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To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott.

Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.

press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.

e, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. Shak.

One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

g over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. -- Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. -- Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance ma…

bble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.

of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden.

The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.] The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.

Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.

To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.] Live on the use and never dip thy lands. Dryden. Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. -- To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] -- To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them…

president or senator of the United States, by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote.

To teach; to train. [Obs.] That better were in virtues discipled. Spenser.

To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.

To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.

To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.] Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. Chapman.