| literary |
| 1. adj. Relating to literature. | |
| literary fame | |
| a literary history | |
| literary conversation | |
| 2. adj. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature. | |
| a literary man | |
| 3. adj. Knowledgeable of literature or writing. | |
| 4. adj. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. | |
| 5. adj. Bookish. | |
| 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. | |
| strong |
| 1. adj. Capable of producing great physical force. | |
| a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong | |
| 2. adj. Capable of withstanding great physical force. | |
| a strong foundation; good strong shoes | |
| 3. adj. (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power. | |
| The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea. | |
| 4. adj. Determined; unyielding. | |
| He is strong in the face of adversity. | |
| 5. adj. Highly stimulating to the senses. | |
| a strong light; a strong taste | |
| 6. adj. Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor. | |
| a strong smell | |
| 7. adj. Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient. | |
| a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine | |
| 8. adj. (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content. | |
| a strong drink | |
| She gets up, and pours herself a strong one. - Eagles, Lying Eyes | |
| 9. adj. (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels. | |
| a strong verb | |
| 10. adj. (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution. | |
| a strong acid; a strong base | |
| 11. adj. (military) Not easily subdued or taken. | |
| a strong position | |
| 12. adj. (slang) Impressive, good. | |
| You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong! | |
| 13. adj. Having a specified number of people or units. | |
| The enemy's army force was five thousand strong. | |
| 14. adj. (of a disease or symptom) severe (very bad or intense) | |
| 15. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.) | |
| 16. adj. (of an argument) Convincing. | |
| 17. adv. In a strong manner. | |
| 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. | |
| inalienable |
| 1. adj. Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable. | |
| inalienable right a right that cannot be given away | |
| 2. adj. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for particular familial relationships and body parts. | |
| possession |
| 1. n. Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights. | |
| 2. n. Something that is owned. | |
| The car quickly became his most prized possession. | |
| I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that. | |
| 3. n. Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own. | |
| The car is in my possession. | |
| I'm in possession of the car. | |
| 4. n. A territory under the rule of another country. | |
| Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions. | |
| 5. n. The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity. | |
| Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession. | |
| 6. n. The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness. | |
| 7. n. (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive. | |
| The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession. | |
| 8. n. (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership. | |
| Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable possessio | |
| 9. v. (obsolete) To invest with property. | |
