(sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
cagney
cangle
cangue
cangue
noun
A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
ceding
ceding
verb
present participle of cede
cering
cering
verb
present participle of cere
change
change
noun
(Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
(countable) A replacement.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
(uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
verb
(archaic) To exchange.
(intransitive) To become something different.
(intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
(transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
(transitive) To replace.
(transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
cheung
cingle
cingle
noun
A kind of belt or other girdle.
cogent
cogent
adj
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
cogmen
cogmen
noun
plural of cogman
coigne
coigne
noun
Alternative form of coign: a keystone; a wedge; (obsolete) a corner or angle, especially of a building.
conged
conged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conge
simple past tense and past participle of congé
congee
congee
noun
(Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
(archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
(obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
(obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
(obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
(obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
verb
(archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
(archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
(obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
(obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
conger
conger
noun
(historical) A chain of booksellers.
Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
conges
conges
noun
plural of conge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conge
cringe
cringe
adj
(slang) Inducing awkwardness or embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
noun
(countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
(countable, Britain, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
(countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
(uncountable, slang) Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
verb
(intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
(intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
(intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
(transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
(transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
cueing
cueing
verb
present participle of cue
cygnet
cygnet
noun
The young of a swan.
eching
egence
egence
noun
The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.
egency
egency
noun
(obsolete) need; neediness; poverty.
encage
encage
verb
To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
enclog
geonic
geonic
adj
(psychology) Of or relating to a geon.
glance
glance
noun
(cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
(mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
(mineralogy) Glance coal.
A brief or cursory look.
A deflection.
A sudden flash of light or splendour.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
verb
(ichthyology) A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
(intransitive) To graze at a surface.
(intransitive) To look briefly (at something).
(intransitive) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
(intransitive) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
(soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
To sparkle.
ignace
incage
incage
verb
Alternative form of encage
mcgean
negoce
negoce
noun
(obsolete) business; occupation
scunge
scunge
noun
(countable, slang) A dirty or untidy person; one who takes no pride in their appearance.
(countable, slang) A scrounger; one who habitually borrows.
(countable, slang, derogatory) A scoundrel; a worthless or despicable person.
(uncountable, slang) Muck, scum, dirt, dirtiness; also used attributively.
verb
To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.
To scrounge; to borrow.
To slink about; to sneak, to insinuate.
uncage
uncage
verb
(by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints.