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ape, 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.

vealed. 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.

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

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

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

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

A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang] In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport" Prov. xxvi. 19.

rations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. -- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and somet…

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.

ipate; 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.

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.

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

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

rough; 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.

the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. -- To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: --