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noun
verb
- To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
- To bathe or wash (someone or something).
- (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
- To surround as if with water.
- Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.
- Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
- To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
- wash one's face and hands
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash or flow against
noun
adj
noun
- A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- Any lady of dignified bearing, especially an older one.
- The widow of the holder of a title (usually a member of the peerage or a baronet); used in combination with the title she held during her husband's lifetime.
- a widow holding property received from her deceased husband
noun
- a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
- A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
- Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
- (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
- (by extension, informal, often humorous or sarcastic, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
- (card games) An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
- (uncommon) Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
verb
noun
- (derogatory) An old woman.
- (slang) Clipping of battery.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”).
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
- Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
- (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
- A player rated according to skill in batting.
- nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- the club used in playing cricket
- a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
- a club used for hitting a ball in various games
- (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
verb
- (transitive) To flutter
- (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- (intransitive, usually with ‘around’ or ‘about’) To flit quickly from place to place.
- (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
- (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
- have a turn at bat
- wink briefly
- use a bat
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
noun
- An old woman, later especially one who tells old wives' tales.
- the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
- Balistes vetula (Queen triggerfish)
- Spondyliosoma cantharus (black seabream)
- A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)
- (Scotland) A chimney cap to prevent smoking.
- Certain spot-tail porgies (Diplodus ascensionis, Diplodus helenae)
- Trachinotus goodei (great pompano)
- A wrasse
name
- (endearing) One's grandmother.
- (informal, originally British) A governess.
- (Greek mythology) A demigoddess, the daughter of Sangarius and mother of Attis.
- A female given name from Japanese.
- (mythology) Alternative form of Nane (“Armenian mother-goddess and equivalent of Athena”).
- (mythology) An ancient goddess of Eastern Iran, standing at the top of many worshipping cultures' pantheons.
noun
- (colloquial) A grandmother.
- (colloquial) Any elderly woman, regardless of if she has grandchildren.
- (Australia, colloquial) A grand final.
- (agriculture, colloquial) An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.
- Ellipsis of granny knot.
- a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure
- an old woman
- the mother of your father or mother
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (literally) An elderly woman.
- (countable, informal, slang) One's mother.
- (countable, informal, derogatory) A person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation.
- (uncountable) The plant sea wormwood.
- (countable, informal, slang) One's wife.
- a woman who is old
- herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
noun
verb
- (transitive, Internet slang) To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
- (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
- (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
- (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
noun
- A woman with the character of a mother or matriarch.
- A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.
- (US) A female prison officer.
- A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.
- A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.
- A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.
- a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution
- a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified
- a wardress in a prison
noun
- a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife
- the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
- The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
- (Canada) Clipping of exhibition.
- (colloquial) A former partner or spouse; an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, or ex-husband.
adj
verb
noun
- an elderly unmarried woman
- any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
- the loser in a game of old maid
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or ‘old maid’)
- (uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
- An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
- The unmatchable card in that game.
- (derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
- The Madagascar periwinkle.
- The common zinnia.
noun
- an elderly unmarried woman
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
- One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.
- (rare, dialectal) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
noun
- (humorous) One's wife.
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
- (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man, especially a customer, but also sometimes to a friend or acquaintance of equal standing.
- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- (Australia) The male owner or man in charge of a large rural property.
- (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- a person responsible for hiring workers
- a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- a person who exercises control over workers
adj
verb
noun
- An elderly relative.
- (biology) A genetic precursor.
- The spirit of one's ancestor.
- (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
- One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
- An ancestor or forbear.
- (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.
- An earlier version of something.
- A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
adj
noun
- (colloquial) Grandmother.
- Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”)
- A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
- (uncountable) The seeds of these plants.
- A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
- (US) Misspelling of graham.
- a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
name
verb
noun
- 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
- 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 male dragonfly; a drake.
- 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.
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
- (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- The office or position of elder in a church.
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
- the office of elder
noun
verb
- To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
- To bathe or wash (someone or something).
- (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
- To surround as if with water.
- Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.
- Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
- To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
- wash one's face and hands
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash or flow against
noun
noun
- A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- Any lady of dignified bearing, especially an older one.
- The widow of the holder of a title (usually a member of the peerage or a baronet); used in combination with the title she held during her husband's lifetime.
- a widow holding property received from her deceased husband
noun
- a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
- A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
- Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
- (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
- (by extension, informal, often humorous or sarcastic, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
- (card games) An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
- (uncommon) Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
verb
noun
- (derogatory) An old woman.
- (slang) Clipping of battery.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”).
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
- Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
- (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
- A player rated according to skill in batting.
- nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- the club used in playing cricket
- a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
- a club used for hitting a ball in various games
- (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
verb
- (transitive) To flutter
- (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- (intransitive, usually with ‘around’ or ‘about’) To flit quickly from place to place.
- (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
- (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
- have a turn at bat
- wink briefly
- use a bat
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
noun
- An old woman, later especially one who tells old wives' tales.
- the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
- Balistes vetula (Queen triggerfish)
- Spondyliosoma cantharus (black seabream)
- A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)
- (Scotland) A chimney cap to prevent smoking.
- Certain spot-tail porgies (Diplodus ascensionis, Diplodus helenae)
- Trachinotus goodei (great pompano)
- A wrasse
noun
- (colloquial) A grandmother.
- (colloquial) Any elderly woman, regardless of if she has grandchildren.
- (Australia, colloquial) A grand final.
- (agriculture, colloquial) An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.
- Ellipsis of granny knot.
- a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure
- an old woman
- the mother of your father or mother
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (literally) An elderly woman.
- (countable, informal, slang) One's mother.
- (countable, informal, derogatory) A person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation.
- (uncountable) The plant sea wormwood.
- (countable, informal, slang) One's wife.
- a woman who is old
- herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
noun
verb
- (transitive, Internet slang) To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
- (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
- (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
- (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
noun
- A woman with the character of a mother or matriarch.
- A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.
- (US) A female prison officer.
- A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.
- A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.
- A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.
- a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution
- a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified
- a wardress in a prison
noun
- a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife
- the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
- The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
- (Canada) Clipping of exhibition.
- (colloquial) A former partner or spouse; an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, or ex-husband.
adj
verb
noun
- an elderly unmarried woman
- any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
- the loser in a game of old maid
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or ‘old maid’)
- (uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
- An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
- The unmatchable card in that game.
- (derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
- The Madagascar periwinkle.
- The common zinnia.
noun
- an elderly unmarried woman
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
- One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.
- (rare, dialectal) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
noun
- (humorous) One's wife.
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
- (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A head or reservoir of water.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man, especially a customer, but also sometimes to a friend or acquaintance of equal standing.
- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- (Australia) The male owner or man in charge of a large rural property.
- (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- a person responsible for hiring workers
- a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- a person who exercises control and makes decisions
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- a person who exercises control over workers
adj
verb
noun
- An elderly relative.
- (biology) A genetic precursor.
- The spirit of one's ancestor.
- (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
- One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
- An ancestor or forbear.
- (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.
- An earlier version of something.
- A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
adj
noun
- (colloquial) Grandmother.
- Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”)
- A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
- (uncountable) The seeds of these plants.
- A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
- (US) Misspelling of graham.
- a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
name
verb
noun
- 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
- 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 male dragonfly; a drake.
- 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.
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
- (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- The office or position of elder in a church.
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
- the office of elder