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n. Same as Atheling. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. sick; unhealthy. Opposite of well or healthy.
Syn. -- indisposed, peaked(predicate), poorly(predicate), sickly, unwell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. In devices generating heat, such as gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the device by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

n. A thoughtless, gay person. [ Obs. ] “Slight airlings.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With an ambling gait. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. æðeling noble, fr. æðele noble, akin to G. adel nobility, edel noble. The word æðel, E. ethel, is in many AS. proper names, as Ethelwolf, noble wolf; Ethelbald, noble bold; Ethelbert, noble bright. ] An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. [ Written also Adeling and Ætheling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. pertaining to a method of teaching language that focuses on listening and speaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. -- Baff"ling*ly, adv. -- Baff"ling*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. for bandling, from band, and meaning a child wrapped in swaddling bands; or cf. G. bäntling a bastard, fr. bank bench. Cf. Bastard, n. ] A young or small child; an infant. [ Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inferior bard. J. Cunningham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bat a stick. ] A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Bawbling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Insignificant; contemptible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. hunting rabbits with beagles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. -- Be*guil"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ From Bell to bellow. ] A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bilinguis; bis twice + lingua tongue, language. ] Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Quality of being bilingual. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bilingualism of King's English. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Bilingual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in two languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bilinguis. ] Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Caressing; kissing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little bird; a nestling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. ] (Zool.) A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. causing sudden intense fear due to an apprehension of imminent bodily harm, to oneself or others. Awakened by a bloodcurdling scream from right outside her window
Syn. -- hair-raising, nightmarish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 ° Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96°; for ether, 94.8°; for mercury, about 675°. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. --
Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. --
To be at the boiling point, to be very angry. --
To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exposure to the action of a hot liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With boiling or ebullition. [ 1913 Webster ]

And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Bole stem of a tree, and Poll, v. t. ] A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The employment of selling books. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and sealing the bottles, as with a cork or a bottle cap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. --
Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bramline. See Bramble, n. ] (Zool.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Zool.) Same as Branlin, fish and worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quarrel. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a brawling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned.
Syn. -- sprat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a small herring (Clupea sprattus) processed like a sardine.
Syn. -- sprat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]