These are the meanings of the letters INSGELH when you unscramble them.
- English (a.)
Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
- English (a.)
See 1st Bond, n., 8.
- English (n.)
A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
- English (n.)
A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
- English (n.)
Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
- English (n.)
The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
- English (v. t.)
To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.
- English (v. t.)
To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
- Shingle (n.)
A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
- Shingle (n.)
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
- Shingle (n.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
- Shingle (v. t.)
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
- Shingle (v. t.)
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
- Shingle (v. t.)
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.