These are the meanings of the letters WAFLIB when you unscramble them.
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Bail (n.)
A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
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Bail (v. t.)
To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
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Bail (v. t.)
To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
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Bail (v./t.)
To deliver; to release.
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Bail (v./t.)
To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
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Bail (v./t.)
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
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Bail (n.)
Custody; keeping.
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Bail (n.)
The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
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Bail (n.)
The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
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Bail (n.)
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
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Bail (n.)
A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
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Bail (n.)
A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
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Bail (n.)
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
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Bail (n.)
A certain limit within a forest.
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Bail (n.)
A division for the stalls of an open stable.
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Bail (n.)
The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
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Bawl (v. i.)
To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
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Bawl (v. i.)
To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
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Bawl (v. t.)
To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
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Bawl (n.)
A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
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Fail (v. i.)
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
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Fail (v. i.)
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
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Fail (v. i.)
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
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Fail (v. i.)
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
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Fail (v. i.)
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
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Fail (v. i.)
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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Fail (v. i.)
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
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Fail (v. t.)
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
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Fail (v. t.)
To miss of attaining; to lose.
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Fail (v. i.)
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
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Fail (v. i.)
Death; decease.
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Flaw (n.)
A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
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Flaw (n.)
A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
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Flaw (n.)
A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
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Flaw (n.)
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
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Flaw (v. t.)
To crack; to make flaws in.
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Flaw (v. t.)
To break; to violate; to make of no effect.
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Waif (n.)
Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
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Waif (n.)
Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
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Waif (n.)
A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
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Wail (v. t.)
To choose; to select.
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Wail (v. t.)
To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
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Wail (v. i.)
To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
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Wail (n.)
Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.