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lord
     1. n. (obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
     2. n.          (archaic) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
     3. n.          (archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
     4. n. One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank
     5. n.          (historical) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
     6. n.          A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
     7. n.          (obsolete, uncommon) A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
     8. n. One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
     9. n.          The magnates of a trade or profession
     10. n. (astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
     11. n. (UK, slang) A hunchback.
     12. n. (UK, Australian, via Cockney rhyming slang, obsolete) Sixpence.
     13. v. (intransitive, and transitive) Domineer or act like a lord.
     14. v. To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.
Capulet
     1. n. (figuratively) A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple.
     2. n. alternative form of capellet
and
     1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
     2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
     3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
     4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
     5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
     6. conj.          Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
     7. conj.          (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
     8. conj.          Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
     9. conj.          Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
     10. conj.          Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
     11. conj.          (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
     12. conj.          Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
     13. conj.          Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
     14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
     15. conj.          (now US dialect) If; provided that.
     16. conj.          (obsolete) As if, as though.
     17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
     18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
     19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
     20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
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
wife
     1. n. A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
     2. n. The female of a pair of mated animals.
           A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.
     3. n. (Scotland) (synonym of woman).R:Century 1911
threatened
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of threaten
     2. adj. (ecology, of a plant or animal) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
     3. adj. Feeling insecure or vulnerable.
     threaten
          1. v. To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
                He threatened me with a knife.
          2. v. To menace, or be dangerous.
                The rocks threatened the ship's survival.
          3. v. To portend, or give a warning of.
                The black clouds threatened heavy rain.
          4. v. (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
disown
     1. v. To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
           Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.
     2. v. To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
     3. v. (transitive, computing, Unix) To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
their
     1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
           they will meet tomorrow at their convenience;  this is probably their cat
     2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
     3. adv. misspelling of there
     4. contraction. misspelling of they’re
daughter
     1. n. One’s female offspring.
           I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
     2. n. A female descendant.
     3. n. A daughter language.
     4. n. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
     5. n. (by extension) a female character of a creator
juliet
if
     1. conj. Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice.
           If it rains, I shall get wet.
     2. conj. (computing) In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).
           If A, then B, else C.
     3. conj. Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed.
           I would prefer it if you took your shoes off.
           I would be unhappy if you had not talked with me yesterday.
           If I were you, I wouldn't go there alone.
     4. conj. Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that.
           If that's true, we had better get moving!
     5. conj. Although; used to introduce a concession.
           He was a great friend, if a little stingy at the bar.
     6. conj. (sometimes proscribed) Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs.
           I don't know if I want to go or not.
     7. conj. (usually hyperbolic) Even if; even in the circumstances that.
     8. conj. Introducing a relevance conditional.
           I have leftover cake if you want some.
     9. n. (informal) An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.
She
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, she
     2. n. An ethnic group in southern China.
     3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
     4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
           I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
     5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
           She could do forty knots in good weather.
           She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
     6. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
           She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
     7. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
           She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
     8. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
     9. n. A female.
           Pat is definitely a she.
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go
     1. v. To move:
     2. v.          (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like
                   Why don’t you go with us?   This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.   Chris, where are you going? &nbs
     3. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m
                    Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
                    Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
     4. v.          (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
     5. v.          To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
                   We've only gone twenty miles today.   This car can go circles around that one.
     6. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
                   We went swimming.   Let's go shopping.
     7. v.          (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
                   Please don't go!   I really must be going.   Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
     8. v.          (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet.
     9. v. (intransitive, chiefly of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
           The engine just won't go anymore.
     10. v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
           Get ready, get set, go!   On your marks, get set, go!   On your marks, set, go!
           Here goes nothing.   Let's go and hunt.
     11. v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
           It’s your turn; go.
     12. v. (intransitive) To attend.
           I go to school at the schoolhouse.   She went to Yale.   They only go to church on Christmas.
     13. v. To proceed:
     14. v.         (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
                   That went well.   "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks.".
     15. v.          (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
                   Why'd you have to go and do that?
                   Why'd you have to go do that?
                   He just went and punched the guy.
     16. v. To follow or travel along (a path):
     17. v.          To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
                   Let's go this way for a while.
                    She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
     18. v.          To travel or pass along.
     19. v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
           This property goes all the way to the state line.
     20. v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
           Does this road go to Fort Smith?
