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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.
spiced
     1. adj. Having spice added, spicy.
           Fred preferred spiced rum to plain.
     2. v. simple past tense and past participle of spice
     spice
          1. n. Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
          2. n. (figurative) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
          3. n. A synthetic cannabinoid drug.
          4. n. (Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
          5. n. (obsolete) Species; kind.
          6. v. To add spice or spices to; season.
          7. v. To spice up.
          8. n. (nonce) plural of spouse
cookie
     1. n. (North America) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
     2. n. (UK) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which (usually) has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it.
     3. n. (Scotland) A bun.
     4. n. (computing, internet) An HTTP cookie, web cookie.
     5. n. (computing) A magic cookie.
     6. n. (dated, possibly offensive) A young, attractive woman.
     7. n. (slang) The female genitalia.
     8. v. (computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
     9. n. (dated, colloquial) (Affectionate name for a cook.)
     10. n. (slang) A cucoloris.
made
     1. n. (UK dialectal, or obsolete) A grub or maggot.
     2. v. simple past tense and past participle of make
     mak
          1. v. (Wearside, dialectal) to make
     make
          1. v. To create.
          2. v.          To build, construct, or produce.
                        We made a bird feeder for our yard.
                        I'll make a man out of him yet.
          3. v.          To write or compose.
                        I made a poem for her wedding.
                        He made a will.
          4. v.          To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
                        make war
                        They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
          5. v.          (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
                        God made earth and heaven.
          6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
                To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
                They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
                He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
          7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
          8. v. To constitute.
                They make a cute couple.
                This makes the third infraction.
                One swallow does not a summer make.
          9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46:
          10. v. To add up to, have a sum of.
                Two and four make six.
          11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret.
                I don’t know what to make of it.
          12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
                This company is what made you.
                She married into wealth and so has it made.
          13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
                The citizens made their objections clear.
                This might make you a bit woozy.
                Did I make myself heard?
                Scotch will make you a man.
          14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
          15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
                You're making her cry.
                I was made to feel like a criminal.
          16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
                The teacher made the student study.
                Don’t let them make you suffer.
          17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
                His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
          18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
          19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
          20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
                We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
          21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
                They made westward over the snowy mountains.
                Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
                They made away from the fire toward the river.
          22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
          23. v. To move at (a speed).
                The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
                This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
          24. v. To appoint; to name.
          25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
          26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
          27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
                They hope to make a bigger profit.
                He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
                She made ten points in that game.
          28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
          29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
          30. v. To enact; to establish.
          31. v. To develop into; to prove to be.
                She'll make a fine president.
          32. v. To form or formulate in the mind.
                make plans
                made a questionable decision
          33. v. To perform a feat.
                make a leap
                make a pass
                make a u-turn
          34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
          35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
          36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
          37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
          38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
          39. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
          40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
                What make of car do you drive?
          41. n. How a thing is made; construction.
          42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
                The camera was of German make.
          43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
          44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
          45. n. A person's character or disposition.
          46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
          47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
          48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
          49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
          50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
          51. n. (slang) A promotion.
          52. n. A home-made project
          53. n. (basketball) A made basket.
          54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
          55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
     myek
          1. v. (Geordie, dialectal) To make.
                Will ye myek is a stotty for me bait pet?
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
molasses
     1. n. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
     2. n. plural of molasse
raisins
     1. n. plural of raisin
     raisin
          1. n. A dried grape.
          2. v. (intransitive) Of grapes: to dry out; to become like raisins.
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.
nuts
     1. n. plural of nut
     2. n. (vulgar, slang) Testicles.
           Ohhh, he just got kicked in the nuts!
     3. n. (poker) An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
           If the board is 234QA, all of spades, the nuts is 56 of spades.
           If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.
     4. adj. (colloquial) Insane, mad.
           After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
     5. adj. (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
           I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
           The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
     6. interj. Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
           Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
     7. interj. Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.
           They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!
     8. v. third-person singular present indicative of nut
     nut
          1. n. A hard-shelled seed.
                There are many sort of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
          2. n. A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
          3. n. (slang) A crazy person.
                He was driving his car like a nut.
          4. n. (slang) The head.
          5. n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
          6. n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
          7. n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
          8. n. (musical instruments, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cas
          9. n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
          10. n. (dated, UK, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
          11. n. (vulgar, slang) A testicle.
                I kicked him in the nuts.
          12. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
          13. n. (vulgar, slang) Orgasm (male), ejaculation, release of semen
                He just needs a good nut to make him feel better.
          14. n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
                a fashion nut
                a gun nut
                a sailing nut
          15. n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts sense #2 were used for this purpose.)
          16. n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and "nut straight". Compare nuts.
                If you have two cards of spades in your hand, one being the ace, and the table has any three or more cards of spades, congratulations, you have the nut flush! A full house could still beat you
                nut straight
                a nut hand
                a nut flush
          17. n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
          18. n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
          19. v. (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
          20. v. To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
          21. v. (vulgar, slang) To ejaculate.
          22. interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.
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