Alternative form of -a (“empty syllable added to songs, poetry, verse and other speech”)

(Chester) Used as a prefix to verbs in the sense of remaining in the same condition. Actively doing something.

(nonstandard) A syllable added by a speaker supposed to be Italian, or used to mimic or mock Italian accents; a pseudo-Italian syllable.

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. / (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. / (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. / (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. / A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.