Sunday, October 6, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 330

Number of Answers: 67

Points Needed for Genius: 231

Genius requires between 34 and 56 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 330 was in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 8, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 67 possible answers rank it in the 97th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 23, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 5, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.5.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 182
  • loll 174
  • toot 164
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 122
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 110
  • anal 107
  • onto 107
  • toon 107
  • onion 106
  • boob 105
  • booboo 105
  • anon 103
  • olio 102
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 98
  • poop 98
  • dodo 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • cocci 95
  • ratatat 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 94
  • tact 92
  • mono 91
  • moon 91
  • epee 90
  • nanny 90
  • peep 90
  • tattoo 90
  • tutu 90
  • loon 89
  • nada 89
  • radar 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,484 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,278 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • agee
  • agene
  • aggada
  • aglee
  • alang
  • anga
  • angeled
  • anlage
  • anlagen
  • clag
  • clagged
  • cleg
  • dagga
  • daggle
  • daggled
  • danegeld
  • danged
  • degage
  • egal
  • gaed
  • gaen
  • gaged
  • gaggled
  • galanga
  • galea
  • galeae
  • galed
  • galena
  • gane
  • gangle
  • gangled
  • gean
  • geed
  • gelada
  • genned
  • glaced
  • glaceed
  • gladded
  • gled
  • glede
  • gleed
  • gleg
  • lagan
  • lagend
  • lang
  • ledged
  • naga
  • nagana

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

adage

noun
  1. An old saying which has obtained credit by long use
  2. An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim

aged

verb
  1. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
  2. To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
  3. To categorize by age.
  4. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
noun
  1. Old people, collectively.
adjective
  1. Old.
  2. (chiefly non-US) Having the age of.
  3. Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.

agenda

noun
  1. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
  2. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
  3. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
  4. A hidden agenda.
  5. A ritual.
noun
  1. A task which ought to be done.

alga

noun
  1. Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

algae

noun
  1. Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
noun
  1. Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.
  2. A particular kind of algae.

algal

noun
  1. An alga.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to, or like, algae

allege

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To state under oath, to plead.
  2. To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
  3. To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
  4. To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lighten, diminish.

alleged

verb
  1. To state under oath, to plead.
  2. To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
  3. To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
  4. To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
verb
  1. To lighten, diminish.
adjective
  1. Asserted but not proved.
  2. Supposed but doubtful.

angel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
  2. (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
  3. A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.
  4. Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
  5. (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic church.
  6. An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
  7. (originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
  8. An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
  9. An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity; an angel investor.
  10. The person who funds a show.
verb
  1. To support by donating money.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A person who has Angelman syndrome.

angle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
  2. The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
  3. A corner where two walls intersect.
  4. A change in direction.
  5. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
  6. The focus of a news story.
  7. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
  8. A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
  9. An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
  10. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
  11. Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
verb
  1. (often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
  2. To change direction rapidly.
  3. To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
  4. (cue sports) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
verb
  1. To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
  2. (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.

angled

verb
  1. (often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
  2. To change direction rapidly.
  3. To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
  4. (cue sports) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
verb
  1. To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
  2. (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
adjective
  1. Arranged so as to form an angle.
  2. Forming an angle of a particular type.

cadge

noun
  1. A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
verb
  1. To beg.
  2. To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
  3. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
  4. To carry, as a burden.
  5. To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
  6. To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

cadged

verb
  1. To beg.
  2. To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
  3. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
  4. To carry, as a burden.
  5. To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
  6. To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

cage

noun
  1. An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
  2. The passenger compartment of a lift.
  3. (water polo) The goal.
  4. An automobile.
  5. Something that hinders freedom.
  6. The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
  7. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
  8. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
  9. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
  10. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
  11. The catcher's wire mask.
  12. A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
verb
  1. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
  2. To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
  3. To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.

caged

verb
  1. To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
  2. To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
  3. To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
adjective
  1. Confined in a cage.
  2. Of eggs: produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.

clang

noun
  1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
  2. Quality of tone.
  3. The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
  4. A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
verb
  1. To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
  2. To give out a clang; to resound.
noun
  1. Any periodic sound, especially one composed of a fundamental and harmonics, as opposed to simple periodic sounds (sine tones).

clanged

verb
  1. To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
  2. To give out a clang; to resound.

dang

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.
verb
  1. Damn.
adjective
  1. Damn.
interjection
  1. Damn.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
  3. To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  4. To fire or reject.
  5. To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  6. To mishit (a golf ball).

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To dash.

dangle

noun
  1. An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
  2. The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
  3. A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
  1. To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
  2. The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
  3. To hang or trail something loosely.
  4. To trail or follow around.
  5. Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
  6. To position (a patient) in this way.

dangled

verb
  1. To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
  2. The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
  3. To hang or trail something loosely.
  4. To trail or follow around.
  5. Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
  6. To position (a patient) in this way.

eagle

noun
  1. Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
  2. A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
  3. A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.
  4. A score of two under par for a hole.
verb
  1. To score an eagle.

eagled

verb
  1. To score an eagle.

edge

noun
  1. The boundary line of a surface.
  2. A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
  3. An advantage.
  4. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
  5. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  6. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  7. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
  8. A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  9. A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  10. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

edged

verb
  1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
  6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
adjective
  1. That has a sharp planar surface.
  2. Followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

egad

interjection
  1. A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc.

egged

verb
  1. To throw eggs at.
  2. To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
  3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
verb
  1. To encourage, incite.

elegance

noun
  1. Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
  2. Restraint and grace of style.
  3. The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
  4. A refinement or luxury.

encage

verb
  1. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.

encaged

verb
  1. To lock inside a cage; to imprison.

