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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.
proprietary
1. adj. Of or relating to property or ownership.
proprietary rights
2. adj. Owning something; having ownership.
the proprietary class
3. adj. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
4. adj. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
5. adj. Privately owned.
a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel
6. adj. (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
7. n. A proprietor or owner.
8. n. A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
9. n. The rights of a proprietor.
10. n. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
lake
1. n. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
2. n. A large, landlocked stretch of water.
3. n. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
4. n. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch
5. n. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
6. n. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
7. v. (obsolete) To present an offering.
8. v. (chiefly dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
9. n. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
10. n. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
11. v. To make lake-red.
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.
proprietary
1. adj. Of or relating to property or ownership.
proprietary rights
2. adj. Owning something; having ownership.
the proprietary class
3. adj. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
4. adj. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
5. adj. Privately owned.
a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel
6. adj. (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
7. n. A proprietor or owner.
8. n. A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
9. n. The rights of a proprietor.
10. n. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
chapel
1. n. A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
2. n. A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
3. n. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
4. n. A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
5. n. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
6. n. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
7. adj. (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
The village butcher is chapel.
8. v. (nautical, transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

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