* Collins/CSW-only 3s *

Trying to learn Collins?  Chris Lipe has made it a lot easier for you....

Hey, you!  Yeah, you! Don't look around, I'm talking to you.  This is a new
year.  A new dawn.  And 2011 is going to be the year you try playing
Collins.

"Oh, noes!" you cry.  "There's so many new words! How can I keep them all
straight?  The threes are basic, and I'll never keep them all straight."
This is where I come to the rescue.

So now that you're sober enough from New Year's Eve to legally drive, I
present to you, in burritobetical[1] order, part one of a twenty-six part
series.

These definitions are from google, wiktionary, wikipedia, etc; not from the
Collins dictionary per se (unless I can't find other references).

Welcome to... the Collins-Only Threes:


BAC# - a baccalaureate degree, known in France as "le bac".  Also known as
le bac by English students who might go to France.

BEZ# - Wiki sez: Hunters have developed terms for antler parts: beam, palm,
brow, bez# or bay, trez# or tray, royal, and surroyal. These are the main
shaft, flattened center, first tine, second tine, third tine, fourth tine,
and fifth or higher tines, respectively. The second branch is also called an
advancer. BEZES# and TREZES#.

BOH# - Interjection, like "BOO!" Also as a noun - BOHS#

BOI# - As in sk8r. BOIS#  Note you cannot play SK?R and designate the blank
an 8.

BOK# - An antelope that comes in reit* and spring varities. That, or the
noise a chicken makes. BOK# BOK#!!! BOKS# (not a verb)

BON# - Can't find it in wiktionary or dictionary.com. Assume adjective, from
the French? In any case, it does not take the mouse[2].

BOR# - Norfolk (England not Virginia) dialect for "boy". BORS#

BRU# - Bro, as in "Hey, bro!" but to Saffers. In Wales, BRA is used in the
same sense.  BRUS#

CAA# - Scots verb meaning "call". CAAS#, CAAED#, CAAING#. Check out this
link: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Fishermans_Wife.htm
One of the most striking things about it is how many of the strange Scots
words here are actually in the OWL. Even more are # -- PUIR#, DEID#, SMA#,
etc. (Some are *, natch.)

	Interestingly enough, of this line: *Fen we gaun tae the sma lines in the
	mornin. *the only # word is SMA#.  Make of this what you will.

Also awesome: *She'll be caaed# sair# deen# in the mornin'.*

CAG# - a CAGOULE# (KAGOUL#, KAGOOL#, KAGOULE#); a lightweight knee-length
waterproof parka. CAGS#

CAZ# - Apparently this is the Vegas cocktail waitress that Michael Phelps is
dating. It's also slang for "casual" as in "business caz".

CHA# - Tea. CHAS#

CHE# - IIRC, this is related to CH#, and is a slightly less proper form
meaning "I". Ch can't find any references that don't have long flowing hair
and a hardline Communist ideology, so, yeah. Maybe it's an adjective --
there's also CHER# and CHEST.

CID# - Wiki says it's a slang term for LSD, so we'll go with that. CIDS#

CIT# - In religions of the Indian subcontinent, CIT# (or CHIT) is the
consciousness, the sense that interprets all the other senses. CITS#

CLY# - To steal; CLIES#, CLIED#, CLYING#. Used in Ulysses.

CUZ# - Probably how our COZ ought to be spelt, cuz that's how it sounds.

DAE# - Scots for "to do". DAES#, DID, DAEING#

DAS# - DA# means PA.  I think it's an Irish dialect?

DEG# - A degging# can is a watering can. Also degged#, degs#.  Here's
today's Scottish Poem of the Day: http://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html

DEI# - Plural of DEUS#, obvi* Latin.

DIV# - A common, somewhat rude insult in the UK for a stupid person.  (Rude
perhaps in the sense of calling someone a "retard".)  Wiktionary gives a lot
of interesting other choices. It can be the integer division dunction. It
can be short for divinity (as a school course, like "math" for mathematics).
It can be the second of a web page inside a div# tag. DIVS#. Note that DIVI#
(DIVIS#) seems like it would be an incredibly useful word. DIVI# is (dated)
UK slang for "dividend".

DOB# - Australian slang to report someone for wrongdoing. DOBS#, DOBBED#,
DOBBING# and DOBBER#.

DOD# - DODDED# seems to mean, well, dodded# cattle are cattle whose horns
have been removed, and dodded# corn, without the tassel. So, DODS#,
DODDING#. DODDING# has a great Urban Dictionary definition, BTW.

DOF# - From Afrikaans, adjective meaning "stupid". No mouse.

DOH# - It's probably an alternate spelling of the note DO, but it's just as
well to define it like Homer Simpson. Doh#!. Takes the mouse. Also, DOHYO#
takes the mouse. (Note FA -> FAH# and LA -> LAH# also.)

DOO# - We have POO, DOODOO,and DOODY, but DOO# (DOOS#) is Collins-only, even
though all of them are equally common in American language. Whatev*.

DOP# - As we've learned from Joey Mallick, South African slang for "failed".
DOPS#, DOPPED#, DOPPING#, DOPPER#

DOY# - A northern England term of endearment like "hon". DOYS#. We have
DOYLY in the OWL.

DSO# - Alternate spelling for one of the most popular bovines in the
Scrabble world. The ZO# is a male hybrid between a yak and a domesticated
cow.

DUX# - From the Latin for leader, it's the Scottish, Kiwi, and/or Aussie
term for valedictorian. It takes DUXES# as well as the Latin plural DUCES
(which is in OWL for a different reason.)

DZO# - Yes, our friend the ZO#. Other spellings:

	*dso dzo dzho zho zo* a cross between a yak and a cow.
	*dsobo zobo zobu* a male ZO.
	*dsomo jomo zhomo* a female ZO.
	All take the mouse.

EAN# - AFAICT EAN# is to YEAN as EANLING is to YEANLING. EANED#, EANING#,
EANS#.

EAS# - EA# is a river in Scots dialect.

ECH# - Same as ECHE, meaning EKE, so ECHES, ECHED, ECHING (all in ours).
Also EECH# as a regular verb.

ECO# - I've got to imagine this is someone or something that is
environmentally friendly. ECOS#. Also, the awesome ECONUT#.

