These are the meanings of the letters PROTEG when you unscramble them.
- Ergot (n.)
A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
- Ergot (n.)
A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
- Ergot (n.)
See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
- Ergot (n.)
The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
- Grope (v. i.)
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
- Grope (v. i.)
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
- Grope (v. t.)
To examine; to test; to sound.
- Grope (v. t.)
To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
- repot (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Toper (n.)
One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
- Trope (n.)
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
- Trope (n.)
The word or expression so used.