These are the meanings of the letters SEPT- when you unscramble them.
- Pest (n.)
A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
- Pest (n.)
Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
- pets (unknown)
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- Sept (n.)
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
- Step (a.)
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- Step (a.)
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- Step (a.)
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- Step (a.)
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
- Step (v. i.)
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- Step (v. i.)
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- Step (v. i.)
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- Step (v. i.)
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Step (v. i.)
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
- Step (v. i.)
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
- Step (v. i.)
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
- Step (v. i.)
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
- Step (v. i.)
In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- Step (v. i.)
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- Step (v. i.)
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
- Step (v. i.)
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
- Step (v. i.)
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
- Step (v. i.)
Walk; passage.
- Step (v. t.)
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- Step (v. t.)
To set, as the foot.