EEN# - EE# -> EEN# as EYE -> EYEN. It's the only plural, though -- no EES*.
Here's the Scottish poem of the day:

http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_brae.htm

EHS# - The Canadian national pastime, to inflict, the word "eh" on someone.
EHED#, EHING#, like AHS, AHED and AHING.

EIK# - Scots varient of EKE. EIKS#, EIKED# and EIKING#.

ELT# - Dorset slang for a young sow that has not given birth. A teenybopper
pig, perhaps.

EMO# - One of the more salient examples of very common words that are
Collins-only. Takes the mouse, yes, as it's a genre of crappy music, too.

ENE# - A poetical form of "evening", but it seems like it's "evening" as in
"Christmas Eve" or "Hallowe'en". ENES#. Could also refer to the class of
organic chemicals, though that's usually indicated by -ene. Also, the
Spanish name for the tilde (en-yay). That's not really relevant here.

ERF# - from Afrikaans, a plot of land. No mouse; plural ERVEN#

ERK# - An aircraftman in the RAF. Perhaps a phonetic spelling of the
abbreviation airc. ERKS#

EST# - An old term for "grace" or "favour". ESTS#

EUK# - EUKS#, EUKED#, EUKING#. To itch, same as YEUK. Although while
googling I saw a link for xxx euking videos. I do not want to know.

EVO# - Hmm. This appears to be different from EVOE#, EVOHE#, as the latter
two don't take the mouse but EVO# does. The only usage I could find on
Google was as in "evo psych", a shortened form of "evolutionary".... Aha!
The ABSP says it's "evening". Probably similar to ARVO.

EWK# - Same as EUK#. Does not take a front D hook, much to Mr. Koenig's
dismay.

EWT# - A newt; this is an old form of the word ostensibly from mishearing "a
newt" as "an ewt". Sort of like NUNCLE except backwards.

EXO# - Adjective, meaning "excellent".  Mostly an Australian usage, I
believe.

FAA# - Scots, to fall. FAAS#, FAAN#, FAAING#, (no faaed*). This
discussion thread (http://www.scotland.com/forums/language/25228-how-aboot-wee-bit-doric.html)  
amuses me... nae pint in faaing# doon# fae# tripping ower# yer*
pints afore ye get a pint doon# yer* moo min*. Note that OWER# is not
an agent noun -- it means "over" and does not take the mouse!

FAE# - Does not take the mouse. Either an alternate of FEY, or a
northern Scots variation of FRAE (from).

FAH# - English spelling of the note FA. FAHS#. Also DOH# and LAH#.

FAP# - Not a verb. Not. A. Verb. Seriously, it's an adjective, it
means "drunk", and get your minds out of the gutter.

FAW# - A term for gypsies in the north of England.

FEG# - Scottish or Northern English pronouncation of FIG, where FIG is
a segment of an orange.

FRA# - The title of address for a Catholic friar, from the Italian. FRAS#.

FUM# - FEE, FIE and FOH are all in the OWL. FUM#, however, is not.
Takes the mouse -- FUMS#. Also, note, FOHS#. Not FIES* though.
Actually... FUM# or FUNG# is a mythical Chinese bird, born of fire,
presiding over the destinies of the Chinese empire.  Not really
related, note FOHS#.

GAU# - An old traditional German regional subdivision, similar to an
English shire; resurrected by the Nazis, so today it has Nazi
connotations.  Those bastards. Led by a GAULEITER (which is OWL).
Takes the mouse and not the German plural.

GEO# - Shetland slang for a gully. Like a river gully, not the gully
in cricket. Also GIO#, GOE#. All take the mouse. Pertinent link (
http://www.mvhalton.co.uk/shet/lerwick.htm ): (of a shipwreck): She
now lies in a geo (small gully in the rocks) at the base of
Kirkabister Light, the distinctive lighthouse that marks the entrance
to Lerwick Harbour. She was blown into the geo stem first so the stern
now lies tightly wedged into the gully down to about 18m.

GIF# - Not "graphics interchange format", it's "an archaic form of if"
and doesn't take the mouse.

GIO# - See GEO#

GIS# - Of all the Collins twos, GI# may be the one with the strongest
case to be in the OWL. It's a word in pretty common usage in the US to
name the uniform worn in karate or judo.

GJU# - Also spelt GU#, GUE#, it's a kind of lute formerly played in
the Shetland Islands. There have been no GJUS# since the early 19th
century, sadly.

GOE# - See GEO#

GON# - Also grad, it's the angular unit you get when you divide the
circle into 400 parts. It's kind of a metric version of degrees -- see
wiki for more information. Mouse.

GOV# - Short for "governor". A state-level version of PREZ, perhaps.
Takes the mouse.

GUB# - Also GUBBAH#, how Australian Aborigines refer to non-Aborigines
(whites). Also perhaps Scottish slang for "mouth". GUBS# GUBBAHS#

GUE# - see GJU#

GUP# - Gossip. Most of the Google hits I found were for Bollywood gup.
Just a noun - takes the mouse.

GUR# - Also JAGGERY (in OWL), it's a traditional unrefined sugar
product made from cane sugar or palm tree sugar. Wiki had a delicious
looking article.  GURS#

GUS# - GU# -- see GJU#

HAN# - It's an olden past tense of "have". In very general terms, if
Spenser used something a lot, it's going to end up in the book. This
is an example of that.

To wit:

    But they bene hyred* for little pay
    Of other, that caren* as little as they,
    What fallen the flocke*, so they han# the fleece,
    And get all the gayne*, paying but a peece#.

It doesn't take the mouse but at the front.  I guess that means it
takes the smouse#.

HOA# - HOAS#, HOAED#, HOAING#, means "to stop". I can't tell any more
than that, except to guess it's related to "WHOA" which also means
stop. Except HOA is a verb and WHOA an interjection.

HOC# - Latin for "this" as in ad hoc or post hoc, etc. No mouse.

HOH# - This means water! No, actually, it's the noise Santa makes.
HOHS#, HOHED#, HOHING#. Also, note HO HOED HOING# HOEING.

