These are the meanings of the letters SWTAET when you unscramble them.
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State (n.)
The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
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State (n.)
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
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State (n.)
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
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State (n.)
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
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State (n.)
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
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State (n.)
Estate, possession.
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State (n.)
A person of high rank.
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State (n.)
Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
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State (n.)
The principal persons in a government.
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State (n.)
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
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State (n.)
A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
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State (n.)
A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
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State (n.)
In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
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State (n.)
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
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State (a.)
Stately.
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State (a.)
Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
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State (v. t.)
To set; to settle; to establish.
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State (v. t.)
To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
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State (n.)
A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
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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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Taste (v. t.)
To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
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Taste (v. t.)
To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
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Taste (v. t.)
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
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Taste (v. t.)
To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
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Taste (v. t.)
To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
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Taste (v. i.)
To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
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Taste (v. i.)
To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
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Taste (v. i.)
To take sparingly.
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Taste (v. i.)
To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
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Taste (n.)
The act of tasting; gustation.
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Taste (n.)
A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
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Taste (n.)
The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
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Taste (n.)
Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
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Taste (n.)
The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
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Taste (n.)
Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
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Taste (n.)
Essay; trial; experience; experiment.
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Taste (n.)
A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit.
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Taste (n.)
A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
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Testa (n.)
The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
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Testa (n.)
The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
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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.