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A little bird; a nestling.

A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the sam…

With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

The employment of selling books.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.

Same as Branlin, fish and worm.

A quarrel. [R.] Whitlock.

Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak.

In a brawling manner.

Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

Clumsily; awkwardly.