To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
To work in place of (someone).
To constitute; to measure.
To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
To clarify; to explain in detail.
Of letters: to compose (a word).
To indicate that (some event) will occur.
To rest from work for a time.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
A definite period (of work or other activity).
A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
A period of rest; time off.
A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.