These are the meanings of the letters NEBULESCENT when you unscramble them.
- Esculent (a.)
Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.
- Esculent (n.)
Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.
- Sentence (n.)
A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
- Sentence (n.)
A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
- Sentence (n.)
A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
- Sentence (n.)
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
- Sentence (n.)
In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
- Sentence (n.)
Sense; meaning; significance.
- Sentence (v. t.)
To decree or announce as a sentence.
- Sentence (v. t.)
To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
- Sentence (v. t.)
To utter sententiously.