engage

verb
  1. (heading) To interact socially.
  2. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
  3. (heading) To interact contractually.
  4. (heading) To interact mechanically.
  5. To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
  6. To entangle.

engaged

verb
  1. (heading) To interact socially.
  2. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
  3. (heading) To interact contractually.
  4. (heading) To interact mechanically.
  5. To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
  6. To entangle.
adjective
  1. Agreed to be married.
  2. Busy or employed.
  3. Greatly interested.
  4. (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
  5. (of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  6. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
  7. Being attacked or attacking
  8. (of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.

gadded

verb
  1. To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

gaga

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Mentally senile.
  2. Crazy.
  3. Infatuated.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.

gage

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
  2. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
verb
  1. To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
  2. To wager, to bet.
  3. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  2. An act of measuring.
  3. An estimate.
  4. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
  5. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
  6. The distance between the rails of a railway.
  7. A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  8. The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
  9. Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
  10. The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  11. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
  12. That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
  13. A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
  14. (by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
  15. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
verb
  1. To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
  2. To estimate.
  3. To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
  4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
  5. To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
  6. To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A quart pot.
  2. A pint pot.
  3. (metonymically) A drink.
  4. A tobacco pipe.
  5. A chamberpot.
  6. A small quantity of anything.
  7. Marijuana

gagged

verb
  1. To experience the vomiting reflex.
  2. To cause to heave with nausea.
  3. To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
  4. To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
  5. To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
  6. To choke; to retch.
  7. To deceive (someone); to con.

gaggle

noun
  1. (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
  2. (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things.
verb
  1. To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

gala

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Pomp, show, or festivity.
  2. A showy and festive party.
adjective
  1. Celebratory; festive.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.

galangal

noun
  1. Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.

gale

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To sing; charm; enchant.
  2. To cry; groan; croak.
  3. (of a person) To talk.
  4. (of a bird) To call.
  5. To sing; utter with musical modulations.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
  2. An outburst, especially of laughter.
  3. A light breeze.
  4. A song or story.
verb
  1. To sail, or sail fast.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.

gall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
  2. The gall bladder.
  3. Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
  4. A feeling of exasperation.
  5. Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
  6. A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
  7. A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
  8. A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
verb
  1. To bother or trouble.
  2. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
  3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
  4. To exasperate.
  5. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
  6. To scoff; to jeer.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
  2. A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
  1. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

galled

verb
  1. To bother or trouble.
  2. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
  3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
  4. To exasperate.
  5. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
  6. To scoff; to jeer.
verb
  1. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

gang

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To go; walk; proceed.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
  2. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.
  3. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
  4. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
  5. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
  6. A chain gang.
  7. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
  8. A set; all required for an outfit.
  9. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
  10. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
  11. A going, journey; a course, path, track.
  12. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
verb
  1. To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To participate in a gangbang.
  2. To beat one or a smaller amount of people as a gang.
  3. To belong to a gang; to commit criminal acts as part of a gang.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.

ganged

verb
  1. To go; walk; proceed.
verb
  1. To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
verb
  1. To participate in a gangbang.
  2. To beat one or a smaller amount of people as a gang.
  3. To belong to a gang; to commit criminal acts as part of a gang.

gangland

noun
  1. The underworld of organized crime.

geld

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Money.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
verb
  1. To castrate a male (usually an animal).
  2. To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.

gelded

verb
  1. To castrate a male (usually an animal).
  2. To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
adjective
  1. Castrated.

gelee

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gelled

verb
  1. To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
  2. To become a gel.
  3. To develop a rapport.
adjective
  1. Enclosed in a gel

gene

noun
  1. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

glace

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glad

verb
  1. To make glad
adjective
  1. Pleased, happy, gratified.
  2. Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.

gladden

verb
  1. To cause (something) to become more glad.
  2. To become more glad in one's disposition.

gladdened

verb
  1. To cause (something) to become more glad.
  2. To become more glad in one's disposition.

glade

noun
  1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
  2. An everglade.
  3. An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
  4. A bright surface of ice or snow.
  5. A gleam of light.
  6. A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.

glance

noun
  1. A brief or cursory look.
  2. A deflection.
  3. A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
  4. A sudden flash of light or splendour.
  5. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
  6. Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
  7. Glance coal.
verb
  1. To look briefly (at something).
  2. To graze a surface.
  3. To sparkle.
  4. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
  5. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
  6. To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
  7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
  8. A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.

glanced

verb
  1. To look briefly (at something).
  2. To graze a surface.
  3. To sparkle.
  4. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
  5. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
  6. To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
  7. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
  8. A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.

gland

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
  2. A secretory structure on the surface of an organ.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as:

glean

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A collection made by gleaning.
verb
  1. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
  2. To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
  3. To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
  4. To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Cleaning; afterbirth

gleaned

verb
  1. To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
  2. To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
  3. To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
  4. To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.

glee

noun
  1. Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
  2. Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
  3. An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
verb
  1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

glen

noun
  1. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

lagged

verb
  1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
  2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
  3. To transport as a punishment for crime.
  4. To cause to lag; to slacken.

ledge

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  3. A layer or stratum.
  4. A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  5. A (door or window) lintel.
  6. A cornice.
  7. A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
verb
  1. To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lege; a legend.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A provincial or territorial legislature building.
  2. A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

legend

noun
  1. An unrealistic story depicting past events.
  2. A person related to a legend or legends.
  3. A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
  4. An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
  5. A musical composition set to a poetical story.
verb
  1. To tell or narrate; to recount.

legged

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
adjective
  1. Having legs, or a certain type or number of legs

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
  2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
  3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

nagged

verb
  1. To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
  2. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
  3. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.