a long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.

a person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

to give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

in a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

an area on a ship's deck or on the roof of a house used for sunbathing.

grim or severe in manner or appearance; lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.

a white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

joy; pleasure.

placed at an angle, on a slant.

either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

the time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.

superlative form of keen: most keen ("eager, enthusiastic, interested").

To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).

Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a sheep; or resembling a sheep in character; acquiescent, easily influenced, passive, or willing to follow a leader blindly.

Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.

a place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).

to make (a bill) into law; to do; to effect

Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.