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A groundling (fish). [Prov. Eng.]

See Gondola. Marston.

Wounded to the heart with love or grief. Pope.

One who impounds.

Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

One who follows the business of laundering.

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.

To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.

One who maunders.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth.

That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.

Wavy; waving [Obs.] "Owndie hair." Chaucer.

of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.

One who plunders or pillages.