| he |
| 1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
| 2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
| The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
| 3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
| 4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
| 5. n. (informal) A male. | |
| Alex totally is a he. | |
| 6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
| worried |
| 1. adj. Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy. | |
| She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war. | |
| 2. v. simple past tense and past participle of worry | |
| worry |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety. | |
| Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine. | |
| 2. v. Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress. | |
| Your tone of voice worries me. | |
| 3. v. To harass; to irritate or distress. | |
| The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors. | |
| 4. v. To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf. | |
| Your dog’s been worrying sheep again. | |
| 5. v. To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle. | |
| 7. n. A strong feeling of anxiety. | |
| I'm afflicted by worry throughout the night. | |
| 8. n. An instance or cause of such a feeling. | |
| My main worry is that I'll miss the train. | |
| needlessly |
| 1. adv. in a needless manner | |
| 2. adv. to a degree or extent beyond what is needed | |
| He was always needlessly anxious about his dog. | |
| 3. adv. without need | |
| He worried needlessly about his dog. | |
| about |
| 1. prep. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of. | |
| 2. prep. Near; not far from; approximately; regarding time, size, quantity. | |
| 3. prep. On the point or verge of. | |
| the show is about to start; I am not about to admit to your crime | |
| 4. prep. On one's person; nearby the person. | |
| 5. prep. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. | |
| 6. prep. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on. | |
| 7. prep. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect. | |
| He knew more about what was occurring than anyone. | |
| 8. prep. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup. | |
| He has his wits about him. | |
| 9. prep. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place. | |
| 10. adv. Not distant; approximate. | |
| 11. adv. On all sides; around. | |
| 12. adv. Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down. | |
| 13. adv. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. | |
| about as cold; about as high | |
| 14. adv. Near; in the vicinity. | |
| 15. adv. In succession; one after another; in the course of events. | |
| 16. adv. On the move; active; astir. | |
| 17. adv. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view. | |
| to face about; to turn oneself about | |
| 18. adv. (nautical) To the opposite tack. | |
| 19. adv. (obsolete) Preparing; planning. | |
| 20. adv. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference. | |
| a mile about, and a third of a mile across | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly North America, colloquial) Going to; on the verge of; intending to. | |
| 22. adj. Moving around; astir. | |
| out and about; up and about | |
| After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again. | |
| 23. adj. In existence; being in evidence; apparent | |
| His |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
| 2. det. Belonging to him. | |
| 3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
| 4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
| 5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
| Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
| Sejanus his Fall | |
| 6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
| The decision was his to live with. | |
| 7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
| 8. n. plural of hi | |
| dog |
| 1. n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. | |
| The dog barked all night long. | |
| 2. n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive). | |
| 3. n. (slang) A dull, unattractive girl or woman. | |
| She’s a real dog. | |
| 4. n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2). | |
| You lucky dog! | |
| He's a silly dog. | |
| 5. n. (slang) A coward. | |
| Come back and fight, you dogs! | |
| 6. n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible. | |
| You dirty dog. | |
| 7. n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny). | |
| 8. n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection. | |
| 9. n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass) | |
| 10. n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace. | |
| The dogs were too hot to touch. | |
| 11. n. (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card. | |
| 12. n. A hot dog. | |
| 13. n. (poker slang) Underdog. | |
| 14. n. (slang) Foot. | |
| My dogs are barking! - My feet hurt! | |
| 15. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone. | |
| My dog is dead. - My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge and is no longer able to function. | |
| 16. n. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses. | |
| 17. v. To pursue with the intent to catch. | |
| 18. v. To follow in an annoying or harassing way. | |
| The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step. | |
| 19. v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely. | |
| It is very important to dog down these hatches... | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place. | |
| I admit that I like to dog at my local country park. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. | |
| A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it. | |
