These are the meanings of the letters KWELA when you unscramble them.
- Kale (n.)
A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.
- Kale (n.)
See Kail, 2.
- Lake (n.)
A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
- Lake (n.)
A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
- Lake (n.)
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
- Lake (v. i.)
To play; to sport.
- Leak (a.)
Leaky.
- Leak (n.)
To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
- Leak (n.)
To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
- Leak (v.)
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
- Leak (v.)
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
- Wake (n.)
An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
- Wake (n.)
The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
- Wake (n.)
The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
- Wake (n.)
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- Wake (n.)
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
- Wake (v. i.)
To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
- Wake (v. i.)
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- Wake (v. i.)
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
- Wake (v. i.)
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
- Wake (v. t.)
To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
- Wake (v. t.)
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- Wake (v. t.)
To rouse from sleep; to awake.
- Wake (v. t.)
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- Wale (n.)
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
- Wale (n.)
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
- Wale (n.)
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- Wale (n.)
A wale knot, or wall knot.
- Wale (n.)
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
- Wale (v. t.)
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
- Wale (v. t.)
To mark with wales, or stripes.
- Walk (n.)
A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
- Walk (n.)
Conduct; course of action; behavior.
- Walk (n.)
Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
- Walk (n.)
That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
- Walk (n.)
The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
- Walk (n.)
The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
- Walk (n.)
The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
- Walk (v. i.)
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
- Walk (v. i.)
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
- Walk (v. i.)
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
- Walk (v. i.)
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
- Walk (v. i.)
To move off; to depart.
- Walk (v. i.)
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
- Walk (v. t.)
To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
- Walk (v. t.)
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
- Walk (v. t.)
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
- Weak (a.)
To make or become weak; to weaken.
- Weak (v. i.)
Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
- Weak (v. i.)
Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
- Weak (v. i.)
Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.
- Weak (v. i.)
Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
- Weak (v. i.)
Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.
- Weak (v. i.)
Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
- Weak (v. i.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).
- Weak (v. i.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
- Weak (v. i.)
Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
- Weak (v. i.)
Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.
- Weak (v. i.)
Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.
- Weak (v. i.)
Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.
- Weak (v. i.)
Wanting physical strength.
- Weal (adv.)
A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
- Weal (adv.)
The body politic; the state; common wealth.
- Weal (n.)
The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
- Weal (v. t.)
To mark with stripes. See Wale.
- Weal (v. t.)
To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
- Weka (n.)
A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.