(mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of caple (horse)
Alternative form of kappal (“ship”)
chelp
chelp
verb
(intransitive, Northern England) To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
(intransitive, Northern England) To speak rudely or out of turn.
clamp
clamp
noun
(UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
(dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
(medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.
verb
(UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
(intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
(transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
(transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
(transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
(transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
clape
clape
noun
A bird, the northern flicker.
clapp
claps
claps
noun
plural of clap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clap
clapt
clapt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clap
clasp
clasp
noun
(in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
verb
(transitive) To take hold of; to grasp.
To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.
clepe
clepe
noun
(now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call.
verb
(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone).
(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon.
(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name.
(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to.
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell.
clept
clept
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of clepe
clips
clips
noun
plural of clip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clip
clipt
clipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clip
clomp
clomp
noun
The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
verb
(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
(transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.
cloop
cloop
intj
The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
clops
clops
noun
plural of clop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clop
clump
clump
noun
(historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A dull thud.
A small group of trees or plants.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
verb
(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
(transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
(transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
(transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
clype
copal
copal
noun
A resinous exudation from various tropical trees, especially Hymenaea courbaril and Schinus terebinthifolia, used chiefly in making varnishes and printing ink.
corpl
culpa
culpa
noun
(law) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
cupel
cupel
noun
A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
verb
To refine by means of a cupel.
lipic
lipic
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fat.
locap
lpcdf
palch
palco
pical
picul
picul
noun
(units of measure) A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg.
pilch
pilch
noun
(archaic) a covering put over an infant's diaper to prevent outer clothes from getting wet
(obsolete) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
place
place
noun
(chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
(euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
(horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
(obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
(obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
(obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
(obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
(often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
A location or position in space.
A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
A role or purpose; a station.
A state of mind.
An area of the body, especially the skin.
An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
Any area of the earth: a region.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
The position as a member of a sports team.
The position of a contestant in a competition.
verb
(intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
(intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
(sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
(transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
(transitive) To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
(transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
(transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
(transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
(transitive, passive) To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
plack
plack
noun
(Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies.
(obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Misspelling of plaque.
pleck
pleck
noun
(UK dialectal) A plot of ground.
plica
plica
noun
(botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
(music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.
(zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.
ploce
ploce
noun
(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.
(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
verb
(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
pocul
pylic
scalp
scalp
noun
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
(figurative) The top; the summit.
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
verb
(Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
scelp
scelp
noun
Alternative form of skelp (“narrow strip of rolled or forged metal”)
sculp
sculp
verb
(obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.