These are the meanings of the letters BACURY when you unscramble them.
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Bray (v. t.)
To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
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Bray (v. i.)
To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
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Bray (v. i.)
To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
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Bray (v. t.)
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
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Bray (n.)
The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
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Bray (n.)
A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
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Bury (n.)
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
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Bury (n.)
A manor house; a castle.
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Bury (v. t.)
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
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Bury (v. t.)
Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
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Bury (v. t.)
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
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Crab (n.)
One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
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Crab (n.)
The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
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Crab (a.)
A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
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Crab (a.)
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
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Crab (a.)
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
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Crab (a.)
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
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Crab (a.)
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
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Crab (a.)
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
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Crab (v. t.)
To make sour or morose; to embitter.
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Crab (v. t.)
To beat with a crabstick.
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Crab (v. i.)
To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
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Crab (a.)
Sour; rough; austere.
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Curb (v. t.)
To bend or curve
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Curb (v. t.)
To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
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Curb (v. t.)
To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
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Curb (v. i.)
To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
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Curb (n.)
That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
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Curb (n.)
An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
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Curb (n.)
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
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Curb (n.)
A curbstone.
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Curb (n.)
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
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Racy (superl.)
Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
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Racy (superl.)
Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
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Ruby (n.)
A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
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Ruby (n.)
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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Ruby (n.)
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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Ruby (n.)
See Agate, n., 2.
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Ruby (n.)
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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Ruby (a.)
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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Ruby (v. t.)
To make red; to redden.