These are the meanings of the letters UMWELT when you unscramble them.
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Lute (n.)
A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
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Lute (n.)
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
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Lute (n.)
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
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Lute (v. t.)
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
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Lute (n.)
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or \"sides,\" arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
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Lute (v. i.)
To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
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Lute (v. t.)
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
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Melt (n.)
See 2d Milt.
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Melt (v.)
To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
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Melt (v.)
Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
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Melt (v. i.)
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
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Melt (v. i.)
To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
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Melt (v. i.)
Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
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Melt (v. i.)
To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
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Melt (v. i.)
To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
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Mewl (v. i.)
To cry, as a young child; to squall.
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Mule (n.)
A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
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Mule (n.)
A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
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Mule (n.)
A very stubborn person.
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Mule (n.)
A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
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Mute (v. t.)
To cast off; to molt.
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Mute (v. t. & i.)
To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
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Mute (n.)
The dung of birds.
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Mute (a.)
Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
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Mute (a.)
Incapable of speaking; dumb.
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Mute (a.)
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
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Mute (a.)
Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
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Mute (n.)
One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
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Mute (n.)
One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
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Mute (n.)
A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
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Mute (n.)
A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
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Mute (n.)
Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
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Mute (n.)
A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
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Mute (n.)
A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
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Tule (n.)
A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.
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Welt (n.)
That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
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Welt (n.)
A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
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Welt (n.)
A hem, border, or fringe.
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Welt (n.)
In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
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Welt (n.)
In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
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Welt (n.)
In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
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Welt (n.)
In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
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Welt (n.)
A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
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Welt (v. t.)
To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
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Welt (v. t.)
To wilt.