These are the meanings of the letters RETHOW when you unscramble them.
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Other (conj.)
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
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Other (pron. & a.)
Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
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Other (pron. & a.)
Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
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Other (pron. & a.)
Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
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Other (pron. & a.)
Left, as opposed to right.
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Other (adv.)
Otherwise.
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Threw ()
imp. of Throw.
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Threw (imp.)
of Throw
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Throe (n.)
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
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Throe (n.)
A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
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Throe (v. i.)
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
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Throe (v. t.)
To put in agony.
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Throw (n.)
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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Throw (n.)
Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
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Throw (v. t.)
To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
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Throw (v. t.)
To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
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Throw (v. t.)
To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
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Throw (v. t.)
To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
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Throw (v. t.)
To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
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Throw (v. t.)
To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
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Throw (v. t.)
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
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Throw (v. t.)
To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
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Throw (v. t.)
To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
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Throw (v. t.)
To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
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Throw (v. t.)
To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
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Throw (v. t.)
To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
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Throw (v. i.)
To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
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Throw (n.)
The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
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Throw (n.)
A stroke; a blow.
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Throw (n.)
The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
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Throw (n.)
A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
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Throw (n.)
An effort; a violent sally.
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Throw (n.)
The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
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Throw (n.)
A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
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Throw (n.)
A turner's lathe; a throwe.
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Throw (n.)
The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
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Tower (n.)
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
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Tower (n.)
A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
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Tower (n.)
A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
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Tower (n.)
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
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Tower (n.)
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
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Tower (n.)
High flight; elevation.
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Tower (v. i.)
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
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Tower (v. t.)
To soar into.
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Whore (n.)
A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
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Whore (n.)
To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
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Whore (n.)
To worship false and impure gods.
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Whore (v. t.)
To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.
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Whort (n.)
The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).
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Worth (v. i.)
To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
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Worth (a.)
Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
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Worth (a.)
Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
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Worth (a.)
Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
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Worth (a.)
Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
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Worth (a.)
That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
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Worth (a.)
Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
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Wrote (imp.)
of Write
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Wrote (v. i.)
To root with the snout. See 1st Root.
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Wrote ()
imp. & archaic p. p. of Write.
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Wroth (a.)
Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.