Meaning of गोंधळ in English

Serving to cleanse, detergent.
A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
In a buzz; buzzing.
Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
A fault, wrong, or mistake.
In a frenzied and reckless manner.
Same as Ambry.
The tenets of the Averroists.
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
To practice deceit.
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
A signal fire; an alarm fire.
A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.
Tainter with, or constituting, barratry.
See Bawbling.
A trinket. See Bauble.
Obscenity; lewdness.
of Bedevil
The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.
Betrayal.
A brimful bowl; a bumper.
A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
A blockhead; a dunce.
Senseless; stupid.
Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion.
Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.
of Chamfer
The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
A foot covering of any kind.
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
The state of being chubby.
Minced meat.
A coarse or stupid fellow.
Stupid; churlish.
The quality of being chuffy.
A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
Milk curdled so as to become thick.
To become clabber; to lopper.
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
State of being clammy or viscous.
A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
Any loud and continued noise.
A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
To salute loudly.
To stun with noise.
To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.
To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.
A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.
To pelt with clods.
To throw violently; to hurl.
Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
Consisting of clods; full of clods.
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
of Climb
Alt. of Clomben
See Clamp.
Full of clots, or clods.
A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
A swadding cloth.
A piece; a fragment.
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
A blow with the hand.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
To join or patch clumsily.
To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To give a blow to; to strike.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
of Clout
Clumsy; awkward.
Silence; hush.
An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
A cluster; a group; a thicket.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
To tread clumsily; to clamp.
To form into clumps or masses.
A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Clatter; confused noise.
To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
To clot or coagulate, as blood.
of Clutter
A fishing boat. See Coble.
A cobblestone.
Cob coal. See under Cob.
To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
To make clumsily.
To pave with cobblestones.
The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
The European spotted flycatcher.
Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.
A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
of Confabulate
Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.
A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.
To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
The state of being confounded.
Broken; uneven.
The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god.
Capability of being confused.
Mixed; confounded.
To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
A state of confusion.
The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.
Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
One who confuses; a confounder.
of Confute
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
of Convolve
Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.
A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.
A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.
Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
To embrace closely; to fondle.
A close embrace.
Lying down; recumbent.
A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.
The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.
That which serves to direct.
Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.
To linger; to stay; to tarry.
To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement.
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about.
To cause delay to; to put off.
Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.
The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.
Demur; delay in acting or deciding.
Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient.
A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.
To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through.
Deobstruent; aperient.
Directing.
The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.
A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.
To stab with a dirk.
Dark.
To darken.
of Dirk
To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
Confused attire; undress.
Eloquent.
One who puts another out of his inheritance.
To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.
To put to rout.
To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.
The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
To dethrone.
A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.
In a dizzy manner or state.
That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.
of Dogmatize
of Dumfound
The state of being dumpy.
Difficult or painful discharge of urine.
To trifle; to toy.
To fondle; to dandle.
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
To hem; to fringe.
A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
The violent spasms of a dying whale.
To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Having small openings, or foramina.
Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
The quality or condition of being foul.
Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
Frolicsome.
To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
To drink to excess.
A drunkard.
of Fuddle
of Fumble
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.
of Furlough
Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.
Brown or grayish black; darkish.
The quality of being fusible.
To cudgel.
A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
A lever to bend crossbows.
To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
To be sullen or morose.
The twilight; gloaming.
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
To manifest sullenness; to sulk.
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
To eat greedily.
To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
A noise made in the throat.
of Gobble
Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
Full of grief or sorrow.
One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.
Producing gum; gum-bearing.
Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes.
Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.
A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.
Helped.
Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.
See Halse.
To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.
To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
To perplex; to embarrass.
An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.
Same as Hopple.
Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
One who hobbles.
One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.
To hamstring; to hock; to hough.
To mow, as stubble.
of Humbug
To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.
One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
A humming bird.
A whirlwind.
To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
To push; to jostle; to hurl.
The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
To bring into peril; to endanger.
A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
Same as Imposthumate.
One who, or that which, impoverishes.
A print; impression.
A printing establishment.
The art of printing.
Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being.
The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.
The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation.
of Jabber
of Jargon
Crowding; hustling.
To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.
To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Confused mixture.
One who confuses things.
of Jumble
A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery.
A lientery.
To wrap up.
Mass; church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
To supply with a mess.
The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendEmiaire.
Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr.
of Monsieur
of Mess
An associate in a mess.
To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.
Wrong arrangement.
Compassion; pity; mercy.
Same as Misericordia, 2.
An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.
To lodge amiss.
One who manages ill.
To rule badly; to misgovern.
The act, or the result, of misruling.
Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.
An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
To wrap the head of in a hood.
A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
of Moult
One who mouths; an affected speaker.
One who, or that which, muddles.
of Muddle
A thin, soft kind of muslin.
A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre.
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Dirt; rubbish.
To powder; to pulverize.
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.
To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter.
To chew something gently with closed lips.
To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.
To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.
To suppress, or utter imperfectly.
One who mumbles.
of Mumble
Low; indistinct; inarticulate.
A game of hazard played with cards in silence.
A silent, stupid person.
Silent and idle.
One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.
Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies.
A beggar; a begging impostor.
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.
Dark; murky.
Darkness; mirk.
The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
A potato.
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble.
To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.
A term of endearment.
of Muss
The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.
Without a point or pointed process; blunt.
