HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (immunology) Lack of immunity to an antigen.
2. (pathology) Deficiency of energy.
3. (physics) Dilute or disorganized energy, which cannot be transformed into work.

noun

1. plural of anger

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
2. A person who fishes with a hook and line.
3. An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.
4. Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the mythical ship Argo.

adj

1. (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
2. Of silver or silver-coloured.

noun

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
3. (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.

noun

1. (Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
2. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, food, slang) A sausage.
3. (Britain, music, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
4. (Britain, sexuality, slang) A man's penis.
5. (Britain, sexuality, slang) A woman's breast.
6. (Britain, slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.
7. (US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.
8. (US, crime, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
9. (automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.
10. (curling) One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
11. (curling) One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
12. (military, slang) A Bangalore torpedo.
13. (sexuality, slang) A person who has sex.

noun

1. (UK, military) A large rucksack.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To encircle (something) with a ring or some other circular object (such as a shackle).

noun

1. Someone who binges.

noun

1. (Australia) A cigarette.
2. (Australia) A firecracker.

verb

1. present participle of cere

noun

1. (historical) A chain of booksellers.
2. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters

adj

1. (slang) Inducing awkwardness or embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.

noun

1. (countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
2. (countable, Britain, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
3. (countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
4. (uncountable, slang) Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
2. (intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).

noun

1. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
2. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
3. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
4. (obsolete) Liability.
5. (obsolete) Mischief.
6. An instance or cause of likely harm.
7. Exposure to likely harm; peril.

verb

1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

noun

1. (Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
2. (Australian slang) A condom.
3. (Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
4. (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
5. (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
6. (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
7. A bell or chime.
8. One who rings a bell.
9. The suspended clapper of a bell.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) An old, worn-out machine, especially a car.
2. (obsolete) A person employed in the dunging of textiles.
3. (obsolete) A person employed to spread or transport dung.
4. (obsolete) An animal that produces dung.

noun

1. (archaic) A ploughing of land.
2. (nautical) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
3. (nautical) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; also called reef earing.
4. (nautical) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; also called head earing.

noun

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
2. (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
3. (role-playing games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
4. An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression. (Compare aura.)
5. The capacity to do work.
6. The impetus behind all motion and all activity.

verb

1. (transitive) To gird around; to ingirt.

adj

1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.

verb

1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.
2. past participle of engird

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To make bloody.

noun

1. (Scientology) A painful, negative mental image representing a past event.
2. A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become angry or wild. [16th–18th c.]
2. (transitive) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke to madness, to make insane.

verb

1. To encircle.
2. To surround.

noun

1. Alternative form of eryngo

noun

1. (communication) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.

noun

1. The act of one who errs; sin.

verb

1. present participle of er
2. present participle of err

noun

1. (obsolete) The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.
2. Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium.

noun

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) A receiver.
2. (obsolete) A helper; protector.

noun

1. (UK regional, botany, usually in the plural, obsolete) Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
2. (UK slang) A person.
3. (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
4. (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
5. (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
6. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
7. (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
8. (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
9. (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
10. (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
11. (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
12. (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
13. (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
14. (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
15. (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
16. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
17. (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
18. (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
19. (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
20. (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
21. (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
22. (nautical) Clipping of finger pier: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
23. (obsolete) Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
24. (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
25. (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
26. (vulgar) The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
27. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals
28. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
29. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
30. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
31. Something similar in shape to the human finger
32. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body
33. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
34. The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.

verb

1. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
2. (transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
3. (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
4. (transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang.
5. (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
6. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
7. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.

adj

1. Outside the mainstream.

noun

1. (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
2. (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
3. (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
4. (golf) The area around the green
5. (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
6. (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
7. A decorative border.
8. A marginal or peripheral part.
9. Non-mainstream theatre.
10. The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
11. Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.

verb

1. (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
2. (transitive) To serve as a fringe.

noun

1. (sports, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
2. One who gains a profit or advantage.
3. One who puts on weight.

noun

1. (US) A man living apart from his wife.
2. (slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.
3. A fool, simpleton.
4. A male goose.

verb

1. (dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
2. (coal-mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
3. (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
4. A horse that goes quickly.
5. One who oversees a gang of workmen.

adj

1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

noun

1. (Britain, Ireland, Appalachia) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
2. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
3. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
4. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
5. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
6. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
7. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

verb

1. (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
2. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

noun

1. A granary; a store of grain.
2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

verb

1. (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
2. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
3. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
4. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.

adj

1. Of a dark red colour.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
2. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
3. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.

verb

1. (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.

adj

1. (LGBT, Internet slang, humorous) Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.

noun

1. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
2. (grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
3. (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
4. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
5. (obsolete) Class; kind.
6. (sometimes proscribed) Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
7. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

verb

1. (archaic or obsolete) To breed.
2. (archaic) To engender.
3. (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
4. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

noun

1. plural of genus

noun

1. plural of genre

noun

1. plural of genro

noun

1. (Britain) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
2. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
3. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
4. People of education and good breeding.

noun

1. (rare) A manager.

adj

1. (obsolete except in set terms) Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin).
2. (obsolete except in set terms) Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister).
3. (obsolete) Closely related, akin.

noun

1. (obsolete) A near relative.
2. A social party at which the german is danced.
3. An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement.

noun

1. (biology) The basic form of an organism; the seed or germ.