HOI# - Dutch for Hi! It's an interjection used to attract attention --
hoi there! No mouse -- the only back hook is HOIK# (also the only
front hook for OIK#) Unrelated, HOISIN# is missing from the OWL. Hmm.

HOM# - HOM#, HOMA#, HAOMA# is a plant sacred in Persian and
Zoroastrian culture. See Wiki's article on HAOMA. All take mice.

HOO# - The pronoun "she" in a Lancashire dialect, as in "Hoo# dat*
said they was gonna beat dem* Saints?" (The 7-9 Seahawks, apparently.)

HOX# - Shakespearean, meaning "hock" or "hamstring": From The Winter's
Tale, Act I, Scene II:

    To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,
    If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,
    Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining
    From course required; or else thou must be counted
    A servant grafted in my serious trust
    And therein negligent; or else a fool
    That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,
    And takest it all for jest.

HUI# - A Maori social gathering or assembly. From the New Zealand
Herald paper, 15 Dec 2010:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10694482

	    A group of iwi is holding its own constitutional review rejecting
	the official Government run process.
	
	    A constitutional review to be led by the Government and the Maori
	Party was announced last week. The three-year review would examine
	electoral issues, the role of the Treaty of Waitangi, and whether New
	Zealand should have a written constitution.
	
	    Following a national hui in February a working group on
	constitutional transformation led by Professor Margaret Mutu and Moana
	Jackson was set up and it met last weekend at Waipapa Marae at the
	University of Auckland.

HYE# - Hie. HYED#, HYEING# HYING is in the OWL.

IDE# - Also called the ORFE#, it's an Old World fish of the Carp /
Minnow ish# family. It's also been (gasp!) introduced to New Zealand.
That was a bad move as now they are spreading; there are ides on the
march.  (hehe)

IOS# - Plural of IO# - it's a moth. The io moth is found all over the
US and Canada, except on Scrabble boards.

ISH# - Around; near; close to; resembling... "Meet at five?" "Ish."
Also a legal term meaning "issue" or "expiry" so there's also ISHES#.
I like my definition better.

ISO# - From the TV industry, an isolated camera. Takes the mouse.

ITA# - A South American palm tree.

IWI# - A large social unit of Maori. Could be a tribe or a group of
tribes. Iwis exercise great political power in New Zealand today with
respect to certain issues such as land management, etc. It's actually
quite a common word, too; if you do a google news search for iwi
you'll get references of it in use.

JAI# - An Indian interjection meaning "victory", an interjection like
VIVE. No mouse.

JAK# - The JACKFRUIT, also JAKFRUIT#, it's the national fruit of
Bangladesh. Takes the mouse.

	The JAK words: JAK# JAKS# JAKE JAKES JAKEY# JAKEYS# JAKESES# JAKFRUIT#
	JAKFRUITS#

JAP# - Not the ethnic slur. It means the same as JAPAN -- it's a verb.
JAPS# JAPPED# JAPPING#.

JIZ# - No. It's not that. Yes, JIZZ# is a word too. It's still not
*that*. (Oh god, I can't google# this at work, can I?) It's also spelt
GIZZ# and it means "wig" and it's Scottish, found in Robert Burns
poetry, etc. Pervs.

JOL# - From Afrikaans, it means "party". A verb - JOLS#, JOLED#,
JOLING#. Note there's also JOLL# JOLLED# JOLLING#; I don't know what
that means because I'm only researching threes.

JOR# - The second movement of a raga. The first movement is the slow
ALAP# and the third is the JHALA#. All take mice. Also ALAAP# and ALAPA#.

JUD# - Northern English dialect, it's a block of coal about 4 yards
square, cut and ready for extraction. Takes the mouse.

Also, it's not a three, but you should know about SJOE#. It's
pronounced kind of like "shoo" and it's an Afrikaans interjection
similar to "Phew!". It does not take the mouse

KAI# - From the Maori word for "food", it's New Zealand slang similar
to "grub", "chow", "tucker", etc. Takes the mouse.

KAK# - South African, from the Afrikaans slang for crap. Takes the mouse.

KAM# - Adjective meaning "messed up", as in the phrase "clean kam" -->
"fubar". Doesn't take the mouse. Shakespearean: Coriolanus, Act III, Scene 1:

    SICINIUS: This is clean kam.

    BRUTUS: Merely awry: when he did love his country,
    It honour'd him.


KAW# - Another spelling of CAW. Googleing "Crow kawed" makes it appear
cromulent.

KEB# - To give birth to a lamb prematurely. Generally referring to the
ewe, of course.  From here (http://fiction.eserver.org/novels/black_dwarf.html):

	    The legend accounted for this name and appearance by the
	catastrophe of a noted and most formidable witch who frequented these
	hills in former days, causing the ewes to keb, and the kine to cast
	their forgotten, and the old shepherd Bauldie told so many stories of
	him, that they excited a good deal of interest.

KED# - An awesome sneaker. Actually, it's also a parasitic fly that
infests sheep: wikipedia link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_ked)

KET# - This is one of those words that's a common word because I know
it, and as such ought to be in every dictionary we use. bra-ket
notation is used to describe states in quantum mechanics, and the ket
part of that, ie the right hand side, is used in quantum computing to
describe the quantum states of registers (qubits). kets#

KON# - From Spenser, a verb "to know", probably similar to KEN. KONS#
KOND# KONNING#, but not KONNED*

KOW# - A Scotch word for twigs which can be cut and made into a bundle.

KYU# - The OWL word DAN is one of the levels of expertise in judo or
other martial arts; a KYU# is one of the student-level grades for
novices. Takes the mouse.

LAH# - As we've seen with DOH and FAH, this is an alternate spelling
for the solfege syllable.

LEP# - Means LEAP, an Irish dialectical variation, I believe, or an
old obsolete one. LEPPED#, LEPPING#, LEPT

LEW# - Adjective meaning "lukewarm".  No comparison, no mouse.

LIG# - OK this is awesome. LIGGING# is when you crash a party, usually
an entertainment industry party, for the free food and booze. LIGGER#
and LIGGINGS# as well. LIGGERS# are the rockstar* groupies that don't
put out -- they just show up for free beer. (Yes, CSW has a different
definition but this one's way better. LIGGED# LIGS# LIGGEN# as well)

LOD# -The CSW definition of this is beautifully useless. LOD# is an
acronym for Logarithm of Odds, and it's a way of showing a likeliness
that two events are linked. It's used in genetics to determine if two
traits are linked, especially in complicated situations, like, say, is
a certain marker that increases the risk of some disease linked with
some other trait. The wikipedia article on "genetic linkage" has more
information if you're interested. And by the way, LOD# takes the
mouse.

