English words for 'The fossilized form of a tree root.'
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noun
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
noun
- Roots, tree roots.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
noun
- The trunk of a tree.
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
- supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
noun
noun
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- The tree on which it grows.
- A tropical berry used to make allspice.
- A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
- plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
noun
- A branch of a tree.
- any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
- (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
- An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
- (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
- Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
- A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
- (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
- one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper
- (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
- the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
- either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
verb
noun
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
verb
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
noun
- a branch or a part of a tree that is dead
- someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- (poker) Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
noun
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
verb
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
noun
- The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- aromatic root of ginseng plants
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
noun
- A kind of tree, the arborvitae; an individual thereof.
- (biblical) A term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.
- (biology) A metaphor used to describe the phylogenetic relationships between organisms, both living and extinct; a diagram that shows those relationships, with a treelike appearance.
- (Judaism) The central mystical symbol used in the Kabbalah of esoteric Judaism, also known as the ten sephiroth.
noun
- The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
- (uncountable) Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
- (obsolete except dialectal) A hamlet or village; also, a town.
- Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
- (countable) A maggot.
- (countable) A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
- (chiefly in the plural) The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
- (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
- (obsolete except dialectal, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
- (uncountable) Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1 sense 1) are made”).
- (countable, by extension) Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
- Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
- A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
- (Northern England, Scotland) An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
- A grove; also, a hollow.
- (countable, euphemistic, slang) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
- any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
adj
verb
- Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
- (transitive) Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- (intransitive) To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
- (transitive) To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
noun
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
adj
adv
verb
noun
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- 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.
- (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.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (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
- a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
- A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
- Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
verb
noun
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
verb
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- walk heavily
noun
- A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
- shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
- shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
- deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
adj
- (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
- Seeming to melt away.
- (mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
- (physical chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
- (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
noun
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- a small piece
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
verb
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
noun
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
noun
- Roots, tree roots.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
noun
- The trunk of a tree.
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
- supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
noun
noun
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- The tree on which it grows.
- A tropical berry used to make allspice.
- A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
- plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
noun
- A branch of a tree.
- any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
- (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
- An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
- (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
- Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
- A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
- (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
- one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper
- (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
- the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
- either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
verb
noun
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
verb
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
noun
- a branch or a part of a tree that is dead
- someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- (poker) Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
noun
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
verb
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
noun
- The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- aromatic root of ginseng plants
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
noun
- A kind of tree, the arborvitae; an individual thereof.
- (biblical) A term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.
- (biology) A metaphor used to describe the phylogenetic relationships between organisms, both living and extinct; a diagram that shows those relationships, with a treelike appearance.
- (Judaism) The central mystical symbol used in the Kabbalah of esoteric Judaism, also known as the ten sephiroth.
noun
- The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
- (uncountable) Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
- (obsolete except dialectal) A hamlet or village; also, a town.
- Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
- (countable) A maggot.
- (countable) A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
- (chiefly in the plural) The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
- (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
- (obsolete except dialectal, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
- (uncountable) Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1 sense 1) are made”).
- (countable, by extension) Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
- Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
- A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
- (Northern England, Scotland) An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
- A grove; also, a hollow.
- (countable, euphemistic, slang) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
- any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
adj
verb
- Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
- (transitive) Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- (intransitive) To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
- (transitive) To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
noun
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
adj
adv
verb
noun
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- 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.
- (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.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (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
- a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
- A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
- Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
verb
noun
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
verb
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- walk heavily
noun
- A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
- shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
- shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
- deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
noun
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- a small piece
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
verb
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
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adj
- (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
- Seeming to melt away.
- (mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
- (physical chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
- (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air