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aauw

abow

acwa

acwp

adaw

adaw

verb

  1. (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome.

adew

alew

alew

noun

  1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.

alow

alow

adj

  1. (Scotland) alight; ablaze

adv

  1. (nautical) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks.
  2. (now chiefly Scotland) Low down.

prep

  1. (Scotland) Below.

amsw

anew

anew

adv

  1. (literary, poetic or formal) Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.

arew

arew

adv

  1. (obsolete) In a row.

arow

arow

adv

  1. In a row, line, or rank; successively.

atwo

atwo

adv

  1. (obsolete) In two; in twain; asunder.

auew

avow

avow

noun

  1. (obsolete) avowal

verb

  1. (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
  2. (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.
  3. (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.

awad

awag

awag

adj

  1. Wagging.

awan

awat

away

away

adj

  1. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
  2. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
  3. (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
  4. At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
  5. Misspelling of aweigh.
  6. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.

adv

  1. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
  2. Aside, so as to discard something.
  3. Aside; off; in another direction.
  4. At a stated distance in time or space.
  5. From a place, hence.
  6. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  7. In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
  8. In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
  9. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
  10. So as to remove or use up something.
  11. Without restraint.

intj

  1. (Northern England) come on!; go on!

verb

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.

awea

awed

awed

adj

  1. Having or showing awe.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of awe

awee

awes

awes

verb

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

awfu

awin

awls

awls

noun

  1. plural of awl

awns

awns

noun

  1. plural of awn

awny

awny

adj

  1. Having awns; bearded, bristly

awol

awol

adj

  1. Alternative form of AWOL

awry

awry

adj

  1. (figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
  2. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

adv

  1. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
  2. Perversely, improperly.

awst

bawd

bawd

adj

  1. (obsolete) Joyous; riotously gay.

noun

  1. (now archaic or historical) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
  2. A lewd person.

verb

  1. (archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes.

bawl

bawl

noun

  1. A loud, intense shouting or wailing.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
  2. (intransitive) To weep profusely.
  3. (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.

bawn

bawn

noun

  1. A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
  2. A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.

verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of born.

bcwp

bcws

biwa

biwa

noun

  1. A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.

blaw

blew

blew

noun

  1. Obsolete form of blue.

verb

  1. (now colloquial) past participle of blow
  2. simple past tense of blow

blow

blow

adj

  1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
  2. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
  3. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
  4. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
  5. (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
  6. (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
  7. (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
  8. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
  9. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
  10. A bloom, state of flowering.
  11. A damaging occurrence.
  12. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  13. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  14. A strong wind.
  15. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  16. The act of striking or hitting.

verb

  1. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
  2. (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
  3. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
  4. (figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
  5. (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
  6. (intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
  7. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
  8. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  9. (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
  10. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
  11. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
  12. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
  13. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
  14. (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
  15. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  16. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  17. (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
  18. (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
  19. (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
  20. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  21. (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
  22. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  23. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
  24. (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  25. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
  26. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
  27. (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
  28. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
  29. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
  30. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
  31. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
  32. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
  33. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

bouw

bowe

bowe

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of bow

bowk

bowk

verb

  1. (Tyneside) To belch, to burp.
  2. (UK) To vomit.

bowl

bowl

noun

  1. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
  2. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
  3. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
  4. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
  5. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
  6. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
  7. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
  8. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
  9. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
  10. As much as is held by a bowl.
  11. The action of bowling a ball.
  12. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  13. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
  14. The round hollow part of anything.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
  2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
  3. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
  4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
  5. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

bown

bows

bows

noun

  1. plural of bow

verb

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

braw

brew

brew

noun

  1. (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
  2. (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.
  3. (slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
  4. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  2. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
  3. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
  4. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
  6. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

brow

brow

noun

  1. (figurative) Aspect; appearance.
  2. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
  3. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
  4. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
  5. The first tine of an antler's beam.
  6. The forehead.
  7. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
  8. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.

