HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of aah

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aah

noun

1. (obsolete) parsley
2. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
3. Rare spelling of aitch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
2. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

adj

1. Suffering from aches, sore.

noun

1. a group or meeting (particularly for purposes of worship or judicial matters); congregation; assembly; prayer meeting

noun

1. An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries.

Proper noun

1. A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible.
2. name, very rarely used.

Proper noun

1. A king of Judah mentioned in the book of Kings.

intj

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat
2. an exclamation of disapproval or annoyance
3. an exclamation or cough to get attention
4. an exclamation to indicate sarcasm

verb

1. To cough or clear one's throat so as to draw attention.

intj

1. (humorous) Warning of something approaching or impending.
2. (nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.

noun

1. An utterance of this interjection.

verb

1. To hail with a cry of "ahoy".

adj

1. humming

intj

1. Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”)

Proper noun

1. A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Burma, China, and neighboring countries.

noun

1. (India) a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
2. (Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia) a female domestic helper.

noun

1. A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
2. A tau cross.

adj

1. knowing, clever, mischievous
2. principal; primary

noun

1. (anatomy) Curved part of the bottom of a foot.
2. (archaic, geometry) An arc; a part of a curve.
3. (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
4. (obsolete) chief
5. A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
6. An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
7. An inverted U shape.
8. Any place covered by an arch; an archway.

verb

1. To cover with an arch or arches.
2. To form into an arch shape.

adj

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) timid; cowardly

intj

1. (onomatopoeia) Expressing annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration.

noun

1. (Zoroastrianism) The concept of truth and existence in Zoroastrianism, usually associated with the Amesha Spentas.

noun

1. Alternative form of ase

adj

1. (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
2. Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
3. Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.

intj

1. Alternative form of argh.

noun

1. Abbreviation of authentication.
2. Abbreviation of authoritarian.
3. Abbreviation of authorization.

verb

1. (informal, computing) To authenticate.

noun

1. (Islam) A verse in the Quran.
2. A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.

noun

1. (New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.

verb

1. (US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)

noun

1. A type of enclosed garden common in south and south-eastern Asia.

adv

1. (Yorkshire) Without.

noun

1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

noun

1. (UK, informal) An attempt at doing something.
2. (informal) A forceful blow or impact.
3. (informal) A large party; a gala event.

verb

1. (informal) To collide; used with into or together.
2. (informal) To strike heavily.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
4. (transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.

noun

1. (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
2. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
4. A building or area where bathing occurs.
5. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
6. The act of bathing.
7. The body of liquid one bathes in.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
2. (transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.

noun

1. (India) friend, dude, man
2. brother

Proper noun

1. that is common in many ethnicities in India.
2. Traditionally among Brahmins, a Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas.

adj

1. (informal) Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
2. (informal) Low in spirit or health; down.

intj

1. (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
2. An expression of mild frustration.
3. Representing the sound of vomiting.

noun

1. (informal) (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
2. (uncountable, informal) Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.

verb

1. (intransitive) To utter idle, meaningless talk.

adj

1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

noun

1. (countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
2. (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
3. (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
4. (uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
5. (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
6. (uncountable, informal) Money.
7. Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.

verb

1. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
2. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
3. To disband. To do away with, kill

noun

1. Clipping of catheter.
2. Clipping of cathode.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive) To catheterize; to fit (someone) with a catheter.

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I had

noun

1. (Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”)
2. (countable) One of these pieces of paper.
3. (uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.

noun

1. (Judaism) A Jewish symbol representing life, traditionally worn as an amulet.
2. (winemaking) A place above ground for storing wine casks.
3. A female gypsy.
4. Ellipsis of masala chai, a beverage made with black teas, steamed milk and sweet spices, based loosely on Indian recipes.

noun

1. A male gypsy.

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I am

noun

1. An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
2. Archaic spelling of khan.

verb

1. (obsolete) To chew.

noun

1. (Internet, informal) An IRC channel.
2. (Internet, informal) An imageboard.