LOR# - An interjection, like "lord" as in "Oh, lord, what's happened
now?" No mouse, natch.

LOS# - LO in ours is a mouseless interjection, but in Collins it
becomes a noun, meaning "praise" which fits with the sense of the OWL
interjection.

LOU# - As in "Skip To My". Scots, meaning "love", it works as a verb as well.

LOY# - A narrow spade with a footrest used in rocky soils of Ireland.
Here's some pictures of people lounging on loys.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~tintern/newpage25.htm

LUD# - Lord, as in addressed a judge in court, m' lud. Takes the mouse.

LUR# - A crazy looking curved trumpet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lur Takes the mouse.

LUZ# -The luz is a small bone, either at the top of the spinal column,
or right below the coccyx, which, in Jewish and Muslim traditions, is
indestructible, and is the bone from which the body will be
resurrected at the appropriate time. LUZZES#

LYM# - A bloodhound. Shakespearean -- King Lear, Act III Scene vi:

    EDGAR: Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!
    Be thy mouth or black or white,
    Tooth that poisons if it bite;
    Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,
    Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,
    Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,
    Tom will make them weep and wail:
    For, with throwing thus my head,
    Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.
    Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and
    fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.

Note also SESSA#, also spelt CEAS# and CAESE#, none of which take the mouse.

MAA# - The noise made by Collins-only sheep. Verb, just like BAA. From
Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes": The cows mooed, the sheep maaed, the
goat ehehed, the birds twittered in the trees, and the beep beep of a
motor car cut through everything. (EHEH* of course.)

MAK# - Wearside (in North East England) dialect for MAKE. MAKS#, MADE,
MAKING, etc.  The people there are sometimes referred to as "Mackems"
from the way they pronounce "mak".  (Similarly there is TAK# as well.)

MAL# - As in the seizure, meaning "illness". MALS#

MAM# - Mom. MAMS#. Also, sort of related, MARM#, altho OWL has SCHOOLMARM.

MEE# - A kind of Malaysian noodle, similar to the Chinese MEIN#. MEES#, MEINS#

MES# - CSW says it's the plural of the diatonic note ME, which, I
mean, come on, guys:

	DO DI# RE RI* MI FA FI* SO SI LA LI TI DO...DO TI TE# LA LE* SO SE* FA
	MI ME RE RA* DO.
	
	Whatever.

MEU# - A common name for the European SPIGNEL# plant. Note MEUS# -> MEUSE#

MIZ# - Slang for "miserable" as in "Les Miz". Note MIZZ# is the spoken
nounified form of Ms., and pluralizes to MIZZES#.

MNA# - Another spelling of MINA, an ancient Greek unit of weight. Only
plural is MNAS# (as opposed to MINAS and MINAE). Also in the title of
the famous song, "Mna mna."

MOE# - I'm not going to look this up in CSW because this definition is
awesome: Pronounced as two syllables. From the Japanese for "budding",
it's a slang term that describes... hmm. I get the feeling that
"someone who is attracted to anime girls" is way too simplistic to
capture the nuance here, but hopefully someone will explain it to me.
MOES#. Note that MOER# is an unrelated verb, probably related to the
Afrikaans "moer" which means to hit someone really hard.

MOI# - From the French, "used facetiously in English" sez# CSW, which
is really awesome for a dictionary to capture that.

MOU# - Scots for "mouth", MOUS#, and now we get another Scottish Song
of the Day: http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_lairdie.htm

    Come up amang* our Hieland. Hills,
    Thou wee, wee German lairdie*,
    An' see the Stuart's lang kail thrive,
    They hae dibbled in our kail-yairdie.
    An' if a stock ye daur# to pu',
    Or haud# the yokin' o' a plough,
    We'll break your sceptre owre# your mou#,
    Ye feckless German lairdie.

MOY# - Shakespearean. It's... a coin, or something of value.... look
for yourself.  King Henry V, Act IV Scene iv:

    PISTOL: Yield, cur!

    French Soldier: Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.

    PISTOL: Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
    what is thy name? discuss.

    French Soldier: O Seigneur Dieu!

    PISTOL: O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
    Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
    O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
    Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
    Egregious ransom.

    French Soldier: O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!

    PISTOL: Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
    Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
    In drops of crimson blood.

    French Soldier: Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?

    PISTOL: Brass, cur!
    Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
    Offer'st me brass?

    French Soldier: O pardonnez moi!

    PISTOL: Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
    Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
    What is his name.


MOZ# - Also MOZZ#, MOZZLE#, a curse, from Hebrew. As in "to put the
moz on". Note MOZE# (and MOZO of course). Also, where I'm from, MOZZ
is delicious cheese. Mmm, cheese.

MUX# - To mix (sound) using a multiplexer. There's another definition
of the verb, to make a right mess of, that's obsolete. mux, like muck.
But the multiplexer definition is reasonably common.

NAS# - Obsolete contraction of "was not" from the Middle English formation
"ne was". Hence, the NASPA logo means "was not spa" or "has not spa"

NAT# - The nats are spirits worshipped in Burmese folk religion in
conjunction with Buddhism. There are 37 major nats, mostly people who met
untimely and violent demises; these were designated by King Anawrahta in the
11th century. Check it out on Wiki.

NED# - Scottish slang for a yob or hooligan. Also NEDETTE#, CHAV# and
CHAVETTE#.

NEF# - A tiny ornate ship made of precious metals used as a table decoration
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Usually made out of gold or something
ostentatious like that, originally they could hold spices, or napkins, or
the like, but as time went on they became more and more detailed and ornate
until they turned into merely decorative pieces. There's an article on wiki
about nefs#.

NEK# - A Saffer term for a mountain pass. Probably from Dutch/Afrikaans for
"neck". NEKS#.

NEP# - Catnip. Probably shortened from NEPETA which is the catnip genus.

NID# - A pheasant's nest or brood, from the French for "nest". Takes the
mouse.

