Noun

(en noun)

Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus'', ''Cyanocitta , allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, usually having a crest, and often noisy.

Other birds of similar appearance and behavior.

(archaic) A dull or ignorant person.

(slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.

* 2009 , (Caitlin Moran), The Times , 23 Mar 2009:

Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay .

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Noun

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(lb) To do with a place or places.

#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}

#*, chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}

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, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.

#A means to enter or leave a place.

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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}

#A roughly-defined geographical area.

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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.

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, chapter=2, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,

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*{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

(lb) Personal interaction.

#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.

*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:

*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .

A degree, an amount, a sense.

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*, chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

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Noun

(en noun)

The name of the letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.