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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John v. 4. God looking forth will trouble all his host. Milton.

Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.

Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.

Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

Disturbed; confused; disordered. " Such turbid intervals that use to attend close prisoners." Howell.

To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. [Obs.] Milton.

flee; to retreat. -- To turn the back on or upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. -- To turn the corner, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed. -- To turn the die or dice, to change fortune. -- To turn the edge or point of, to b…

Not assented; -- said specif. of stocks or bonds the holders of which refuse to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment.

To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.

Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed.

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse. "Art shall be conjured for it, and nature all unraveled." Dryden.

ove or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.

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

The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness. Udall.

Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.

To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.

In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided]. Chaucer. Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word. Ps. cxlviii. 8.

tians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns. -- Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher. -- Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap. -- Venetian sumac…

view or examination; free discussion; public exposure. The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world. Bp. Hall.

are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.