These are the meanings of the letters ABOFETE when you unscramble them.
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Abet (v. t.)
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
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Abet (v. t.)
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
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Abet (v. t.)
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
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Abet (n.)
Act of abetting; aid.
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Bate (n.)
Strife; contention.
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Bate (v. t.)
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
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Bate (v. t.)
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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Bate (v. t.)
To leave out; to except.
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Bate (v. t.)
To remove.
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Bate (v. t.)
To deprive of.
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Bate (v. i.)
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
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Bate (v. i.)
To waste away.
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Bate (v. t.)
To attack; to bait.
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Bate ()
imp. of Bite.
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Bate (v. i.)
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
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Bate (n.)
See 2d Bath.
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Bate (n.)
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
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Bate (v. t.)
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
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Beat (imp.)
of Beat
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Beat (p. p.)
of Beat
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Beat (v. t.)
To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
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Beat (v. t.)
To punish by blows; to thrash.
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Beat (v. t.)
To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
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Beat (v. t.)
To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
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Beat (v. t.)
To tread, as a path.
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Beat (v. t.)
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
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Beat (v. t.)
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
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Beat (v. t.)
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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Beat (v. t.)
To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
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Beat (v. i.)
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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Beat (v. i.)
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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Beat (v. i.)
To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
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Beat (v. i.)
To be in agitation or doubt.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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Beat (v. i.)
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
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Beat (n.)
A stroke; a blow.
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Beat (n.)
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
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Beat (n.)
The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
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Beat (n.)
A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
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Beat (n.)
A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
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Beat (v. i.)
A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
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Beat (v. i.)
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
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Beat (v. i.)
A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
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Beat (a.)
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
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Beef (n.)
An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
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Beef (n.)
The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
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Beef (n.)
Applied colloquially to human flesh.
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Beef (a.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
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Beet (n.)
A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
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Beet (n.)
The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.
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Boat (n.)
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
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Boat (n.)
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
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Boat (n.)
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
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Boat (v. t.)
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
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Boat (v. t.)
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
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Boat (v. i.)
To go or row in a boat.
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Fate (n.)
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
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Fate (n.)
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
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Fate (n.)
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
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Fate (n.)
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
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Feat (n.)
An act; a deed; an exploit.
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Feat (n.)
A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
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Feat (v. t.)
To form; to fashion.
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Feat (n.)
Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.
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Feet (n. pl.)
See Foot.
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Feet (n.)
Fact; performance.
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Feet (pl. )
of Foot
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Fete (n.)
A feat.
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Fete (n. pl.)
Feet.
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Fete (n.)
A festival.
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Fete (v. t.)
To feast; to honor with a festival.