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Lynch
  • (v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person

    M
  • (n.) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy

    Ma
  • (conj.) But
  • (n.) A child's word for mother.

    Machine
  • (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use
  • (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery

    Mad
  • (n.) An earthworm.
  • (superl.) Angry
  • (v. i.) To be mad
  • (v. t.) To make mad or furious

    Made
  • (a.) Artificially produced
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Make

    Magazine
  • (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece
  • (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine

    Majesty
  • (n.) Dignity

    Make
  • (n.) A companion
  • (v. i.) To act in a certain manner
  • (v. t.) To become

    Making
  • (n.) a poem.

    Man
  • (n.) A human being
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a servants.

    Manger
  • (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

    Manner
  • (n.) Carriage

    Manure
  • (n.) Any matter which makes land productive
  • (v. t.) To apply manure to

    Many
  • (a.) A large or considerable number.
  • (a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number
  • (n.) A retinue of servants

    Market
  • (n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc
  • (v. i.) To deal in a market
  • (v. t.) To expose for sale in a market

    Master
  • (n.) A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions
  • (v. i.) To be skillful
  • (v. t.) To become the master of

    Match
  • (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time
  • (v.) A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
  • (v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality
  • (v. t.) To be a mate or match for

    Matter
  • (n.) Affair worthy of account
  • (v. i.) To be of importance
  • (v. t.) To regard as important

    Mattress
  • (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves

    Maybe
  • (a.) Possible
  • (adv.) Perhaps
  • (n.) Possibility

    Me
  • (pers. pron.) The person speaking, regarded as an object
  • (pron.) One.

    Mean
  • (a.) Average
  • (n.) A mediator
  • (superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence
  • (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.
  • (v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.

    Measure
  • (a.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder
  • (n.) An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like
  • (v. i.) To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure

    Medicine
  • (n.) Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing
  • (v. t.) To give medicine to

    Meet
  • (a.) Suitable
  • (adv.) Meetly.
  • (n.) An assembling together
  • (v. t.) To assemble together

    Member
  • (n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss
  • (v. t.) To remember

    Memory
  • (n.) A memorial.

    Men
  • (n.) pl. of Man.
  • (pron.) A man

    Mess
  • (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things
  • (v. i.) To take meals with a mess
  • (v. t.) To make a mess of

    Met
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Meet
  • (p. p.) of Mete

    Metal
  • (n.) A mine from which ores are taken.
  • (v. t.) To cover with metal

    Mice
  • (n.) pl of Mouse.

    Middle
  • (a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing

    Might
  • (imp.) of May
  • (v.) Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind

    Mild
  • (superl.) Gentle

    Mile
  • (n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet

    Milk
  • (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants
  • (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
  • (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking

    Mill
  • (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on
  • (v. i.) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.
  • (v. t.) To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

    Mind
  • (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on
  • (v.) Choice
  • (v. i.) To give attention or heed

    Mine
  • (pron. & a.) Belonging to me
  • (v. i.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent
  • (v. t.) To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of

    Minute
  • (a.) Attentive to small things
  • (n.) A coin
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of

    Miserably
  • (adv.) In a miserable

    Misery
  • (n.) Cause of misery

    Mistake
  • (n.) An apprehending wrongly
  • (v. i.) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment
  • (v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.

    Mister
  • (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr
  • (v. i.) To be needful or of use.
  • (v. t.) To address or mention by the title Mr.

    Mixed
  • (a.) Formed by mixing

    Moisture
  • (n.) A moderate degree of wetness.

    Moment
  • (n.) A minute portion of time

    Monday
  • (n.) The second day of the week

    Money
  • (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc
  • (v. t.) To supply with money.

    Month
  • (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided

    More
  • (adv.) In addition
  • (n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number
  • (superl.) Additional
  • (v. t.) To make more

    Morning
  • (a.) Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day

    Morosely
  • (adv.) Sourly

    Most
  • (a.) Consisting of the greatest number or quantity

    Mother
  • (a.) Received by birth or from ancestors
  • (n.) A female parent
  • (v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
  • (v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter

    Motionless
  • (a.) Without motion

    Mottled
  • (a.) Marked with spots of different colors

    Mound
  • (n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross
  • (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

    Mountain
  • (a.) Like a mountain
  • (n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land

    Mouse
  • (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.
  • (v. i.) To watch for and catch mice.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a mouse

    Mouth
  • (n.) An opening affording entrance or exit
  • (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
  • (v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth

    Move
  • (n.) An act for the attainment of an object
  • (v. i.) To act
  • (v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.

