HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (obsolete) In a row.

adv

1. In a row, line, or rank; successively.

adj

1. (figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
2. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

adv

1. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
2. Perversely, improperly.

noun

1. (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
2. (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.
3. (slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
4. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

verb

1. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
2. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
3. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
4. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

noun

1. (figurative) Aspect; appearance.
2. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
3. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
4. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
5. The first tine of an antler's beam.
6. The forehead.
7. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
8. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.

verb

1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

noun

1. (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
2. The crop of a bird.

verb

1. (archaic) To caw, crow.

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
2. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
3. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
4. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
6. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
7. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
8. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
9. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
10. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
11. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
12. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
13. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
14. A group of people working together on a task.
15. The Manx shearwater.

verb

1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
2. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
3. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
4. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
5. To be a member of a work or production crew
6. To supply workers or sailors for a crew

noun

1. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
2. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.
3. (historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
4. (military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
5. A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
6. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
7. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
8. The cry of the bird known in the US as a rooster and in British English as a cockerel.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
2. (intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
3. (intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

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.

verb

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

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. A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

noun

1. Alternative form of ewery

adj

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Brittle; tender; crisp

noun

1. (obsolete) A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.
2. (obsolete) A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.
3. A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
4. A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
5. Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”)

verb

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of grow
2. Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”)
3. simple past tense of grow

verb

1. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
2. (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
3. (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
4. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
5. (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
7. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

adj

1. (Tyneside) overly, too

noun

1. A person who owes something, especially money.

prep

1. (Tyneside) over

adj

1. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.

noun

1. (nautical) The front part of a vessel
2. A vessel
3. Alternative form of proa

noun

1. plural of raw

noun

1. plural of row

verb

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

noun

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of rout A loud noise.

verb

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of rout To make a loud noise.

adj

1. Obsolete form of true.

noun

1. (Orkney, Shetland, dated) A troll.
2. (archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith.
3. (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.
4. (dated, nautical, uncountable) Used chiefly in the expression drop trow.

verb

1. (archaic or dialectal) To have confidence in, or to give credence to.
2. (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe.

noun

1. Alternative form of vrouw, a Dutchwoman.

noun

1. (obsolete) A plank six feet long and one foot across.

verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
2. Nonstandard form of were.

noun

1. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
2. (UK) A division of a forest.
3. (archaic or obsolete) A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
4. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
5. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
6. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
7. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
8. A minor looked after by a guardian.
9. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
10. A section or subdivision of a prison.
11. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
12. An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
13. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
14. An object used for guarding.
15. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
16. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
17. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
2. (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
3. (transitive) To defend, to protect.
4. (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches (usually followed by off)
5. (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.

adj

1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.
2. (poetic) Aware.

noun

1. (Ireland) Crockery.
2. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
3. (in the plural) See wares.
4. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
5. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed.
6. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
7. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.

verb

1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
3. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
4. Old eye dialect spelling of were.

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.
2. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.
3. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) Work.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

adj

1. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
2. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
3. (archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
4. (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
5. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
6. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
7. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
8. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
9. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

noun

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
2. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
3. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
4. (transitive with to) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
5. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
6. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
7. (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
8. (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.

verb

1. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
2. (intransitive) To give warning.
3. (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
4. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
5. (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something).
6. (transitive) To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty.
7. (transitive, intransitive, of a clock, possibly obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour).

noun

1. (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
2. (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
3. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
4. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
5. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.
6. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
7. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
8. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
9. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
10. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
11. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
2. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
3. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
4. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
5. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
6. (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
7. (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
8. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
9. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
10. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
11. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
12. (transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
13. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
14. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
15. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.

noun

1. plural of war

verb

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

noun

1. (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
2. (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
3. Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.

adj

1. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
2. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
3. thrifty, provident

noun

1. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing
2. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
3. (uncountable) fashion
4. Dated form of weir.

verb

1. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
2. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
3. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
4. (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
5. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
6. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
7. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
8. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
9. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
10. (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
11. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
12. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
13. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
14. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
15. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.

adj

1. comparative form of wee: more wee

noun

1. (obsolete) Seaweed.
2. A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
3. An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.

noun

1. (fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.
2. Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”)

verb

1. (Northern England) first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
2. first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be
3. first/second/third-person singular/plural simple present/past subjunctive of be
4. second-person singular simple past indicative of be

verb

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be
2. (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be

adv

1. Appalachia form of where

noun

1. Alternative spelling of whirr

noun

1. Archaic form of weir.

noun

1. (Scotland) A knitting needle.
2. (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
3. (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
4. (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
5. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
6. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
7. (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
8. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
9. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
10. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
11. (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
12. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
13. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
14. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
15. The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.

verb

1. (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
2. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
3. (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
4. (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
5. To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
6. To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
7. To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
8. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
9. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
10. To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
11. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
12. To string on a wire.

adj

1. Thin, muscular and flexible.

intj

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
2. (slang, emphatic, stereotypically, African-American Vernacular) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.

noun

1. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
2. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
3. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
4. (in the plural) See words.
5. (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
6. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
7. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
8. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
9. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
10. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
11. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
12. (uncountable) News; tidings
13. A brief discussion or conversation.
14. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
15. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
16. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
17. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
18. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
19. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
20. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
21. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
2. (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
3. (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
4. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
5. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
6. Alternative form of worth (“to become”).

verb

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

noun

1. (by extension) One's employer.
2. (countable) A fortification.
3. (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
4. (dated) A factory; a works.
5. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
6. (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
7. (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
8. (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
9. (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
10. (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
11. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
12. Something on which effort is expended.
13. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
14. The place where one is employed.
15. effort expended on a particular task.
16. labour, occupation, job.

verb

1. (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
2. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
3. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
4. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;
5. (intransitive) To ferment.
6. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
7. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
8. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
10. (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
11. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
12. (transitive) To cause to work.
13. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
14. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
15. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
16. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
17. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
18. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
19. (transitive) To set into action.
20. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
21. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
22. (transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
23. Followed by as. Said of one's job title
24. Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
25. Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
26. Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.

noun

1. (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
2. (anatomy) The lytta.
3. (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.
4. (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
5. (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
6. (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
7. (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
8. (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
9. (obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
10. (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
11. A contemptible or devious being.
12. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
13. A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
14. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
15. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
16. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
17. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
18. The spiral wire of a corkscrew.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
3. (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
4. (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
5. (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
6. (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
7. (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
9. (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
10. (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

adj

1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
2. Worn out; exhausted.

verb

1. past participle of wear

noun

1. (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.
2. (brewing) Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer or whisky.
3. Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term.

noun

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”)
2. (chiefly in the plural, now rare) An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
3. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
4. (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
5. A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
6. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
7. A wraparound mortgage.
8. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
2. (figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
3. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
4. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
5. (transitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
6. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
7. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

Adjective

1. angry; vexed; wrathful

verb

1. (obsolete) To betray.
2. (obsolete) To denounce (a person).
3. (obsolete) To reveal (a secret).

noun

1. Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
2. Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.
3. Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).

verb

1. (obsolete) To wriggle.

noun

1. (archaic) That which is written; writing.
2. (law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
3. Authority, power to enforce compliance.

verb

1. (archaic) past participle of write
2. (archaic) past tense of write

noun

1. Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.