noun

1. (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
2. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
3. (Southern US) A child.
4. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
5. (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
6. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
7. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
8. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
9. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
2. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
3. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

noun

1. (Britain) Alternative form of cha (tea)
2. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
3. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
4. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
5. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
6. A charred substance.
7. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
8. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

verb

1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
2. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
3. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
4. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
5. To work or hew (stone, etc.)
6. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.

noun

1. plural of cha

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
2. (Internet) A chat room.
3. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
4. (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
5. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
6. A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
7. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
8. Alternative form of chaat
9. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
10. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
11. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

verb

1. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
2. To be engaged in informal conversation.
3. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
4. To talk more than a few words.

noun

1. (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
2. (obsolete) The jaw.

verb

1. (UK, slang) To steal.
2. (archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)
3. (obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider

noun

1. (archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
2. The letter ⟨/⟩, which stands for the ch sound /tʃ/, in Pitman shorthand.

noun

1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of dal

noun

1. plural of dah

intj

1. (euphemistic) Damn!

noun

1. (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
2. (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
3. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
4. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
5. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
6. (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
7. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
8. A dashboard.
9. A rushing or violent onset.
10. A short run, flight.
11. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
12. Ostentatious vigor.
13. Violent strike; a whack.

verb

1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
4. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
5. (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
6. (transitive) To throw violently.
7. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
8. (transitive, dated, euphemistic) Damn (in forming oaths).
9. (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
10. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
11. (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.

noun

1. An Indian percussion instrument, a large membranophone.
2. Butea monosperma, a tree of southern Asia.

noun

1. (poetry) A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.

adv

1. For one; apiece; per.

det

1. All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).

noun

1. (operations, philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.

pron

1. Every one/thing individually or one by one.

adj

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Easy; not hard or difficult.

adv

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Easily.

noun

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative spelling of ephah

noun

1. Archaic form of ayah (“South Asian female servant, maid or nanny”).

noun

1. (Scotland, Tyneside, Northern England) A worry; trouble; bother.
2. (slang, especially UK) A fascist, a member of the far-right.
3. (slang, in the plural, especially UK) The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.

verb

1. (intransitive, Scotland, Tyneside, Northern England) To trouble oneself; to take pains.
2. (slang) To make something fascist.
3. (transitive, Scotland, Tyneside, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.

adj

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous
2. (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

noun

1. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
2. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft.
3. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
4. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit.
5. (slang, offensive) A woman.
6. (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
7. A deep cut.

verb

1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

noun

1. (Caribbean) A steep ravine leading to the sea.
2. (India) A burning-ghat.
3. (India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
4. (India) A mountain pass.
5. (India) A mountain range.

noun

1. (fishing, Shetland) the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk
2. (fishing, Shetland, Scotland) the open sea, especially as a place to fish

noun

1. (especially Northern England, Scotland) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
2. the third month of the Punjabi calendar.

noun

1. A crewmember of these aircraft.
2. An aircraft nicknamed for these snakes, the SR-71.
3. Any of several venomous snake species of Asia.

noun

1. (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
2. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
3. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
4. (computing, slang) A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
5. (computing, slang) A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
6. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
7. (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
8. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
9. (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
10. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
11. (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
12. (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
13. (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
14. (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
15. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
16. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
17. (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
18. (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
19. (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
20. (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
21. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
22. (obsolete) A procuress.
23. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
24. (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
25. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
26. (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
27. (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
28. A dry cough.
29. A food-rack for cattle.
30. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
31. A grating in a mill race.
32. A hacking blow.
33. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
34. A hearse.
35. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
36. A kick on the shins in football of any type.
37. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
38. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
39. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
40. A tool for chopping.

verb

1. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
2. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
3. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
4. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
5. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
6. (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
7. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
8. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
9. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
10. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
11. (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
12. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
13. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
14. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
15. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
16. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
17. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
18. (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
19. To drive a hackney cab.
20. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
21. To play hackeysack.
22. To strike in a frantic movement.
23. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
24. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
25. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

noun

1. (Britain, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
2. (geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
3. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.

