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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.
poll
1. n. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
2. n. A formal election.
The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
3. n. A polling place (usually as polling places)
The polls close at 8 p.m.
4. n. (now rare, outside, veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
5. n. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
6. n. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
7. n. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
8. v. To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
9. v. To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
10. v. (intransitive) To vote at an election.
11. v. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.
12. v. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
13. v. To cut the hair of (a creature).
14. v. To remove the horns of (an animal).
15. v. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
to poll a tree
16. v. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
17. v. (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
18. v. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
19. v. To impose a tax upon.
20. v. To pay as one's personal tax.
21. v. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
22. v. (legal) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.
a polled deed
23. adj. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.
Poll Hereford
Red Poll cows
24. n. A pet parrot.
25. n. (dated) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
tax
1. n. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
2. n. A burdensome demand.
a heavy tax on time or health
3. n. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
4. n. (obsolete) charge; censure
5. n. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
6. v. To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
7. v. To impose and collect a tax on (something).
Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
8. v. To make excessive demands on.
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.
mulct
1. n. (legal) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
2. v. To impose such a fine or penalty.
3. v. To swindle (someone) out of money.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
fine
1. adj. Senses referring to subjective quality.
2. adj. Of superior quality.
The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.
Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
3. adj. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
How are you today? – Fine.
Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.
It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three.
4. adj. (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.
5. adj. Subtle, delicately balanced.
6. adj. (obsolete) Showy; overdecorated.
7. adj. Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
8. adj. (An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when
When a girl says she's "fine," she ain't fine.
9. adj. Senses referring to objective quality.
10. adj. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men 2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.
11. adj. (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
12. adj. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
Grind it into a fine powder.
When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
13. adj. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
14. adj. Made of slender or thin filaments.
They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
15. adj. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
coins nine tenths fine
16. adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
...to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a fournb...
17. adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
18. adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
19. adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
Everything worked out fine.
20. adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
21. adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
22. n. Fine champagne; French brandy.
23. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
24. v. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
to fine gold
25. v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
26. v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
to fine the soil
27. v. To change by fine gradations.
to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
28. v. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
29. v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
30. n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
31. v. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
32. v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
33. n. (music) The end of a musical composition.
34. n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
35. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
37. n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
38. n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
39. n. (legal) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.

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