HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (archaic) Dry.

noun

1. A nomadic herder.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of aread

adj

1. (figurative) Devoid of value.
2. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
3. Very dry.

noun

1. (by extension) A poet.
2. (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
3. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
4. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
5. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
6. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
7. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

verb

1. (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
2. To cover a horse in defensive armor.

adj

1. (Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
2. (UK, US, Australia, Ireland, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
3. (UK, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
4. (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
5. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
6. (slang) A man, fellow.
7. (slang) A prison sentence.
8. (slang) A satellite.
9. (slang) An airplane.
10. (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
11. (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
12. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
13. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
14. A yardbird.

verb

1. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
2. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
4. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
5. (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.

noun

1. (mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
2. Obsolete form of board.
3. Obsolete form of bourd.

noun

1. (US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
2. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.

verb

1. (transitive) To attach using a brad.
2. (transitive) To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of breed

noun

1. (poetic) maiden, young woman

noun

1. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
2. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
3. (dated) A printed programme.
4. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
5. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
6. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
7. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
8. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
9. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
10. (obsolete) A map or chart.
11. (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
12. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
13. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
14. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
15. A business card.
16. A greeting card.
17. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
18. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
19. A playing card.
20. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
21. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
22. A test card.
23. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
24. An indicator card.
25. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
26. Obsolete form of chard.

verb

1. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. (dated) To play cards.
3. (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
5. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
6. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
7. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
8. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

Noun

1. commodore

noun

1. (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
2. (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
3. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
4. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
5. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
6. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
7. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

verb

1. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
2. To flatten a book during binding
3. To furnish with cords
4. To tie or fasten with cords

intj

1. Non-vulgar interjection expressing annoyance, anxiety, etc.; sugar, damn.

noun

1. (countable) A contemptible person.
2. (uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
3. (uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
4. (uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
5. (uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
6. (uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
7. (uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
8. Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.

verb

1. (transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.

noun

1. The coagulated part of any liquid.
2. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
3. The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form curd; to curdle.
2. (transitive) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A cigarette.
2. (slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.

Proper noun

1. Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor; see

noun

1. (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
2. A challenge to prove courage.
3. A small fish, the dace
4. Defiance; challenge.
5. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.

verb

1. (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
2. (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
3. (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
4. (transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
5. (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
6. (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
7. (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.

noun

1. (dialect) Informal form of dog.
2. (in Scotland and northern English dialects) A day's work.
3. (in Scotland and northern English dialects) A defined quantity or amount of work, or of the product of work, done in a certain time or at a certain rate of payment; a task.

noun

1. (archaic) Synonym of sorghum

adj

1. (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
2. (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
3. (of a source of light) Extinguished.
4. (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
5. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
6. Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
7. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
8. Deprived of sight; blind.
9. Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
10. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
11. Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
12. Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
13. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
14. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.

noun

1. (uncountable) Ignorance.
2. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
3. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken.
2. (intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
3. (transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.

adv

1. (degree, euphemistic) Damned.

noun

1. A place mended by darning.

verb

1. (transitive) Euphemism of damn.
2. (transitive, sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, Norfolk) A bird, the European black tern.

noun

1. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
2. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
3. (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
4. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
5. (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
6. A fish, the dace.
7. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
8. A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
9. A sudden or fast movement.
10. Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
11. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
2. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
3. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
4. (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
5. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.

adj

1. (UK) High in price; expensive.
2. (obsolete) Noble.
3. A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.
4. A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.
5. An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.
6. Loved; lovable.
7. Lovely; kind.
8. Loving, affectionate, heartfelt
9. Precious to or greatly valued by someone.
10. Severe, or severely affected; sore.

adv

1. Dearly; at a high price.

intj

1. (dated) Indicating surprise, pity, or disapproval.

noun

1. A beloved person.
2. A very kind, loving person.
3. An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.
4. An elderly person, especially a woman.

verb

1. (obsolete) To endear.

noun

1. (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk
2. (obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
3. A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
4. The meat of such an animal; venison.

adv

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.

adj

1. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; fierce.

noun

1. (South Africa, slang, usually in the plural) Guts, entrails.
2. (anatomy) The integument of animal; the skin.
3. (slang) Clipping of dermatologist.
4. Synonym of dermis.

adj

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Hidden; secret; private.

noun

1. (UK) A gatepost or doorpost.
2. (obsolete) A secret place; hiding.
3. (obsolete) A secret; secrecy.
4. (obsolete) An obscure language.
5. (obsolete) Darkness; obscurity.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To hide oneself; skulk.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To hide; secrete, as in a hole.

noun

1. (Australia) A homeless person, a tramp; a social derelict, especially an alcoholic.

intj

1. (slang) A placeholder for unimportant details, blah blah blah.
2. (slang) Draws attention to an act of foolishness or stupidity.

noun

1. (slang) A person who acts stupidly or foolishly; a person who derps.
2. (slang) A stupid mistake, stupidity.
3. (uncountable) The constant repeating of an opinion after facts have proved it incorrect, especially as a rhetorical tactic.

