HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.
2. The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

noun

1. A birch-bark canoe.
2. A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
3. A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
4. Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

verb

1. To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
2. To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
2. (UK, obsolete, university slang) Tea (the drink).
3. (archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
4. (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
5. (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
6. (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
7. (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
8. (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
9. (obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
10. (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
11. (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
12. (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
13. (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
14. (vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
15. (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
16. (vulgar, offensive) A woman.

verb

1. (vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
2. (vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
3. (vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.

noun

1. (historical) A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.
2. (historical) A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.

Proper noun

1. A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.

noun

1. (Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
2. (chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
3. (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
4. (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
5. (surveying) A long measuring tape.
6. (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
7. (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
8. A livery collar, a chain of office.
9. A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
10. A series of interconnected things.
11. A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
12. A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
13. That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.

verb

1. (computing) To be chained to another data item.
2. (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
3. (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
4. (figurative) To obligate.
5. (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
6. (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
7. (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
8. (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
9. (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
10. (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).

noun

1. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
2. (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
3. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
4. (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
5. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
6. (slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair. (the execution device).
7. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
8. An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
9. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

verb

1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
3. (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

noun

1. plural of chai

noun

1. A small South American subspecies of tiger cat (Leopardus pardalis mitis), native to Argentina and Paraguay.

noun

1. (Turkish units of measurement) A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
2. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously .15–.35 kg).
3. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.

noun

1. plural of chia

Proper noun

1. a capital city of Chiba prefecture, Japan.

noun

1. (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American girl; a Latina.
2. An orange-red dyestuff obtained by boiling the leaves of the bignonia.

noun

1. The chickpea.

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
3. (dated, endearing) A young child.
4. (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
5. A young bird.
6. A young chicken.

verb

1. (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

noun

1. (American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.
2. (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
3. The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.

noun

1. plural of chic

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
2. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

adj

1. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
2. Primary; principal.

noun

1. (US, Canada, offensive) An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man.
2. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.
3. (sometimes ironic) An informal term of address.
4. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
5. The principal part or top of anything.

verb

1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.

noun

1. Alternative form of chield

noun

1. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
2. (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
3. (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
4. (mathematics) A subordinate node of a tree.
5. (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
6. (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.
7. (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
8. A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
9. Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
10. Anything derived from or caused by something.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.

noun

1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of child.
2. (US, regional) Alternative form of chili (a chili pepper).

noun

1. (Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.
2. (Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.
3. (chiefly US) A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
4. (countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
5. (uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I will

adj

1. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
2. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
3. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
4. Moderately cold or chilly.
5. Unwelcoming; not cordial.

noun

1. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
2. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
3. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
4. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
5. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
6. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become cold.
2. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
3. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
4. (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back.
5. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
6. (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
7. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.

Noun

1. The edge of a cask, etc; a chine.

noun

1. (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
2. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
3. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
4. Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
5. An individual ringing component of such a set.
6. The sound of such an instrument or device.

verb

1. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
2. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
3. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
4. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of chimpanzee.

verb

1. (informal, often derogatory) To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.
2. (informal, often derogatory) To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.

noun

1. (countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
2. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of friend.
3. (countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.
4. (countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
5. (uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
6. (uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
7. (uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
8. (uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
9. (uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
10. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.

noun

1. (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
2. (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
3. (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
4. (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
6. The back of the blade on a scythe.
7. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
8. The spine of an animal.
9. The top of a ridge.

verb

1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
2. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
3. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

intj

1. The sound of metal or glass clinking.

noun

1. (Scotland, slang) Cocaine.
2. (countable) A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
3. (uncountable, slang) Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
4. (zoology) A high-pitched mating call made by the male kakapo.
5. A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.

verb

1. (MLE, slang) To stab.
2. (zoology, intransitive) Of the male kakapo: to make its high-pitched mating call.
3. To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.

noun

1. (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
2. (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
3. (uncountable, colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
4. A chip or dent in something metallic.
5. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
6. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
7. Alternative letter-case form of Chink

verb

1. (intransitive) To crack; to open.
2. (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
3. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
4. (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
5. (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

noun

1. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

noun

1. plural of chin

verb

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

noun

1. Obsolete form of chintz.

noun

1. (slang) A carpenter.
2. plural of chip

verb

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

adj

1. (colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits

noun

1. the sound of a spoon rapidly whisking around a pot or basin.

verb

1. (intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.
2. (transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.
3. To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

noun

1. (Scotland) A kind of musical warble.

verb

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To emit a low sound; to warble.

noun

1. A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.

verb

1. (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.

noun

1. (informal, countable) A chiropractor.
2. (informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.

noun

1. (radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.
2. A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

verb

1. (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth.
2. (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets.
3. (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
5. (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.

noun

1. The trilled sound made by an insect.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).

noun

1. The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.

noun

1. plural of chit

verb

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

noun

1. (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.
2. (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
3. (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
4. (thieves' cant) A file.
5. (thieves' cant) A knife.
6. (thieves' cant) A saw.
7. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

verb

1. (thieves' cant) To cut.
2. (thieves' cant) To stab.