NIE# - Also NYE#, to nigh (to approach) NIES# NIED# NYING#

NIS# - A Scandanavian house-elf.[3] NISSES# see:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm047.htm

NON# - From the Latin meaning "not". It is a non# mouse taking word.

NOX# - Nitrogen oxide. NOXES# Many noxes are air pollutants that contribute
to smog and acid rain.

NOY# - Spenser, a verb meaning "annoy". NOYED#, NOYS#, NOYING#

NUR# - A hard knot in wood, same as KNUR. Takes the mouse.

NYE# - See NIE# -- NYES# NYED#

NYS# - Spenser again, a contraction meaning "is not", from "ne is" -- "Thou
findest faulte where nys to be found" as an example.

OOR# - Scots for "our" as in the popular Scottish comic strip "Oor Wullie":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie  Oor Wullie's catch phrases consist
of "Jings*", "Crivvens#", and "Help ma Boab#"

OOS# - Plural of OO#, Scots for wool.
	A' ae oo comes from an imaginary conversation in Scots about wool, first
	noted by Alan Ramsay in the glossary to his poems in 1721.
	
	Customer ( Inquiring of the material ) : Oo? ( Wool? )
	Shopkeeper : Ay oo ( Yes, it's made of wool )
	Customer : A' oo? ( All wool? )
	Shopkeeper : Ay, a' oo ( Yes, all wool )
	Customer : A' ae oo? ( All the same wool )
	Shopkeeper : Ay a' ae oo ( Yes all the same wool ).

ORD# - From a Middle English word ORD that means "point" or "origin" it
refers to the point of a sword. Takes the mouse.

ORF# - A skin disease of sheep and goats that causes lesions. It generally
occurs around the mouth; it can be transmitted from scratches when sheep are
eating thistles or something like that. People can get it, usually from
being bitten by an infected animal. ORFS#

OUK# - Scots for "week". Robert Fergusson:

	Before the seed, I sell'd my ferra cow,
	And wi' the profit coft a stane o' woo';
	l thought, by priggin', that she might hae spun
	A plaidie, light, to screen me frae the sun:
	But though the siller's scant, the cleedin' dear,
	She basna ca'd about a wheel the year.
	Last ouk but ane I was frae hame a day,
	Buying a threave or twa o' beddin' strae:
	0' ilka thing the woman had her will;
	Had fouth o' meal to bake, and hens to kill:
	But hyne awa to Edinbrough scour'd she
	To get a makin' o' her fav'rite tea;
	And'cause I leftna her the weary clink,
	She pawn'd the very trunchers frae my bink.

OUP# - Same as OOP#, it's a verb -- to bind with thread. No one tries the
Alley-Oup, though.

OUS# - Plural of OU#, which is a South African word for "old man", means
"fellow" or "bloke", from the Afrikaans. Related to the Dutch ouwe (old
man).

OWT# - The OWL has NOWT which means "none" or "nothing". OWT# is the related
word that means "something" or "anything". OWTS#  There's a saying in
Yorkshire: You don't get owt# for nowt.

OYE# - OE, OY, OYE# are spellings of Scots words which mean "grandchild".
Hence, also OYS#, note OYES is in the OWL. here's a link:
http://www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/sir-gibbie/62/

	(about a bird)
	
	Ye wee daurin' cratur,
	Ye rant an' ye sing
	Like an oye o' auld Natur'
	Ta'en hame by the King!
	
	Ye wee feathert priestie,
	Yer bells i' yer thro't.
	Yer altar yer breistie
	Yer mitre forgot--

OYS# - See OYE#

PAV# - A pavlova, which looks so tasty. Um, I can has? Named after the
Russian ballerina in whose honor it was created in the 1920s, in New Zealand
or Australia (both countries claim credit.) Takes the mouse (because I want
to eat two).

PHO# - It's a delicious soup. Takes the mouse. Jeez, these food words are
making me hungry.

PIR# - A master, or teacher in Sufi Islam. A pir will guide his students on
a particular tariqah*, or path. A student may have multiple pirs#.

PLU# - Another spelling for a PLEW, or beaver skin. Also PLUE#.

POA# - Any of a genus of grasses including bluegrass. Takes the mouse.

POS# - A PO# is a chamber pot. Gardyloo! Incidentally, this takes the mouse - POSS#

POZ# - Positive, esp when referring to HIV status. POZZ# also. POZZY# means
something different.

PRE# - Preposition, means "before" like you'd think. Usually a prefix, yes,
but it's also used as a standalone word enough to count. No mouse.

PUH# - Interjection, same as PUGH, it's what you say when something smells
funny. No mouse but PUHA# is a plant.

PUY# - A geologic formation, found in France, a hill that's an extinct
volcano.  There's a good article on wikipedia. Takes the mouse.

"Where's part Q?" ye ask.  There are no Collins-only threes beginning with
Q.  To R we proceed.

REH# - A salty buildup on Indian soils that renders them useless for
agriculture. Takes the mouse.

REN# - Verb meaning "run"; an obsolete usage. Here we go: Chaucer is perhaps
an older example than I ought to use but I couldn't find anything better in
a few minutes of googling#...

	http://www.librarius.com/duchessfs.htm
	
		Til he com to the derke valeye
		That stant bytwene roches tweye,
		Ther never yet grew corn ne gras,
		Ne tree, ne nothing that ought was,
		Beste, ne man, ne nothing elles,
		Save ther were a fewe welles
		Came renning fro the cliffes adoun,
		That made a deedly sleping soun,
		And ronnen doun right by a cave
		That was under a rokke y-grave
	
	Also "ren" means "plunder" as in the phrase "to rape and ren". (rape in the
	"rape of the locket" sense, not in the "shut up I'm an NFL quarterback"
	sense.)

REO# - Maori word meaning "language" -- "Te reo" is the Maori word for the
Maori language. Takes the mouse.

