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A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton.

g and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

g bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose…

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. Shak.

oll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.

Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.] G. W. Curtis.

A chief man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

To make timoroys; to frighten. [Obs.] That which cowardeth a man's heart. Foxe.

Timorous; fearful; cowardly. [R.] Shak.