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Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.

n the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [Eng.] Crabb.

d person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor. Bouvier. Burrill. Abbott.

ong Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc.

The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

A woman who acts as chief in a convent, abbey, or nunnery; a lady superior.

Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. "That surly spirit, melancholy." Shak.

n for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port. Abbot. Surveyor general.

Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). Swamp blackbird. (Zoöl.) See Redwing (b). -- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. -- Swamp hen. (Zoöl.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian wate…

r children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.

An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb.

See Swabber.

Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.

A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. Crabb.

See Tabbinet. Thackeray.

Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.

The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man. Shak.

uadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.

Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).

A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.