These are the meanings of the letters TANNYL when you unscramble them.
- Alt (a. & n.)
The higher part of the scale. See Alto.
- Ant (n.)
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
- Any (a. & pron.)
One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.
- Any (a. & pron.)
Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?
- Any (adv.)
To any extent; in any degree; at all.
- Lat (v. t.)
To let; to allow.
- Lay (a.)
A melody; any musical utterance.
- Lay (a.)
A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
- Lay (a.)
Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
- Lay (a.)
Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
- Lay (a.)
Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
- Lay (imp.)
of Lie
- Lay (imp.)
of Lie, to recline.
- Lay (n.)
A law.
- Lay (n.)
A meadow. See Lea.
- Lay (n.)
An obligation; a vow.
- Lay (n.)
Faith; creed; religious profession.
- 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.
- Lay (n.)
The laity; the common people.
- Lay (v. i.)
To lay a wager; to bet.
- Lay (v. i.)
To produce and deposit eggs.
- Lay (v. i.)
To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
- Lay (v. t.)
A job, price, or profit.
- Lay (v. t.)
A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
- Lay (v. t.)
A plan; a scheme.
- 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.
- Lay (v. t.)
A wager.
- Lay (v. t.)
The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
- Lay (v. t.)
To apply; to put.
- Lay (v. t.)
To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
- Lay (v. t.)
To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
- Lay (v. t.)
To cause to lie dead or dying.
- 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.
- Lay (v. t.)
To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- Lay (v. t.)
To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
- Lay (v. t.)
To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
- Lay (v. t.)
To impute; to charge; to allege.
- Lay (v. t.)
To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- Lay (v. t.)
To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- 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.
- Lay (v. t.)
To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
- Lay (v. t.)
To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
- Lay (v. t.)
To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
- 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.
- Lay (v. t.)
To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
- Lay (v. t.)
To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
- Nan (inerj.)
Anan.
- Nay (adv.)
No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
- 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.
- Nay (n.)
a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
- Nay (n.)
Denial; refusal.
- Nay (v. t. & i.)
To refuse.
- Tan (a.)
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
- Tan (n.)
A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
- Tan (n.)
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
- Tan (n.)
See Picul.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tan (n.)
To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
- Tan (v. i.)
To get or become tanned.