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To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, rumbles.

l pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused. [Obs.] Shak.

d complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. L'Avare, not using half his store, Still grumbles that he has no more. Prior.

One who grumbles.

tes the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metall…

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

mits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest. Having food rainment, let us be therewith content. 1 Tim. vi. 8.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.

To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

ther matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19. Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust. Byron.

[friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

To murmur; to grumble. [Obs.] What aileth you, thus for grucche and groan. Chaucer.

us silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles. [Written also laumonite.]

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper.

To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.

To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the…