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Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. [Colloq.] Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach. L'Estrange.

Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]

An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey…

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.

A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [Obs.] Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan.

w chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

tion, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve. Rambler.

An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuc…

To rail at; to scold. [Obs.] In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old pr…

of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]