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aiel

aila

aile

aili

ails

ails

noun

  1. plural of ail

verb

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

alai

albi

alfi

alia

alic

alie

alie

intj

  1. Alternative spelling of ahlie

alif

alif

noun

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

alii

alin

alis

alit

alix

alli

amil

amil

noun

  1. Alternative form of aumil

amli

anil

anil

noun

  1. (organic chemistry) 1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil.
  2. (organic chemistry) Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.
  3. The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.

aoli

aril

aril

noun

  1. (botany) A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.

atli

axil

axil

noun

  1. (botany) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

bail

bail

noun

  1. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  2. (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  3. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
  4. (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  5. (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
  6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
  7. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
  8. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  9. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  10. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  11. A person who bails water out of a boat.
  12. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
  13. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

verb

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
  3. (informal, transitive with on) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
  4. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  5. (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
  6. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  7. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  8. (rare) To confine.
  9. (slang) To exit quickly.
  10. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
  11. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  12. To set free; to deliver; to release.

bali

bhil

bibl

biel

bile

bile

noun

  1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
  2. 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.
  3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

bili

bili

noun

  1. (medicine, informal) Clipping of bilirubin.

bilk

bilk

noun

  1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  2. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
  3. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

verb

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
  3. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

bill

bill

noun

  1. (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  2. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
  3. (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.
  4. (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
  5. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  6. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  7. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
  8. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  9. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
  10. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  11. A set of items presented together.
  12. 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.
  13. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
  14. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  15. 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.
  16. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
  17. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  18. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
  19. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

verb

  1. (obsolete) to peck
  2. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  3. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
  4. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
  5. to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

bilo

bilo

noun

  1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

biol

birl

birl

noun

  1. (Internet slang, LGBT) A girl of boyish appearance.
  2. (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

  1. (transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
  2. (transitive) To throw down a coin as one's share in a joint contribution.
  3. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
  4. Alternative form of birle (“to drink, carouse”)

blim

blim

noun

  1. (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.

blin

blin

noun

  1. (obsolete) Cessation; end.
  2. A blintz.

verb

  1. (obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

blip

blip

noun

  1. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
  2. (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
  3. (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
  4. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.

verb

  1. (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
  2. (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)

blit

blit

noun

  1. (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

  1. (computing, transitive) To transfer by a blit operation.

boil

boil

noun

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
  2. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
  3. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  4. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
  5. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

verb

  1. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
  2. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
  3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  4. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
  5. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  6. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  8. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

cali

ceil

ceil

noun

  1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
  2. (poetic) A ceiling.

verb

  1. (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
  2. (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.

chil

ciel

ciel

verb

  1. Alternative form of ceil

cila

cill

cill

noun

  1. Alternative form of sill

cilo

cirl

cirl

noun

  1. The cirl bunting

clei

clid

clie

clim

clin

clio

clip

clip

noun

  1. (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
  2. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
  3. (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
  4. (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
  5. (obsolete) An embrace.
  6. (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.
  7. A newspaper clipping.
  8. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
  9. A season's crop of wool.
  10. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
  11. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  12. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
  13. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  14. The product of a single shearing of sheep.

verb

  1. (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
  2. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  3. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
  4. (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
  5. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
  6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  7. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  8. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  9. To curtail; to cut short.
  10. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  11. To fasten with a clip.
  12. To grip tightly.
  13. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
  14. to grab or take stealthily

clit

clit

noun

  1. (informal, vulgar) Short for clitoris..
  2. (offensive, vulgar) A term of abuse.
  3. (slang, often derogatory) A penis likened to a clitoris, especially in terms of smallness.

verb

  1. (slang, vulgar, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris.

cliv

clli

coil

coil

noun

  1. (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
  2. (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
  3. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
  4. A cylinder of clay.
  5. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
  6. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

verb

  1. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
  2. To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
  3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
  4. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
  5. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

coli

coli

noun

  1. (often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

dail

dali

dali

noun

  1. A timber tree (genus Myristica) of Guiana, whose wood is used for staves etc.

deil

deli

deli

noun

  1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
  2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

dial

dial

noun

  1. (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
  2. A clock face.
  3. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
  4. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
  5. A miner's compass.
  6. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
  7. A sundial.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
  2. (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
  3. (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

diel

diel

adj

  1. (biology) Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night.

dili

dill

dill

noun

  1. (Australia, informal) A fool.
  2. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring.
  3. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

verb

  1. To cook or flavor with dill
  2. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

dilo

diol

diol

noun

  1. (organic chemistry) any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups

dipl

dirl

doli

doli

noun

  1. plural of dolus

eila

eild

eild

noun

  1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Age.

elhi

elhi

noun

  1. (education) In some countries, the period from elementary school to high school.

