These are the meanings of the letters ELUCRE when you unscramble them.
- Creel (n.)
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
- Creel (n.)
An osier basket, such as anglers use.
- Cruel (a.)
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
- Cruel (a.)
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
- Cruel (a.)
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
- Cruel (n.)
See Crewel.
- Lucre (n.)
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
- Ulcer (n.)
A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues.
- Ulcer (n.)
Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
- Ulcer (v. t.)
To ulcerate.