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Perhaps. [Scot.]

Perhaps; possibly. [Scotch] Burns.

With an ambling gait.

, a. See Bawbling. [Obs.]

Insignificant; contemptible. [Obs.]

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

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

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.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.

In a dabbling manner.

That dissembles; hypocritical; false. -- Dis*sem"bling*ly, adv.

A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden.

Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.

In the manner of one who fumbles.

schievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

s serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.

In a grumbling manner.