These are the meanings of the letters OCTPS when you unscramble them.
- Cops (n.)
The connecting crook of a harrow.
- Cost (imp. & p. p.)
of Cost
- Cost (n.)
A rib; a side; a region or coast.
- Cost (n.)
See Cottise.
- Cost (v. t.)
Expenses incurred in litigation.
- Cost (v. t.)
Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
- Cost (v. t.)
The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
- Cost (v. t.)
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- Cost (v. t.)
To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
- cots (unknown)
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- opts (unknown)
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- Post (a.)
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
- Post (adv.)
With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
- Post (n.)
A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.
- Post (n.)
A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- Post (n.)
A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.
- Post (n.)
A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
- Post (n.)
A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
- Post (n.)
A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.
- Post (n.)
An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.
- Post (n.)
Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
- Post (n.)
One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
- Post (n.)
The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
- Post (n.)
The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
- Post (n.)
The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
- Post (v. i.)
To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
- Post (v. i.)
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
- Post (v. t.)
To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
- Post (v. t.)
To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.
- Post (v. t.)
To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
- Post (v. t.)
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
- Post (v. t.)
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
- Post (v. t.)
To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
- Post (v. t.)
To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
- pots (unknown)
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- scop (unknown)
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- Scot (n.)
A name for a horse.
- Scot (n.)
A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.
- Scot (n.)
A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.
- Spot (n.)
A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
- Spot (n.)
A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
- Spot (n.)
A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
- Spot (n.)
A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
- Spot (n.)
A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
- Spot (n.)
A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
- Spot (n.)
Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
- Spot (n.)
The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
- Spot (v. i.)
To become stained with spots.
- Spot (v. t.)
To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
- Spot (v. t.)
To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
- Spot (v. t.)
To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
- Stop (n.)
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- Stop (n.)
A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
- Stop (n.)
A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
- Stop (n.)
In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
- Stop (n.)
Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
- Stop (n.)
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
- Stop (n.)
The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
- Stop (n.)
The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
- Stop (n.)
The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
- Stop (n.)
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- Stop (v. i.)
To cease from any motion, or course of action.
- Stop (v. i.)
To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
- Stop (v. i.)
To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
- Stop (v. t.)
To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
- Stop (v. t.)
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
- Stop (v. t.)
To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
- Stop (v. t.)
To make fast; to stopper.
- Stop (v. t.)
To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
- Stop (v. t.)
To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
- Stop (v. t.)
To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
- tops (unknown)
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