| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| old |
| 1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | |
| an old abandoned building; an old friend | |
| 2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years. | |
| a wrinkled old man | |
| 3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life. | |
| an old loaf of bread | |
| 4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused). | |
| I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with. | |
| 5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time. | |
| How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child. | |
| My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old. | |
| 6. adj. Of an earlier time.: | |
| 7. adj. Former, previous. | |
| My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians | |
| 8. adj. That is no longer in existence. | |
| The footpath follows the route of an old railway line. | |
| 9. adj. Obsolete; out-of-date. | |
| That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way. | |
| 10. adj. Familiar. | |
| When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho. | |
| 11. adj. Tiresome. | |
| Your constant pestering is getting old. | |
| 12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time. | |
| 13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.) | |
| We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas. | |
| 14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant. | |
| 15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. | |
| A civilised society should always look after the old in the community. | |
| useless |
| 1. adj. Without use or possibility to be used. | |
| This fork has prongs that are bent. It's useless now. | |
| 2. adj. Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). | |
| I think it's useless to keep this discussion going. It's like talking to a wall. | |
| I tried my best to make him quit smoking, but my efforts were useless. He now smokes six packs a day. | |
| 3. adj. (pejorative, of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable. | |
| Bill never mows the lawn, takes out the trash or anything. He's useless, but I love him anyways. | |
| 4. adj. (colloquial, of a person) unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting. | |
| My brother is useless at most computer games, but he is an awesome PS2 player. | |
| Why do you keep trying? You're obviously useless at it. | |
| horse |
| 1. n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | |
| 2. n. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. | |
| A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse. | |
| 3. n. (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. | |
| These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses. | |
| 4. n. (military, sometimes un) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). | |
| We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field. | |
| All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. | |
| 5. n. (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. | |
| Now just remind me how the horse moves again? | |
| 6. n. (slang) A large person. | |
| Every linebacker they have is a real horse. | |
| 7. n. (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. | |
| 8. n. Equipment with legs. | |
| 9. n. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top. | |
| She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse. | |
| 10. n. A frame with legs, used to support something. | |
| a clothes horse; a sawhorse | |
| 11. n. (nautical) Type of equipment. | |
| 12. n. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. | |
| 13. n. A breastband for a leadsman. | |
| 14. n. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. | |
| 15. n. A jackstay. | |
| 16. n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches | |
| 17. n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly. | |
| 18. n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a pl | |
| 19. n. (dated, slang) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination. | |
| 20. n. (dated, slang) horseplay; tomfoolery | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | |
| 22. v. To provide with a horse. | |
| 23. v. (obsolete) To get on horseback. | |
| 24. v. To sit astride of; to bestride. | |
| 25. v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare). | |
| 26. v. To take or carry on the back. | |
| 27. v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. | |
| 28. n. (slang) Heroin (drug). | |
| Alright, mate, got any horse? | |
