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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.
bird
1. n. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.
Ducks and sparrows are birds.
2. n. (slang) A man, fellow.
3. n. (US) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
4. n. (Ireland) Girlfriend.
Mike went out with his bird last night.
5. n. (slang) An airplane.
6. n. (slang) A satellite.
7. n. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
8. v. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
9. v. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds.
10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
11. n. (slang) A prison sentence.
He’s doing bird.
12. n. The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
13. n. (Asian slang) A penis.
flutters
1. n. plural of flutter
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of flutter
flutter
1. v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
flags fluttering in the wind
2. v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
3. v. To cause something to flap.
A bird flutters its wings.
4. v. To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
5. v. (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
6. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous.
7. n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
the flutter of a fan
8. n. A state of agitation.
9. n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
10. n. (British) A small bet or risky investment.
11. n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
its
1. det. Belonging to it.
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
3. n. plural of it
wings
1. n. plural of wing
2. n. A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing
3. n. A flip (hairstyle)
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of wing
wing
1. n. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
2. n. (slang) Human arm.
3. n. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
4. n. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
5. n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
6. n. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
7. n. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
8. n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
9. n. Passage by flying; flight.
to take wing
10. n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
11. n. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
the west wing of the hospital
the wings of a corkscrew
12. n. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
13. n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
14. n. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
15. n. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
16. n. (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
17. n. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
18. n. (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
19. n. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
20. n. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
21. n. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
22. n. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
23. n. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
24. n. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
25. n. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
26. n. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
27. n. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype
Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing.
28. v. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
29. v. (intransitive) To fly.
30. v. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
31. v. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
32. v. To throw.

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary