These are the meanings of the letters LOOFFUL when you unscramble them.
- Fool (n.)
A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
- Fool (n.)
A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
- Fool (n.)
One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
- Fool (n.)
One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
- Fool (n.)
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
- Fool (v. i.)
To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
- Fool (v. t.)
To infatuate; to make foolish.
- Fool (v. t.)
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
- Foul (n.)
A bird.
- Foul (n.)
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
- Foul (n.)
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
- Foul (superl.)
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
- Foul (superl.)
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
- Foul (superl.)
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
- Foul (superl.)
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
- Foul (superl.)
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
- Foul (superl.)
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
- Foul (superl.)
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
- Foul (superl.)
Ugly; homely; poor.
- Foul (v. i.)
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
- Foul (v. i.)
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
- Foul (v. t.)
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
- Foul (v. t.)
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
- Foul (v. t.)
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
- Foul (v. t.)
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
- Full (adv.)
Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- Full (Compar.)
Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
- Full (Compar.)
Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
- Full (Compar.)
Filled with emotions.
- Full (Compar.)
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.
- Full (Compar.)
Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- Full (Compar.)
Impregnated; made pregnant.
- Full (Compar.)
Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
- Full (Compar.)
Sated; surfeited.
- Full (n.)
Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
- Full (n.)
To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
- Full (v. i.)
To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
- Full (v. i.)
To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
- Loof (n.)
Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.
- Loof (n.)
The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.
- Loof (n.)
The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.
- Loof (v. i.)
See Luff.
- Luff (n.)
The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- Luff (n.)
The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- Luff (n.)
The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- Luff (n.)
The side of a ship toward the wind.
- Luff (v. i.)
To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.