These are the meanings of the letters DWAM when you unscramble them.
- Dam (n.)
A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
- Dam (n.)
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
- Dam (n.)
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- Dam (n.)
A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- Dam (v. t.)
To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
- Dam (v. t.)
To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
- Daw (n.)
A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
- Daw (v. i.)
To dawn.
- Daw (v. t.)
To daunt; to terrify.
- Daw (v. t.)
To rouse.
- Mad ()
p. p. of Made.
- Mad (n.)
A slattern.
- Mad (n.)
An earthworm.
- Mad (n.)
The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
- Mad (superl.)
Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
- Mad (superl.)
Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
- Mad (superl.)
Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
- Mad (superl.)
Extravagant; immoderate.
- Mad (superl.)
Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
- Mad (superl.)
Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
- Mad (superl.)
Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
- Mad (v. i.)
To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
- Mad (v. t.)
To make mad or furious; to madden.
- Maw (n.)
A gull.
- Maw (n.)
A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt.
- Maw (n.)
An old game at cards.
- Maw (n.)
Appetite; inclination.
- Wad (n.)
A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
- Wad (n.)
A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
- Wad (n.)
Alt. of Wadd
- Wad (n.)
Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
- Wad (n.)
Woad.
- Wad (v. t.)
To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
- Wad (v. t.)
To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.