These are the meanings of the letters ALDIM when you unscramble them.
- Amid (prep.)
In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
- Amid (prep.)
See Amidst.
- Dial (n.)
A miner's compass.
- Dial (n.)
An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
- Dial (n.)
The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
- Dial (v. t.)
To measure with a dial.
- Dial (v. t.)
To survey with a dial.
- Laid (imp. & p. p.)
of Lay
- Laid (imp. & p. p.)
of Lay.
- Lima (n.)
The capital city of Peru, in South America.
- Maid (n.)
A female servant.
- Maid (n.)
A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
- Maid (n.)
An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
- Maid (n.)
The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
- Mail (n.)
A bag; a wallet.
- Mail (n.)
A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- Mail (n.)
A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
- Mail (n.)
A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
- Mail (n.)
A spot.
- Mail (n.)
A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- Mail (n.)
Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- Mail (n.)
Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
- Mail (n.)
Rent; tribute.
- Mail (n.)
That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
- Mail (n.)
The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
- Mail (v. t.)
To arm with mail.
- Mail (v. t.)
To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.
- Mail (v. t.)
To pinion.
- Mild (superl.)
Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.