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rails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general. [Written also humbles.] Johnson.

Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] Johnson.

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

See Nombles.

Without a thumb. Darwin.

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

awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. Dryden. My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.

One who fumbles.

In the manner of one who fumbles.

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.

sively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.

One who, or that which, humbles some one.

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

One who mumbles.

The entrails of a deer; the umbles. [Written also numbles.] Johnson.

t the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

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.