(Britain law) A legal action against a criminal.

(idiomatic) Something that is irrelevant or unimportant, usually used to emphasize the lack of relationship of a non sequitur. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see price, tea, China.

To use or make use of. / To exploit, for example sexually.

a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland

a gulf of the North Atlantic Ocean along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain, named for the Spanish province of Biscay

The son of unmarried parents, an illegitimate child, a bastard. / (derogatory, slang) An objectionable person. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see son, whore. (the son of a prostitute)

Alternative form of out of the frying pan, into the fire

The official name of Venezuela.

(biblical) A book of the Apocrypha.

plural of plea of the crown