These are the meanings of the letters OIVELRD when you unscramble them.
- Devoir (n.)
Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.
- Drivel (n.)
A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
- Drivel (n.)
A servant; a drudge.
- Drivel (n.)
Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.
- Drivel (n.)
Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.
- Drivel (v. i.)
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
- Drivel (v. i.)
To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
- Roiled (imp. & p. p.)
of Roil
- Voider (n.)
A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
- Voider (n.)
A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
- Voider (n.)
One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
- Voider (n.)
One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.