noun

1. Alternative form of chevy

noun

1. (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
2. (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
3. An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
4. The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).

noun

1. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
2. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
3. A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

verb

1. (intransitive) To sing in concert.

noun

1. (fashion) A short-sleeved blouse worn under a sari; an Indian underbodice.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and, less commonly, of Christian.
2. A diminutive of the female name Christina and of its variant forms.

noun

1. (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
2. (informal) A firm hold.
3. (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
4. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
5. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

verb

1. (card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
2. To bring to certain conclusion.
3. To tighten down.

noun

1. (physics) the weight of 1 litre of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure. Equal to approximately 0.09 grams.

noun

1. Alternative form of cuisse (“thigh armour”)

noun

1. (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
2. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

verb

1. (intransitive) To dig ditches.
2. (transitive) To dig ditches around.
3. (transitive) To discard or abandon.
4. (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
6. (transitive, intransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
7. Alternative form of deech

adj

1. Moral, relating to morals.

noun

1. A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
2. The morality of an action.

noun

1. a microfiche

noun

1. (chiefly historical) A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest.

noun

1. (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.
2. (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
3. An act of filching; larceny, theft.
4. Something which has been filched or stolen.

verb

1. (transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

noun

1. Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis. syn. Fringilla carduelis).
2. Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.
3. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

verb

1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of vetch
2. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
3. A skin of a polecat.

adj

1. (of a peat) Somewhat decomposed.
2. Of or relating to blood
3. Relating to heme

noun

1. plural of hick

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of hickey (“bruise-like mark of mouth on skin”)

noun

1. (Scotland) A limp.

verb

1. (Scotland) To hobble.

noun

1. (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
2. (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
4. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
5. A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
6. A sudden pull.
7. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.

verb

1. (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
2. (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
3. (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
4. (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
5. (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
6. (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
7. (transitive) To pull with a jerk.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hoik

adj

1. Of, or relating to humus.

adj

1. Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter.

noun

1. (Gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.

noun

1. (Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
2. (chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.
3. (chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid.
4. (geology, archaic) A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.
5. (pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.

adj

1. (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
2. (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
3. (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
4. (figurative, derogatory, obsolete) Feeling or showing a high level of sexual interest.
5. (of a condition) Characterized by itching.
6. (of a person, animal or body part) Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched.
7. Causing an itching sensation.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of lychee

noun

1. (rare, regional or obsolete) An acclivity; a small hill or hillock.
2. A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.

noun

1. Alternative form of lich

noun

1. A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.

Proper noun

1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
2. Any of several men in the Old Testament:
   1. The minor prophet and author of the Book of Micah.
   2. An featured in Judges 17–18 and of the Micah’s idol narrative. Also called
3. name of Biblical origin. Used since the 17th century, but never popular.

verb

1. Obsolete form of mitch.

adj

1. (dated, of a cow or other livestock) Used to produce milk; dairy.
2. (dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring.
3. (obsolete) Tender; pitiful; weeping.

verb

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of mince

verb

1. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
3. (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
6. John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

adj

1. Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal.

noun

1. (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
2. (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
3. (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
4. (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
5. Any similar position, literal or figurative.
6. Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.

verb

1. (transitive) To place in a niche.
2. (transitive, marketing) To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.

noun

1. (dialectal) A notch or small incision.
2. Alternative form of knitch (“a small bundle”)
3. Misspelling of niche.

adj

1. Of or relating to, or measured in, ohms.
2. That obeys Ohm's law

noun

1. A small armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), native to Argentina, which is the only armadillo known to hibernate.

noun

1. (archaic) a covering put over an infant's diaper to prevent outer clothes from getting wet
2. (obsolete) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.

noun

1. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.
3. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
4. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
5. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
7. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

verb

1. (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
2. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
3. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
4. (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
5. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
6. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
8. (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
9. (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
10. (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
11. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
12. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
13. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
14. To squeeze between two objects.

noun

1. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
2. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
3. (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
4. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
5. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
6. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
7. (geology) Pitchstone.
8. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
9. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
10. (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
11. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
12. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
13. (now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height.
14. (obsolete, uncountable) Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
15. (rare) The field of battle.
16. (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
17. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
18. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
19. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
20. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
21. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
22. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
23. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
24. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
25. An effort to sell or promote something.
26. Prominence; importance.
27. The angle at which an object sits.
28. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
29. The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
30. The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
31. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
2. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
3. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
4. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
5. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
6. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
7. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
8. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
9. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
10. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
11. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
12. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
13. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
14. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
15. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
16. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
17. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
18. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
19. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
20. To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
21. To cover or smear with pitch.
22. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Proper noun

1. name. form of

verb

1. (Southern US, Northern Ireland) Alternative form of rinse

noun

1. Pronunciation spelling of sight.

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A brook; ditch; gutter; drain; ravine.
2. (slang) Situation.