These are the meanings of the letters ETSWAL when you unscramble them.
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Least (a.)
Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.
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Least (adv.)
In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.
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Least (conj.)
See Lest, conj.
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Slate (v. t.)
An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
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Slate (v. t.)
Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
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Slate (v. t.)
A prepared piece of such stone.
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Slate (v. t.)
A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
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Slate (v. t.)
A tablet for writing upon.
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Slate (v. t.)
An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
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Slate (v. t.)
A thin plate of any material; a flake.
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Slate (v. t.)
A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
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Slate (v. t.)
To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
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Slate (v. t.)
To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
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Slate (v. t.)
To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
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Stale (n.)
The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
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Stale (v. i.)
Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
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Stale (v. i.)
Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
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Stale (v. i.)
Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
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Stale (v. i.)
Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
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Stale (v. t.)
To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
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Stale (a.)
To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
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Stale (v. i.)
That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
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Stale (v. i.)
A prostitute.
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Stale (v. i.)
Urine, esp. that of beasts.
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Stale (v. t.)
Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
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Stale (v. t.)
A stalking-horse.
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Stale (v. t.)
A stalemate.
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Stale (v. t.)
A laughingstock; a dupe.
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Steal (n.)
A handle; a stale, or stele.
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Steal (v. t.)
To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
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Steal (v. t.)
To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
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Steal (v. t.)
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
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Steal (v. t.)
To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
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Steal (v. t.)
To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
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Steal (v. i.)
To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
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Steal (v. i.)
To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
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Stela (n.)
A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.
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Swale (n.)
A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
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Swale (v. i. & t.)
To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
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Swale (n.)
A gutter in a candle.
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Sweat (imp. & p. p.)
of Sweat
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Sweat (v. i.)
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
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Sweat (v. i.)
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
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Sweat (v. i.)
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
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Sweat (v. t.)
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
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Sweat (v. t.)
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
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Sweat (v. t.)
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
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Sweat (v. t.)
To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
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Sweat (v. i.)
The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
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Sweat (v. i.)
The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
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Sweat (v. i.)
Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
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Sweat (v. i.)
The sweating sickness.
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Sweat (v. i.)
A short run by a race horse in exercise.
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Tales (n.)
Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.
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Tales (syntactically sing.)
The writ by which such persons are summoned.
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Waste (a.)
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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Waste (a.)
Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
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Waste (a.)
Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
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Waste (a.)
To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
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Waste (a.)
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
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Waste (a.)
To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
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Waste (a.)
To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
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Waste (v. i.)
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
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Waste (v. i.)
To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
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Waste (v.)
The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
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Waste (v.)
That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
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Waste (v.)
That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
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Waste (v.)
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
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Waste (v.)
Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.