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31 words match “TOTTER”

TOTTER v. 2 definitions
o shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3.
TOTTERER n.
One who totters.
TOTTERINGLY adv.
In a tottering manner.
TOTTERY a.
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
TETTER-TOTTER n.
A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.
TITTER-TOTTER v.
See Teeter.
BRANDLE v.
To shake; to totter. [Obs.]
DIDDLE v.
To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.
DISTEMPER v.
courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.
DODDER v.
To shake, tremble, or totter. "The doddering mast." Thomson.
FALL v.
be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.
FALTER v.
To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter." Wiseman.
FRIBBLE v.
To totter. [Obs.]
GARRET n.
a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic. The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. Macaulay.
JOGGLE v. 2 definitions
To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
PALSY n.
lly occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.
ROCK v. 2 definitions
support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. A rising earthquake rocked the ground. Dryden.
SHAKE v.
To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. Milton. What danger Who 's that that shakes behind there Beau & FL. Shaking piece, a name given by butchers to the piece of be…
SHAKY a.
Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit. [Colloq.]
STAGGER v. 2 definitions
o fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden.
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