     21. v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
           You'll go blind.   I went crazy / went mad.   After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
     22. v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
     23. v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
           I don't want my children to go hungry.   We went barefoot in the summer.
     24. v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
           they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global
     25. v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
              The traffic light went straight from green to red.
     26. v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
           How did your meeting with Smith go?
     27. v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
           Well, that goes to show you.   These experiences go to make us stronger.
     28. v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
           qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
     29. v. To pass, to be used up:
     30. v.          (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
                   The time went slowly.
     31. v.          (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
                   After three days, my headache finally went.
     32. v.          (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
                   His money went on drink.
     33. v. (intransitive) To die.
     34. v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
           This chair has got to go.
     35. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
     36. v.          (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
     37. v.          (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
     38. v. To break down or apart:
     39. v.          (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
     40. v.          (intransitive) To break down or decay.
                   This meat is starting to go off.   My mind is going.   She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
     41. v. (intransitive) To be sold.
           Everything must go.   The car went for five thousand dollars.
     42. v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
           The property shall go to my wife.   The award went to Steven Spielberg.
     43. v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
           How long can you go without water?   We've gone without your help for a while now.   I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.   Can you two go twenty minutes wi
     44. v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
           They've gone one for three in this series.   The team is going five in a row.
     45. v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
     46. v.          (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
                   Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
     47. v.          (intransitive) To be accepted.
                   Anything goes around here.
     48. v.          (intransitive) To be valid.
     49. v. To say (something), to make a sound:
     50. v.          (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
                   I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!".
                   As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid.".
     51. v.          To make the (specified) sound.
                   Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
     52. v.          (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
                   I woke up just before the clock went.
     53. v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
           The tune goes like this.   As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
     54. v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
           I'll go to court if I have to.
     55. v. To apply or subject oneself to:
     56. v.          To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
                    I'm going to join a sports team.   I wish you'd go and get a job.   He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
through
     1. prep. From one side of an opening to the other.
           I went through the window.
     2. prep. Entering, then later leaving.
           I drove through the town at top speed without looking left or right.
     3. prep. Surrounded by (while moving).
           We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.
     4. prep. By means of.
           This team believes in winning through intimidation.
     5. prep. (North America) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
           from 1945 through 1991;  the numbers 1 through 9;  your membership is active through March 15, 2013
     6. adj. Passing from one side of something to the other.
           Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads.
     7. adj. Finished; complete.
           They were through with laying the subroof by noon.
     8. adj. Valueless; without a future.
           After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services.
     9. adj. No longer interested.
           She was through with him.
     10. adj. Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
           The through flight through Memphis was the fastest.
     11. adj. (association football) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
     12. adv. From one side to the other by way of the interior.
           The arrow went straight through.
     13. adv. From one end to the other.
           Others slept; he worked straight through.
           She read the letter through.
     14. adv. To the end.
           He said he would see it through.
     15. adv. Completely.
           Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.
     16. adv. Out into the open.
           The American army broke through at St. Lo.
     17. n. A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
     18. n. (obsolete) A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.
with
     1. prep. Against.
           He picked a fight with the class bully.
     2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
           He went with his friends.
     3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
           She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
     4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
     5. prep. In support of.
           We are with you all the way.
     6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
           slain with robbers
     7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
           cut with a knife
     8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
     9. prep. Having, owning.
     10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
           Do you want to come with?
     11. adv. -->
     12. n. alternative form of withe
marrying
     1. v. present participle of marry
     2. n. A marriage.
     marry
          1. v. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
                Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
          2. v. (transitive, in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
                She was not happily married.
                His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
          3. v. To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
                He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
          4. v. To take as husband or wife.
                In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
          5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
                The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
          6. v. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
                A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
          7. v. (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
          8. v. (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
          9. interj. (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
count
     1. v. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
           The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens. ux, en, The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
     2. v. To determine the number (of objects in a group).
           There are three apples; count them.
     3. v. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
           Your views don't count here.   It does count if you cheat with someone when you're drunk.
     4. v. (intransitive) To be an example of something: (often followed by as and an indefinite noun).
           Apples count as a type of fruit.
     5. v. To consider something an example of something.
           He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.   I count you as more than a friend.
     6. v. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
     7. v. (legal) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
     8. n. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
           Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
     9. n. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
     10. n. A countdown.
     11. n. (legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
     12. n. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
           He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
     13. n. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
     14. n. The male ruler of a county.
     15. n. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
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