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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.

Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with and excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.

an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. -- Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing b…

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." Clarendon.

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

s, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.