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imp. & p. p. of Bleed.

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]

between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. .

Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] "The marbled mansion." Shak.

Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland.

Excessively troubled.

Abounding in pebbles. Thomson.

Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.

Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay.

Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

Disabled. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Lowered; humbled.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

ontaining the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. -- Al`ka*hes"tic, a.

ewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.