Search the Dictionary

Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye.

One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast. Thackeray.

To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. Addison.

A vagabond. [Obs.] Spenser.

hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.

An idler; a vagabond. Wharton.

A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." Moltey.

Willing; disposed. [Obs.] I am not lief to gab. Chaucer. He up arose, however lief or loth. Spenser.

To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. " Loafing vagabonds." W. Black.

An idle vagabond. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A female mulatto. G. W. Gable.

navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Ps. cxlvii. 2.

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.

A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.

travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

ed to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc. Some renowned metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles around. Milton.…