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Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

Affected with cramp.

Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Shak. Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel Beau. & Fl.

A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

Belonging to old age. "Aged cramps." Shak.

r [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

uirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

] Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol]. Shak. The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland.

eatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.