| we |
| 1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
| 2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
| 3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
| 4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
| How are we all tonight? | |
| 5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
| How are we feeling this morning? | |
| 6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
| We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
| had |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have. | |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle). | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Available. | |
| have |
| Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
| 1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
| I have a house and a car. | |
| Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
| 2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
| I have two sisters. | |
| I have a lot of work to do. | |
| 3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
| I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
| Can I have a look at that? | |
| I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
| 4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
| What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
| Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
| I have already eaten today. | |
| I had already eaten. | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
| I have to go. | |
| 7. v. To give birth to. | |
| The couple always wanted to have children. | |
| My wife is having the baby right now! | |
| My mother had me when she was 25. | |
| 8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
| He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
| 9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
| Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
| 10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
| They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
| 11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
| He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
| The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
| 12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
| The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
| I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
| 13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
| Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
| 14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
| We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
| Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
| (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
| 15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
| I could have him! | |
| I'm gonna have you! | |
| 16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
| I have no German. | |
| 17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
| Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
| 18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
| He had a cold last week. | |
| 19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
| We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
| He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
| I'm having the time of my life! | |
| 20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
| You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
| The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
| I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
| I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
| 23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
| Thank you for having me! | |
| 24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
| What do you have for problem two? | |
| I have two contacts on my scope. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
| We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
| 26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
| 27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
| 28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
| They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
| 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. | |
| small |
| 1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. | |
| A small serving of ice cream. | |
| A small group. | |
| He made us all feel small. | |
| 2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child. | |
| Remember when the children were small? | |
| 3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters. | |
| 4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean. | |
| 5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. | |
| a small space of time | |
| 6. adj. topics, en, Size | |
| 7. adv. In a small fashion. | |
| 8. adv. In or into small pieces. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent. | |
| 10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle. | |
| corral |
| 1. n. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one. | |
| We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama. | |
| 2. n. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group. | |
| Please return the shopping carts to the corral. | |
| 3. n. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense. | |
| The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks. | |
| 4. v. To capture or round up. | |
| The lawyer frantically tried to corral his notes as his briefcase fell open. | |
| Between us, we managed to corral the puppy in the kitchen. | |
| 5. v. To place inside of a corral. | |
| After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner. | |
| 6. v. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral. | |
| The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night. | |
| out |
| See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on. | |
| 1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre. | |
| The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat. | |
| 2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place. | |
| Let's eat out tonight | |
| 3. adv. Outside; not indoors. | |
| Last night we slept out under the stars. | |
| 4. adv. Away from; at a distance. | |
| Keep out! | |
| 5. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence. | |
| Switch the lights out. | |
| Put the fire out. | |
| 6. adv. To the end; completely. | |
| I hadn't finished. Hear me out. | |
| 7. adv. Used to intensify or emphasize. | |
| The place was all decked out for the holidays. | |
| 8. adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc. | |
| The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow. | |
| 9. adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket). | |
| Wilson was bowled out for five runs. | |
| 10. prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside. | |
| He threw it out the door. | |
| 11. prep. (colloquial) Outside. | |
| It's raining out. | |
| It's cold out. | |
| 12. n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | |
| They wrote the law to give those organizations an out. | |
| 13. n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fieldi | |
| 14. n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicke | |
| 15. n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner. | |
| 16. n. (dated) A trip out; an outing. | |
| 17. n. (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office. | |
| 18. n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space. | |
| 19. n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. | |
| 20. v. To eject; to expel. | |
| 21. v. To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender. | |
| 22. v. To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. | |
| 23. v. To reveal (a secret). | |
| A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design. | |
| 24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public. | |
| 25. v. To become apparent. | |
| 26. adj. Not at home; not at one's office or place of employment. | |
| I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment. | |
| 27. adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use. | |
| Did you hear? Their newest CD is out! | |
| 28. adj. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game. | |
| He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby! | |
| 29. adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender. | |
| It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business. | |
| 30. adj. (of flowers) In bloom. | |
| The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out. | |
| 31. adj. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds. | |
| The sun is out, and it's a lovely day. | |
| 32. adj. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning. | |
| I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home. | |
| 33. adj. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility. | |
| Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one. | |
| 34. adj. No longer popular or in fashion. | |
| Black is out this season. The new black is white. | |
| 35. adj. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more | |
| Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out. | |
| 36. adj. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount. | |
| Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out. | |
| The measurement was out by three millimetres. | |
| 37. adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted. | |
| 38. interj. (procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. | |
| Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out. | |
| back |
| 1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear. | |
| Go in the back door of the house. | |
| 2. adj. (not comparable) Not current. | |
| I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine. | |
| 3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area. | |
| They took a back road. | |
| 4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue. | |
| They still owe three months' back rent. | |
