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aby

aby

verb

  1. (archaic) To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
  2. (archaic, figuratively) To pay (something) as a penalty; to suffer (something).
  3. (obsolete except Scotland) To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.
  4. (obsolete) To pay for (something); to buy.
  5. To endure; to remain.
  6. To pay the penalty; to atone.

acy

ady

agy

aly

amy

any

any

adv

  1. To even the slightest extent, at all.

det

  1. (chiefly in the negative) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.
  2. No matter what kind.

pron

  1. Any thing(s) or person(s).

ary

ary

det

  1. (UK, dialect) any

aye

aye

adv

  1. (archaic) ever, always

intj

  1. (MLE, MTE, regional African-American Vernacular) an attention grabber
  2. (New Zealand) Alternative spelling of ay (question tag)
  3. (nautical) a word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.
  4. yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.

noun

  1. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.

ayh

aym

ayn

ayn

noun

  1. (linguistics) Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
  2. (linguistics) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.

ayo

ayo

intj

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A greeting.

noun

  1. (West African English) A strategy game.

ayr

ayr

noun

  1. (Isle of Man) father
  2. Alternative spelling of air (especially when referring to the form of music).

ays

ays

noun

  1. plural of ay

ayu

ayu

noun

  1. A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

bay

bay

adj

  1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

noun

  1. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
  2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
  3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
  4. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
  5. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
  6. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
  7. (obsolete) A berry.
  8. (rail transport) A bay platform.
  9. A bank or dam to keep back water.
  10. A bay window.
  11. A brown colour of the coat of some horses.
  12. A horse of this colour.
  13. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
  14. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
  15. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
  16. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
  17. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
  18. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
  19. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To howl.
  2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
  3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

bey

bey

noun

  1. (historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions
  2. in various other places, a prince or nobleman

bly

bly

noun

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) Likeness; resemblance; look aspect; species; character.

boy

boy

intj

  1. Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

noun

  1. (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
  2. (diminutive) A son of any age.
  3. (endearing, diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.
  4. (historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
  5. (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
  6. (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age.
  7. (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
  8. (obsolete) A male camp follower.
  9. (obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
  10. (particularly) A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from infants or adults.
  11. (somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).
  12. A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.
  13. A young male.
  14. A younger such worker.

verb

  1. (transitive) To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).

buy

buy

noun

  1. Something which is bought; a purchase.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
  2. (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
  3. (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
  4. (transitive) To bribe.
  5. (transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
  6. (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
  7. (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
  8. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe

bvy

bye

bye

adj

  1. Out of the way; remote.
  2. Secondary; supplementary.

intj

  1. (colloquial) Goodbye.

noun

  1. (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
  2. (card games) A pass.
  3. (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
  4. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
  5. A male person.
  6. Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
  7. Obsolete spelling of bee
  8. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

prep

  1. Obsolete spelling of by

byo

byo

noun

  1. Obsolete form of bayou.

byp

bys

bys

noun

  1. plural of by

byu

byz

cay

cay

noun

  1. A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

cly

cly

verb

  1. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To seize; to steal.

coy

coy

adj

  1. (archaic) Quiet, reserved, modest.
  2. (dated) Bashful, shy, retiring.
  3. Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
  4. Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
  5. Soft, gentle, hesitating.

noun

  1. (military) A company
  2. A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.

verb

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To allure; to decoy.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To calm or soothe.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To caress, pet; to coax, entice.

cry

cry

noun

  1. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
  2. (collectively) A group of hounds.
  3. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.
  4. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
  5. A clamour or outcry.
  6. A desperate or urgent request.
  7. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
  8. A shout or scream.
  9. Words shouted or screamed.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
  2. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
  3. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
  4. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
  6. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
  7. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.

cyb

cyc

cyc

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of cyclorama.

cyd

cyl

cym

cyn

cyo

cyp

day

day

noun

  1. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
  2. (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
  3. A period from midnight to the following midnight.
  4. A period of contention of a day or less.
  5. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
  6. Any period of 24 hours.
  7. Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
  8. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

verb

  1. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).

dey

dey

noun

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
  2. (historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.

pron

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English.

diy

diy

Noun

  1. Do it yourself.

Verb

  1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.