verb

1. (geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hajj

noun

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of heme.

verb

1. (Internet slang, emphatic) hate

noun

1. (Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
2. The handle of a tool or weapon.

verb

1. (transitive) To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle

noun

1. plural of hag

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hag

intj

1. An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.

noun

1. A large leafy Hawaiian plant, Gunnera petaloidea.
2. Type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached.

verb

1. To laugh.

noun

1. plural of hah

noun

1. A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs.

adj

1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

intj

1. (archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

noun

1. (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
2. (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
3. (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

verb

1. (impersonal) Of hail, to fall from the sky.
2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.
3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
4. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.
5. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
6. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.
7. (transitive, by extension, UK, Australia) To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
8. To pour down in rapid succession.

noun

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) An enclosure; a park

verb

1. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be thrifty; be economical
2. (transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To hedge or fence in; inclose; protect by hedging
3. (transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To save; spare; refrain from using or spending

noun

1. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
2. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
3. (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
4. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
5. (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
6. (obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
7. (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
8. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
9. (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

verb

1. (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
2. (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
3. (transitive) To remove the hair from.
4. To string the bow for a violin.

noun

1. The Egyptian cobra, Naja haje

noun

1. (Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.

noun

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
3. (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
4. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
5. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.

noun

1. A Pawnee Indian ceremony celebrating the union of Earth and Heaven and the genesis of life.

adj

1. (obsolete, dialect) Embarassed or ashamed.

noun

1. Pandanus tectorius, a screw pine native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.

adj

1. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

noun

1. (archaic) Health, welfare.

verb

1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

adj

1. (of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
2. (of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
3. Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
4. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.

adv

1. In some part approximating a half.
2. In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
3. Partially; imperfectly.
4. Practically, nearly.

intj

1. (theater) A call reminding performers that the performance will begin in thirty minutes.

noun

1. (UK, archaic) A child ticket.
2. (numismatic slang) Clipping of half-dollar.
3. (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
4. (slang) A half sibling.
5. (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
6. (sports) abbreviated form for half marathon.
7. Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
8. Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (Britain) half a pint of beer or cider.
9. One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.

prep

1. (UK, Ireland) Half past; a half-hour (30 minutes) after the last hour.
2. (rare, see usage notes) A half-hour to (preceding) the next hour.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To halve.

noun

1. (India) A living room.
2. (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
3. (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
4. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
5. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
6. A corridor; a hallway.
7. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
8. A meeting room.
9. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
10. The principal room of a secular medieval building.

noun

1. (botany) Alternative spelling of haulm

noun

1. (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
2. (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
3. (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
4. (automotive) Short for halo headlight.
5. (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
6. (motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
7. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
8. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
9. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
10. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.

verb

1. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.

verb

1. (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)

adj

1. (archaic) Lame, limping.

noun

1. (dated) Lameness; a limp.
2. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
3. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
2. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
3. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
4. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
5. (intransitive) To stop marching.
6. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
7. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
8. To falter.
9. To waver.

noun

1. (obsolete) A covering, skin, membrane.
2. Alternative form of haulm
3. Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
4. Scottish form of home

noun

1. (exercise, slang) The hamstring muscles; the biceps femoris
2. plural of ham

noun

1. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
2. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
3. (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
4. (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
5. (collective) A bunch of bananas.
6. (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
7. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
8. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
9. (obsolete) Rate; price.
10. (obsolete) Three inches.
11. (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
12. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
13. A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
14. A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
15. A performer more or less skilful.
16. A person's autograph or signature.
17. A round of a card game.
18. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
19. A whole rhizome of ginger.
20. An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
21. An instance of helping.
22. Applause.
23. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
24. Personal possession; ownership.
25. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
26. Promise, word.
27. That which has the appearance of, a human hand.
28. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
29. The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
2. (transitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
3. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
4. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
7. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.