An object of an ardent desire.
Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
An act of fetching data.
The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
To reduce; to throw.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Minced oath for fuck.