These are the meanings of the letters EMTACE when you unscramble them.
- Acme (n.)
Mature age; full bloom of life.
- Acme (n.)
The crisis or height of a disease.
- Acme (n.)
The top or highest point; the culmination.
- Came ()
imp. of Come.
- Came (imp.)
of Come
- Came (n.)
A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.
- Cate (n.)
Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
- Cete (n.)
One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
- Mace (n.)
A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
- Mace (n.)
A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
- Mace (n.)
A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
- Mace (n.)
A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
- Mace (n.)
A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
- Mace (n.)
A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
- Mace (n.)
An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
- Mate (a.)
See 2d Mat.
- Mate (n.)
A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- Mate (n.)
An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
- Mate (n.)
Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
- Mate (n.)
One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
- Mate (n.)
Same as Checkmate.
- Mate (n.)
The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
- Mate (v. i.)
To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.
- Mate (v. t.)
To checkmate.
- Mate (v. t.)
To confuse; to confound.
- Mate (v. t.)
To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
- Mate (v. t.)
To match; to marry.
- Meat (n.)
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
- Meat (n.)
Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
- Meat (n.)
The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
- Meat (v. t.)
To supply with food.
- Meet (a.)
Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.
- Meet (adv.)
Meetly.
- Meet (n.)
An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.
- Meet (v. t.)
To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.
- Meet (v. t.)
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
- Meet (v. t.)
To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
- Meet (v. t.)
To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.
- Meet (v. t.)
To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.
- Meet (v. t.)
To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
- Meet (v. t.)
To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.
- Meet (v. t.)
To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
- Meet (v. t.)
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
- meta (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Mete (a.)
To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.
- Mete (n.)
Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.
- Mete (n.)
Meat.
- Mete (v. i.)
To measure.
- Mete (v. i. & t.)
To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.
- Mete (v. t. & i.)
To meet.
- Tace (n.)
See Tasse.
- Tace (n.)
The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.
- Tame (a.)
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
- Tame (a.)
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
- Tame (superl.)
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- Tame (superl.)
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
- Tame (superl.)
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
- Tame (v. t.)
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
- Team (n.)
A flock of wild ducks.
- Team (n.)
A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
- Team (n.)
A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
- Team (n.)
A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
- Team (n.)
Hence, a number of animals moving together.
- Team (n.)
Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.
- Team (v. i.)
To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
- Team (v. t.)
To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.
- Teem (a.)
To think fit.
- Teem (v. i.)
To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
- Teem (v. i.)
To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
- Teem (v. t.)
To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
- Teem (v. t.)
To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
- Teem (v. t.)
To produce; to bring forth.