These are the meanings of the letters CURNAT when you unscramble them.
- Aunt (n.)
A bawd, or a prostitute.
- Aunt (n.)
An old woman; and old gossip.
- Aunt (n.)
The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
- Cant (a.)
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
- Cant (n.)
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
- Cant (n.)
A corner; angle; niche.
- Cant (n.)
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- Cant (n.)
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Cant (n.)
A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- Cant (n.)
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
- Cant (n.)
An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
- Cant (n.)
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
- Cant (n.)
An outer or external angle.
- Cant (n.)
The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
- Cant (n.)
The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
- Cant (n.)
Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
- Cant (v. i.)
To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
- Cant (v. i.)
To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
- Cant (v. i.)
To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
- Cant (v. t.)
To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
- Cant (v. t.)
To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
- Cant (v. t.)
To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
- Cant (v. t.)
to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
- carn (unknown)
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- Cart (n.)
A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
- Cart (n.)
A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
- Cart (n.)
A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
- Cart (n.)
An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
- Cart (v. i.)
To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
- Cart (v. t.)
To carry or convey in a cart.
- Cart (v. t.)
To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
- cunt (unknown)
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- curn (unknown)
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- Curt (a.)
Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
- narc (unknown)
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- Rant (n.)
High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
- Rant (v. i.)
To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
- Runt (a.)
A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
- Runt (a.)
A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
- Runt (a.)
Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
- Runt (a.)
The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
- Tarn (n.)
A mountain lake or pool.
- Tuna (n.)
The bonito, 2.
- Tuna (n.)
The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
- Tuna (n.)
The tunny.
- Turn (n.)
A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
- Turn (n.)
A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
- Turn (n.)
A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
- Turn (n.)
A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
- Turn (n.)
A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
- Turn (n.)
A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
- Turn (n.)
An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.
- Turn (n.)
Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
- Turn (n.)
Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
- Turn (n.)
Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
- Turn (n.)
Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
- Turn (n.)
Monthly courses; menses.
- Turn (n.)
One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
- Turn (n.)
Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
- Turn (n.)
The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
- Turn (v. i.)
Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
- Turn (v. i.)
To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
- Turn (v. i.)
To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
- Turn (v. i.)
To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
- Turn (v. i.)
To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
- Turn (v. i.)
To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
- Turn (v. i.)
To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
- Turn (v. i.)
To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- Turn (v. i.)
To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
- Turn (v. i.)
To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
- Turn (v. i.)
To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
- Turn (v. i.)
To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
- Turn (v. i.)
To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
- Turn (v. t.)
Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.
- Turn (v. t.)
To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
- Turn (v. t.)
To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
- Turn (v. t.)
To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.
- Turn (v. t.)
To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
- Turn (v. t.)
To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
- Turn (v. t.)
To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
- Turn (v. t.)
To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
- Turn (v. t.)
To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
- Turn (v. t.)
To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.