LekhoriLekhoriA modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will. The loss of /l/ in this word is probably due to weak stress, as in should and could (though in the latter, the /l/ was due to the ana...
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