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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.
hermit
1. n. A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
2. n. A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
3. n. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
4. n. A hermit crab.
5. n. A bird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.
crab
1. n. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. n. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
3. n. A bad-tempered person.
4. n. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.
5. n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
6. n. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
7. n. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
8. v. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
9. v. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
10. v. (intransitive) To complain.
11. v. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
12. v. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
13. v. (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
14. v. (rare) To back out of something.
15. n. The crab apple or wild apple.
16. n. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
17. n. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
18. n. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
19. n. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
20. n. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
21. n. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
22. v. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
23. v. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
24. v. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
25. n. The tree species , native of South America.
26. n. Short for carabiner.

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