HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Rose bengal dye worn by Indian women on the feet during festivals.

noun

1. (colloquial, music) An alto saxophone
2. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
3. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.

noun

1. plural of alt

noun

1. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
2. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
3. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
4. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
5. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
6. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
7. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
8. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
9. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
10. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
11. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
12. A quick drink of liquor.
13. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
14. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

verb

1. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
2. (transitive) To encircle.
3. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
5. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
6. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
7. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
8. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

noun

1. The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
2. (intransitive) To make a senseless noise.
3. (transitive) To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.
4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
5. To talk inconsiderately; blab.

verb

1. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

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.

noun

1. (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
2. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
3. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
4. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

verb

1. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
2. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
3. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
4. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
5. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
6. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
7. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
8. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

adv

1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

noun

1. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
2. (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
3. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
4. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
5. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
6. A burst of speed or efficiency.
7. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
8. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
9. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
10. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
11. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
12. A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
13. A sudden event, action or emotion.
14. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
15. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
16. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

verb

1. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
2. (intransitive) To escape.
3. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
4. (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
5. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
6. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
7. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
8. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
9. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
10. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
11. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
12. To sift, especially through a cloth.
13. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
14. To swallow food without chewing it.
15. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

noun

1. (South Africa) A ridge or small hill.

noun

1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.

noun

1. A clod of earth

verb

1. To dirty

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.

noun

1. A silly person.
2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
3. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
2. (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

noun

1. (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
2. (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
5. A young crane (bird).
6. A young male horse.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

noun

1. Alternative form of ctrl. Abbreviation of control.

adj

1. (neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt.
2. Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
3. Of or relating to a cult.

noun

1. (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
2. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
3. The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.

noun

1. (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

verb

1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.

adj

1. That has been experienced or perceived.

noun

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

verb

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

adj

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

adv

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

noun

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

verb

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

noun

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

adj

1. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of gault

noun

1. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
2. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
3. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
4. (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
5. (rare) A lunatic.
6. A gelding.
7. Tribute; tax.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of geld

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

noun

1. (Britain, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
2. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
3. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
4. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
5. A block used for a fulcrum.
6. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
7. An excess, too much.
8. Something that fills up an opening.
9. That which is swallowed.
10. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
2. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.

adj

1. (archaic) Lame, limping.

noun

1. (dated) Lameness; a limp.
2. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
3. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
2. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
3. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
4. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
5. (intransitive) To stop marching.
6. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
7. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
8. To falter.
9. To waver.

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.

noun

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

noun

1. islet: Alternative form of islot

adj

1. (proofreading) Abbreviation of italic.

noun

1. (Jamaica, Iyaric) Pure, natural food suiting a Rastafari lifestyle.

noun

1. A woman who jilts a lover.

verb

1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

noun

1. (slang) A long prison sentence.
2. (slang) A narcotic injection.
3. A surprise or shock.
4. An act of jolting.

verb

1. (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
2. (transitive) To knock sharply
3. (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
4. (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
5. (transitive) To shock emotionally.

noun

1. (Scotland) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
2. A thin, recently spawned iteroparous salmon.
3. Pronunciation spelling of kilt.

noun

1. (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
2. A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.
3. A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
4. A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

verb

1. (obsolete or colloquial, especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past tense and past participle of kill.
2. To gather up (skirts) around the body.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To seek; search for; inquire.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)
2. Aged urine.
3. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

adj

1. Being the only one remaining of its class.
2. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
3. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
4. Lowest in rank or degree.
5. Most recent, latest, last so far.
6. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

adv

1. (sequence) after everything else; finally
2. Most recently.

det

1. (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
2. The (one) immediately before the present.

noun

1. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
2. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
3. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
4. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
5. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.

verb

1. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
2. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
4. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.

noun

1. Alternative form of latah

adj

1. (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
2. (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
3. (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
4. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
5. Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline.
6. Near the end of a period of time.
7. Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
8. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
9. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
10. Specifically, near the end of the day.

adv

1. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
2. Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
3. Not long ago; just now.

