These are the meanings of the letters LUCMUA when you unscramble them.
- Alum (n.)
A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
- Alum (v. t.)
To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
- Calm (n.)
Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
- Calm (n.)
To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
- Calm (n.)
To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
- Calm (super.)
Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.
- Calm (super.)
Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
- Caul (n.)
A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.
- Caul (n.)
A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.
- Caul (n.)
The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.
- Clam (n.)
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
- Clam (n.)
Claminess; moisture.
- Clam (v. i.)
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
- Clam (v. t.)
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
- Clam (v. t.)
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- Clam (v. t.)
Strong pinchers or forceps.
- Clam (v. t.)
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
- Clam (v. t. & i.)
To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
- Culm (n.)
Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
- Culm (n.)
The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
- Culm (n.)
The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
- luau (unknown)
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- luma (unknown)
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- Maul (n.)
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
- Maul (v. t.)
To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
- Maul (v. t.)
To injure greatly; to do much harm to.