These are the meanings of the letters EOPLA- when you unscramble them.
- Aloe (n.)
A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
- Aloe (n.)
The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.
- Aloe (n.)
The wood of the agalloch.
- Leap (n.)
A basket.
- Leap (n.)
A fault.
- Leap (n.)
A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
- Leap (n.)
A weel or wicker trap for fish.
- Leap (n.)
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- Leap (n.)
The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
- Leap (v. i.)
To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
- Leap (v. i.)
To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
- Leap (v. t.)
To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
- Leap (v. t.)
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
- Leap (v. t.)
To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
- Lope (imp.)
of Leap.
- Lope (n.)
A leap; a long step.
- Lope (n.)
An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
- Lope (v. i.)
To leap; to dance.
- Lope (v. i.)
To move with a lope, as a horse.
- Olea (n.)
A genus of trees including the olive.
- Opal (n.)
A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.
- Pale (n.)
A cheese scoop.
- Pale (n.)
A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
- Pale (n.)
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- Pale (n.)
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
- Pale (n.)
A stripe or band, as on a garment.
- Pale (n.)
One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
- Pale (n.)
Paleness; pallor.
- Pale (n.)
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
- Pale (v. i.)
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
- Pale (v. i.)
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
- Pale (v. i.)
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
- Pale (v. t.)
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
- Pale (v. t.)
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- Peal (n.)
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
- Peal (n.)
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
- Peal (n.)
A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
- Peal (v. i.)
To appeal.
- Peal (v. i.)
To resound; to echo.
- Peal (v. i.)
To utter or give out loud sounds.
- Peal (v. t.)
To assail with noise or loud sounds.
- Peal (v. t.)
To pour out.
- Peal (v. t.)
To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
- Plea (n.)
A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.
- Plea (n.)
An urgent prayer or entreaty.
- Plea (n.)
That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.
- Plea (n.)
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology.
- Pole (n.)
A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
- Pole (n.)
A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
- Pole (n.)
A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
- Pole (n.)
A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
- Pole (n.)
Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
- Pole (n.)
One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
- Pole (n.)
See Polarity, and Polar, n.
- Pole (n.)
The firmament; the sky.
- Pole (v. t.)
To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
- Pole (v. t.)
To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
- Pole (v. t.)
To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
- Pole (v. t.)
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.