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{ } v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [ Obs. ] Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To blot; to stain. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bone black, under Bone, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Fort.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. delebilis. See 1st Dele. ] Capable of being blotted out or erased. “An impression easily deleble.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Pyroxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. iblis. ] (Moham. Myth.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan. [ Written also Eblees. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfeebled p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeebling ] [ OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L. in) + feble, F. faible, feeble. See Feeble. ] To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as debilitated, 2.
Syn. -- debilitated, infirm, seedy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of weakening; enervation; weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To enfeeble. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Feebler superl. Feeblest ] [ OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible. ] 1. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. “A lady's feeble voice.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile. “comfort the feeble-minded.” 1 Thess. v. 14.

-- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. severe mental deficiency.
Syn. -- amentia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. [ 1913 Webster ]

That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a feeble manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's “King Henry IV., ” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible.” ] Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Prof. Ayton ] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Enfeeble. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: That which gives strength and energy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Money [ is ] the lifeblood of the nation. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Moebles. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE., fr. OF. moeble, mueble, movable, from L. mobilis. ] Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble). [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A bleeding at the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The yarrow. See Yarrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Probably influenced by pore, v. See Purblind. ] Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., a village, L. populus people. See People. ] A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zuñi, the Keran, and the Tewan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bloom again. Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To blossom again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who polishes shoes; same as bootblack. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple. ] 1. Threefold; triple. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lofty tower, and strong on every side
With treble walls. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) (a) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound. Bacon. (b) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Trebly; triply. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ “ It has been said to be a corruption of triplum [ Lat. ], a third part, superadded to the altus and bassus (high and low).” Grove. ] (Mus.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trebled p. pr. & vb. n. Trebling. ] 1. To make thrice as much; to make threefold. “Love trebled life.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter in a treble key; to whine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He outrageously
(When I accused him) trebled his reply. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become threefold. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Triblet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]