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To cream; to mantle. [Scot.] A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. Sir W. Scott.

To roll. [Obs.] And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel. Spenser.

To leap back; to rebound. [Obs.] The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Pope.

e; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.

Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc. [Slang.]

e scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute. T. Hughes.

t opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day Shak.

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.

disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose. God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake. Chapman. Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. Bunyan.

sher shark, or Thresher shark, a large, voracious shark. See Thrasher. -- Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length, but has very small teeth.

dread, doubt, or the like. They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. Swift.

r upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. For shunting your late partner on to me. T. Hughes.

me closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard. To shut up, to cease speaking. [Colloq.] T. Hughes.

To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper. T. Hughes.

by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.

A hard hitter; a slugger. [Cant or Slang] T. Hughes.

Promptly; quickly; easily. Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide. Shak.

spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.