the place where the earth is dug, excavated; a trench; moat; a defensive ditch around a castle.

(said of soil) turned up; dug; excavated.

an artificial pond or water-tank.

a movable structure for opening or closing an entrance, as to a building or room, that usu. turns on hinges; a door.

what has happened; a thing of the past.

the act of going (away).

the state of being; condition.

the urine (usu. of an animal).

a cause; a reason.

the reddish-brown or reddish-yellow coating formed on iron or steel by oxidation, as during exposure to air and moisture; any coating or film formed on any other metal by oxidation or corrosion; rust.

a style or way of forming letters and words in writing; a hand-writing.

something written by hand as a letter.

a man who writes, esp. whose work or occupation is writing; a writer.

the prepared fiber of the husks of coconuts, used to make matting and rope; coir.

a rope or a piece of rope made of this.

(dial.) the skin (of a fruit, seed, etc.) which is removed.

any of the shaped sheets of canvas or other strong material spread to catch or deflect the wind, by means of which some vessels are driven forward; a sail.

moved away; departed; gone.

ended; over; past.

ruined.

of or relating to a former time; bygone.

descended (apparently, as the sun).

reached; arrived.

being within; inner.

deep or intense sorrow; grief.

a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere high above the general level of the ground; a cloud.

the supposed disembodied spirit of a person who was murdered.

(fig.) (a situation, condition) to be abhorrent, unbearable; to be offensive socially or morally.

a sound imitating the one produced by something that is shivering, vibrating in a tremulous motion.