These are the meanings of the letters OPMEL when you unscramble them.
- Lope (imp.)
of Leap.
- Lope (n.)
A leap; a long step.
- Lope (n.)
An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
- Lope (v. i.)
To leap; to dance.
- Lope (v. i.)
To move with a lope, as a horse.
- Mole (n.)
A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
- Mole (n.)
A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
- Mole (n.)
A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
- Mole (n.)
A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
- Mole (n.)
A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
- Mole (n.)
Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
- Mole (v. t.)
To clear of molehills.
- Mole (v. t.)
To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
- Mope (n.)
A dull, spiritless person.
- Mope (v. i.)
To be dull and spiritless.
- Mope (v. t.)
To make spiritless and stupid.
- Poem (n.)
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
- Poem (n.)
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
- Pole (n.)
A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
- Pole (n.)
A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
- Pole (n.)
A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
- Pole (n.)
A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
- Pole (n.)
Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
- Pole (n.)
One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
- Pole (n.)
See Polarity, and Polar, n.
- Pole (n.)
The firmament; the sky.
- Pole (v. t.)
To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
- Pole (v. t.)
To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
- Pole (v. t.)
To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
- Pole (v. t.)
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- Pome (n.)
A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
- Pome (n.)
A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
- Pome (n.)
To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.