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In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

Profuse; lavish; prodigal.[Obs.]

Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot. Pope.

Thrush. Prunella salt (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man. Locke.

Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.

cated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. "Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.

e. -- To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak.

To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus. A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others. Dr. H. More. He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders. Addison.

Having the head full of confused notions. Johnson.

scesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

ing in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.

, a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become l…

A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.

A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse. "A raff of errors." Barrow.

One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.