Adjective

  1. do-it-yourself

doy

doy

intj

  1. Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.

dry

dry

adj

  1. (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
  2. (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
  3. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
  4. (figurative) Athirst, eager.
  5. (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
  6. (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
  7. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
  8. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
  9. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
  10. (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  11. (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
  12. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
  13. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
  14. Free from or lacking moisture.
  15. Lacking interest, boring.
  16. Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
  17. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
  18. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.

noun

  1. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
  2. (Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
  3. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  4. (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
  5. An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
  6. The process by which something is dried.
  7. Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
  2. (intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
  3. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

dye

dye

noun

  1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
  2. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)
  3. Any hue, color, or blee.

verb

  1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

dyl

dyn

dys

edy

ely

ety

ety

noun

  1. Abbreviation of etymology.

evy

eye

eye

noun

  1. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
  2. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
  3. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
  4. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
  5. (usually in the plural) View or opinion.
  6. A brood.
  7. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
  8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
  9. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
  10. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
  11. A meaningful stare or look.
  12. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
  13. A reproductive bud in a potato.
  14. An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
  15. Attention, notice.
  16. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
  17. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
  18. The ability to notice what others might miss.
  19. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
  20. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
  21. The name of the Latin-script letter I.
  22. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
  23. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
  24. The visual sense.
  25. Tinge; shade of colour.

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
  2. (poetic)
  3. (transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
  4. (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
  5. (transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).

eyl

eyn

eyr

fay

fay

adj

  1. (US slang) White; white-skinned.
  2. Fairy like.
  3. Fitted closely together.

noun

  1. (US slang) A white person.
  2. A fairy.

verb

  1. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
  2. (obsolete) To fadge.
  3. (obsolete) To fit.
  4. (shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
  5. (shipbuilding, transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly.

fcy

fey

fey

adj

  1. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
  2. (dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
  3. (obsolete) Dying; dead.
  4. Magical or fairylike.
  5. Overrefined, affected.
  6. Spellbound.
  7. Strange or otherworldly.

noun

  1. Fairy folk collectively.

fly

fly

adj

  1. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
  2. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
  3. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.

noun

  1. (American football) Short for fly route.
  2. (India, obsolete) The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.
  3. (baseball) A fly ball.
  4. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton
  5. (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
  6. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
  7. (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
  8. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
  9. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
  10. (obsolete) A parasite.
  11. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
  12. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
  13. (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
  14. (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
  15. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
  16. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
  17. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
  18. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
  19. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
  20. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
  21. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
  22. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
  23. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
  24. An act of flying.
  25. Any similar, but unrelated insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
  26. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
  27. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
  28. Related terms: flyman
  29. Short for flywheel.
  30. The free edge of a flag.
  31. The horizontal length of a flag.
  32. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
  33. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
  34. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
  2. (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
  3. (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
  4. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
  5. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
  6. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
  7. (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
  8. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
  9. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
  10. (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
  11. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).

foy

foy

noun

  1. (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
  2. (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.

fry

fry

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.
  2. (Ireland, Britain, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  3. (UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
  4. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.
  5. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
  6. (now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  7. (usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.
  8. (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.
  9. A drain.
  10. A kind of sieve.
  11. Young fish; fishlings.

verb

  1. (chiefly US, intransitive, slang) To be executed by the electric chair.
  2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
  4. (obsolete) to simmer; to boil
  5. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
  6. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

fya

fyi

fyn

fyn

Noun

  1. A molecule, present in the signalling pathway of integrins, activating ras.

fys

gay

gay

adj

  1. (Scotland, Northern England, possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree.
  2. (colloquial) Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
  3. (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
  4. (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
  5. (dated) Quick, fast.
  6. (loosely, of a person, especially a man) Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
  7. (loosely, of appearance or behavior) Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
  8. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
  9. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
  10. (of a person) Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
  11. (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
  12. (of an animal, by extension) Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
  13. (of an institution or group) Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
  14. (slang, derogatory) Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
  15. (slang, derogatory) Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
  16. (slang, humorous, with for) Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
  17. (slang, with for) Homosexually in love with someone.
  18. (strictly) Describing a homosexual man.

adv

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.

noun

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
  2. (now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
  3. (obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.
  4. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

verb

  1. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
  2. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.

gey

gey

adj

  1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Fairly good; considerable.

adv

  1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Very.

goy

goy

noun

  1. (sometimes offensive) A non-Jew, a gentile.

gry

gry

adj

  1. Abbreviation of grey or gray (the color)

noun

  1. (archaic) A small amount.
  2. (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke
  3. A fit of ague.
  4. Abbreviation of gray or grey (the color)

verb

  1. (dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).

guy

guy

noun

  1. (Britain) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
  2. (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
  3. (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
  4. (colloquial) A man, fellow.
  5. (colloquial, usually to animals) character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
  6. (dated) A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright".
  7. (especially in the plural) A person (see usage notes).
  8. (informal, term of address) Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
  9. (obsolete, rare) A guide; a leader or conductor.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
  2. (theater, transitive) To play in a comedic manner.
  3. (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
  4. To equip with a support cable.

