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Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport. While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. A little romping girl from boarding school. W. Irving.

In a romping manner.

Given to rude play; inclined to romp. --- Romp"ish, adv. -- Romp"ish*ness, n.

Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.

olorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]

Not ready. [R.] Sterne.

Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.

Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate. -- O`ver*prompt"ness, n.

dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons. Very discerning and prompt in giving orders. Clarendon. Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet. Shak. Any you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies. Dryden.…

The book used by a prompter of a theater.

A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.

One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.

The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage. I. Taylor.

In a prompt manner.

Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.

Of or pertaining to preparation. [R.] Bacon.

Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.

A colorless crystalline substance prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.

n with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]