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Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

In a rambling manner.

The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.

The brambling or bramble finch.

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

s and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

onsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected. "The same rambling, incoherent manner." Bp. Warburton.

The brambling finch.

Unconnected; rambling. Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. I. Watts.

Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.

A wandering, or rambling, through various places. [R.] Howell.

Roving; rambling. [Scot.]

es or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition. "A rhapsody of words." Shak. "A rhapsody of tales." Locke.

To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth. Marlowe.

Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. [Colloq.] Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.

um of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.

A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion. [Obs.] Howell.