Wordscapes Level 246 Answers

ELM - A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.

LOB - To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.

MOB - An unruly group of people.

OIL - Liquid fat.

BIO - A biography.

MIL - An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1/6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1/6000 and 1/6300 are used in other countries.

LIMB - A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

LIME - A general term for inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide; quicklime.

LOBE - Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.

MILE - A Roman unit of measure equal to 1000 (double) steps (mille passus or mille passuum) or 5000 Roman feet (approx. 1480m).

LIMO - A limousine.

BILE - A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

LIMBO - The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum).

MOBILE - Capable of being moved.