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 put in place to perform a task.
To put in place to perform military duty.
A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
Standing; rank; position.
A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
Any of the Stations of the Cross.
A gas station, service station.
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
A place where some object is provided.
A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
A military base.
An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
A ground transportation depot.
A very large sheep or cattle farm.
The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
A broadcasting entity.
Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.