noun

1. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.

noun

1. (geology, petrology) Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass
2. A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.

verb

1. to cover or line with laths

noun

1. (UK slang) Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and defecation.
2. (historical numismatics) Alternative form of lat (plural lati).
3. (slang) The latissimus dorsi muscles.
4. plural of lat: latitude.
5. plural of lat: staves; pillars.
6. plural of lat: the former currency or money of Latvia.

noun

1. An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.

noun

1. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.

adj

1. (slang) Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
2. (slang) Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
3. (slang) Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
4. Of or relating to leetspeak.

noun

1. (Britain, obsolete) A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.
2. (Internet slang, dated) Abbreviation of leetspeak.
3. (Scotland) A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.
4. (UK) The European pollock.
5. (obsolete) A place where roads meet or cross; intersection
6. Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”)

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of let

adj

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

adv

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

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lent

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of leap

conj

1. (after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension) that (without the negative particle; introduces the reason for an emotion.)
2. For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.

noun

1. plural of let

verb

1. Misspelling of let's.
2. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of let

verb

1. Archaic form of let

noun

1. Abbreviation of length.

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
2. A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
3. Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.

verb

1. To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
2. To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
3. To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

noun

1. A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
2. Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
3. Raw cotton ready for baling.
4. The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.

verb

1. (transitive, computing) To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.

noun

1. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
2. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
3. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
4. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
5. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
6. (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
7. (in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
8. (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
9. (obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.
10. (obsolete) A stripe.
11. (obsolete) Desire, inclination.
12. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
13. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
14. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
15. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
16. Material used for cloth selvage.

verb

1. (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
3. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
4. (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
5. (transitive) To create or recite a list.
6. (transitive) To place in listings.
7. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
8. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
9. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
10. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.
11. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
12. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
13. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
14. (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
16. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
17. To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.

adj

1. (Britain, dialect) few; little
2. (usually postpositive) Abridged; refers to a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
3. (usually used postpositively) Lacking substance or seriousness; watered down.
4. Informal spelling of light.
5. Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.
6. Lightweight

noun

1. (Britain, dialect) A little, bit.
2. (Britain, dialect) The act of waiting; a wait.
3. Archaic form of light (“window or aperture in a building”).

verb

1. (Britain, dialect) To expect; wait.
2. (Britain, dialect) To rely.

noun

1. (Scotland) A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
2. (UK dialectal) A gate; a gap in a fence.
3. (UK dialectal) A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
4. (UK dialectal) A limb; any member of the body.
5. (sciences, informal) coccolith
6. Property.

verb

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

adj

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

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
2. (US military slang, dated) Clipping of lieutenant.
3. (colloquial, US) Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
4. (slang) Synonym of money.
5. Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
6. Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.

verb

1. (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
2. (transitive, chiefly South Asian) Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.

adj

1. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
2. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
3. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
4. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
5. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
6. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
7. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
8. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lose

noun

1. (Pakistani politics) A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another.
2. (South Asia) A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass.

noun

1. A large tree (Celtis australis), the European nettle tree, found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherry-like fruit.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To lurk; lie hidden

adj

1. (Britain) Alternative form of loath

noun

1. (now historical) A measure of weight formerly used in Germany, the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe, equivalent to half of the local ounce.

noun

1. A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti.
2. The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender.
3. plural of lotus

noun

1. Archaic form of lotto.

adv

1. (colloquial) A great deal; very much.

noun

1. (colloquial) A lot; a great deal; tons; loads.
2. plural of lot

verb

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

noun

1. A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
2. A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To bend, bow, stoop.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

noun

1. A slow-burning match or torch.
2. Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.

verb

1. (Scotland) To emit smoke.
2. (Scotland) To walk while smoking a pipe.

noun

1. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
3. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
4. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.

verb

1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

noun

1. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
2. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
4. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

verb

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
2. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

noun

1. The leatherback turtle.

noun

1. (figure skating) A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.

noun

1. (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
3. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
4. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become malt.
2. (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.
3. (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.

