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Thick; viscous. They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. Selden.

Thick; fat; heavy.

hly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. I. Watts.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Short and thick; suqabbish.

One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly. Bp. Parker.

To swab. [R.]

A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface. [Written also tabinet.]

tation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles. wobble.

Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

See Water hare.

A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.

issolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.