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Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.

ry. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler.

uncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated. Rambler.

rth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.

ow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier.

vealed. To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery. Rambler.

ke less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.

aucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. Rambler.

ffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler.

A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport" Prov. xxvi. 19.

rations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. -- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and somet…

ipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

tudied. For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented Rambler.

the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. Rambler.

One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

ng wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes. Rambler. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy. Franklin.

13. There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse. Rambler. "But I love him." "Love him Worse and worse." Gay.

ak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. Rambler.