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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



15 words match “MAUNDER”

MAUNDER v. 2 definitions
To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
MAUNDERER n.
One who maunders.
MAUND; MAUNDER v. 2 definitions
e; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.
COLLAPSE v.
of a steam engine sometimes collapses. A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.
FRESCADE n.
A cool walk; shady place. [R.] Maunder.
GRISEOUS a.
Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder.
HAVER v.
To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
MANDER v.
See Maunder.
OBSIGILLATION n.
A sealing up. [Obs.] Maunder.
OBUNCOUS a.
Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree. Maunder.
ORICHALCEOUS a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass. Maunder.
PEDALIAN a.
Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal. [R.] Maunder.
SCOTOGRAPH n.
An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing. Maunder.
TREASURY n.
or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."
WITCH n.
tems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' besoms (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' butter (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous cryptogamou…