(UK, law, in citation) Initialism of w:Act of the Scottish Parliament.
(archaic) A water snake.
(figurative) An evil person; a snake.
A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
The aspen tree.
pas
pas
noun
(now rare) The right of going foremost; precedence.
A step in a dance.
plural of pa
psa
sap
sap
noun
(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
(figurative) Vitality.
(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
(slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Any juice.
verb
(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
(transitive) To gradually weaken.
(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
(transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
(transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
(transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
spa
spa
noun
(Ireland, slang) A clumsy person (see spastic)
(Ireland, slang) An idiot; a gobshite
(dialect) A convenience store.
A health club.
A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.