These are the meanings of the letters WANLE when you unscramble them.
- Anew (adv.)
Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.
- Elan (b.)
Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
- Lane (a.)
Alone.
- Lane (n.)
A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice.
- Lawn (n.)
An open space between woods.
- Lawn (n.)
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- Lean (n.)
That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
- Lean (n.)
Unremunerative copy or work.
- Lean (v. i.)
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
- Lean (v. i.)
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
- Lean (v. i.)
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
- Lean (v. i.)
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
- Lean (v. i.)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
- Lean (v. i.)
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
- Lean (v. i.)
Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
- Lean (v. t.)
To conceal.
- Wale (n.)
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
- Wale (n.)
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
- Wale (n.)
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- Wale (n.)
A wale knot, or wall knot.
- Wale (n.)
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
- Wale (v. t.)
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
- Wale (v. t.)
To mark with wales, or stripes.
- Wane (n.)
An inequality in a board.
- Wane (n.)
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
- Wane (n.)
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
- Wane (v. i.)
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
- Wane (v. i.)
To decline; to fail; to sink.
- Wane (v. t.)
To cause to decrease.
- Weal (adv.)
A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
- Weal (adv.)
The body politic; the state; common wealth.
- Weal (n.)
The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
- Weal (v. t.)
To mark with stripes. See Wale.
- Weal (v. t.)
To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
- Wean (a.)
Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
- Wean (a.)
To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
- Wean (n.)
A weanling; a young child.