A language spoken on this island and others near it.
bias
bias
adj
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
adv
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
noun
(South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
(countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
(statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
verb
(electronics) To give a bias to.
(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
bibb
bibi
bibi
noun
(India) grandmother
bibl
bibs
bibs
noun
another name for overalls
plural of bib
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bib
bice
bice
noun
A cobalt blue pigment.
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
bick
bics
bida
bide
bide
verb
(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
(transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
(transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
bidi
bidi
adj
Clipping of bidirectional.
noun
Alternative form of beedi.
bids
bids
noun
plural of bid
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bid
biel
bien
bier
bier
noun
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
biff
biff
intj
The sound of a person being punched or hit.
noun
(informal) A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
(informal, sports) A wipeout.
verb
(New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
(informal, sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.
(informal, transitive) To punch or hit.
biga
biga
noun
(historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.
bigg
bigg
noun
A kind of barley.
verb
(transitive, obsolete, Scotland, Northumbria) To build.
bija
bija
noun
(Hinduism, Buddhism) The origin or cause of things.
bike
bike
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
(chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
(slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
Clipping of bicycle.
Clipping of motorbike.
verb
(intransitive) To ride a bike.
(intransitive) To travel by bike.
(transitive) To transport by bicycle.
bikh
bikh
noun
A virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite.
The plant itself.
bile
bile
noun
(obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
verb
Pronunciation spelling of boil.
bili
bili
noun
(medicine, informal) Clipping of bilirubin.
bilk
bilk
noun
(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
(obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
(obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
verb
(intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
(transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
(transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
(transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.
bill
bill
noun
(US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
(obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
(slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
A pickaxe, or mattock.
A set of items presented together.
A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
verb
(obsolete) to peck
(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
bilo
bilo
noun
Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.
bima
bima
noun
(Judaism) The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.
bina
bind
bind
noun
(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
That which binds or ties.
The indurated clay of coal mines.
verb
(UK, dialect) To complain; to whine about something.
(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
(intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
(intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
(intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
(intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
(intransitive, LGBT) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
(law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
(law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
(transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
(transitive) To couple.
(transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
(transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
(transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
(transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
(transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
(transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
(transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
(transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
bine
bine
noun
(UK, slang) cigarette
(botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
bing
bing
intj
(onomatopoeia) The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck
(onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface
noun
(Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore
(chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry
(chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound
(prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement
A bounce.
The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
The sound made by a bounce.
verb
(dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run
To bounce.
binh
bini
bink
bink
noun
(UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.
bino
bino
noun
(physics) The superpartner of the gauge boson corresponding to weak hypercharge.
bins
bins
noun
(birding, slang) Binoculars.
(slang) Eyeglasses or spectacles.
plural of bin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bin
bint
bint
noun
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A woman, a girl.
bioc
biod
biog
biog
noun
(informal) A biography.
biol
bion
bion
noun
(science fiction) A cyborg or robot.
The smallest microscopic unit of orgone.
bios
bios
noun
(obsolete) A vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, since found to be several B vitamins.
In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe.
plural of bio
biot
biot
noun
(physics, dated) Synonym of abampere
(science fiction) A robot composed of living components
bird
bird
adj
(Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.
noun
(UK, Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
(UK, US, Australia, Ireland, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
(UK, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
(cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
(obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
(slang) A man, fellow.
(slang) A prison sentence.
(slang) A satellite.
(slang) An airplane.
(slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
(slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
(with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
A yardbird.
verb
(intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
(intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
(intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
(transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
(transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.
biri
birk
birk
noun
(Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
(Northern England) A birch tree.
A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).
birl
birl
noun
(Internet slang, LGBT) A girl of boyish appearance.
(music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.
verb
(transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
(transitive) To throw down a coin as one's share in a joint contribution.
(transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
Alternative form of birle (“to drink, carouse”)
birn
biro
biro
noun
(by extension, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.
(uncountable, by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
birr
birr
noun
(Scotland) A strong trilling.
(Scotland) A whirring noise
(Scotland) The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force
(Scotland) strength, vigor, energy
The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims.
verb
(Scotland) To lurch or set to spinning.
(Scotland) To make a whirring noise; make a noise like that of revolving wheels, or of millstones at work.
birt
birt
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
bise
bise
noun
A cold, dry, northerly wind in France, Switzerland, etc.
Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)
bish
bish
noun
(Britain, slang) Clipping of bishop.
(Britain, slang, dated) A mistake.
(chess) Abbreviation of bishop.
(slang) A minced oath, a euphemism by phonetic modification of "bitch" (as a term of abuse).
bisk
bisk
noun
(sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)
bisp
bist
bist
verb
(UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
How bist?