gye

gym

gym

noun

  1. (uncountable) clipping of gymnastics. (often as sense 4)
  2. (weightlifting) A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise.
  3. Clipping of gymnasium.
  4. physical education class

verb

  1. (intransitive, India) To go to the gym.

gyn

gyp

gyp

noun

  1. (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
  2. (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
  3. (Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
  4. (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
  5. Coordinate terms: porter, bedder
  6. Gypsophila.
  7. Pain or discomfort.
  8. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”)

verb

  1. (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle.

hay

hay

noun

  1. (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
  2. (obsolete) A circular country dance.
  3. (obsolete) A hedge.
  4. (obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
  5. (obsolete) An enclosure, haw.
  6. (slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
  7. (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
  8. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
  9. The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

verb

  1. To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
  2. To lay snares for rabbits.

hey

hey

intj

  1. A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
  2. A protest or reprimand.
  3. A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.
  4. An exclamation to get attention.
  5. An expression of surprise.
  6. An informal greeting, similar to hi.
  7. Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.

noun

  1. (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.
  2. Alternative spelling of he (“Hebrew letter”)

hny

hoy

hoy

intj

  1. Ho!, hallo!, stop!

noun

  1. (nautical) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.

verb

  1. (Northumbria, Australia) To throw.
  2. (transitive) To incite; to drive onward.

hvy

hwy

hyd

hyd

verb

  1. simple past tense of hyde

hye

hye

adj

  1. Obsolete spelling of high

verb

  1. Obsolete spelling of hie

hyo

hyp

hyp

noun

  1. (mathematics) A hypotenuse.
  2. (slang) Alternative form of hype (“hypodermic [needle]”)
  3. A hypnotist.
  4. Hypnotism.
  5. Hypochondria.

verb

  1. (colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.

icy

icy

adj

  1. (US, slang) To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind.
  2. Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.
  3. Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
  4. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.

iey

igy

iny

ipy

isy

isy

Proper noun

  1. A diminutive form of the female given names Isabel and Isobel.

ivy

ivy

noun

  1. Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
  2. Any similar plant of any genus.

iyo

izy

jay

jay

noun

  1. (archaic) A dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term jaywalking.
  2. (obsolete) Promiscuous woman; prostitute.
  3. (slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
  4. Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.
  5. Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
  6. The Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis.
  7. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

joy

joy

noun

  1. (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
  2. A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
  3. Anything that causes such a feeling.
  4. Luck or success; a positive outcome.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To enjoy.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

kay

kay

intj

  1. (colloquial) Abbreviation of okay.

noun

  1. (colloquial) A kilometer.
  2. (colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
  3. Dated form of cay.
  4. The name of the Latin-script letter K.

key

key

adj

  1. Important, salient.
  2. Indispensable, supremely important.

noun

  1. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
  2. (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
  3. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
  4. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
  5. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
  6. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
  7. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
  8. (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
  9. (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
  10. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
  11. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
  12. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  13. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
  14. (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
  15. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
  16. (masonry) A keystone.
  17. (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
  18. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
  19. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
  20. (slang) Clipping of kilogram (especially of a recreational drug)
  21. A crucial step or requirement.
  22. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
  23. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
  24. Alternative form of quay.
  25. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
  26. An object designed to open and close a lock.
  27. In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
  28. In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
  29. In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
  30. In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
  31. In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
  32. One of a string of small islands.
  33. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
  34. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
  35. The lowest note of a scale; keynote.

verb

  1. (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
  2. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
  3. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
  4. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
  5. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
  6. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
  7. To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
  8. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
  9. To fit (a lock) with a key.
  10. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
  11. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
  12. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
  13. To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).

koy

kyd

kye

kye

noun

  1. (UK, naval slang) Cocoa (the drink).
  2. A Korean fundraising meeting.

kyl

kym

kyu

kyu

noun

  1. A grade or rank in various Japanese activities such as martial arts, flower arranging, and the game of go.

lay

lay

adj

  1. (card games) Not trumps.
  2. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
  3. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
  4. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

noun

  1. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
  2. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
  3. (obsolete) A basis or ground.
  4. (obsolete) A law.
  5. (obsolete) A layer.
  6. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
  7. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
  8. (slang, archaic) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
  9. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
  10. A lake.
  11. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
  12. A share of the profits in a business.
  13. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
  14. The direction a rope is twisted.
  15. The laying of eggs.
  16. What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?

