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A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

l) See under 2d Back. -- Half bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. -- Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes…

A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.

A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

e upper oart or top of anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

The tumbler of a gunlock. Knight.

To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. [Obs.] Who hath you misboden or offended. Chaucer. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. Matt. v. 29, 3O. Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Ps. cx…

at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

ch the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.

having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers. -- Pin money, an allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure. -- Pin rail (Naut.), a rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes applied to th…

A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit. Tumble me into some loathsome pit. Shak.

To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

To fall; to tumble. [Obs.]

ning to the family Scarabæidæ, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbleding, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.

were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. L'Estrange.

A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. -- Off stump (Cricket), the stump…

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay.

Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.

To stumble. [Obs.]

To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down. Though castles topple on their warders' heads. Shak.