elia

elie

elik

elis

elix

elix

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.

eliz

elli

elsi

emil

epil

evil

evil

adj

  1. (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
  2. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  3. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  4. Morally corrupt.
  5. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  6. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

adv

  1. (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
  2. (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
  3. (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously

noun

  1. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
  2. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  3. Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.

fail

fail

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.

feil

fiel

figl

fila

fila

noun

  1. plural of filum

file

file

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.

fili

fill

fill

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.

film

film

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.

filo

filo

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

fils

fils

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.

filt

flic

flic

noun

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

flin

flip

flip

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.

flit

flit

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.

flix

flix

noun

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

foil

foil

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.

gail

gali

gila

gila

adj

  1. (Singapore) mad; crazy; insane

gild

gild

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of guild

verb

  1. (transitive) To adorn.
  2. (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
  3. (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
  4. (transitive) To make appear drunk.
  5. (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.

gile

gill

gill

noun

  1. (Britain) ravine
  2. (Britain) rivulet
  3. (animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
  4. (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
  5. (archaic, Britain) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
  6. (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
  7. (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
  8. (obsolete) a promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton
  9. (obsolete) a prostitute
  10. (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
  11. (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
  12. A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
  13. a female ferret
  14. a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
  2. (obsolete) To act as a prostitute.
  3. (transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
  4. To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.

gilo

gilo

noun

  1. Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)

gils

gilt

gilt

adj

  1. Golden coloured.

noun

  1. (UK, regional) A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
  2. (countable, finance, UK) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
  3. (obsolete, uncountable) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
  4. (uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
  5. (uncountable, by extension) Gold-colored paint or other coating.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of gild

girl

girl

noun

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
  2. (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
  3. (card games, slang, uncommon) A queen (the playing card).
  4. (colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
  5. (derogatory) A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.
  6. (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
  7. (somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).
  8. A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.
  9. A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
  10. A young female animal.
  11. One's daughter.
  12. One's girlfriend.

verb

  1. (somewhat informal) To staff with or as a girl or girls.
  2. (transitive) To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.

glia

glia

noun

  1. The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue.

glib

glib

adj

  1. (US) Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
  2. (dated) Smooth or slippery.
  3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
  4. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

noun

  1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly used in Ireland.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
  2. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.

glim

glim

noun

  1. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
  2. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
  3. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
  4. (archaic, slang) An eye.
  5. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).
  6. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
  7. (obsolete) brightness; splendour

verb

  1. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
  2. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.

glis

goli

goli

noun

  1. A traditional dance and masquerade of the Baoulé people of the Ivory Coast.

hail

hail

adj

  1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

intj

  1. (archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

noun

  1. (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
  2. (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
  3. (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

verb

  1. (impersonal) Of hail, to fall from the sky.
  2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.
  3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
  4. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.
  5. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
  6. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.
  7. (transitive, by extension, UK, Australia) To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
  8. To pour down in rapid succession.

hali

heil

heil

verb

  1. To greet with a Sieg Heil.

heli

heli

noun

  1. Clipping of helicopter.

hila

hila

noun

  1. plural of hilum

hild

hile

hile

noun

  1. (old South-West England dialect) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.

verb

  1. (old South-West England dialect) To form sheaves into a hile.

hili

hili

noun

  1. plural of hilus

hill

hill

noun

  1. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
  2. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
  3. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
  4. A sloping road.
  5. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
  6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

verb

  1. To form into a heap or mound.
  2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

hilo

hilt

hilt

noun

  1. The base of the penis.
  2. The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.

verb

  1. (transitive) To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
  2. (transitive) To provide with a hilt.

holi

hyli

icel

idel

idle

idle

adj

  1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
  2. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
  3. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
  4. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
  5. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
  6. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

noun

  1. (gaming) An idle animation.
  2. (gaming) An idle game.
  3. (mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
  4. The state of idling, of being idle.

verb

  1. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
  2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
  3. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.

idly

idly

adv

  1. In an idle manner. [from 14th c.]
  2. Without specific purpose, intent or effort. [from 9th c.]

idol

idol

noun

  1. (Asia, originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
  2. (obsolete) An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.
  3. A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
  4. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

idyl

idyl

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of idyll

ifla

igal

iglu

iglu

noun

  1. Archaic form of igloo.

iila

ilam

ilan

ilea

ilea

noun

  1. plural of ileum (Compare ilia)

ilex

ilex

noun

  1. Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.
  2. Holm oak (Quercus ilex).

ilha

ilia

ilia

noun

  1. plural of ilium

ilka

ilka

adj

  1. (Scotland or archaic) Each or every

ilke

ilks

ilks

noun

  1. plural of ilk

illa

ills

ills

noun

  1. plural of ill