These are the meanings of the letters UPWHELM when you unscramble them.
- Plume (v.)
A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
- Plume (v.)
A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
- Plume (v.)
A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- Plume (v.)
A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
- Plume (v.)
An ornamental tuft of feathers.
- Plume (v. t.)
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
- Plume (v. t.)
To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
- Plume (v. t.)
To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
- Plume (v. t.)
To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
- Whelm (v. t.)
Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.
- Whelm (v. t.)
To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
- Whelm (v. t.)
To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- Whelp (n.)
A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
- Whelp (n.)
One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
- Whelp (n.)
One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
- Whelp (n.)
One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
- Whelp (v. i.)
To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
- Whelp (v. t.)
To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
- whump (unknown)
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