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Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.] Abp. Bramhall.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

Having the head full of confused notions. Johnson.

A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.

The same as Quinquenerved.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.

See Rake, a mineral vein.

A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.

Giddy; rattle-headed.

Noisy; giddy; unsteady.

Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.

ng again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate, reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.

To bring together again; to compose or form anew. Spenser.

To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.

form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.

A forming anew; a new creation or formation.