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Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. "The pravity of the will." South.

. Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; 'T is Punic all, and to a proverb known. H. Brooke.

urmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.

A quagmire. [R.] "Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells." Cowper.

A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition o…

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. "Right as any line." Chaucer

A very small brook; a streamlet.

One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. Knight. -- Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook. -- Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw. -- To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out…

ying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

Mist; smoke; damp [Prov.Eng.] [Written also roak, rook, and rouk.]

A small stream; a brook; a creek.

A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.

ring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brooklite.

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1. Sam. xxi. 13.

re. This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. Shak. His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.

To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. [R.] "The serpenting of the Thames." Evelyn.

A kind of crooked sword or hanger. [Scot.]