These are the meanings of the letters TEFILR when you unscramble them.
- Filter (n.)
Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
- Filter (n.)
Same as Philter.
- Filter (n.)
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
- Filter (v. i.)
To pass through a filter; to percolate.
- Lifter (n.)
A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.
- Lifter (n.)
One who, or that which, lifts.
- Trifle (n.)
A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
- Trifle (n.)
A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
- Trifle (n.)
To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
- Trifle (v. t.)
To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.
- Trifle (v. t.)
To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.