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Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity. Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. Pope.

Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. Mere prattle, without practice. Shak.

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper.

Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.] Abp. Bramhall.

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey.

Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. Chaucer.

A medusa, or jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.

A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. I. Watts.

Triflingly; evasively.

A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. Coleridge.

To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

t for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. Swift. Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. Mrs. Alexander. Not to care a rap, to care nothing. -- Not worth a rap,…

To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks. "Rigging and rifling all ways." Chapman.

The act of ruffling. [R.]

cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. "A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn.

Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

Important; weighty; not trifling; grave. The holy Scriptures bring to our ears the most serious things in the world. Young.

ging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.