These are the meanings of the letters WARDOG when you unscramble them.
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Dago (n.)
A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.
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Drag (n.)
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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Drag (v. t.)
To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
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Drag (v. t.)
To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
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Drag (v. t.)
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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Drag (v. i.)
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
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Drag (v. i.)
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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Drag (v. i.)
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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Drag (v. i.)
To fish with a dragnet.
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Drag (v. t.)
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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Drag (v. t.)
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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Drag (v. t.)
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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Drag (v. t.)
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
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Drag (v. t.)
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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Drag (v. t.)
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
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Drag (v. t.)
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
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Drag (v. t.)
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
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Drag (v. t.)
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
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Drag (v. t.)
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
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Drag (v. t.)
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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Drag (v. t.)
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
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Draw (v. t.)
To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
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Draw (v. t.)
To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
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Draw (v. t.)
To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
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Draw (v. t.)
To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
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Draw (v. t.)
To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
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Draw (v. t.)
To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
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Draw (v. t.)
To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
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Draw (v. t.)
To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
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Draw (v. t.)
To select by the drawing of lots.
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Draw (v. t.)
To remove the contents of
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Draw (v. t.)
To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
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Draw (v. t.)
To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
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Draw (v. t.)
To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
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Draw (v. t.)
To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
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Draw (v. t.)
To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
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Draw (v. t.)
To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
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Draw (v. t.)
To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
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Draw (v. t.)
To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
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Draw (v. t.)
To withdraw.
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Draw (v. t.)
To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
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Draw (v. i.)
To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
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Draw (v. i.)
To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
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Draw (v. i.)
To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
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Draw (v. i.)
To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
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Draw (v. i.)
To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
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Draw (v. i.)
To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
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Draw (v. i.)
To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
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Draw (v. i.)
To become contracted; to shrink.
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Draw (v. i.)
To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
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Draw (v. i.)
To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
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Draw (v. i.)
To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
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Draw (v. i.)
To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
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Draw (n.)
The act of drawing; draught.
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Draw (n.)
A lot or chance to be drawn.
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Draw (n.)
A drawn game or battle, etc.
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Draw (n.)
That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
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Goad (v. t.)
A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
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Goad (v. t.)
To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
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Gowd (n.)
Gold; wealth.
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Grow (v. i.)
To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
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Grow (v. i.)
To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
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Grow (v. i.)
To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.
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Grow (v. i.)
To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
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Grow (v. i.)
To become attached of fixed; to adhere.
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Grow (v. t.)
To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.
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Road (n.)
A journey, or stage of a journey.
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Road (n.)
An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
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Road (n.)
A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
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Road (n.)
A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
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Ward (a.)
The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
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Ward (n.)
One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
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Ward (n.)
The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
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Ward (n.)
A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
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Ward (n.)
One who, or that which, is guarded.
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Ward (n.)
A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
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Ward (n.)
A division of a county.
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Ward (n.)
A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
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Ward (n.)
A division of a forest.
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Ward (n.)
A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
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Ward (n.)
A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
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Ward (n.)
A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
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Ward (n.)
To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
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Ward (n.)
To defend; to protect.
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Ward (n.)
To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
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Ward (n.)
To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
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Ward (v. i.)
To be vigilant; to keep guard.
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Ward (v. i.)
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
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Woad (n.)
An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
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Woad (n.)
A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
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Word (n.)
The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
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Word (n.)
Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
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Word (n.)
Talk; discourse; speech; language.
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Word (n.)
Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
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Word (n.)
Signal; order; command; direction.
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Word (n.)
Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
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Word (n.)
Verbal contention; dispute.
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Word (n.)
A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
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Word (v. i.)
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
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Word (v. t.)
To express in words; to phrase.
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Word (v. t.)
To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
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Word (v. t.)
To flatter with words; to cajole.