    Moving
  • (a.) Changing place or posture
  • (n.) The act of changing place or posture

    Much
  • (a.) To a great degree or extent
  • (Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by) Great in quantity
  • (n.) A great quantity

    Mule
  • (n.) A hybrid animal

    Muss
  • (n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them
  • (v. t.) To disarrange, as clothing

    Must
  • (n.) An elephant in must.
  • (v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required
  • (v. t. & i.) To make musty

    Muzzle
  • (v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting
  • (v. t.) To bind the mouth of

    My
  • (a.) Of or belonging to me

    Myself
  • (pron.) I or me in person

    Mysteriously
  • (adv.) In a mysterious manner.

    N
  • (n.) A measure of space equal to half an M (or em)

    Nail
  • (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
  • (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them

    Name
  • (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts

    Narrow
  • (n.) A narrow passage
  • (superl.) Contracted
  • (v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other
  • (v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of

    Nasal
  • (a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose
  • (n.) A medicine that operates through the nose

    Natural
  • (a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key
  • (n.) A character

    Near
  • (a) Close-fisted
  • (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree
  • (prep.) Adjacent to
  • (v. i.) To draw near

    Neat
  • (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus
  • (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats

    Neck
  • (n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts
  • (v. t.) To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it
  • (v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.

    Need
  • (adv.) Of necessity.
  • (n.) A state that requires supply or relief
  • (v. i.) To be wanted

    Negro
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to negroes
  • (n.) A black man

    Neighboring
  • (a.) Living or being near
  • (p. pr. & vb. n) of neighbor

    Neither
  • (a.) Not either
  • (conj.) not either

    Nervously
  • (adv.) In a nervous manner.

    Nest
  • (n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger
  • (v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.
  • (v. t.) To put into a nest

    Never
  • (adv.) In no degree

    New
  • (adv.) Newly
  • (superl.) As if lately begun or made
  • (v. t. & i.) To make new

    Newspaper
  • (n.) A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc

    Next
  • (adv.) In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding
  • (superl.) Adjoining in a series

    Nibble
  • (n.) A small or cautious bite.
  • (v. t.) To bite by little at a time

    Nice
  • (superl.) Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions

    Nigger
  • (n.) A negro

    Night
  • (n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

    Nine
  • (a.) Eight and one more
  • (n.) A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.

    No
  • (a.) Not any
  • (adv.) Nay
  • (n.) A negative vote

    Nobody
  • (n.) A person of no influence or importance

    Noise
  • (n.) Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound
  • (v. i.) To sound
  • (v. t.) To disturb with noise.

    Noisily
  • (adv.) In a noisy manner.

    None
  • (a.) No

    Noon
  • (a.) Belonging to midday
  • (n.) Hence, the highest point
  • (v. i.) To take rest and refreshment at noon.

    Nor
  • (conj.) A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either)

    North
  • (a.) Lying toward the north
  • (adv.) Northward.
  • (n.) Any country or region situated farther to the north than another
  • (v. i.) To turn or move toward the north

    Nose
  • (n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object
  • (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
  • (v. t.) to beat by (the length of) a nose.

    Not
  • (a.) Shorn
  • (adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.

    Nother
  • (conj.) Neither

    Nothing
  • (adv.) In no degree
  • (n.) A cipher

    Notice
  • (n.) An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks
  • (v. t.) To observe

    Now
  • (a.) Existing at the present time
  • (adv.) At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated
  • (n.) The present time or moment

    Nowhere
  • (adv.) Not anywhere

    Nuisance
  • (n.) That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation

    Number
  • (n.) A collection of many individuals

    O
  • (a.) One.
  • (interj.) An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object
  • (n.) A cipher

    Obvious
  • (a.) Easily discovered, seen, or understood

    Occasional
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions

    Occupant
  • (n.) A prostitute.

    Odd
  • (superl.) Different from what is usual or common

    Of
  • (prep.) Denoting identity or equivalence

    Off
  • (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent
  • (adv.) Denoting a different direction
  • (interj.) Away
  • (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
  • (prep.) Not on

    Often
  • (a.) Frequent
  • (adv.) Frequently

    Oh
  • (interj.) An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish

    Oil
  • (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water
  • (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil

    Old
  • (n.) Open country.
  • (superl.) Aged

    On
  • (prep.) Adhering

    Once
  • (adv.) At any one time

    One
  • (a.) Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more
  • (indef. pron.) Any person, indefinitely
  • (n.) A single person or thing.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become one

    Ones
  • (adv.) Once.

    Only
  • (a.) Above all others
  • (conj.) Save or except (that)

    Open
  • (a.) Free
  • (n.) Open or unobstructed space
  • (v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.
  • (v. t.) To disclose

    Operation
  • (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc

    Opposite
  • (a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different
  • (n.) One who opposes

    Or
  • (conj.) A particle that marks an alternative
  • (n.) Yellow or gold color
  • (prep. & adv.) Ere

    Orchard
  • (n.) A garden.

    Order
  • (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation
  • (v. i.) To give orders

    Os
  • (n.) A bone.

    Ostrich
  • (n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species

    Other
  • (adv.) Otherwise.
  • (conj.) Either
  • (pron. & a.) Alternate

    Ought
  • (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Owned

    Our
  • (possessive pron.) Of or pertaining to us

    Ourselves
  • (pron.)

    Out
  • (a.) Away
  • (interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of
  • (n.) A place or space outside of something
  • (v. i.) To come or go out
  • (v. t.) To cause to be out

    Outside
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the outside
  • (adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of)
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is without

    Over
  • (a.) Upper
  • (adv.) Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side
  • (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places
  • (prep.) Above, implying superiority after a contest

    Own
  • (a.) Belonging to
  • (v. t.) To grant

    Pa
  • (n.) A shortened form of Papa.

    Packing
  • (n.) Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.

    Pain
  • (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence

    Pair
  • (n.) A married couple
  • (v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions

    Palace
  • (n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.

    Pale
  • (n.) A cheese scoop.
  • (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant
  • (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales

    Palm
  • (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
  • (v. t.) To "grease the palm" of

    Pan
  • (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating.
  • (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably)
  • (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  • (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together

    Panic
  • (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum

    Pantomime
  • (a.) Representing only in mute actions
  • (n.) A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc

    Parlor
  • (n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.

    Part
  • (adv.) Partly
  • (n.) A constituent of character or capacity
  • (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces

    Pass
  • (n.) In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance
  • (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything
  • (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress

    Past
  • (adv.) By
  • (n.) A former time or state
  • (prep.) Above
  • (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state

    Patch
  • (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
  • (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

    Patent
  • (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
  • (v. t.) To grant by patent

    Path
  • (n.) A trodden way
  • (v. i.) To walk or go.
  • (v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).

    Patient
  • (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion
  • (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment
  • (v. t.) To compose, to calm.

    Pause
  • (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest

    Paw
  • (n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
  • (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground
  • (v. t.) To pass the paw over

    Pay
  • (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed
  • (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble
  • (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly

    Peace
  • (v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet

    Peel
  • (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle
  • (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind
  • (v. t.) To plunder

    Peg
  • (n.) A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water.
  • (v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes
  • (v. t.) To put pegs into

    Pencil
  • (n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point
  • (v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil

    People
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants

    Perfectly
  • (adv.) In a perfect manner or degree

    Periscope
  • (n.) A general or comprehensive view.

    Permanent
  • (a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character

    Person
  • (n.) A character or part, as in a play
  • (v. t.) To represent as a person

    Persuasive
  • (a.) Tending to persuade
  • (n.) That which persuades

    Pet
  • (a.) Petted
  • (n.) A cade lamb
  • (v. i.) To be a pet.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a pet

    Peter
  • (n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
  • (v. i.) To become exhausted

    Phonograph
  • (n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

    Pick
  • (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle
  • (v.) To choose
  • (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things

    Picture
  • (n.) An image or resemblance
  • (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of

    Pie
  • (n.) A magpie.

    Piece
  • (n.) A castle
  • (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts
  • (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces

    Pig
  • (n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal.
  • (v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs)

    Pigeon
  • (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers
  • (v. t.) To pluck

    Pile
  • (n.) A covering of hair or fur.
  • (v. t.) To cover with heaps

    Pin
  • (n.) A clothespin.
  • (v. t.) To inclose

    Pink
  • (a.) Half-shut
  • (n.) A stab.
  • (v. i.) To wink
  • (v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white

    Pistol
  • (n.) The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand
  • (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.

    Pitch
  • (n.) A descent
  • (v. i.) To fix one's choise
  • (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of

    Place
  • (n.) A broad way in a city
  • (v. t.) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially

    Plank
  • (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker.
  • (v. t.) To cover or lay with planks

    Planted
  • (a.) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff

    Planting
  • (n.) That which is planted

    Play
  • (n.) Action
  • (v. t.) To act or perform (a play)


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