verb

  1. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
  2. (intransitive, proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  3. (law) To state; to allege.
  4. (military) To point; to aim.
  5. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
  6. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
  7. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
  8. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
  9. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
  10. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
  11. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  12. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
  13. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
  14. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
  15. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
  16. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
  17. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
  18. To apply; to put.
  19. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
  20. To impute; to charge; to allege.
  21. To present or offer.
  22. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.

ley

ley

adj

  1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
  2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

noun

  1. (obsolete) Law.
  2. A ley line.
  3. Alternative spelling of lea
  4. Archaic form of lye.

loy

loy

noun

  1. (Ireland) A type of one-eared spade used in Ireland.

lyc

lye

lye

noun

  1. (UK, rail transport) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
  2. An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
  3. Obsolete spelling of lie
  4. Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).

verb

  1. Obsolete spelling of lie.
  2. To treat with lye.

lym

lyn

lyn

noun

  1. Alternative form of linn (“waterfall”)

lys

lys

noun

  1. plural of ly

may

may

noun

  1. (archaic) A maiden.
  2. The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.

verb

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.
  2. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
  3. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
  4. (obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over).
  6. (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day.
  7. (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general.
  8. (subjunctive present, defective) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
  9. Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.

moy

mvy

mya

mya

noun

  1. Initialism of million years ago or Initialism of megayears ago.

myc

myg

mym

myo

nay

nay

adj

  1. (obsolete) Nary.

adv

  1. (now archaic or humorous) Or rather, or should I say; moreover (introducing a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one).
  2. (now chiefly archaic or regional) Introducing a statement, without direct negation.
  3. (now chiefly archaic, humorous or regional) No.

intj

  1. (archaic) No.

noun

  1. (archaic) A denial; a refusal.
  2. A person who voted against.
  3. A vote against.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To refuse.

ney

ney

noun

  1. (music) A type of endblown flute.

noy

noy

noun

  1. (obsolete) annoyance

verb

  1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure.

nya

nyc

nyc

adj

  1. (nonstandard) nice

nye

nye

noun

  1. A brood or flock of pheasants.

nyp

nyu

nyx

oby

oby

noun

  1. Archaic form of obeah.

ody

oly

ony

ory

osy

oxy

oxy

noun

  1. (chemistry) The bivalent R-O-R functional group found in ethers.
  2. (countable, uncountable, slang, pharmacology) Clipping of oxycodone, an opioid similar to heroin.
  3. (informal) Clipping of oxyacetylene, a mixture of oxygen and acetylene used for cutting and welding metals.
  4. (informal) Clipping of oxygen.

oyo

oys

pay

pay

adj

  1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
  2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.

noun

  1. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
  2. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
  3. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
  4. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
  5. (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
  6. (transitive) To be profitable for.
  7. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
  8. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
  9. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

ply

ply

noun

  1. (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
  2. (colloquial) Short for plywood.
  3. (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
  4. A bent; a direction.
  5. A layer of material.
  6. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
  2. (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
  4. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
  5. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
  6. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
  7. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
  8. (transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.

poy

poy

noun

  1. A balancing pole used by tightrope walkers.
  2. A long pole, normally with a hook, used to push barges upstream.
  3. A support structure.

pry

pry

noun

  1. (East Anglia, US) A tool for levering; a crowbar, a lever.
  2. A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker.
  3. An act of prying; a close and curious look.

verb

  1. (figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
  2. (figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.
  4. To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
  5. To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.

pty

puy

puy

noun

  1. (geology) Any similar conical structure of volcanic material
  2. Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos

pya

pya

noun

  1. (historical) A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee
  2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat.

pye

pye

noun

  1. (zoology) Ellipsis of pye-dog (an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts).
  2. Archaic spelling of pie (pastry food).

pym

pyr

pyx

pyx

noun

  1. (Christianity, also figurative) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
  2. (by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
  3. (chiefly Britain) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
  4. (nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.

verb

  1. (chiefly Britain) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
  2. (figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
  3. (obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.

qsy

qty

qty

noun

  1. Abbreviation of quantity.

ray

ray

noun

  1. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
  2. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
  3. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
  4. (music) Alternative form of re
  5. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
  6. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  7. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  8. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  9. A beam of light or radiation.
  10. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
  11. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
  2. (now rare) To dress, array (someone).
  3. (obsolete) To arrange.
  4. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
  5. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
  6. (transitive) To expose to radiation.

rey

rly

rly

adv

  1. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of really.

noun

  1. Abbreviation of railway.

roy

roy

adj

  1. (obsolete) Royal.

noun

  1. (obsolete, formal) A king.