| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| large |
| 1. adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent. | |
| Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample. | |
| 3. adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language. | |
| 6. adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. | |
| 7. adj. topics, en, Size | |
| 8. n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A thousand dollars/pounds. | |
| Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large. | |
| 11. n. A large serving of something. | |
| One small coffee and two larges, please. | |
| 12. adv. (nautical) Before the wind. | |
| knife |
| 1. n. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be p | |
| 2. n. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger. | |
| 3. n. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper. | |
| 4. v. To cut with a knife. | |
| 5. v. To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife. | |
| 7. v. To betray, especially in the context of a political slate. | |
| 8. v. To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut | |
