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noun
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A slope or inclination.
- (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- (uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A tilt hammer.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
- a slight but noticeable partiality
- a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- pitching dangerously to one side
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
verb
- (originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- (intransitive) To be at an angle.
- (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- (intransitive, jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- (pinball, of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- (figurative) To modify one's approach.
- (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
- charge with a tilt
- heel over
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- A lance or dart made of cane.
- (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
- (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
- (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
- (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
- (uncountable) Sugar cane.
- (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
- (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
- (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
- a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
- a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment
verb
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
- (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
- (UK, slang) To go very fast.
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
- beat with a cane
verb
- Pierce with or as if with a lance.
- pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
- To open with a lancet; to pierce.
- (informal) to steal or swipe
- Move suddenly and quickly
- (medicine) Prick or cut open with a sharp instrument.
- move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
- open by piercing with a lancet
noun
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- (medicine) A lancet.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
verb
noun
- (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an acutely pointed arch, common in Gothic architecture.
- A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
- A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
- (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
- an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
adj
- (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
- (archaeology) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
- (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
noun
noun
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- the state of being contaminated
contraction
verb
- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
adj
- Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
- Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
- (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
- elaborately or excessively ornamented
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless
noun
noun
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
verb
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
noun
verb
noun
- A blunt lance head used in jousting.
- Something that travels high in the air or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
- (South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
- A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
- An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
- (uncountable) A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
- (UK slang, originally military) A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
- A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).
- (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
- (countable) Any plant of the genus Eruca.
- propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- sends a firework display high into the sky
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
verb
noun
noun
- (historical) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- A rough humming sound.
- A burr knot or burl.
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- (historical) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- (British) Alternative spelling of burl.
- (engineering) A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- Synonym of brough (“halo around the sun or moon”)
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- The ear lobe.
- Alternative form of bur (“rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants”).
- seed vessel having hooks or prickles
- small bit used in dentistry or surgery
- rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
- rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece
verb
noun
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- any thickened enlargement
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
verb
noun
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
- a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse
- A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
- The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword or dagger.
- Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
- The upper front brow of a saddle.
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noun
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
- A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
- (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
- (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
- Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
- A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
- (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
verb
- (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
- (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
- (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
noun
adj
- (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
- (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
- (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive, of alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- urinate, of cattle and horses
noun
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
verb
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
- (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
- furnish with a grate
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- scratch repeatedly
noun
- A gelding.
- (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
- Tribute; tax.
- (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
- (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
- (rare) A lunatic.
- informal terms for money
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noun
- The blade of a sword.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- A plot or scheme.
- (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The bit of a key.
- The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- The blade of a saw.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- an interconnected system of things or people
- a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
- membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
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noun
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
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noun
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).
- A poke.
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
verb
noun
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A slope or inclination.
- (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- (uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A tilt hammer.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
- a slight but noticeable partiality
- a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- pitching dangerously to one side
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
verb
- (originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- (intransitive) To be at an angle.
- (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
- (intransitive, jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- (pinball, of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- (figurative) To modify one's approach.
- (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
- charge with a tilt
- heel over
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- A lance or dart made of cane.
- (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
- (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
- (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
- (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
- (uncountable) Sugar cane.
- (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
- (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
- (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
- a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
- a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment
verb
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
- (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
- (UK, slang) To go very fast.
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
- beat with a cane
noun
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- the state of being contaminated
contraction
verb
- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
noun
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
verb
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
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verb
noun
- A blunt lance head used in jousting.
- Something that travels high in the air or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
- (South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
- A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
- An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
- (uncountable) A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
- (UK slang, originally military) A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
- A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).
- (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
- (countable) Any plant of the genus Eruca.
- propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- sends a firework display high into the sky
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
verb
noun
noun
- (historical) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- A rough humming sound.
- A burr knot or burl.
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- (historical) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- (British) Alternative spelling of burl.
- (engineering) A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- Synonym of brough (“halo around the sun or moon”)
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- The ear lobe.
- Alternative form of bur (“rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants”).
- seed vessel having hooks or prickles
- small bit used in dentistry or surgery
- rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
- rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece
verb
noun
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- any thickened enlargement
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
verb
noun
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle
- a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse
- A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
- The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword or dagger.
- Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
- The upper front brow of a saddle.
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- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
- A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
- (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
- (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
- Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
- A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
- (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
verb
- (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
- (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
- (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
noun
adj
- (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
- (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
- (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive, of alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- urinate, of cattle and horses
noun
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
verb
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
- (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
- furnish with a grate
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- scratch repeatedly
noun
- A gelding.
- (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
- Tribute; tax.
- (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
- (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
- (rare) A lunatic.
- informal terms for money
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noun
- The blade of a sword.
- The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- (architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
- A plot or scheme.
- (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
- (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
- (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
- (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- The bit of a key.
- The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
- (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
- (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
- A latticed or woven structure.
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
- The blade of a saw.
- A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
- computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- an interconnected system of things or people
- a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
- membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
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noun
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
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noun
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).
- A poke.
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
verb
verb
- Pierce with or as if with a lance.
- pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
- To open with a lancet; to pierce.
- (informal) to steal or swipe
- Move suddenly and quickly
- (medicine) Prick or cut open with a sharp instrument.
- move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
- open by piercing with a lancet
noun
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- (medicine) A lancet.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
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noun
- (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an acutely pointed arch, common in Gothic architecture.
- A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
- A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
- (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
- an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
adj
- (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
- (archaeology) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
- (botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
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- Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
- Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
- (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
- elaborately or excessively ornamented
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless