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To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

ne. Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealousy, had excellence to deserve our fondness. Rambler.

A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. Shak.

To dance a jig; to skip about. You jig, you amble, and you lisp. Shak.

The shambles; a place of slaughter. [R.]

aterial things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

se. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.

dromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler.

nowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Memory is the purveyor of reason. Rambler.

A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. Shak.

f fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.

le sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

s a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. Rambler.

To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.

t devotion to his service. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. Rambler.

To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.

To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.

A gamester; a gambler.

approbation. There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice. Rambler.

Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble. "A preambulary tax." [R.] Burke.