REW# - Spenser; "row".

	http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=spenser%20rew%20row&sig=mknWXK0SkOah6nbtMoG_vulBq58&ei=Lus-TaLNCIGCgAe4tsGeCA&ct=result&id=VxYUAAAAQAAJ&ots=ZjLAvrxDjg&output=text
	
		There entred in he round about him saw
		Many brave Knights whose names right well he knew,
		There bound t' obay that Amazons proud law,
		Spinning and carding all in comely rew,
		That his bigge hart loth'd so uncomely vew:
		But they were forst, through penurie and pyne,
		To doe those workes to them appointed dew:
		For nought was given them to sup or dyne,
		But what their hands could earne by twisting linnen twyne.
	
	Note: REWS# ; REWED, REWING*
	
	It probably  ought to be a verb since Spenser seems to have used REW to mean
	"rue" more than "row".

REZ# - A reservation, as in Indian reservation, not dinner reservation. REZZES#

RHY# - Rye. Spenser, from the Faerie Queene, Book 2:

	Then came the Rother, decked all with woods
	Like a wood God, and flowing fast to Rhy:
	And Sture, that parteth with his pleasant floods
	The Easterne Saxons from the Southerne ny,
	And Clare, and Harwitch both doth beautify:
	Him follow'd Yar, soft washing Norwitch wall,
	And with him brought a present ioyfully
	Of his owne fish vnto their festiuall,
	Whose like none else could shew, the which they Ruffins call.

	RHIES#
	
	As a side note, I get a huge kick out of I and J being completely
	interchangeable, and U and V being interchangeable.  Aside from
	EUOUAE/EVOVAE (# of course) are there other actual examples in playable
	words where U and V, or I and J, are interchangeable (to make the same
	word?).  ZABAIONE/ZABAJONE, MAIOLICA/MAJOLICA.

RIT# - Also RITT#, to make a line or incision on the ground with a spade as
a guide before digging. Scotch in origin, related to RUT. RITS# RITTS#
RITTED# RITTING#

RIZ# - The past tense of "rise" in some US dialects. James Russell Lowell,
in the Biglow Papers:


	I spose it 's time now I should give my thoughts upon the plan,
	Thet chipped the shell at Buffalo, o' settin' up ole Van.
	I used to vote fer Martin, but, I swan, I 'm clean disgusted,-
	He aint the man thet I can say is fittin' to be trusted;
	He aint half antislav'ry 'nough, nor I aint sure, ez some be,
	He 'd go in fer abolishin' the Deestrick o' Columby;
	An', now I come to recollect, it kin' o' makes me sick 'z
	A horse, to think o' wut he wuz in eighteen thirty-six.
	An' then, another thing;-I guess, though mebby I am wrong,
	This Buff'lo plaster aint agoin' to dror almighty strong;
	Some folks, I know, hev gut th' idee thet No'thun dough 'll rise,
	Though, 'fore I see it riz an' baked, I would n't trust my eyes;
	'T will take more emptins, a long chalk, than this noo party 's gut,
	To give sech heavy cakes ez them a start, I tell ye wut.
	But even ef they caird the day, there would n't be no endurin'
	To stand upon a platform with sech critters ez Van Buren;-
	An' his son John, tu, I can't think how thet air chap should dare
	To speak ez he doos; wy, they say he used to cuss an' swear!
	I spose he never read the hymn thet tells how down the stairs
	A feller with long legs wuz throwed thet would n't say his prayers.

	Also, Pogo:
	
		Spring has sprung,
		The grass has riz#
		I wonder where
		The flowers is.
	
	In here we have an example of a Collins-only Americanism.  Yes, indeed.

ROK# - Same as ROC, RUC#, RUKH#; a huge mythical bird of prey that would
allegedly carry sailors away and eat them. Takes mice, too. Heh.

ROO# - As in kanga. Takes the mouse, mite.

RUC# - See ROK#

RUD# - To make ruddy, ie, redden. Spenser again, Epithalamion:

	Tell me, ye merchants daughters, did ye see
	So fayre a creature in your towne before,
	So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she,
	Adornd with beautyes grace and vertues store?
	Her goodly eyes lyke saphyres shining bright,
	Her forehead yvory white,
	Her cheekes lyke apples with the sun hath rudded,
	Her lips lyke cherryes charming men to byte,
	Her brest like to a bowle of creame uncrudded,
	Her paps lyke lyllies budded,
	Her snowie necke lyke to a marble towre,
	And all her body like a pallace fayre,
	Ascending uppe, with many a stately stayre,
	To honors seat and chastities sweet bowre.
	Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze,
	Upon her so to gaze,
	Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing,
	To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring.

SAI# - Two of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have weapons in the OWL;
the other two are Collins-only. Raphael represents here with his SAI#.
(KATANA#, BO, NUNCHAKU)

SAM# - Verb, to gather together as in "sam hold of", in a Northern English
dialect.

SAN# - A Greek letter that just didn't make the cut. It competed with SIGMA
for the "S" sound and lost in the semifinals. Other Greek letters not making
the final Round of Twenty-Four: KOPPA, DIGAMMA, STIGMA, HETA* and SAMPI#.
Takes the mouse -- for the zero plural (hehe)

SAR# - Scots, to savour. SARED#, SARING#, SARS#.

SAV# - Australia / New Zealand slang for a SAVELOY which is like a hotdog
but less healthy.

SAZ# - A long-necked plucked string instrument of Turkey, similar to an OUD
or LUTE. SAZES# or SAZZES#

SED# - Means "said". John Milton this time, from L'Allegro:

	She was pincht, and pull'd she sed,
	And he by Friars Lanthorn led
	Tells how the drudging Goblin swet
	To ern his Cream-bowle duly set,
	When in one night, ere glimps of morn,
	His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn
	That ten day-labourers could not end,
	Then lies him down the Lubbar Fend.

SEY# - Part of a cow or ox being dissected into beef. As it's cut in two,
one side is the foresey* and the other side the BACKSEY#. The backsey is the
tasty part -- the sirloin. The foresey* is more the ribs and such.

SEZ# - This word can be found almost every day in headlines in the New York Post.

SIF# - South African slang meaning "disgusting" or "nasty"; shortened from
syphilitic. No mouse.

SIK# - Australian teen slang meaning "excellent". I wonder if it's related
to "sick" as used slangily here. No mouse

SMA# - Scots for small; no mouse. From here:
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/ch038.htm

	When we came to the stair-foot,
	Ladies were dancing, jimp and sma,
	But in the twinkling of an eye,
	My wee wee man was clean awa.

