(nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
(obsolete) A person who drinks deeply.
(obsolete) Drink, liquor.
Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
verb
(nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
(obsolete) To suck.
To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
swim
swim
noun
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums
(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
A dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in a freestyle swimming manner.
A dizziness; swoon.
An act or instance of swimming.
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
verb
(intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
(intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
(intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
(intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
(intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
(intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
(intransitive, archaic) To float.
(transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
(transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
(transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
(transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.
swiz
swiz
noun
Alternative form of swizz
wais
wais
noun
plural of wai
wigs
wigs
noun
plural of wig
wins
wins
noun
plural of win
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of win
wips
wisc
wisd
wise
wise
adj
(colloquial) Aware, informed.
(colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
noun
(archaic) Way, manner, or method.
verb
(dialectal) To advise; induce.
(dialectal) To cause to turn.
(dialectal) To direct the course of, pilot.
(dialectal) To instruct.
(dialectal) To show the way, guide.
(ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
To become wise.
wish
wish
noun
(Sussex) A water meadow.
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
The thing desired or longed for.
verb
(ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
(intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
(intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
(transitive) To desire; to want.
(transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
(transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.
wisp
wisp
noun
(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
A flock of snipe.
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
A whisk, or small broom.
A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
(intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
(transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
(transitive) To emit in wisps.
wiss
wiss
verb
(archaic) To know; to understand.
wist
wist
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wit.
(nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.