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A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion. [Obs.] Howell.

To labor; to strive; to struggle. England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. Shak.

the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. Rambler.

To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.

To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble. [Prov. Eng.]

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23.

One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

ng wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes. Rambler. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy. Franklin.

To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. Nature here wantoned as in her prime. Milton. How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams! Lamb.

Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.

13. There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse. Rambler. "But I love him." "Love him Worse and worse." Gay.

ak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. Rambler.