Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly.

noun

1. A 13th century French gold coin.

noun

1. (historical) A rigorous training regimen for Spartan men in preparation for army service.
2. In ancient Greek music, tempo or pace; rhythmical movement.
3. Melodic motion upward or downward by successive scale-steps: same as ductus in medieval music.

adv

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Alternative form of ago

verb

1. (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
2. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
3. (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
4. (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
5. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
6. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
7. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
8. (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.

verb

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

adj

1. Conditions associated with catching ague.
2. In the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.

adj

1. (archaic) Pronunciation spelling of eager.

noun

1. Alternative form of ague
2. Alternative form of eagre; a tidal bore.

adj

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of eager (“sour”)

noun

1. (countable) A particular kind of algae.
2. Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.
3. plural of alga

noun

1. (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
2. (colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
3. (finance) An angel investor.
4. (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
5. (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome.
6. (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
7. (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
8. (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
9. (theater) The person who funds a show.
10. A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.
11. An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.

verb

1. (transitive, theater, slang) To support by donating money.

noun

1. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
2. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become angry.
2. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

noun

1. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
2. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
3. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
4. (media) The focus of a news story.
5. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
6. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
7. A change in direction.
8. A corner where two walls intersect.
9. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
10. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
11. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.

verb

1. (informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
3. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
4. (transitive, cue sports) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
5. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
6. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.

adj

1. In a rage; furious.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To enrage.

noun

1. A palm tree (Arenga pinnata, syn. Saguerus saccharifer) which yields sago, wine, and fibres for ropes.

verb

1. (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
2. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To accuse.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To prove.
5. (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
6. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.

noun

1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
2. A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study.
3. A snake or plumber's snake (plumbing tool).
4. A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts

verb

1. To proceed in the manner of an auger.
2. To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger.

noun

1. (mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.

noun

1. (Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
2. (graphical user interface) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
3. (heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
4. (nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
5. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
6. (slang) A police officer.
7. A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
8. A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
9. A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
10. Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
2. (transitive) To show a badge to.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.

noun

1. (slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
2. (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
3. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
4. Alternative form of bagle

verb

1. (sports) To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
2. (tennis) To achieve a score of 6–0 in a tennis set.

noun

1. Synonym of bagle hound

noun

1. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
2. (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
5. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
6. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
7. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.

verb

1. (transitive) To push someone.
2. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.

verb

1. (transitive) to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully

verb

1. To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
2. To envelop in fog or smoke.
3. To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).

verb

1. (obsolete) past participle of begin
2. simple past tense of begin

noun

1. A system of forced labour in parts of India.

noun

1. (nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

verb

1. simple past tense of beget

verb

1. (transitive) To make cheerful or merry.

verb

1. To adorn (as if) with gems.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To happen to; befall.
2. To bring forth.
3. To cause; to produce.
4. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).

noun

1. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation
2. (intransitive) To come into existence.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

intj

1. (dated, dialectal, Ireland) by God

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

verb

1. (now rare) past participle of beget

noun

1. a high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in South Asia
2. the form of address for such a woman

verb

1. (transitive) To daub or cover with gum.

verb

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of begin
2. past participle of begin

adj

1. (informal, originally US) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
2. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

noun

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of beigey

conj

1. Given that; since.

noun

1. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
2. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
3. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
4. A living creature.
5. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.

verb

1. present participle of be

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A hill.

noun

1. plural of berg

adj

1. containing icebergs
2. of or related to icebergs

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with a tag; deck with tags.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish or cover with a wig; put a wig on.

noun

1. (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
2. (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
3. (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
4. (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
5. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
6. talk bilge

verb

1. (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
2. (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
3. (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.

noun

1. (by extension) A compressed period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show.
2. A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.

verb

1. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

adj

1. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

noun

1. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
2. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
3. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

verb

1. (Britain, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

noun

1. (Australia) A swim or bathe; a bath.
2. (UK) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
3. (UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
4. (archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
5. (engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
6. (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
7. (golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
8. (military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
9. (military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
10. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
11. Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”)

verb

1. (Australia) To swim; to bathe.
2. (golf) To make a bogey.

noun

1. (Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, US, by extension, rail transport, also attributively) One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle.
2. (Britain, colloquial) A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
3. (Britain, dated, India, rail transport) A railway carriage.
4. (Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.
5. (aviation, by extension) A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.
6. (aviation, military, slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
7. (chiefly US, slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
8. A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.

noun

1. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
2. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.

noun

1. A bayou or waterway.
2. A species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops.

verb

1. (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

noun

1. (now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.

verb

1. To bilge.
2. To swell out.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bulge or swell out.
2. (transitive) To cause to leak.

adj

1. (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics

noun

1. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.

verb

1. (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
2. (intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
3. (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.
4. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
5. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

adj

1. (obsolete) jet-black

noun

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
3. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
4. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
5. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
6. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
7. The sound of something that bugles.

verb

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

noun

1. (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
2. (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
3. (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
4. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
5. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
2. (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).

noun

1. (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

verb

1. (Tyneside) To beg.
2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
4. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
5. (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
6. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.

adj

1. (of eggs) Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.
2. Confined in a cage.
3. Resembling a cage.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cage

noun

1. (cycling, derogatory) A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.
2. (dated) A basketball player.
3. (mining) A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.

noun

1. plural of cage

adj

1. Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
2. Wary, careful, shrewd.

noun

1. Alternative form of sheng (Chinese wind instrument)

noun

1. cogeneration; a combination heating plant and power generator.

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.

noun

1. (architecture) Alternative form of congé: an apophyge or cavetto.
2. (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of congy, congius, ancient Roman units of liquid measure and mass.
3. Alternative form of congee: a leavetaking, a farewell.

verb

1. Synonym of congee: to take leave, to bid farewell, in various senses; to bow, to curtsey, etc.

verb

1. (surgery) To perform blepharoplasty to remove eyebags.
2. (transitive) To remove (something) from a bag.
3. (transitive, Oxbridge and Southern England, slang, dated) To pull down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent, as a prank.

noun

1. The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors.

verb

1. (US) To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice.
2. (computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
3. (electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).

verb

1. (transitive) To remove the moisture or fog from.
2. (transitive, informal) To make intelligible; to free from confusion.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove the gas from.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove gum from.

verb

1. (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
2. (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
3. (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.

noun

1. (slang, ethnic slur) A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.

adj

1. (obsolete) worthy; honourable; deserving; suitable.

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of dike

noun

1. (US slang, dated, countable) A black person.
2. Dinginess.

verb

1. to flog, as in penance
2. to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in

noun

1. (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
2. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

verb

1. To sing dirges

adj

1. (Australia) Dodgy.

noun

1. (slang) A line of work.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
3. An act of dodging.

verb

1. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
2. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
3. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

noun

1. plural of doge

noun

1. (US, regional, colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.

noun

1. (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
2. (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

noun

1. (historical, UK) A kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Proper noun

1. A city in Minnesota, US.

adj

1. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
2. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
3. (obsolete, figurative) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
4. (obsolete, literally) Sharp; sour; acid.
5. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

noun

1. Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).