I bist goin' 'ome.
Where bist goin'.
bite
bite
noun
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(figuratively) aggression
(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(television) Short for sound bite.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
A small meal or snack.
The act of biting.
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
biti
bito
bits
bits
noun
(MLE) neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends.
plural of bit
bitt
bitt
noun
(nautical) A bollard.
(nautical) The bitts.
verb
(nautical, transitive) To put round the bitts.
biwa
biwa
noun
A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.
bixa
bize
bizz
blim
blim
noun
(slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.
blin
blin
noun
(obsolete) Cessation; end.
A blintz.
verb
(obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
blip
blip
noun
(Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
(electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
verb
(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
(transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)
blit
blit
noun
(computing) A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.
verb
(computing, transitive) To transfer by a blit operation.
bodi
bodi
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago) Asparagus beans.
bohi
boid
boid
noun
A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.
Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.
Nonstandard spelling of bird representing the old-fashioned New York City pronunciation
boii
boil
boil
noun
(Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
verb
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
(transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
bois
bois
noun
plural of boi
bomi
boni
boni
noun
(nonstandard) plural of bonus
bori
boti
brei
bria
brid
brie
brie
noun
An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.
(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
(nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
Brigadier.
brim
brim
adj
(obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.
noun
(obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
The topmost rim or lip of a container.
verb
(transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
brin
brin
noun
A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
brio
brio
noun
Vigour or vivacity.
bris
bris
noun
(Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
brit
brit
noun
One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
brit milah
verb
(intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
(intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
(transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
(transitive) To bruise; indent.
brix
brix
Noun
A measure (in degrees) of the amount of dissolved solids in a liquid via its specific gravity; used especially to measure dissolved sugar in fruit juice and wine.
bsie
bsir
bsit
bugi
buia
buri
caci
cadi
cadi
noun
Alternative form of qadi
caia
caic
caid
caid
noun
(Ireland) Modern Gaelic football.
(historical) A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
Any of various ancient and traditional Irish football games.
cain
cain
noun
Alternative form of kain
cair
cair
noun
Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To go.
(transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
(transitive, obsolete) To carry.
cais
cali
cami
cami
noun
(colloquial) A camisole.
cari
casi
cati
ccci
ccid
ccim
ccip
ccir
ccis
cdiz
cedi
cedi
noun
The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.
ceil
ceil
noun
(mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
(poetic) A ceiling.
verb
(mathematics) To set a higher bound.
(transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
ceti
cevi
chai
chai
noun
(Judaism) A Jewish symbol representing life, traditionally worn as an amulet.
(winemaking) A place above ground for storing wine casks.
A female gypsy.
Ellipsis of masala chai, a beverage made with black teas, steamed milk and sweet spices, based loosely on Indian recipes.
chia
chia
noun
A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.
chic
chic
adj
Elegant, stylish.
noun
(chiefly uncountable) Good form; style.
(countable) A person with (a particular type of) chic.
A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.
chid
chid
verb
simple past tense of chide
chih
chil
chin
chin
noun
(aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
(boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
(informal) A chinchilla.
(slang, Britain) A lie, a falsehood.
(slang, Britain) A person of the upper class.
(slang, US) Talk.
The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
verb
(chiefly UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
(reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
(slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
(slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
(transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
(transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
(transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
(transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
chip
chip
noun
(New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, archaic in Canada, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
(US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
(archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
(cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
(golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
(historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
(nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
(slang, dated) A sovereign (the coin).
(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
verb
(UK, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.
(also, to chip at) To make fun of.
(intransitive) To become chipped.
(intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
(transitive) To break small pieces from.
(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
(transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
(transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
(transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
chis
chis
noun
plural of chi
chit
chit
noun
(India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
(US and Britain dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
(US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
(US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.
(gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
(historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
(obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
(pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
The embryonic growing bud of a plant
verb
(intransitive, Britain, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
(transitive, Britain, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
(transitive, Britain, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
chiv
chiv
noun
A cooper's tool used to make that section.
The scooped out portion at the end of a stave used to make a cask, where the croze will be incised.
chui
ciac
ciao
ciao
intj
bye, goodbye.
hello, hi.
noun
A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
cica
cics
cida
ciel
ciel
verb
Alternative form of ceil
cigs
cigs
noun
plural of cig
cila
cill
cill
noun
Alternative form of sill
cilo
cima
cima
noun
Obsolete spelling of cyma
cine
cine
noun
(chiefly attributive) cinefilm
(medicine) Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy.
cini
cion
cion
noun
(chiefly botany) Alternative spelling of scion
cipo
circ
circ
noun
(informal) Circumcision.
(obsolete) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.