a difficult situation; difficulty; distress; strait.

a clasping; a hold, grip.

the thread, helical groove (of a screw).

to suffer mental agony; to worry about; to be anxious, troubled or uneasy.

to shrink from in disgust; to detest; to abhor.

to pause or delay in acting, choosing or deciding because of unsure feeling; to waver; to hesitate.

the large very vascular red-brownish glandular organ of vertebrates located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, that secretes bile and causes important changes in many of the substances contained in the blood; the liver.

to divide (a whole) into parts, groups, etc.

(math.) to divide a quantity by another quantity.

to distribute among.

to talk quietly or furtively, as in telling a secret; to whisper.

to utter a slander about.

to utter a soft, rustling sound like a whisper.

the setting of a precious stones by bending the edge of the metal (as gold, silver, etc.) over it, in an ornament.

something whispered (as a secret); that which is uttered furtively.

the fact or condition of being associated or united with.

the fact of being sunken in (as a part of the body).