These are the meanings of the letters NAWOB when you unscramble them.
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Awn (n.)
The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
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Ban (n.)
A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
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Ban (n.)
A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
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Ban (n.)
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
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Ban (n.)
An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
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Ban (n.)
A curse or anathema.
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Ban (n.)
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
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Ban (v. t.)
To curse; to invoke evil upon.
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Ban (v. t.)
To forbid; to interdict.
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Ban (v. i.)
To curse; to swear.
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Ban (n.)
An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
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Boa (n.)
A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
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Boa (n.)
A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
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Bow (v. t.)
To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
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Bow (v. t.)
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
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Bow (v. t.)
To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
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Bow (v. t.)
To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
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Bow (v. t.)
To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
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Bow (v. i.)
To bend; to curve.
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Bow (v. i.)
To stop.
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Bow (v. i.)
To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
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Bow (v. i.)
To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
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Bow (n.)
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
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Bow (v. t.)
Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
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Bow (v. t.)
A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
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Bow (v. t.)
An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
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Bow (v. t.)
The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
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Bow (v. t.)
An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
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Bow (v. t.)
An arcograph.
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Bow (v. t.)
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
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Bow (v. t.)
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
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Bow (sing. or pl.)
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
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Bow (v. i.)
To play (music) with a bow.
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Bow (v. i. )
To manage the bow.
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Bow (n.)
The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
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Bow (n.)
One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
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Nab (n.)
The summit of an eminence.
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Nab (n.)
The cock of a gunlock.
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Nab (n.)
The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
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Nab (v. t.)
To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.
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Nob (n.)
The head.
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Nob (n.)
A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman.
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Now (adv.)
At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
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Now (adv.)
Very lately; not long ago.
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Now (adv.)
At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
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Now (adv.)
In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
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Now (a.)
Existing at the present time; present.
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Now (n.)
The present time or moment; the present.
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Own (v. t.)
To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
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Own (a.)
Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
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Own (a.)
To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
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Wan ()
of Win
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Wan (imp.)
Won.
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Wan (a.)
Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
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Wan (n.)
The quality of being wan; wanness.
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Wan (v. i.)
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
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Won (imp. & p. p.)
of Win
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Won ()
imp. & p. p. of Win.
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Won (v. i.)
To dwell or abide.
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Won (n.)
Dwelling; wone.