| befitting |
| 1. v. present participle of befit | |
| 2. adj. appropriate, becoming | |
| He moved with a befitting grace. | |
| befit |
| 1. v. to be fit for | |
| His conduct was not befitting an officer of his station. | |
| 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. | |
| king |
| 1. n. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. | |
| Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547. | |
| 2. n. A powerful or majorly influential person. | |
| Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media". | |
| 3. n. Something that has a preeminent position. | |
| In times of financial panic, cash is king. | |
| 4. n. A component of certain games. | |
| 5. n. (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest | |
| 6. n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. | |
| 7. n. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking | |
| 8. n. (slang) A king skin. | |
| Oi mate, have you got kings? | |
| 9. n. A male dragonfly; a drake. | |
| 10. n. A king-sized bed. | |
| 11. v. To crown king, to make (a person) king. | |
| 12. v. To rule over as king. | |
| 13. v. To perform the duties of a king. | |
| 14. v. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. | |
| 15. v. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards. | |
| 16. v. To dress and perform as a drag king. | |
| 17. n. alternative form of qinges (Chinese musical instrument) | |
| queen |
| 1. n. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria. | |
| 2. n. The wife or widow of a king. | |
| 3. n. (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. | |
| 4. n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit. | |
| 5. n. A powerful or forceful female person. | |
| 6. n. (LGBT, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. (Compare drag queen and street queen. See usage notes.) | |
| 7. n. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp. | |
| 8. n. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom. | |
| 9. n. A queen olive. | |
| 10. n. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp.) | |
| 11. v. To make a queen. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it. | |
| 13. v. (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen. | |
| 14. v. (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen. | |
| 15. v. (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony. | |
| 16. v. (BDSM, slang) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex. | |
| emperor |
| 1. n. The male monarch or ruler of an empire. | |
| 2. n. (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch. | |
| The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope. | |
| 3. n. The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck. | |
| 4. n. A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games. | |
| 5. n. Any fish of the family. | |
| 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. | |
| empress |
| 1. n. The female monarch (ruler) of an empire. | |
| 2. n. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler. | |
| 3. n. (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks. | |
| 4. n. (rare) A female chimpanzee. | |
| 5. n. A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa | |
| 6. v. alternative form of impress | |
