These are the meanings of the letters EWNTA when you unscramble them.
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Anew (adv.)
Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.
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Ante (n.)
Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
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Ante (v. t. & i.)
To put up (an ante).
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Etna (n.)
A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
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Neat (n. sing. & pl.)
Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
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Neat (n.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
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Neat (a.)
Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
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Neat (a.)
Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
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Neat (a.)
Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
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Neat (a.)
Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
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Neat (a.)
With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
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Newt (n.)
Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.
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Wane (v. i.)
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
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Wane (v. i.)
To decline; to fail; to sink.
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Wane (v. t.)
To cause to decrease.
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Wane (n.)
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
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Wane (n.)
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
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Wane (n.)
An inequality in a board.
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Want (v. i.)
The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
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Want (v. i.)
Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
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Want (v. i.)
That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.
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Want (v. i.)
A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
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Want (v. t.)
To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
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Want (v. t.)
To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
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Want (v. t.)
To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
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Want (v. i.)
To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.
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Want (v. i.)
To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
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Wean (a.)
To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
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Wean (a.)
Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
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Wean (n.)
A weanling; a young child.
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Went ()
of Wend
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Went ()
imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.
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Went (n.)
Course; way; path; journey; direction.
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Went (imp.)
of Go