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins, resistant to proteases, associated with the germination of cereals

noun

1. (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)
2. (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc.

adj

1. (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) Homosexual.
2. (chiefly Britain, regional, Canada, US) Very careful or cautious; also, delicate, sensitive.
3. (of hair or fur) Of a reddish-brown colour.
4. Having hair or fur of this colour.

adv

1. In a very careful or cautious manner; also, delicately, sensitively.

noun

1. (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
2. (colloquial, Scotland, especially Glasgow, countable and uncountable) Any soft fizzy drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
3. (colloquial, countable and uncountable) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
4. (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish-brown hair; a redhead.
5. (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
6. Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
7. The plant that produces this rhizome.
8. The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.

verb

1. (Nigeria, transitive) To inspire (someone); to give a little boost to.
2. To add ginger to.
3. To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
4. To enliven, to spice (up).
5. To move gingerly, in a very careful and cautious manner.

noun

1. A cotton ginning plant.
2. A person who operates a cotton gin.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of girn

noun

1. A rodent or other animal that gnaws.
2. One who gnaws.

noun

1. plural of goner (persons who are in a desperate strait or doomed)

noun

1. female red grouse

noun

1. The act of governing

verb

1. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
2. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
3. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
4. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
5. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
6. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
7. (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
10. (transitive, obsolete) To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).
11. (transitive, obsolete) To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).

noun

1. (geology) An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.

noun

1. Obsolete form of grain.

adj

1. (chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
2. Alternative form of grand

noun

1. plural of grane

noun

1. (Britain) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor.
2. (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.
3. (archaic) A granary.

adj

1. carved, engraved

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To make graven or engraved
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become grave (serious or sombre)
3. past participle of grave

adj

1. Obsolete spelling of green

noun

1. (military) The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
2. Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
3. Leafy plants that are used for decoration.
4. Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
5. plural of green

verb

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

adj

1. greenish; somewhat green

noun

1. Alternative form of greenie

Proper noun

1. a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, to the south of the more famous village of Gretna Green.
2. an unincorporated urban community in Manitoba, Canada, on the border with North Dakota, USA.
3. a small township in Tasmania, Australia.
4. a small city in Florida, USA.
5. an unincorporated community in Kansas, USA.
6. a city in Louisiana, USA, and parish seat of
7. a city in Nebraska, USA.
8. an unincorporated community in Ohio, USA.
9. a town in Virginia, USA.

noun

1. An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.

noun

1. (informal) Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean.
2. (informal) The state of being filthy; grubbiness.
3. (music) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal.

abbrev

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of gonna

noun

1. (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
2. (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
3. (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
4. (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.
5. (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
6. (military) Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr.
7. (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.
8. A person who operates a gun.
9. The great northern diver or loon.

noun

1. A set of hoops or parrel beads which secure the gaff loosely to the mast in a vertical position.
2. A wire that leads from a point near the end of a gaff to a point near the other end. A block travels along this wire, and a halyard is attached to the block. This allows the gaff to be raised to the vertical by a single halyard.

noun

1. Alternative form of gurnard (“fish”)

noun

1. (US) A stretcher having wheeled legs.

noun

1. (informal) A member of the United States Marine Corps.

noun

1. (Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark
2. (UK) A steep, wooded slope.
3. (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
4. (climbing) A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
5. (now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
6. (slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
7. A bridle iron.
8. A clothes hanger.
9. A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
10. A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
11. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.

noun

1. A hinged fastener.

noun

1. (by extension) Any strong desire.
2. A need or compelling desire for food.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.
2. (figuratively, intransitive, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
3. (intransitive) To be in need of food.

verb

1. (obsolete) Fail to notice.
2. (obsolete) Not to know.
3. To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
4. To pretend to not notice someone or something.

noun

1. (slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
2. (slang, Ireland, derogatory, offensive, used in Cork) A person from south county Dublin.
3. (slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis.

verb

1. (UK, literary) To enlarge.

verb

1. (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
2. (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
3. (intransitive, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.

adj

1. comparative form of long: more long

noun

1. One who longs or yearns for something.

noun

1. (slang) A person afflicted with a disease of the lungs, especially one suffering from tuberculosis.
2. (slang, in combination) A vehicle whose engine has the specified number of cylinders.
3. A person who lunges.

noun

1. A trough for animals to eat from.

noun

1. (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity.
2. (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable.
3. A small sea vessel.
4. Clipping of whoremonger.

verb

1. (transitive) To promote something undesirable.
2. (transitive, Britain) To sell or peddle something

noun

1. (chiefly historical) A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare.

noun

1. One who munges.

noun

1. One who nags.

noun

1. (historical) A constituent state of Indonesia when it was under Dutch control.

Proper noun

1. A deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence and the Sun.

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular) A friend, particularly a fellow black person, often used as an informal term of address.
2. (UK, Cornwall, fishing, archaic) A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.
3. (archaic) A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.
4. (archaic) The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.
5. (archaic, US) A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.
6. (archaic, electrical) An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.
7. (figurative, especially African-American Vernacular, otherwise offensive) A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).
8. (film, dated) A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.
9. (now offensive) A fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata).
10. (now offensive, dated) A dark brown nymphalid butterfly, Orsotriaena medus, of south Asia, southeast Asia, and Australia.
11. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.
12. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).
13. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, slang) A person of black African descent who acts in an unapproved manner (whether positive or negative).

verb

1. (intransitive, now offensive) To perform in blackface.
2. (intransitive, offensive) To behave as a stereotypical black person.
3. (transitive, dated) To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
4. (transitive, dated) To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
5. (uncommon, transitive, offensive) To treat as inferior.

adj

1. (archaic) comparative form of nigh: more nigh

noun

1. One who, or that which, nudges.