bear down
bear away
head off
upwind
leeward
wear ship
in the eye of the wind
lee
downwind
go with the wind
bogue
head up
room
close to the wind
windward
weathermost
keep at arm's length
windward side
weather side
aweather
weatherboard
windwardly
outpoint
bounce off
wander off
out-
offworld
down the wind
labyrinth
unstraddle
forth-
geofugal
backwind
inwind
counterwind
lap
offshore
high
glance
under
beetle
blench
back
windlessness
solifugal
uphelm
abluminal
ageotropic
back off
outflow
abvolate
against the wind
outpush
weather
into the wind
stand out
throw out
take off
seaward
overshoot
weathercock
haul one's ashes
outskip
southwestward
lean
counterswing
off-
on the wind
counterflow
drainage
southwestwardly
leave
turn tail
antiearth
sally
retro-
outward
windy
subcross
basalolateral
westerly
sail close to the wind
southern
outflee
outbound
lee
downwind
windward
weathermost
geofugal
leeward
high
solifugal
offshore
abluminal
ageotropic
seaward
antiearth
windy
basalolateral
southern
outbound
upwind
leeward
room
close to the wind
windward
downwind
aweather
windwardly
offworld
offshore
against the wind
into the wind
southwestward
southwestwardly
outward
westerly
windward
windward side
weather side
weatherboard
counterwind
windlessness
lean
drainage
bear down
bear away
head off
wear ship
go with the wind
bogue
head up
keep at arm's length
outpoint
bounce off
wander off
labyrinth
unstraddle
backwind
inwind
lap
glance
beetle
blench
back
uphelm
back off
outflow
abvolate
outpush
weather
stand out
throw out
take off
overshoot
weathercock
haul one's ashes
outskip
counterswing
counterflow
leave
turn tail
sally
subcross
sail close to the wind
outflee
verb
- To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- To approach in a determined manner.
- To intensify one's efforts.
- To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
prep_phrase
adv
verb
noun
- The people in a room.
- A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- Sufficient space for or to do something.
- A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- An area for working in a coal mine.
- A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- An IRC or chat room.
- (One's) bedroom.
prep_phrase
verb
- to twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path
- to enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth
- to render lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth
- to arrange in the form of a labyrinth
noun
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
- An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
- A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
- Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
- A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance. It consists of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
prefix
verb
verb
- to wind around
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
adv
adj
- Moving away from the shore.
- Located in the sea away from the coast.
- Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
noun
- Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
- An area or or portion of sea away from the shore.
- An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
verb
adj
- Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- Most exalted; foremost.
- Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
- Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
- Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
- Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
- Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Luxurious; rich.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
- Above the batter's shoulders.
- Keen, enthused.
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
- Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
- Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
- Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
- Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
- Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- With tall waves.
adv
noun
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- A drug that gives such a high.
- A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
- A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- The highest card dealt or drawn.
- A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
verb
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To look briefly (at something).
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
- To sparkle.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To graze at a surface.
noun
prep
- From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
- Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
- Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with.
- Within the category, classification or heading of.
- Below the surface of.
- Less than.
- In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- In or at a lower level than; in the area covered or surmounted by.
noun
adv
- Insufficiently.
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- In or into an unconscious state.
- So as to pass beneath something.
adj
verb
- To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
- To beat with a heavy mallet.
- To loom over; to extend or jut.
- To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
noun
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
adj
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
postp
noun
verb
verb
- To sail in a direction away from shore.
- To persist in opposition or resistance (against something); to refuse to comply (with someone).
- To be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to the surroundings.
- To be extraordinary and different or to have features and qualities which make someone or something special.
verb
- To outdistance; to leave behind.
- To offer an idea for consideration.
- To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
- To produce in a haphazard fashion.
- To emit.
- To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
- To put into a state of confusion.
- To cause to project.
- To utter carelessly.
- To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
noun
- An inclination away from the vertical.
- An organism that is lean in stature.
- Meat with no fat on it.
- A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
adj
- Having little fat.
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- Slim; not fleshy.
- Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
verb
- To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To hang outwards.
- To conceal.
- Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
- To press against.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
prefix
verb
- To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- To cause, to result in.
- To let be or do without interference.
- To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- To transfer possession of after death.
- To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- To produce leaves or foliage.
- To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
noun
- The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- Permission.
verb
- To venture off the beaten path.
- To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
- To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An excursion or side trip.
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
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