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Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.

Cloth or material for making trousers.

gitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.

ommitting no mistake; incapable or error or failure certain; sure; unfailing; as, the unerring wisdom of God. Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. Dryden.

In an unerring manner.

That may not be infringed; as, an uninfringible monopoly.

Incurable. [Obs.] "Some unrecuring wound." Shak.

Not having a ring, as in the nose. "Pigs unringed." Hudibras.

Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. Burke.

To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.

Inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To spring up. Tennyson.

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.

Shifting. -- Veer"ing*ly, adv.

The act or art of one who veneers.

oving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.

A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axis disposed in circular form, attains a more or less distinct separation from the surrounding medium and has many of the properties of a solid.

Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. (Com.) See Wager policy, under Policy.

a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross (Zoöl.), the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell (Physiol.), an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering Jew (Bot.), any one of several creeping species of Tradesc…