verb

1. (slang) To act stupidly or foolishly
2. (slang) To make a stupid mistake
3. (slang, of eyes) To point in different directions; (of a person) To have a facial expression with one's eyes pointing in different directions.

noun

1. (UK) Diesel fuel for motor vehicles.

noun

1. One who dies.

noun

1. The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).

adj

1. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
2. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
3. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
4. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

noun

1. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
2. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
3. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.

verb

1. (obsolete) To darken.
2. To stab with a dirk.

noun

1. (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
2. (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
3. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
4. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
5. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
6. freckles

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

noun

1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

noun

1. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
2. (figurative) A barrier.
3. (figurative) A means of approach or access.
4. (figurative) A possibility.
5. (immigration) An entry point.
6. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
7. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
8. The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers. "The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in"

verb

1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

noun

1. (archaic) Alternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”)
2. (derogatory, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.

noun

1. Clipping of dormitory.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To reside in a dorm.

noun

1. A British ray; the thornback.

noun

1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.

noun

1. (obsolete) A drone or idler; a lazy person.
2. A dor, or dorbeetle.

noun

1. plural of dor

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A sulky or sullen mood; the sulks.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become pettish; sulk.

adj

1. (obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.

noun

1. (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
2. A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
3. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

adj

1. Expressing gloom or melancholy.
2. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
3. Unyielding and obstinate.

adj

1. (by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.
2. Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).
2. (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
3. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
4. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
5. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
6. A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
7. A small amount, especially of money.
8. Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
9. The colour of this fabric.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.

noun

1. (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
2. (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
3. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
4. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
5. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
6. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
7. (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
8. (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
9. (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
10. (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
11. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
12. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
13. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
14. (historical) A mailcoach.
15. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
16. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
17. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
18. (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
19. (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
20. (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
21. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
22. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
23. (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
24. A device for guiding wood to the saw.
25. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
26. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
27. A pulled load.
28. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
29. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
30. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
31. The last position in a line of hikers.

verb

1. (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
2. (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
3. (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
4. (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
5. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
6. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
7. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
8. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
9. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
10. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
11. To fish with a dragnet.
12. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
13. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
14. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
15. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

noun

1. (by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
2. (historical, mining) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
3. (now uncommon) Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
4. (numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.
6. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
7. (pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“¹⁄₈ ounce apothecary (3.89 g) (symbol: ℨ)”).
8. One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g).

verb

1. (dated, intransitive) To drink drams.
2. (dated, transitive) To ply with drams of drink.

intj

1. Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.

verb

1. (transitive) To damn or curse.

noun

1. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
2. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
3. (curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
4. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
5. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
6. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
7. (slang, countable) A bag of cannabis.
8. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
9. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
10. Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
11. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
12. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
13. The act of drawing.
14. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
15. The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

verb

1. (analogous) To consume (power).
2. (archery) To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
3. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
4. (card games) To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
5. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
6. (curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
7. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
8. (hunting, now rare) To search for game; to track a quarry.
9. (intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.
10. (intransitive) To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
11. (intransitive) To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
12. (intransitive) To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
13. (intransitive, now rare) To be pulled along (in a specified way).
14. (intransitive, now rare) To pull something along; to have force to move anything by pulling.
15. (intransitive, transitive) To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
16. (intransitive, used with prepositions and adverbs) To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
17. (nautical) Of a sail, to fill with wind.
18. (now rare) To construct (a wall, canal etc.) from one point to another.
19. (obsolete) To extend the duration of (something); to prolong.
20. (reflexive) To assume a specific position or attitude.
21. (reflexive, now rare) To move in a specific direction.
22. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
23. (transitive) To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
24. (transitive) To draw up, compose (a document).
25. (transitive) To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
26. (transitive) To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
27. (transitive) To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
28. (transitive, intransitive) To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
29. (transitive, medicine, now rare) To extract (pus, humours, etc.) by means of medical treatment.
30. (transitive, obsolete) To withdraw.
31. To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
32. To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
33. To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
34. To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
35. To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
36. To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
37. To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
38. To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
39. To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
40. To extract (a tooth).
41. To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
42. To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
43. To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
44. To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
45. To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
46. To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
47. To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
48. To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
49. To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
50. To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
51. To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
52. To require (a depth of water) for floating.
53. To run (a bath).
54. To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
55. To stretch or elongate.
56. To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
57. To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
58. To take (water) from a well or other source.

noun

1. A kind of sledge or sled.
2. A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
3. Alternative spelling of drey, the nest of a squirrel.

adj

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Great; of serious moment.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Long; large; ample; great.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.

noun

1. (archaic, chiefly dialectal) Trouble, grief, suffering.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Length; extension; the longest part.

verb

1. (intransitive, chiefly dialectal, North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue.
2. (transitive, chiefly dialectal, North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo.

noun

1. (by extension) The lowest and most worthless part of something; scum.
2. Sediment in a liquid.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of dreck

verb

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of draw
2. simple past tense of draw

noun

1. (Australia) A possum’s nest, built of twigs and leaves in a tree.
2. (Britain) A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree.

