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Going or traveling in the night. Gay.

To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

The act of traveling post.

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

e dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison.

tigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.] The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple.

de for a fault; to consure formally. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

ct of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem. The unraveling and resolution of the difficulties that are met with in the execution of the design are the end of an action. Dryden.

ak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. De Quincey.

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray.

A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.

The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show. As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows. Bacon.

Traveling on snowshoes.

A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.