These are the meanings of the letters DRACK when you unscramble them.
- Card (n.)
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
- Card (n.)
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
- 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.
- 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.
- Card (n.)
A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- Card (n.)
An indicator card. See under Indicator.
- 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.
- Card (v. i.)
To play at cards; to game.
- Card (v. t.)
To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
- Card (v. t.)
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
- Card (v. t.)
To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
- Cark (n.)
A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
- Cark (v. i.)
To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
- Cark (v. t.)
To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
- Dark (a.)
Deprived of sight; blind.
- Dark (a.)
Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
- Dark (a.)
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
- Dark (a.)
Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
- Dark (a.)
Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
- Dark (a.)
Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
- Dark (n.)
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
- Dark (n.)
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
- Dark (n.)
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
- Dark (v. t.)
To darken to obscure.
- Rack (a.)
A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
- Rack (a.)
A distaff.
- Rack (a.)
A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
- Rack (a.)
A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
- Rack (a.)
A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
- Rack (a.)
A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
- Rack (a.)
A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Rack (a.)
A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
- Rack (a.)
An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
- Rack (a.)
An instrument for bending a bow.
- Rack (a.)
An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
- Rack (a.)
That which is extorted; exaction.
- Rack (n.)
A fast amble.
- Rack (n.)
A wreck; destruction.
- Rack (n.)
Same as Arrack.
- Rack (n.)
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
- Rack (n.)
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
- Rack (v.)
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
- Rack (v. i.)
To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
- Rack (v. t.)
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- Rack (v. t.)
To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
- Rack (v. t.)
To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
- Rack (v. t.)
To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- Rack (v. t.)
To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
- Rack (v. t.)
To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.