verb

  1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

bwts

cawk

cawk

noun

  1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of cock (in the sense of penis).
  2. Alternative form of cauk

cawl

cawl

noun

  1. A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
  2. Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”)

caws

caws

noun

  1. plural of caw

verb

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

cckw

ccws

chaw

chaw

noun

  1. (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
  2. (obsolete) The jaw.

verb

  1. (UK, slang) To steal.
  2. (archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider

chew

chew

noun

  1. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
  2. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
  3. (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
  4. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
  5. Level of chewiness.
  6. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.

verb

  1. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
  2. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
  3. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.

chow

chow

noun

  1. (Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
  2. (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
  3. (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
  4. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
  5. A Chow Chow.
  6. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.

verb

  1. (mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
  2. (slang, South Africa) To eat.

claw

claw

noun

  1. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
  2. (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
  3. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
  4. A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
  5. A foot equipped with such.
  6. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
  7. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.

verb

  1. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
  2. To do (something) quickly.
  3. To move with one's fingertips.
  4. To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
  5. To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on.
  6. To scratch or to tear at.
  7. To use the claws to climb.
  8. To use the claws to seize, to grip.

clew

clew

noun

  1. (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
  2. (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
  3. (nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
  4. (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
  5. (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
  6. Obsolete spelling of clue
  7. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.

verb

  1. (nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
  2. (transitive) to roll into a ball

clow

cowk

cowl

cowl

noun

  1. (metonymically) A monk.
  2. (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
  3. (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
  4. (obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
  5. A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
  6. A mask that covers the majority of the head.
  7. A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
  8. A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
  9. A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.

verb

  1. (Yorkshire) To scrape together
  2. (transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
  3. To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
  4. To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.

cown

cows

cows

noun

  1. Alternative form of kouse
  2. plural of cow

verb

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

cowy

cowy

adj

  1. Resembling a cow, cowlike

craw

craw

noun

  1. (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
  2. The crop of a bird.

verb

  1. (archaic) To caw, crow.

crew

crew

noun

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
  2. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
  3. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
  4. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
  5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
  6. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
  7. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
  8. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
  9. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
  10. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
  11. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
  12. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
  13. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
  14. A group of people working together on a task.
  15. The Manx shearwater.

verb

  1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
  2. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
  3. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
  4. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
  5. To be a member of a work or production crew
  6. To supply workers or sailors for a crew

crow

crow

noun

  1. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
  2. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.
  3. (historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
  4. (military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
  5. A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
  6. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
  7. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
  8. The cry of the bird known in the US as a rooster and in British English as a cockerel.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
  2. (intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
  3. (intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

crwd

cwms

cwms

noun

  1. plural of cwm

cwru

dauw

dauw

noun

  1. (South Africa) Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).

dawe

dawk

dawk

noun

  1. A hollow or crack in timber.
  2. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”)
  3. Archaic form of dhak (“the tree Butea monosperma”).

verb

  1. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up weeds.
  3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.

dawn

dawn

noun

  1. (countable) The rising of the sun.
  2. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
  3. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  4. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
  2. (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
  3. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.

daws

daws

noun

  1. plural of daw

dawt

dawt

verb

  1. (Scotland) To fondle or caress.

dewi

dews

dews

noun

  1. (archaic or poetic) plural of dew

verb

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

dewy

dewy

adj

  1. Covered by dew.
  2. Fresh and innocent.
  3. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.

dhaw

dhow

dhow

noun

  1. (nautical) A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.

douw

dowd

dowd

noun

  1. (archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.

dowf

dowf

adj

  1. (of a sound) Dull; hollow.
  2. Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.

dowl

dowl

noun

  1. Alternative form of dowle

down

down

adj

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
  2. (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
  3. (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
  4. (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
  5. (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
  6. (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
  7. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
  8. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
  9. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
  10. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
  11. (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
  12. At a lower level than before.
  13. Facing downwards.
  14. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
  15. Having a lower score than an opponent.
  16. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)

adv

  1. (UK, academia, dated) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
  2. (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
  3. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
  4. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
  5. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
  6. (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
  7. As a down payment.
  8. At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
  9. Away from the city (regardless of direction).
  10. Forward, straight ahead.
  11. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
  12. From less to greater detail.
  13. Into a state of non-operation.
  14. On paper (or in a durable record).
  15. So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
  16. So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
  17. So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
  18. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
  19. To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
  20. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.

noun

  1. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
  2. (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
  3. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
  4. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
  5. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
  6. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
  7. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
  8. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
  9. A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
  10. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
  11. Down payment.
  12. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
  13. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
  14. The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
  15. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.

prep

  1. (colloquial) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
  2. From north to south of.
  3. From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
  4. From the higher end to the lower of.

verb

  1. (intransitive, rare or obsolete) To go or come down; to descend.
  2. (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
  3. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
  4. (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
  5. (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
  6. (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  7. (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
  8. (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  9. (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
  10. (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.

dowp

dowp

noun

  1. Alternative form of doup

dows

dows

noun

  1. plural of dow

verb

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

dowy

draw

draw

noun

  1. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  2. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
  3. (curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
  4. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  5. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
  6. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
  7. (slang, countable) A bag of cannabis.
  8. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
  9. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
  10. Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
  11. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  12. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  13. The act of drawing.
  14. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  15. The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

verb

  1. (analogous) To consume (power).
  2. (archery) To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
  3. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
  4. (card games) To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
  5. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
  6. (curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
  7. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  8. (hunting, now rare) To search for game; to track a quarry.
  9. (intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.
  10. (intransitive) To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
  11. (intransitive) To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
  12. (intransitive) To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
  13. (intransitive, now rare) To be pulled along (in a specified way).
  14. (intransitive, now rare) To pull something along; to have force to move anything by pulling.
  15. (intransitive, transitive) To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
  16. (intransitive, used with prepositions and adverbs) To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
  17. (nautical) Of a sail, to fill with wind.
  18. (now rare) To construct (a wall, canal etc.) from one point to another.
  19. (obsolete) To extend the duration of (something); to prolong.
  20. (reflexive) To assume a specific position or attitude.
  21. (reflexive, now rare) To move in a specific direction.
  22. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  23. (transitive) To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
  24. (transitive) To draw up, compose (a document).
  25. (transitive) To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
  26. (transitive) To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
  27. (transitive) To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
  28. (transitive, intransitive) To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
  29. (transitive, medicine, now rare) To extract (pus, humours, etc.) by means of medical treatment.
  30. (transitive, obsolete) To withdraw.
  31. To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
  32. To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
  33. To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
  34. To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
  35. To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
  36. To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
  37. To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
  38. To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
  39. To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
  40. To extract (a tooth).
  41. To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
  42. To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
  43. To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
  44. To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
  45. To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
  46. To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
  47. To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
  48. To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
  49. To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
  50. To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
  51. To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
  52. To require (a depth of water) for floating.
  53. To run (a bath).
  54. To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
  55. To stretch or elongate.
  56. To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
  57. To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
  58. To take (water) from a well or other source.

drew

drew

verb

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of draw
  2. simple past tense of draw

drow

drow

noun

  1. (fantasy role-playing games, countable) A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
  2. (fantasy role-playing games, uncountable) A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.
  3. (rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.

dukw

duwe

dwan

dwim

enew

enew

verb

  1. (falconry, transitive) To drive back to the water; to pursue.

enow

enow

adv

  1. (archaic) Just now.
  2. (archaic, Scotland) Soon.

det

  1. Archaic form of enough.

ewan

ewen

ewer

ewer

noun

  1. A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

ewes

ewes

noun

  1. plural of ewe

ewos

ewry

ewry

noun

  1. Alternative form of ewery

ewte

ewte

verb

  1. (dialectal) To pour; pour in

fawe

fawe

Adjective

  1. fain; glad; delighted

fawn

fawn

adj

  1. Of the fawn colour.

noun

  1. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
  2. (rare) A servile cringe or bow.
  3. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
  4. A young deer.
  5. Base flattery.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
  2. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
  3. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
  4. (intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

flaw

flaw

noun

  1. (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
  2. (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
  3. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
  4. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
  5. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
  6. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
  7. A storm of short duration.
  8. A sudden burst of noise and disorder
  9. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
  2. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

flew

flew

adj

  1. (UK, dialect) shallow; flat

noun

  1. (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.

verb

  1. simple past tense of fly

flow

flow

noun

  1. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
  2. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
  3. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
  4. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
  5. (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
  6. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
  7. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
  8. Smoothness or continuity.
  9. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  10. The emission of blood during menstruation.
  11. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
  12. The rising movement of the tide.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
  2. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
  3. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  4. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
  5. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
  6. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
  7. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
  8. (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
  9. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
  10. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  11. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

fowk

fowl

fowl

adj

  1. (obsolete) foul

noun

  1. (archaic) A bird.
  2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
  3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

verb

  1. To hunt fowl.

frow

frow

adj

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) Brittle; tender; crisp

noun

  1. (obsolete) A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.
  2. (obsolete) A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.
  3. A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
  4. A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
  5. Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”)

frwy

fwhm

fwiw

gawk

gawk

noun

  1. A cuckoo.
  2. A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.

verb

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) To suck.
  2. To stare conspicuously.
  3. To stare or gape stupidly.

gawm

gawm

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of gom (foolish person).

verb

  1. (UK, dialectal) Alternative form of gorm (gawk, gape)
  2. (dialectal) Alternative form of gum (make sticky, or impair the function of)

gawn

gawn

noun

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

verb

  1. (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.

gawp

gawp

noun

  1. (Britain) A stupefied or amazed stare.

verb

  1. (Chiefly Britain) To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.

glew

glew

noun

  1. Obsolete form of glue.

verb

  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of glow

glow

glow

noun

  1. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
  2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  3. The light given off by a glowing object.

verb

  1. (Internet slang, alt-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
  2. (Internet slang, alt-right) to expose someone to the authorities.
  3. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
  4. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  5. (intransitive, Internet slang) To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
  6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
  7. To display intense emotion.
  8. To emit light as if heated.
  9. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  10. To shine brightly and steadily.

gnaw

gnaw

noun

  1. the act of gnawing

verb

  1. (intransitive) To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
  3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

gnow

gowd

gowf

gowk

gowk

noun

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A cuckoo.
  2. (Tyneside) An apple core.
  3. (Tyneside, obsolete) The central part of any thing.

verb

  1. To make foolish; to stupefy.

gowl

gowl

noun

  1. (Ireland, slang) An annoying person; an idiot; a dishonest person.
  2. (Ireland, slang) Vulva.

verb

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) To weep angrily; to howl.

gown

gown

noun

  1. (by metonymy) The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace.
  2. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  3. A loose, flowing upper garment.
  4. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  5. Any sort of dress or garb.
  6. The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
  7. The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  8. The robe worn by a surgeon.

verb

  1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

grew

grew

verb

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of grow
  2. Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”)
  3. simple past tense of grow

grow

grow

verb

  1. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
  2. (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
  3. (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
  4. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
  5. (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
  7. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

gwag

gwen

gwin

gwin

verb

  1. (informal, dialectal) present participle of go

gwyn

hawi

hawk

hawk

noun

  1. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
  2. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
  3. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
  4. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
  5. A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
  6. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
  7. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
  2. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

hawm

hawm

noun

  1. Alternative form of haulm (straw)

verb

  1. (UK, dialect) To lounge; to loiter.

haws

haws

noun

  1. plural of haw

verb

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

hdwe

hewe

hewe

noun

  1. (obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.

hewn

hewn

adj

  1. Having been cut or mown down.
  2. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.

verb

  1. past participle of hew

hews

hews

verb

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

hewt

hgwy

holw

howe

howe

noun

  1. Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).

howf

howf

noun

  1. (obsolete, Scotland) public house, tavern

howk

howl

howl

noun

  1. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
  2. Any similar sound.
  3. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.

verb

  1. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
  2. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
  3. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
  4. To utter with outcry.

hows

hows

noun

  1. plural of how

hwan

hwan

noun

  1. The monetary unit of South Korea from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962.

hwyl

hwyl

noun

  1. A melodic chanting style of Welsh preaching.