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A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings." Milton.

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

Senseless babble or boasting.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

Characterized by blunders.

In a blundering manner.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

In a blustering manner.

The practices of a boroughmonger.

The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

gland, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

The use of cannon. Burke.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.

Same as Center, n., 6. [Written also centring.]

A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.

One of an ancient religious sect, so called fron Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics. Hook.

Lewdness. [Obs.] Rom. xiii. 13.

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.