These are the meanings of the letters WINCHMEN when you unscramble them.
- Chime (n.)
A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
- Chime (n.)
Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
- Chime (n.)
See Chine, n., 3.
- Chime (n.)
The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
- Chime (n.)
To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
- Chime (n.)
To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
- Chime (n.)
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- Chime (n.)
To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
- Chime (v. i.)
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- Chime (v. i.)
To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- Chine (n.)
A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
- Chine (n.)
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
- Chine (n.)
The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
- Chine (n.)
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- Chine (v. t.)
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- Chine (v. t.)
Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
- hemic (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Hemin (n.)
A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.
- Miche (v. i.)
To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.
- Mince (n.)
A short, precise step; an affected manner.
- Mince (v. i.)
To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- Mince (v. i.)
To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- Mince (v. t.)
To affect; to make a parade of.
- Mince (v. t.)
To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
- Mince (v. t.)
To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
- Niche (n.)
A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
- Wench (n.)
A colored woman; a negress.
- Wench (n.)
A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
- Wench (n.)
A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
- Wench (v. i.)
To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.
- Whine (n.)
A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
- Whine (v. i.)
To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
- Whine (v. t.)
To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
- Wince (n.)
A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
- Wince (n.)
The act of one who winces.
- Wince (v. i.)
To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.
- Wince (v. i.)
To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
- Winch (n.)
A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
- Winch (n.)
A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
- Winch (n.)
A wince.
- Winch (n.)
An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
- Winch (n.)
An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
- Winch (v. i.)
To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.