| 5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward. | |
| back action | |
| 6. adj. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel). | |
| The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England. | |
| 7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place. | |
| He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back. | |
| 8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge. | |
| Sit all the way back in your chair. | |
| Step back from the curb. | |
| 9. adv. In a manner that impedes. | |
| Fear held him back. | |
| 10. adv. In a reciprocal manner. | |
| If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back. | |
| 11. adv. Earlier, ago. | |
| many years back | |
| 12. n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | |
| Could you please scratch my back? | |
| 13. n. The spine and associated tissues. | |
| I hurt my back lifting those crates. | |
| 14. n. (slang) Large and attractive buttocks. | |
| 15. n. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back. | |
| I still need to finish the back of your dress. | |
| 16. n. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back. | |
| Can you fix the back of this chair? | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.) | |
| 18. n. That which is farthest away from the front. | |
| He sat in the back of the room. | |
| 19. n. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side. | |
| Turn the book over and look at the back. | |
| 20. n. # The edge of a book which is bound. | |
| # The titles are printed on the backs of the books. | |
| 21. n. # (printing) The inside margin of a page. | |
| 22. n. # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting. | |
| # Tap it with the back of your knife. | |
| 23. n. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen. | |
| I hung the clothes on the back of the door. | |
| 24. n. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house. | |
| We'll meet out in the back of the library. | |
| 25. n. The part of something that goes last. | |
| The car was near the back of the train. | |
| 26. n. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team. | |
| The backs were lined up in an I formation. | |
| 27. n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. | |
| The small boat raced over the backs of the waves. | |
| 28. n. A support or resource in reserve. | |
| 29. n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship. | |
| The ship's back broke in the pounding surf. | |
| 30. n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage. | |
| 31. n. (slang) Effort, usually physical. | |
| Put some back into it! | |
| 32. n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail. | |
| Could I get a martini with a water back? | |
| 33. n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides. | |
| 34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction. | |
| the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back | |
| 35. v. To support. | |
| I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race? | |
| 36. v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere. | |
| 37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship. | |
| 38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power. | |
| 39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed. | |
| 40. v. To push or force backwards. | |
| to back oxen | |
| The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet. | |
| 41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount. | |
| 42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back. | |
| 43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back. | |
| to back books | |
| 44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. | |
| 45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement. | |
| to back a letter; to back a note or legal document | |
| 46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender). | |
| 47. v. To row backward with (oars). | |
| to back the oars | |
| 48. n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. | |
| 49. n. A ferryboat. | |
| where |
| 1. conj. While on the contrary; although; whereas. | |
| Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading. | |
| 2. conj. At or in which place or situation. | |
| He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office. | |
| I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four. | |
| 3. conj. To which place or situation. | |
| The snowbirds travel where it is warm. | |
| 4. conj. Wherever. | |
| Their job is to go where they are called. | |
| 5. conj. (legal) In a position, case, etc., in which. | |
| Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices. | |
| 6. adv. (Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question): at what place; to what place; what place. | |
| Where are you? | |
| Where are you going? | |
| He asked where I grew up. | |
| 7. adv. (With the preposition from) | |
| Where did you come from? | |
| 8. adv. In what situation. | |
| Where would we be without our parents? | |
| 9. adv. (relative) At which, on which. | |
| That is the place where we first met. | |
| 10. pron. The place in which. | |
| He lives within five miles of where he was born. | |
| 11. n. The place in which something happens. | |
| A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how. | |
| Finding the nymph asleep in secret where. — Spenser. | |
| we |
| 1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
| 2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
| 3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
| 4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
| How are we all tonight? | |
| 5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
| How are we feeling this morning? | |
| 6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
| We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
| kept |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of keep | |
| keep |
| 1. v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | |
| to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession | |
| 2. v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something. | |
| 3. v. To maintain possession of. | |
| I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies. | |
| 4. v. To maintain the condition of. | |
| I keep my specimens under glass to protect them. | |
| The abundance of squirrels kept the dogs running for hours. | |
| 5. v. To record transactions, accounts, or events in. | |
| I used to keep a diary. | |
| 6. v. To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book. | |
| 7. v. (archaic) To remain in, to be confined to. | |
| 8. v. To restrain. | |
| I keep my brother out of trouble by keeping him away from his friends and hard at work. | |
| 9. v. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect. | |
| May the Lord keep you from harm. | |
| 10. v. To supply with necessities and financially support a person. | |
| He kept a mistress for over ten years. | |
| 11. v. (of living things) To raise; to care for. | |
| He has been keeping orchids since retiring. | |
| 12. v. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage. | |
| 13. v. To have habitually in stock for sale. | |
| 14. v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state. | |
| 15. v. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. | |
| She kept to her bed while the fever lasted. | |
| 16. v. To continue. | |
| I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail. | |
| 17. v. To remain edible or otherwise usable. | |
| Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar. | |
| Latex paint won't keep indefinitely. | |
| 18. v. (copulative) To remain in a state. | |
| The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still. | |
| Keep calm! There's no need to panic. | |
| 19. v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper. | |
| Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place. | |
| School keeps today. | |
| 23. v. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate. | |
| 24. v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in. | |
| to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent. | |
| 26. n. (obsolete) Care, notice | |
| 27. n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. | |
| 28. n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. | |
| He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep. | |
| 29. n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge. | |
| 30. n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case. | |
| to be in good keep | |
| 31. n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge. | |
| 32. n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place. | |
| our |
| 1. det. Belonging to us. | |
| 2. det. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker. | |
| 3. det. (Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend. | |
| I'm going to see our Terry for tea. | |
| 4. v. misspelling of are | |
| pet |
| 1. n. An animal kept as a companion. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | |
| 3. n. One who is excessively loyal to a superior. | |
| 4. n. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling. | |
| 5. v. To stroke or fondle (an animal). | |
| 6. v. (transitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, informal) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously. | |
| 8. v. (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge. | |
| His daughter was petted and spoiled. | |
| 9. v. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet. | |
| 10. v. (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk. | |
| 11. adj. Favourite; cherished. | |
| a pet child | |
| The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory. | |
| 12. adj. Kept or treated as a pet. | |
| pet rock | |
| 13. n. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted. | |
| 14. n. abbreviation of petition | |
| llama |
| 1. n. A South American mammal of the camel family, , used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. | |
