HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (mathematics) A nomogram.

noun

1. (New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.

verb

1. (US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)

adj

1. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
2. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
3. At or near the rear.
4. In arrears; overdue.
5. Moving or operating backward.
6. Not current.
7. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.

adv

1. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
2. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
3. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
4. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
5. Away from the front or from an edge.
6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
8. In a manner that impedes.
9. So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
10. So as to reverse direction and return.
11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
12. Towards, into or in the past.

noun

1. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
2. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
3. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
4. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
6. (printing) The inside margin of a page.
7. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
8. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
9. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
10. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
11. A ferryboat.
12. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
13. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
14. A support or resource in reserve.
15. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
16. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
17. That which is farthest away from the front.
18. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
19. The edge of a book which is bound.
20. The part of something that goes last.
21. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
22. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
23. The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
24. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
25. The spine and associated tissues.

postp

1. Before now; ago.

verb

1. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
2. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
3. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
4. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
5. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
6. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
7. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
8. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
9. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
10. (transitive) To support.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
12. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
13. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
14. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
15. To row backward with (oars).
16. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

noun

1. (US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
2. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
3. A tribunal or court.

noun

1. (dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.

noun

1. plural of cab

verb

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

noun

1. (drugs) The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.
2. (informal) Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of carbohydrate.

noun

1. (dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
2. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
3. (informal) Short for carabiner.
4. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
6. (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
7. (uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
8. (uncountable, aviation) The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
9. A bad-tempered person.
10. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
11. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
12. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
13. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
14. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
15. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
16. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
17. The crab apple or wild apple.
18. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
19. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

verb

1. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
2. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
3. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
4. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
5. (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
6. (rare) To back out of something.
7. (transitive) To complain about.
8. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
9. (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
10. (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
11. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
12. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.

noun

1. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
2. (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
3. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
4. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
5. (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
7. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
8. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
9. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
2. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
3. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
4. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
5. (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.