Mutilated; defective; imperfect.
of Mutter
To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.
To sound with a low, rumbling noise.
To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats.
Repressed or obscure utterance.
The state or quality of being muzzy.
The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.
The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun.
A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting.
To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action.
To fondle with the closed mouth.
To bring the mouth or muzzle near.
of Muzzle
Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.
Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
Evincing oblivion; forgetful.
A disputer; a gainsayer.
A performer on the oboe.
That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
To shade; to darken; to cloud.
Shut; closed.
Alt. of Ochreous
A writer of an ode or odes.
Of or pertaining to odontalgia.
A remedy for the toothache.
Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth.
A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.
A small or petty work.
Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
To exceed in roaring.
Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.
Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.
Alt. of Pellucidness
The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air.
Treason.
To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.
To endanger.
Trial; experiment.
The state of being in peril.
Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.
The albumen of a seed, especially that portion which is formed outside of the embryo sac.
To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.
To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
A perjured person.
The act of viewing all over.
The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night.
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
To plague; to vex; to tormen.
Intricate; difficult.
of Perplexity
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
The quality or state of being perturbable.
Disturbance; perturbation.
The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.
A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other.
Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing.
A perturber.
One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.
Alt. of Pertused
The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein.
A punched hole; a perforation.
The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.
The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.
The theory that the various genera of bacteria are phases or variations of growth of a number of Protean species, each of which may exhibit, according to undetermined conditions, all or some of the forms characteristic of the different genera and species.
Fullness; full persuasion.
The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
One who ponders.
The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.
Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life.
The quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence.
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.
Virginity.
The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
of Puzzle
An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
To speak in a confused manner.
A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
To rumple; to crumple.
A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.
Bearing roots.
Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium.
A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.
An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.
A rhombohedron.
Shaped like a rhomb.
Same as Orthorhombic.
Rhombohedral.
Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.
Same as Rhomb, 1.
Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.
An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.
To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.
Given to rude play; inclined to romp.
A round; a circle.
Roundness; plumpness.
Mist; fog. See Roke.
To squat; to ruck.
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Bovine.
A bovine beast.
A rudder.
The act or process of making red.
To raddle or twist.
A riddle or sieve.
A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.
To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.
A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
To trump.
A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
To ruffle; to disorder.
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
Alt. of Ruffe
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
To throw into disorder or confusion.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
of Ruffle
The act of ruffling.
An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.
To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale.
One who, or that which, rumbles.
a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.
Grog.
Ruminant; ruminating.
One who rummages.
A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager.
A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.
A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.
To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
To search a place narrowly.
An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
A Russian, or the Russians.
The language of the Russians.
Of or pertaining to the Russians.
of Rusticate
To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
To cover in copulation.
A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
A horseman or trooper.
That which ruts.
of Scallop
Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.
Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.
Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.
To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
Act of scurring; hurried movement.
Of or pertaining to a shield.
Cup-shaped.
See Sothic.
Alt. of Shabble
A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
See Scurry.
A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consists of arsenic and cobalt.
The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
The state of being sleety.
Slippery.
of Slit
a. & n. from Slit.
To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
A slubbing machine.
of Slubber
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To disparage; to traduce.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
of Slur
To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
To be suffocated or stifled.
To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
A state of suppression.
To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.
To chop off; to cut.
To sneak.
Alt. of Snigg
To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.
To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.
of Sniggle
To lie snug or quiet.
A miser; a sneaking fellow.
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
of Snuffle
To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.
Alt. of Sombreness
A summoner.
Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.
A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
Quality or state of being squalid.
Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.
The American night heron. See under Night.
See Squall.
To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
To move about like an eel; to squirm.
Same as Squirarchy.
The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.
Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
To form into staddles, as hay.
Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.
Having stamens, but lacking pistils.
To indue with stamina.
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.
Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
One who stills, or quiets.
The stipule of a leaflet.
A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Scrofula.
A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Scrofulous; strumous.
The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
One who stutters; a stammerer.
To stutter.
Having a corky texture.
Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.
Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.
The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
That with which a thing is suffused.
A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
Having the form of a sulcus; as, sulciform markings.
To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
To become soiled or tarnished.
Soil; tarnish; stain.
of Sully
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.
A substance employed as a hypnotic, produced by the union of mercaptan and acetone.
The astragalus.
A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.
A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
of Tangle
To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.
Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.
of Tattle
Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.
Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature.
of Temper
The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
See Thallous.
Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.
A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.
To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.
To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
A hole; an aperture.
A short communication between adits in a mine.
A long adit in a coalpit.
To cut through; to pierce.
To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
Same as Tousle.
A stammering or stuttering.
To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
A round body; a little wheel.
A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.
To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
See Tumbledung.
Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.
One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
of Tumble
a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
Alt. of Tumbril
Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
Rising above the level; protuberant.
Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
The quality or state of being tumid.
A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.
The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness.
The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
A maker of tumults.
Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.
Restless; agitated; unquiet.
In a tumultuary manner.
The quality or state of being tumultuary.
To make a tumult.
Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.
Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
Disturbed; confused; disordered.
The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.
Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.
A turbinal bone or cartilage.
The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.
The turbot.
A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.
Quality or state of being turfy.
The quality or state of being turgid.
Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.
Alt. of Turriculated
To remove a curtain from; to reveal.
To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
To throw into uproar or confusion.
To make an uproar.
Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment.
Having the quality of burning.