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To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.] This canon it in his hand nam. Chaucer.

Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather.

d quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope.

The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

Nimbleness. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.

Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.

A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.

State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.

Excessive; extravagant; inordinate. [Obs.]

A thief. [Obs.]

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

g notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

c] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

ark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon. I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.

One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.