These are the meanings of the letters TANNYL when you unscramble them.
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Alt (a. & n.)
The higher part of the scale. See Alto.
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Ant (n.)
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
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Any (a. & pron.)
One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.
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Any (a. & pron.)
Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?
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Any (adv.)
To any extent; in any degree; at all.
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Lat (v. t.)
To let; to allow.
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Lay (imp.)
of Lie, to recline.
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Lay (a.)
Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
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Lay (a.)
Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
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Lay (a.)
Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
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Lay (n.)
The laity; the common people.
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Lay (n.)
A meadow. See Lea.
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Lay (n.)
Faith; creed; religious profession.
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Lay (n.)
A law.
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Lay (n.)
An obligation; a vow.
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Lay (a.)
A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
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Lay (a.)
A melody; any musical utterance.
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Lay (v. t.)
To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
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Lay (v. t.)
To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
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Lay (v. t.)
To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
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Lay (v. t.)
To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
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Lay (v. t.)
To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
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Lay (v. t.)
To cause to lie dead or dying.
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Lay (v. t.)
To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
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Lay (v. t.)
To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
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Lay (v. t.)
To apply; to put.
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Lay (v. t.)
To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
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Lay (v. t.)
To impute; to charge; to allege.
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Lay (v. t.)
To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
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Lay (v. t.)
To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
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Lay (v. t.)
To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
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Lay (v. t.)
To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
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Lay (v. t.)
To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
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Lay (v. t.)
To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
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Lay (v. t.)
To place (new type) properly in the cases.
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Lay (v. i.)
To produce and deposit eggs.
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Lay (v. i.)
To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
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Lay (v. i.)
To lay a wager; to bet.
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Lay (n.)
That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
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Lay (v. t.)
A wager.
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Lay (v. t.)
A job, price, or profit.
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Lay (v. t.)
A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
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Lay (v. t.)
A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
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Lay (v. t.)
The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
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Lay (v. t.)
A plan; a scheme.
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Lay (imp.)
of Lie
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Nan (inerj.)
Anan.
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Nay (adv.)
No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
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Nay (adv.)
Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
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Nay (n.)
Denial; refusal.
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Nay (n.)
a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
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Nay (v. t. & i.)
To refuse.
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Tan (n.)
See Picul.
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Tan (n.)
The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
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Tan (n.)
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
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Tan (n.)
A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
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Tan (a.)
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
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Tan (n.)
To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
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Tan (n.)
To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
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Tan (v. i.)
To get or become tanned.