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To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]

See Tumbledung.

Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.

the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. There stumble steeds strong and down go all. Chaucer. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. Prov. iv. 19.

One who stumbles.

The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. Knight.

e blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.

To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reac…

consecrated; an object of devotion. [R.] Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos. Beau. & Fl. Days of devotion. See under Day.

The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet Shak.

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

ts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. Sir W. Hamilton.

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer.

To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. Shak.

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.