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noun
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
verb
noun
- An expression of lamentation or complaint.
- A small projecting boss or bracket on the underside of the hinged seat of a church stall, intended to give some support to a standing worshipper when the seat is turned up; a misericord.
- Ileus.
- A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe; misericord.
noun
- The act of complaining.
- However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
- In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
- The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
- A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
- In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
- A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
adj
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- offering little or no hope
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- extremely dark
- harshly ironic or sinister
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- distributed or sold illicitly
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- soiled with dirt or soot
adj
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
noun
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- total absence of light
- (board games) the darker pieces
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.
- The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
- Soft indistinct speech.
- Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
verb
noun
- A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
- A discrepancy between two legal documents.
- An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
- The act of varying or the state of being variable.
- The state of differing or being in conflict.
- The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
- Covariance and contravariance generally.
- A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
- The second central moment in probability.
verb
- To attract criticism or an angry reaction.
- To create a distraction that allows one's friends, co-workers, or other associates to gain an advantage over the distracted party.
- In an armed encounter, to attract gunfire from an adversary, whether unintentionally or deliberately for the purpose of allowing one's allies or colleagues to gain a tactical advantage over the adversary.
noun
- A repeated complaint or reminder.
- Someone or something that nags.
- A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.
- An old, useless horse.
- A small horse; a pony.
verb
- To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
- Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)
- a nagging pain in his left knee
- To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
- The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.
- To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
noun
- A complaint or objection.
- A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
- A warning message indicating a possible error.
- An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
- The American night heron.
- A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
verb
- To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
- To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.
- To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in question.)
- To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
- To speak out; to protest.
verb
- To complain; to whine about something.
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
- To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
- To cover, as with a bandage.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To couple.
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
noun
- That which binds or ties.
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- The indurated clay of coal mines.
- A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
verb
- To lament; to complain.
- To produce secretions.
- To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
- To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
- To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
- To flow in drops; to run in drops.
noun
verb
- To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
verb
- To show hostility or resentment.
- To hold up one's head proudly or affectedly.
- To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue.
- To put a bridle on.
noun
- The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
- A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line.
- A mooring hawser.
- A piece in the interior of a gunlock which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
- A restraint; a curb; a check.
- A gesture expressing pride or vanity.
intj
verb
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To feel contempt for some person or thing.
- To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
- To be fatigued.
- To be surprised.
- To break or ruin.
noun
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
noun
- An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
- The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
verb
- To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- To enlarge; to swell up.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- To breathe heavily.
- To say in a huffy manner.
- To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
noun
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- An obviously gay man.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A queen.
- Place; situation
- A difficult or confounding problem.
- A woman.
- Friend.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
verb
verb
- To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
- To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
- To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
- To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
- To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
- To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
- To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
- To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
noun
- An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
- Reputation.
- The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
- A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
noun
- A feeble utterance or complaint.
- The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
- A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
- A sandpiper or other small wader.
- The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
- A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
- person.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
noun
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
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