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To flow forth; to roll out; to course. [Obs.] Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing. Spenser.

One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

Expressing reproach; insulting. Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11.

With scoffing or insulting language.

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.

A banterer; a jester; a mocker. [R.] Wycherley.

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad. [Colloq. U. S.]

An elevated cableway.

Preparation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

hich the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

A creel or osier basket.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To trail; to draggle. [Obs.] South.