SNY# - Also SNYE which is ours, plural SNIES#, it's a Canadian word
for a side channel of a river.

SOC# - The right of a lord to hold a local court, i.e., jurisdiction
over certain lands. Related to SOKE, SOCCAGE, SOKEMAN, etc. Takes the mouse.

SOG# - To soak, ie, to make soggy. Verb.

SOH# - The note SO or SOL. Compare with DOH, FAH, LAH, but not REH,
which means something else.

SOV# - Slang for an English pound, from (the coin) sovereign. Takes the mouse.

SUD# - Just one bubble.

SUI# - Latin for "himself" as in sui generis, sui juris, etc. No mouse.

SUR# - preposition meaning "upon", yes, it's French, but it's used in
English in legal contexts. No mouse of course.

SUS# - British slang, a suspect. SUSES#. Also a verb, another spelling
of SUSS so SUSSES, SUSSED, SUSSING.

SWY# - Australian slang for the game of Two-Up. There's a good article
on Two-Up on wiki. SWIES#. From the German zwei.

SYE# - An English dialect. To strain, like straining milk in a sieve,
not like a muscle. SYED# SYEING# (not SYING*) For example:  Fitzherbert in his 
"Boke of Husbandry" 1523 describes the work a country housewife should do:
	
	"First sweep thy house, dress up thy dishboard, and set all things in
	good order within they house: milk thy kine, suckle thy calves, sye up
	(strain) thy milk, take up thy children and array them, and provide
	for thy husband’s breakfast, dinner, supper, and for thy children and
	servants, and take thy part with them....
		
	https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/carlin/www/fitzherbert-wife%27sduties.htm
	
TAI# - A type of red snapper. It's prized for its flavour in Japanese
cuisine. Takes the mouse.

TAK# - From our friends in Wearside, similar to MAK#, it means TAKE.
Taks the mouse.

TAY# - A drink from China introduced to Europe. Called TEA in most
English-speaking areas, still TAY# in some parts. Takes the mouse.

TEC# - Slangy term for a detective. Takes the mouse.

TEF# - Same as TEFF, it's a cereal grass native to Ethiopia that's
apparently quite nutritious. There's a wiki article.

TES# - TE# is the note below DO. I don't know if CSW is referring to
an alternate spelling of TI or to the flatted seventh. Like I pointed
out in a previous post, there's no RA* or FI* or the other chromatics,
so, probably the former.

TEX# - A unit of density of fibers - one tex is one gram per 1000m of
fiber. TEXES#

TID# - Scots, meaning a mood, takes the mouse.

TIG# - Another name for the children's game tag, also used as a verb.
Also -- tungsten inert gas welding, as a verb to weld something using
this technique.

TIX# - Tickets. Common usage.

TOC# - The letter T in the RAF Phonetic alphabet. Takes the mouse.
This seems unique in the way that EASY is a noun in the OWL. Why is
TOC# good but not EDWARD* or FREDDIE*?

TUM# - Your tummy! Takes the mouse.

TWP# - From Welsh, it means "stupid" and does not compare or take the mouse.

TYG# - From http://www.antique-marks.com/antique-terms-t.html (scroll
to the bottom)

	    Two or three-handled drinking vessel, also known as a loving cup,
	usually large and of ceramic or silver, for passing from guest to
	guest at the end of a banquet. The term is loosely used for any
	two-handled cup. Earthenware tygs with slip decoration and sometimes
	initials or dates as part of the design, were common in the 17th and
	18th centuries.

UDS# - Old-timey interjection meaning "God Save" as in "Uds the Queen!"

UEY# - Actually a common word; I mean, how else would you spell "yoo-ee" 
(a U-turn)? Takes the mouse.

UFO# - Apparently also pronounced as "yoo-foh". It's a space alien
hotrod. The OWL has UFOLOGY of course. Takes the mouse.

UGS# - UG# is a verb meaning "to loathe" or "to dread". UGGED#, UGGING#.

ULE# - Natural rubber, or the Central American tree which produces it.
Also CAOUTCHOUC. Takes the mouse.

UMU# - A traditional Maori cooking pit; also called a HANGI#. It's the
sort of thing where stones are heated and then food is placed in
baskets on top of the stones; everything is then covered for several
hours until the food is done and then lifted. No mouse for UMU# but
HANGI# does take the mouse -- it can also refer to the social
gathering where the food is eaten.

UNI# - Common word; means "university" or "uniform". Or "sea urchin"
as eaten in Japanese cuisine.  Mouse.

URE# - An extinct European ox. Takes the mouse. Also known as URUS or
AUROCHS (sticky S). The last ure died in 1627 in Poland. They had been
wiped out by hunting, loss of habitat, diseases from domestic cattle,
and climatic changes.  Check the wiki article on AUROCHS.  (AUROCHSES
and URUSES, incidentally.)

UTU# - A Maori concept similar to karma in that both good and bad
deeds require some kind of offset to keep the world balanced. In
modern usage, this is often expressed in terms of payments or monetary
value, so it could refer to a fine or payment in retribution, or to a
reward given for good deeds. Takes the mouse.

UVA# - A grape or grape-like berry; from the Latin for "grape". UVAE# or UVAS#.

VAE# - Another spelling of VOE; Shetland slang for a creek. Takes the mouse.

VAG# - To arrest someone for vagrancy; VAGGED# VAGS# VAGGING#.
However, I wouldn't use Google to verify this at work.

VIN# - Wine; from the French. Takes the mouse.

VLY# - A swamp, esp a depression which is seasonally wet. From the
Dutch; it appears in many creek or swamp names in upstate NY where the
Dutch had settled. VLIES#. Related is VLEI#, which means the same,
from Afrikaans, where the Dutch also settled.

VOL# - A vol is a heraldic symbol featuring wings of a bird with no
body of the bird in the middle. It was once obscure but is in common
usage today after it was chosen to represent the French Armee de l'Air
-- many countries used an eagle as the insignia for their Air Forces,
but the eagle was associated with Napoleonic France, so a vol was used
instead. Today many air forces use this as a badge of some sort; an
example would be a pilot's wings, which show two wings with a shield
in the middle instead of the body of a bird.  VOLS#.

