Word Meanings - NUBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To beat or bruise with the fist. Ainsworth.

Related words: (words related to NUBBLE)

• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• BRUISER
  1. One who, or that which, bruises. 2. A boxer; a pugilist. R. Browning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton. 3. A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.
• BRUISE
  bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochison. Cf. 1. To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple
• DEBRUISED
  Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut. The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where
• PAINSWORTHY
  Worth the pains o
• FORBRUISE
  To bruise sorely or exceedingly. All forbrosed, both back and side. Chaucer.