These are the meanings of the letters ALWD when you unscramble them.
- Awl (n.)
A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
- Dal (n.)
Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.
- Daw (n.)
A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
- Daw (v. i.)
To dawn.
- Daw (v. t.)
To daunt; to terrify.
- Daw (v. t.)
To rouse.
- Lad ()
p. p. of Lead, to guide.
- Lad (n.)
A boy; a youth; a stripling.
- Lad (n.)
A companion; a comrade; a mate.
- Law (interj.)
An exclamation of mild surprise.
- Law (n.)
An oath, as in the presence of a court.
- Law (n.)
An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
- Law (n.)
Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
- Law (n.)
Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
- Law (n.)
In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
- Law (n.)
In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
- Law (n.)
In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
- Law (n.)
In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
- Law (n.)
In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
- Law (n.)
Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.
- Law (n.)
The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.
- Law (n.)
Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
- Law (v. t.)
Same as Lawe, v. t.
- Wad (n.)
A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
- Wad (n.)
A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
- Wad (n.)
Alt. of Wadd
- Wad (n.)
Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
- Wad (n.)
Woad.
- Wad (v. t.)
To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
- Wad (v. t.)
To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.