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In a gurgling manner.

A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.

So as to heal or cure.

An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] Shak.

Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.

The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight.

The young of the sea trout. [Prov. Eng.]

Inflated; boastful.

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

e whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.

With a limping step.

Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. Raymond.

Keeping at home.

thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

Same as Housling.

Sacramental; as, housling fire. [R.] Spenser.

e sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also hovelling.]

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.