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A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. Spenser. [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets. Wyclif.

In pieces. [Obs.] Huloet.

See Gobbet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Dull; stupid. [Obs.]

Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), -... (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), ... (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less inte…

An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.

A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point. These are your quodlibets, but no learning. P. Fletcher.

One who discusses any subject at pleasure.

restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment. -- Quod`li*bet"ic*al*ly, adv.

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

See Sherbet.

A painter's pencil.

the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.

A kind of beverage; sherbet. Smolett.

Same as Surbate. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. -- n.