noun

1. (obsolete) A drop.

verb

1. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
4. (transitive) To entice step by step.
5. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
6. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
7. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
8. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To scold.
9. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
10. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

adj

1. Archaic spelling of dry.

noun

1. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
2. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
3. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
4. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
5. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
6. A drop of a liquid.
7. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

verb

1. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
2. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
3. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
4. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
6. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
7. (transitive) To let fall in drops.

noun

1. (American football) A dropped pass.
2. (American football) Short for drop-back.
3. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
4. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
5. (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
6. (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
7. (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
8. (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
9. (chiefly Britain) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
10. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
11. (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
12. (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
13. (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
14. (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
15. (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
16. (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
17. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
18. (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
19. (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
20. (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
21. (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
22. (pinball) Short for drop target.
23. (rugby) Short for drop kick.
24. (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
25. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
26. A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
27. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
28. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
29. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
30. An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
31. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
32. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
33. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
34. Short for drop hammer and drop press.
35. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
36. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
37. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
38. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.

verb

1. (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
2. (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
3. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
4. (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
5. (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
6. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
7. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
8. (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
9. (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
10. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
11. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
12. (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
13. (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
14. (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
15. (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
16. (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
18. (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
19. (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
20. (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
21. (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
22. (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
23. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
24. (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
25. (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
26. (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
27. (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
28. (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
29. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
30. (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
31. (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
32. (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
33. (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
34. (transitive, archaic) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
35. (transitive, computing) To present the user with a more basic interface.
36. (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
37. (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
38. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
39. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
40. Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
41. To impart (something).
42. To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
43. To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
44. To perform (rap music).
45. To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
46. To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.

noun

1. (fantasy role-playing games, countable) A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
2. (fantasy role-playing games, uncountable) A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.
3. (rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.

noun

1. (dialectal, Northern England) Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

verb

1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
2. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
3. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
4. To forcefully teach something.

noun

1. (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.
2. (obsolete) A drudge.
3. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
4. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
5. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
6. Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

verb

1. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
2. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
3. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
4. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

noun

1. (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
2. (US) Synonym of construction barrel
3. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
4. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
5. (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
6. (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
7. (now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.
8. (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
9. A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
10. A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
11. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
12. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

verb

1. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
2. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
4. Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
5. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
6. To throb, as the heart.

noun

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of dura mater..
2. Alternative form of durra.

adj

1. (archaic) hard; harsh; severe; rough

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.

adj

1. (US, informal, euphemistic) darn; damn.

adv

1. (US, informal, euphemistic) Darn; damned; extremely.

intj

1. (US, informal, euphemistic) darn; damn

noun

1. Alternative form of dern (“a doorpost”)

verb

1. (slang) Rhoticized pronunciation of doing.

noun

1. One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.

adj

1. (Islam) Required as a matter of religious duty or obligation.

noun

1. (Islam) A commandment from Allah that a Muslim has to fulfil; a religious duty or obligation.
2. (archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
3. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Alternative form of ferd (“force of movement; impetus, rush; hence, a violent onset”).

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To embellish or gloss over.
2. (transitive, archaic) To paint, as the cheeks or face.

adj

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Fourth.
2. (obsolete) Afraid.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
2. (obsolete) Fear.

noun

1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
2. A stream; a current.

verb

1. To cross a stream using a ford.

noun

1. (historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.

noun

1. (obsolete) A garden.
2. Obsolete spelling of guard

noun

1. A sarcastic remark.
2. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
3. A stroke with a rod or switch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To jeer.
2. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
3. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
4. (transitive) To jeer at.
5. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.

noun

1. (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.
2. (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

noun

1. (geometry, trigonometry) Abbreviation of gradian.
2. Abbreviation of graduate.
3. Abbreviation of graduation.
4. Alternative letter-case form of Grad

noun

1. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
2. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
3. (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
4. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
5. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
6. (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
7. A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
8. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
9. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
10. A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.

verb

1. To assign a reference grid to.
2. To mark with a grid.

adj

1. (Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
2. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
3. (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
4. (finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
5. (military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
6. (of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.
7. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
8. (of drink or drugs) Strong.
9. (of pornography) hardcore
10. (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
11. (photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
12. (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
13. (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
14. (politics) Far, extreme.
15. (slang) Tough and muscular.
16. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
17. Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
18. Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
19. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
20. In a physical form, not digital.
21. Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
22. Plosive.
23. Resistant to pressure.
24. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
25. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
26. Unquestionable, unequivocal.
27. Unvoiced.
28. Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.

adv

1. (manner) Compactly.
2. (manner) With difficulty.
3. (manner) With much force or effort.
4. (now archaic) Near, close.
5. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.

noun

1. (countable, motorsports) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
2. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
3. (uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.
4. (uncountable, slang) Hard labor.

noun

1. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
2. (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
3. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
4. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

verb

1. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
2. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
3. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
4. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
5. (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
6. (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
7. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd