(construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
verb
(transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
(transitive) To furnish with dowels.
dowly
drawl
drawl
noun
A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.
verb
(intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
(intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
(transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
(transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
dwale
dwale
noun
(archaic) A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.
(dialect) A torpor.
(heraldry) Sable or black (when the colors are blazoned as plants).
A bugbear.
Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
verb
(dialectal) To mutter deliriously
dwalm
dwalm
noun
(Scotland) A swoon; a sudden sickness.
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To fail in health.
dwell
dwell
noun
(automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
(electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
(engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
(engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
verb
(intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
(intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
(transitive with on) To linger on a particular thought, idea, etc.; to remain fixated on something.
dwelt
dwelt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dwell
ewald
ewold
ladew
lawed
lawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of law
simple past tense and past participle of lawe
lowed
lowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of low
waldo
waldo
noun
A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.
waled
waled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wale
weald
weald
noun
(archaic) A forest or wood.
(archaic) An open country.
wedel
wedel
noun
(skiing) Alternative form of wedeln
welda
welds
welds
noun
plural of weld
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weld
wield
wield
verb
(obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
(obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
(obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
wilda
wilde
wilds
wilds
noun
plural of wild
wilderness
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wild
wiled
wiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wile
woald
woald
noun
Alternative form of weld (“the herb”)
wolds
wolds
noun
plural of wold
woldy
woold
woold
noun
Archaic form of weld (“dyer's rocket”).
verb
(nautical) To wind a chain or rope around in order to strengthen (especially a mast or yard).
world
world
noun
(archaic) Age, era.
(by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
(countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
(fiction) A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
(informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.
(metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.
(tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
(uncountable, with "the") The Earth.
(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
(with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
(with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
A very large extent of country.
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
The Universe.
verb
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
To make real; to make worldly.
would
would
noun
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
verb
(archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
(archaic) Wanted to.
(chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
(chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
(obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.