These are the meanings of the letters ELKSLIP when you unscramble them.
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Lisle (n.)
A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.
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Piles (n. pl.)
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
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Skelp (n.)
A blow; a smart stroke.
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Skelp (n.)
A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
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Skelp (v. t.)
To strike; to slap.
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Skelp (n.)
A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
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Skill (n.)
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
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Skill (n.)
Knowledge; understanding.
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Skill (n.)
The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.
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Skill (n.)
Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
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Skill (n.)
Any particular art.
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Skill (v. t.)
To know; to understand.
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Skill (v. i.)
To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
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Skill (v. i.)
To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.
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Spell (n.)
A spelk, or splinter.
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Spell (v. t.)
To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
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Spell (n.)
The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
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Spell (n.)
The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
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Spell (n.)
One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
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Spell (n.)
A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
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Spell (n.)
A story; a tale.
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Spell (n.)
A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
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Spell (v. t.)
To tell; to relate; to teach.
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Spell (v. t.)
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
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Spell (v. t.)
To constitute; to measure.
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Spell (v. t.)
To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
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Spell (v. t.)
To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
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Spell (v. i.)
To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
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Spell (v. i.)
To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
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Spike (n.)
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
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Spike (n.)
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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Spike (n.)
An ear of corn or grain.
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Spike (n.)
A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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Spike (v. t.)
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
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Spike (v. t.)
To set or furnish with spikes.
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Spike (v. t.)
To fix on a spike.
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Spike (v. t.)
To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
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Spike (n.)
Spike lavender. See Lavender.
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Spile (n.)
A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
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Spile (n.)
A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
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Spile (n.)
A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
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Spile (v. t.)
To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
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Spill (n.)
A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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Spill (n.)
A slender piece of anything.
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Spill (n.)
A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
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Spill (n.)
A metallic rod or pin.
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Spill (n.)
A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
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Spill (n.)
One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
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Spill (n.)
A little sum of money.
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Spill (v. t.)
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
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Spill (v. t.)
To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
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Spill (v. t.)
To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
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Spill (v. t.)
To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
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Spill (v. t.)
To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
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Spill (v. t.)
To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
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Spill (v. i.)
To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
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Spill (v. i.)
To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.