These are the meanings of the letters DACRYA when you unscramble them.
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Card (n.)
A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
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Card (n.)
A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
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Card (n.)
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
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Card (n.)
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
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Card (n.)
An indicator card. See under Indicator.
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Card (v. i.)
To play at cards; to game.
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Card (n.)
An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
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Card (n.)
A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
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Card (v. t.)
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
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Card (v. t.)
To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
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Card (v. t.)
To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
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Dray (n.)
A squirrel's nest.
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Dray (n.)
A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
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Dray (n.)
A kind of sledge or sled.
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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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Yard (v. i.)
A rod; a stick; a staff.
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Yard (v. i.)
A branch; a twig.
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Yard (v. i.)
A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
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Yard (v. i.)
A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
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Yard (v. i.)
The penis.
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Yard (v. i.)
A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
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Yard (n.)
An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
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Yard (n.)
An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
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Yard (v. t.)
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.