adj
(Scotland) Alternative form of astir [In motion; characterized by motion.]
v
(UK dialectal) To discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).
v
(Britain, dialect) To poke; to pierce.
n
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
v
(dialect) simple past tense of climb.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To include or be covered with swarms or large numbers of (something, especially insects or people); to have in great numbers or multitudes.
v
(transitive) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
v
(medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
adj
Dangling; tending to dangle.
v
(intransitive) To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil.
v
(UK dialectal, Northern England) To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
v
(Scotland, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To drawl; to drone.
n
(obsolete) One who dribs; an archer who shoots weakly or badly.
n
(UK, dialectal) A throng; crowd.
n
(Scotland) A swoon; a sudden sickness.
v
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
n
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
v
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To search for gems, gold, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.
v
(obsolete outside Scotland) To make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.
n
Initialism of heat escape lessening position: a crouching position with the knees held close to the chest, used to conserve body heat in cold water.
v
(transitive) To bend something into a hump.
v
(transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
v
(intransitive) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold
v
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
v
To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
n
(usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
v
(transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
v
(transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To pertain to; fall to.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To dry in the sun.
v
Obsolete form of scorse. [(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.]
v
(US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
n
That which is shed, or cast off.
v
Obsolete form of skew. [(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.]
n
The act of sousing, or swooping.
v
(chiefly Scotland) To spread out; to sprawl.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.
v
(transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Confusion.
v
Obsolete form of steer. [(intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).]
adv
(journalism, slang) short for instead of
v
To remove the stem from.
n
(UK, dialect, archaic) A leap.
n
(rare) An act or state of being stifled.
v
(slang) To get going; to move one's legs in walking or running.
adj
(UK, dialect, obsolete) strong; stiff; rigid
v
(UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
v
(dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
n
Alternative form of stød [(phonology) a phenomenon of most Danish accents, in which stressed long vowels or consonants are laryngealised in certain contexts; sometimes a simple glottal stop that follows said vowel/consonant]
v
(transitive) To stuff; to cram.
v
(dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust
v
(intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
v
Alternative form of stum [(transitive, obsolete) To ferment.]
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.
v
(transitive, Scotland and Northern England) To stumble.
v
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of stot [(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To bounce, rebound or ricochet.]
v
(obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
v
Obsolete form of stoop. [To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.]
adj
(now rare outside dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
v
(archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
n
Material that is strewn around.
v
(transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
n
(rare) One who, or that which, stubs.
v
Obsolete spelling of stub [(transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To ferment.
v
(largely obsolete) Alternative spelling of stir [(transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.]
v
(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect, transitive) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
n
(UK, dialect) choke damp
n
(phonology) a phenomenon of most Danish accents, in which stressed long vowels or consonants are laryngealised in certain contexts; sometimes a simple glottal stop that follows said vowel/consonant
v
(intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
v
(intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
n
Alternative form of swad [A bunch, clump, mass]
v
(transitive) To stir, as a calico-printer's sieve.
v
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To crave; seek (a favour).
v
(transitive, now Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) To endure, to put up with, to tolerate.
n
Alternative form of thirlage [(historical, Scotland) The right of the owner of a mill to compel tenants to bring all their grain to that mill for milling.]
adj
(dialectal, rare, Northern England) Crowded, busy.
v
(transitive, UK, dialectal) To urge; compel; importune.
n
Obsolete form of threshold. [The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.]
v
(intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To push; to force one's way.
adj
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Busy; hurried.
n
Obsolete spelling of throstle (song thrush) [(dialectal or archaic) A song thrush.]
v
To crowd; throng; squeeze.
v
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To upbraid.
v
(UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
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