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To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

Babble. Hawthorne.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

Babble. [Obs.] Sir T. More

To dabble; to sprinkle or wet. Shak.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

To beslobber.

Idle talk; babble. Shak.

A tattler; a telltale.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

getable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.

One who works at cabbling.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

To become clabber; to lopper.

or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

One who catches crabs.

The act or art of catching crabs.