These are the meanings of the letters YLEPSA when you unscramble them.
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Lapse (n.)
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
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Lapse (n.)
A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
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Lapse (n.)
The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
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Lapse (n.)
A fall or apostasy.
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Lapse (v. i.)
To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
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Lapse (v. i.)
To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
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Lapse (v. i.)
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.
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Lapse (v. i.)
To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
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Lapse (v. t.)
To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
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Lapse (v. t.)
To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
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Palsy (n.)
Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.
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Palsy (v. t.)
To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
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Salep (n.)
The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.
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Sepal (n.)
A leaf or division of the calyx.
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Slype (n.)
A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.
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Spale (n.)
A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
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Spale (n.)
A strengthening cross timber.
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Splay (v. t.)
To display; to spread.
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Splay (v. t.)
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
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Splay (v. t.)
To spay; to castrate.
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Splay (v. t.)
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
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Splay (a.)
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
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Splay (a.)
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.