These are the meanings of the letters KILLCU when you unscramble them.
- Cull (n.)
A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
- Cull (v. t.)
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
- Kill (n.)
A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
- Kill (n.)
A kiln.
- Kill (v. t.)
To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
- Kill (v. t.)
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
- Kill (v. t.)
To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
- Kill (v. t.)
To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
- Lick (n.)
A slap; a quick stroke.
- Lick (v.)
A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
- Lick (v.)
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
- Lick (v.)
A stroke of the tongue in licking.
- Lick (v. t.)
To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
- Lick (v. t.)
To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
- Lick (v. t.)
To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
- Luck (n.)
That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.