noun

1. (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
2. (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
3. A melt sandwich.
4. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
5. Molten material, the product of melting.
6. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
7. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

verb

1. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
2. (intransitive) To be discouraged.
3. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
4. (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
6. (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

noun

1. (countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
2. The semen of a male fish.

verb

1. (transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

verb

1. (rare) simple past tense of melt
2. US standard spelling of moult.

noun

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Neat, cattle

noun

1. (also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
2. (archaic except Ireland) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
3. (by extension) Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
4. (chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
5. (chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt) An act of moving quickly; a rush.
6. (except Ireland) A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
7. (except Midlands, Southern England (South West)) A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
8. (falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
9. A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
10. A garment made from animal skins.
11. A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
12. The fur or hair of a living animal.
13. The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).

verb

1. (archaic except Britain, dialectal) To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
2. (archaic, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.
3. (figuratively) To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
4. (figuratively) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.
6. (obsolete) To throw out harsh words; to show anger.
7. (obsolete, rare) To remove feathers from (a bird).
8. Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
9. Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
10. Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
11. Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
12. To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
13. To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
14. To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.

adj

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.

adv

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

noun

1. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
2. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
3. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
4. A plot of land; a lot.
5. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.

verb

1. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.
2. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

noun

1. (Various fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
2. (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
3. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
4. A plan; a purpose.
5. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
6. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
7. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
8. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
3. (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

noun

1. (now dialectal) A hard knock.
2. (obsolete, rare) A pestle.

noun

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of weight, usually 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg).

adj

1. (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
2. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
3. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
4. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
5. Saline.
6. Salty; salted.

noun

1. (Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
2. (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
3. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
4. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
5. (figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
6. (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
7. (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
8. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
9. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
10. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
11. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
12. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
13. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
14. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

verb

1. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
2. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
3. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
4. (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
5. (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
6. (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
7. (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
8. (transitive) To add salt to.
9. (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
10. (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

noun

1. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
2. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
3. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
2. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

noun

1. (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
2. (skiing, slang) A ski.
3. A thin piece of stone; a slate.
4. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.

verb

1. (Britain, dialectal) To split; to crack.
2. To construct or provide with slats.
3. To set on; to incite.
4. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

adj

1. Having a cut narrow opening

noun

1. (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
2. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
3. A narrow cut or opening; a slot.

verb

1. (transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
2. To cut a narrow opening.
3. To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.

noun

1. (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
2. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
5. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
6. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
7. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
8. (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
9. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
10. (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
11. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
12. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
13. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
14. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
15. A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
16. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.

verb

1. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
2. (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
3. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
4. (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
5. (slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
6. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
7. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
8. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
9. To put something where it belongs.

noun

1. (archaic, derogatory) A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman.
2. (obsolete) A female dog.
3. (obsolete) A maidservant.
4. (obsolete) A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination.
5. (obsolete, derogatory) A bold, outspoken woman.
6. (vulgar, by extension) A prostitute.
7. (vulgar, derogatory) Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man.
8. (vulgar, figuratively, often derogatory) A disloyal individual; someone who does not commit to a particular thing.
9. (vulgar, figuratively, often derogatory) Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree.
10. (vulgar, often derogatory) A sexually promiscuous woman or girl.

verb

1. (slang, vulgar, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.
2. (vulgar) To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner.

noun

1. (Hong Kong) leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms
2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
3. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.

adj

1. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

noun

1. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
2. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
3. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
4. (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
5. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
6. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
7. (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
8. (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
9. (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
10. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
11. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
12. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
13. (mining) A tailing.
14. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
15. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
16. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
17. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
18. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
19. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
20. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
21. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
22. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
23. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
24. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
25. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
26. One who surreptitiously follows another.
27. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
28. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
29. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
30. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
31. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

verb

1. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
2. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
3. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
4. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
5. To pull or draw by the tail.

noun

1. (music) A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.
2. The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.

noun

1. (obsolete) A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
2. (obsolete) Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
3. A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
4. Talcum powder.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply talc to.