Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. / (UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent / (UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.

Sharply; fiercely.

(obsolete, rare) Anger; gall; melancholy.

(mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

simple past tense of fall / (now colloquial) past participle of fall

A person who has committed a felony. / (law) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony. / A wicked person.

wicked; cruel

(medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

Appropriate, apt, fitting. / Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. / Causing happiness or pleasure. / (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.

(uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this. / (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.