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Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. For who has power to walk has power to rove. Arbuthnot.

One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.

To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. "The scambling and unquiet time did push it out of . . . question." Shak.

now would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier.

rape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. Bunyan.

To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

evealed. To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery. Rambler.

To ramble over in order to clear; to scour. [Archaic] Shak.

ake less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.

haucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. Rambler.

uffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler.

To rove; to ramble. [Obs.] Bacon.

To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping. The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. L'Estrange.

sipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange.

r course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift.

studied. For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented Rambler.

Through. [Obs.] "Thorow bramble, pits, and floods." Beau. & Fl.

hrough; to thread. Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. Pope. And now he thrids the bramble bush. J. R. Drake. I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes. Tennyson.