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The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity.

k; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

a. & n. from Twaddle, v.

Idle trifling; twaddle.

To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.

A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable…

The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell. Accidental, Common, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for tha…

A swadding cloth.

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.]

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is F. atra (see under bald); the American is F. Americana.