These are the meanings of the letters BACKET 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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Back (n.)
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
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Back (n.)
A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
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Back (n.)
In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
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Back (n.)
An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
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Back (n.)
The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
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Back (n.)
The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
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Back (n.)
The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
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Back (n.)
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
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Back (n.)
A support or resource in reserve.
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Back (n.)
The keel and keelson of a ship.
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Back (n.)
The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
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Back (n.)
A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
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Back (a.)
Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
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Back (a.)
Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
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Back (a.)
Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
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Back (v. i.)
To get upon the back of; to mount.
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Back (v. i.)
To place or seat upon the back.
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Back (v. i.)
To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
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Back (v. i.)
To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
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Back (v. i.)
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
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Back (v. i.)
To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
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Back (v. i.)
To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
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Back (v. i.)
To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
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Back (v. i.)
To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
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Back (v. i.)
To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
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Back (v. i.)
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
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Back (adv.)
In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
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Back (adv.)
To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
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Back (adv.)
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
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Back (adv.)
(Of time) In times past; ago.
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Back (adv.)
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
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Back (adv.)
In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
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Back (adv.)
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
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Back (adv.)
In return, repayment, or requital.
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Back (adv.)
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
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Back (adv.)
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
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Bake (v. t.)
To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
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Bake (v. t.)
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
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Bake (v. t.)
To harden by cold.
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Bake (v. i.)
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
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Bake (v. i.)
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
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Bake (n.)
The process, or result, of baking.
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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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Beak (n.)
The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
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Beak (n.)
A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
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Beak (n.)
The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
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Beak (n.)
The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
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Beak (n.)
The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
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Beak (n.)
Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
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Beak (n.)
A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
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Beak (n.)
That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
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Beak (n.)
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
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Beak (n.)
Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
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Beak (n.)
A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
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Beak (n.)
A magistrate or policeman.
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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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Beck (n.)
See Beak.
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Beck (n.)
A small brook.
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Beck (n.)
A vat. See Back.
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Beck (v. i.)
To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
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Beck (v. t.)
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.
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Beck (n.)
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
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Cake (n.)
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
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Cake (n.)
A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
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Cake (n.)
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
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Cake (n.)
A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
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Cake (v. i.)
To form into a cake, or mass.
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Cake (v. i.)
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
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Cake (v. i.)
To cackle as a goose.
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Cate (n.)
Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
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Tace (n.)
The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.
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Tace (n.)
See Tasse.
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Tack (n.)
A stain; a tache.
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Tack (n.)
A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
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Tack (n.)
A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
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Tack (n.)
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
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Tack (v. t.)
A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
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Tack (v. t.)
The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
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Tack (v. t.)
The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
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Tack (v. t.)
A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
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Tack (v. t.)
Confidence; reliance.
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Tack (v. t.)
To fasten or attach.
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Tack (v. t.)
Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
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Tack (v. t.)
In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
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Tack (v. t.)
To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
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Tack (v. i.)
To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
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Take (p. p.)
Taken.
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Take (v. t.)
In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
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Take (v. t.)
To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
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Take (v. t.)
To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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Take (v. t.)
To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
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Take (v. t.)
To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
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Take (v. t.)
To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
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Take (v. t.)
To draw; to deduce; to derive.
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Take (v. t.)
To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
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Take (v. t.)
To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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Take (v. t.)
To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
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Take (v. t.)
To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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Take (v. t.)
In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.
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Take (v. t.)
To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
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Take (v. t.)
To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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Take (v. t.)
Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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Take (v. t.)
To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
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Take (v. t.)
To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
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Take (v. t.)
To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
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Take (v. i.)
To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
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Take (v. i.)
To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
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Take (v. i.)
To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
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Take (v. i.)
To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
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Take (n.)
That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
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Take (n.)
The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
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Teak (n.)
A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.