| stale |
| 1. adj. (alcohol, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong. | |
| 2. adj. No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc. | |
| 3. adj. No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated. | |
| 4. adj. No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime. | |
| 5. adj. (agriculture, obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land. | |
| 6. adj. (legal) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions. | |
| a stale affidavit | |
| a stale demand | |
| 7. adj. Taking a long time to change | |
| 8. adj. Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition. | |
| 9. adj. (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks. | |
| 10. adj. (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy. | |
| The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache. | |
| 11. n. (colloquial) Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | |
| 12. v. (of alcohol, obsolete, transitive) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | |
| 13. v. To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption. | |
| 15. v. (alcohol, intransitive) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age. | |
| 16. n. A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | |
| 17. n. (dialectal) The posts and rungs composing a ladder. | |
| 18. n. (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant. | |
| 19. n. The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc. | |
| 20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts. | |
| 21. n. (military, obsolete) A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line. | |
| 22. n. (chess, uncommon) A stalemate; a stalemated game. | |
| 23. n. (military, obsolete) An ambush. | |
| 24. n. (obsolete) A band of armed men or hunters. | |
| 25. n. (Scottish military, obsolete) The main force of an army. | |
| 26. adj. (chess, obsolete) At a standstill; stalemated. | |
| 27. v. (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate. | |
| 28. v. (chess, obsolete, intransitive) To be stalemated. | |
| 29. n. (livestock, obsolete) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle. | |
| 30. v. (livestock, obsolete, intransitive) To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle. | |
| 31. n. (falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. | |
| 32. n. (obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait. | |
| 33. n. (crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait. | |
| 34. n. (obsolete) a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another. | |
| 35. n. (obsolete) A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse. | |
| 36. n. (crime, obsolete) A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman. | |
| 37. n. (hunting, obsolete) Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured. | |
| 38. v. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To serve as a decoy, to lure. | |
| cookies |
| 1. n. plural of cookie | |
| 2. n. (dated) plural of cooky | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of cookie | |
| 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. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| 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. | |
| fastidious |
| 1. adj. Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness. | |
| 2. adj. Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness. | |
| 3. adj. Difficult to please; quick to find fault. | |
| Italian |
| 1. adj. Pertaining to Italy, its people or its language. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete, not comparable) Using an italic style; italic. | |
| 3. n. An inhabitant of Italy, or a person of Italian descent. | |
| 4. n. The official language of Italy, also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Switzerland. | |
| 5. n. (cooking) A style of cuisine or individual dishes of or associated with Italy or Italian people. | |
| 6. n. (textiles) A type of linen or cotton cloth with satin finish used primarily for linings, Italian cloth. | |
| 7. n. Italian vermouth, a dark-colored, sweet or mildly bitter vermouth. | |
| gin and Italian - | |
| palate |
| 1. n. (anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus. | |
| 2. n. The sense of taste. | |
| 3. n. (figuratively) relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste) | |
| 4. n. (figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste. | |
| 5. n. (botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable. | |
| Synonyms: stomach | |
