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noun
noun
noun
- Gadfly.
- (dialectal) Firefly or miller (moth).
- A serving of this beer.
- A large clothing size.
- Gnat.
- (beer) A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
- An obese person.
- a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops
- a garment size for a large or heavy person
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
- Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
- A light, gentle wind.
- (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
- (figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
verb
- (weather) To blow gently.
- To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
- (intransitive) To buzz.
- (of fish) To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
- (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- blow gently and lightly
- to proceed quickly and easily
adj
noun
- A dragonfly.
- A stick insect.
- Clematis virginiana, a vine native to the United States.
- A cranefly.
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
noun
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A wren.
- A willow.
- An object made from the wood of a willow.
- Any tree that resembles a willow.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
verb
noun
- The flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis).
- Any of several brightly colored fishes
- Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae.
- Exocoetus volitans, a flying fish of the Atlantic.
- The ocellated blenny (Opisthocentrus ocellatus).
- Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums.
- A chiton, a mollusc of the class Polyplacophora.
- The butterfly cod (Pterois volitans).
- small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
noun
noun
- A dragonfly of the genus Brachythemis.
- (fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.
- (Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).
- (military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.
- The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.
- The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.
- (by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
- One who is confined to the ground, especially:
- Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
- An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
- A moth of the genus Condica
- in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
noun
noun
- A kind of gull, the jaeger.
- The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
- The tropicbird.
- The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
- a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
noun
- (coastal New Jersey) A dragonfly.
- A muscle spindle.
- Any long and slender stalk resembling a spindle from Euonymus.
- Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
- (biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis.
- (computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs such as CDs or DVDs, having a central column that passes through the central holes in the discs and keeps them in a stack.
- Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
- Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
- A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- A sleep spindle.
- (cycling) The axle of a bottom bracket.
- A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- (geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
- (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
- A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
- The fusee of a watch.
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
- a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
- a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
verb
noun
noun
- A dragonfly of the genus Microgomphus.
- Any of various kinds of fish with forked tails, as the bluefin driftfish (Psenes pellucidus) or a devilfish (genus Assessor)
- A scissor-tailed flycatcher or Texas bird of paradise (Tyrannus forficatus).
- grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings
noun
- Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead.
- Especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid.
- Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris).
- Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
- Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly.
- greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
noun
- Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
- (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.
- A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
- Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
- someone who travels about selling their wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
- a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
noun
noun
- A bird, the wagtail.
- A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.
- (video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.
- (now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
- (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
- (India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
- A mollemoke.
- A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
- (slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
- A molly bolt.
- popular aquarium fish
verb
noun
noun
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
noun
- A gull.
- The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
- (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
- Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
- The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
- (slang, derogatory) The mouth.
- informal terms for the mouth
noun
- A gressorial bird.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
noun
- A bird, the greylag.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- (US, carpentry) Clipping of lag screw.
- (slang) A period of imprisonment.
- (uncountable) Delay; latency.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
- the time between one event, process, or period and another
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
adj
verb
- (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
- (transitive) To slacken
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
- cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
- A griffon vulture.
- Alternative form of griffin (legendary creature)
- A breed of dog usually called the Brussels griffon, reminiscent of the legendary creature.
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
- breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle
- breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France
- large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
noun
noun
noun
- Gadfly.
- (dialectal) Firefly or miller (moth).
- A serving of this beer.
- A large clothing size.
- Gnat.
- (beer) A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
- An obese person.
- a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops
- a garment size for a large or heavy person
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
- Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
- A light, gentle wind.
- (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
- (figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
verb
- (weather) To blow gently.
- To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
- (intransitive) To buzz.
- (of fish) To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
- (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- blow gently and lightly
- to proceed quickly and easily
noun
- A dragonfly.
- A stick insect.
- Clematis virginiana, a vine native to the United States.
- A cranefly.
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
noun
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A wren.
- A willow.
- An object made from the wood of a willow.
- Any tree that resembles a willow.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
verb
noun
- The flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis).
- Any of several brightly colored fishes
- Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae.
- Exocoetus volitans, a flying fish of the Atlantic.
- The ocellated blenny (Opisthocentrus ocellatus).
- Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums.
- A chiton, a mollusc of the class Polyplacophora.
- The butterfly cod (Pterois volitans).
- small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
noun
noun
- A dragonfly of the genus Brachythemis.
- (fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.
- (Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).
- (military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.
- The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.
- The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.
- (by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
- One who is confined to the ground, especially:
- Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
- An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
- A moth of the genus Condica
- in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
noun
noun
- A kind of gull, the jaeger.
- The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
- The tropicbird.
- The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
- a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
noun
- (coastal New Jersey) A dragonfly.
- A muscle spindle.
- Any long and slender stalk resembling a spindle from Euonymus.
- Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
- (biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis.
- (computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs such as CDs or DVDs, having a central column that passes through the central holes in the discs and keeps them in a stack.
- Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
- Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
- A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- A sleep spindle.
- (cycling) The axle of a bottom bracket.
- A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- (geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
- (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
- A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
- The fusee of a watch.
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
- a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
- a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
verb
noun
noun
- A dragonfly of the genus Microgomphus.
- Any of various kinds of fish with forked tails, as the bluefin driftfish (Psenes pellucidus) or a devilfish (genus Assessor)
- A scissor-tailed flycatcher or Texas bird of paradise (Tyrannus forficatus).
- grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings
noun
- Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead.
- Especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid.
- Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris).
- Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
- Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly.
- greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
noun
- Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
- (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.
- A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
- Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
- someone who travels about selling their wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
- a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
noun
noun
- A bird, the wagtail.
- A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.
- (video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.
- (now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
- (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
- (India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
- A mollemoke.
- A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
- (slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
- A molly bolt.
- popular aquarium fish
verb
noun
noun
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
noun
- A gull.
- The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
- (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
- Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
- The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
- (slang, derogatory) The mouth.
- informal terms for the mouth
noun
- A gressorial bird.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
noun
- A bird, the greylag.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- (US, carpentry) Clipping of lag screw.
- (slang) A period of imprisonment.
- (uncountable) Delay; latency.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
- the time between one event, process, or period and another
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
adj
verb
- (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
- (transitive) To slacken
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
- cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
- A griffon vulture.
- Alternative form of griffin (legendary creature)
- A breed of dog usually called the Brussels griffon, reminiscent of the legendary creature.
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
- breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle
- breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France
- large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
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