(nautical) A triangular sail carried on a boat's mast.

(idiomatic) To do something surprising and beneficial that is unexpected.

A mechanical parameter indicating a material's ability to resist deformation under load.

(obsolete) A solution of silica, or flints, in potash.

discouraged

(law, historical) The giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take an oath in open court that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven compurgators who would avow that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth.

(fandom slang, idiomatic) To remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction.

(obsolete, idiomatic) For the sake of all love; by all means.

(colloquial) Unhinged; disturbed; disordered. / (colloquial, archaic) Superseded. / (colloquial, archaic) Dead.

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