VOR# - Verb, "to warn". King Lear; Act IV Scene VI:

    EDGAR: Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk
    pass. An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life,
    'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight.
    Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor
    ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be
    the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.

	Note here also our friends CHE# and CH# meaning "I".

WAI# - Maori for "water"; takes the mouse. There's apparently also a
Maori electronica band called Wai. Also, WAIATA# (song) and WAIRUA#
(spirit or soul which exits the body during a dream or death) which
both take mice.

WEM# - The abdomen, ie womb. Also WAME and WEMB#. Takes the mouse.

WEX# - Wax, as in grow, not as in Turtle. John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis
(http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=4411):

    The Sun but seem'd the Lab'rer of their Year;
    Each wexing Moon suppli'd her watry store,
    To swell those Tides, which from the Line did bear
    Their brim-full Vessels to the Belg'an shore.


WEY# - Either an old British unit of weight equal to usually 256
pounds, or an old Scotch/Irish unit of capacity equal to 40 bushels.
Shares a common Middle English root with WEIGH. Takes the mouse.
Apropos of nothing, something that weighed 256 pounds and had a volume
of 40 bushels would be lighter (less dense) than styrofoam.

WOF# - Australian slang, from an acronym for "waste of flesh", it's,
someone who's a waste of flesh, ie an idiot. Takes the mouse, in case
you're surrounded by them.

WOX# - Old past tense (imperfect) of wax (grow, not Turtle) used by
Gower and Chaucer. Also past participle WOXEN#.

WUS# - From South Wales, it's an informal term of address, like "mate"
or "bro" or "dude". WUSES#

YAD# - A silver rod, the end of which usually forms a fist with the
index finger extended, used while reading a parchment scroll of the
Torah to keep your place. As such scrolls are considered sacred, and
being touched by an actual finger would damage the ink, something like
this is quite necessary. Takes the mouse; no YADIM*

YAE# - Scots variant of AE. Like AE, does not take the mouse.

YEX# - To hiccup, a verb. Relatively common word in Chaucer's time up
through Shakespearean times.

YGO# - Obsolete past tense of "go". Chaucer. Also used by Spenser as a
spelling of "ago". From the Faerie Queene:

    The sober mother seeing such her mood,
    Yet knowing not what meant that sodaine thro,
    Askt her, how mote her words be understood,
    And what the matter was that mov'd her so?
    'My liefe,' (sayd she) 'ye know that long ygo,
    Whilest ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gave
    A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho;
    The same againe if now ye list to have,
    The same is yonder Lady, whom high God did save.'

YOS# - More than one interjection saying, hey, over here my friend!

YUG# - Any of the four ages of the world, in Hindu cosmology, also
YUGA. Takes the mouse. 

	The four yugs# are Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and
	Kali. Life is created at the beginning of the Satya, and mankind
	gradually falls farther and farther into sin, losing touch with
	virtue, throughout the four yugs. At the end of the Kali Yug, all life
	is destroyed and the cycle begins again. Of course, we are currently
	in the least virtuous Kali yug, although we have many thousand years
	to go before we achieve complete moral bankruptcy.

YUS# - Yu is the Chinese character for "jade", and is used in
referring to different kinds of jade, although in Mandarin, "yu" can
also be used referring to other nonjade precious stones. Ying yu is
hard jade (jadeite) and ruan yu is "soft jade" (nephrite). In any
case, yu takes the mouse.

ZEA# - Zea is the genus of New World grasses that includes
domesticated corn. ZEA by itself refers to the corn silk, which was
once used as a diuretic, when prepared as a tea or the like. It's
available today as an herbal remedy. Takes the mouse.

ZEL# - A type of cymbal from North Africa. Takes the mouse. Probably
related to ZILL, but they're different; ZELS# are bigger.

ZEX# - Another spelling of ZAX.

ZHO# - If you remember all the way back to Part 3 of the series, this
is another spelling for the ZO#, DZO#, DZHO#, etc. This is a hybrid
betweek a yak and a cow.

ZIZ# - To nap, ZIZZ#, ZIZZES#, ZIZZED#, etc. A reasonably common
usage. Possibly related to ZZZ in that it's onomotopoetic with
snoring.

ZOL# - A doobie, in South Africa. Mouse.

ZOS# - Plural of the ZO#

ABB# - Low-grade wool made from the outer edges of a fleece. It is
made into a yarn which is used in weaving for the warp -- the warp
being the threads that form the vertical structure, and the weft being
the thicker threads added horizontally during the weaving process.
Takes the mouse.

ACH# - Interjection, ach!, also OCH#

AIA# - Another spelling for AYAH, a South Asian female nurse maid, esp
one working for Europeans in South Asia. AIAS#

AKA# - Maori for "vine", it means a vine. Does not take the mouse.

AKE# - An old spelling of ACHE - AKING#, AKED# AKES#

ALF# - Australian slang for an uncultivated Australian, sort of like
"yokel" in the US? Takes the mouse.

ANN# - A Scots word for the payment made to a parish minister's widow.

ARD# - An old plough, consisting of just a vertical spike with a blade
perpendicular. There's a sketch on the wiki article for ARD. Takes the
mouse.

ARY# - Means "any" in certain American dialects, usually in the
formation "ary one" for "anyone".

AUA# - Maori word for the yellow-eye mullet, a New Zealand fish which,
as the wiki article will tell you, is tasty when smoked. I assume
cooking using smoke and not smoking like a ZOL#. Does not take the mouse.

AUE# - A Maori exclamation of woe. Does not take the mouse.

AUF# - Another spelling of OUPHE, an elf or faerie child left behind
in place of a human one who had been stolen. The word OAF comes from
this. Takes the mouse.

AYU# - Another name for the SWEETFISH#, native to Japan, Korea, and
parts of China. Known for the sweet taste of its flesh. Takes the
mouse.

And that...is that. Now ary# one can play Collins.  Including me.
Perhaps.  We'll see.

Notes/Glossary:

[1] Like alphabetical order, but starting with B, natch.
[2] "mouse" = S
[3] Poor brownies, they're going to called "house-elves" forever now because
of Harry Potter.

# = CSW/Collins only
$ = OWL only
* = not good in CSW or OWL