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 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 attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
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.
Coal tar.
A file produced by such a program.
A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
Black tar, a form of heroin.
A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
To besmirch.
To create a tar archive.
To coat with tar.