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Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.…

A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

e Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. E. A. Freeman.

Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

Nonsense; vain words. B. Jonson.

Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]

Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley.

A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! [Colloq.]

Nonsense. [Colloq.]

me applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. -- Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Æthusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. -- To make a fool of, to ren…

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture. Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. Walpole.

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement…

A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. Hudibras.

Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. Swift.

Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style. [Slang]