To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
To convert into a stable or available form.
To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
To mend, to repair.
To prepare (food or drink).
To map a (point or subset) to itself.
fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
A repair or corrective action.
A determination of location.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
To use a shoehorn.
To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.
A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.