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Something added or appended, as to a name. [Obs.] Shak.

Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.

The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

from Swaddle, v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

ter, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity.

; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

a. & n. from Twaddle, v.

Idle trifling; twaddle.

To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [R.] Whitlock.

To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.

To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.

An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.

See Waddy.

Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

y fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

One who, or that which, waddles.

In a waddling manner.

To attack or beat with a waddy.