These are the meanings of the letters VAGUEABA when you unscramble them.
- Agave (n.)
A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
- Guava (n.)
A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.
- Vague (n.)
A wandering; a vagary.
- Vague (n.)
An indefinite expanse.
- Vague (v. i.)
Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
- Vague (v. i.)
To wander; to roam; to stray.
- Vague (v. i.)
Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
- Vague (v. i.)
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.