Word Meanings - RAMBLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

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• ROVER
  A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt
• WANDERER
  One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• RETROVERT
  To turn back.
• UNCONTROVERSORY
  Not involving controversy. Bp. Hall.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• CONTROVERSOR
  A controverser.
• BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
  A controversy between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of
• PROVERB
  1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
• PROVERBIALIST
  One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
• CONTROVERSARY
  Controversial. Bp. Hall.
• CONTROVERTIBLE
  Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
• CONTROVERSIAL
  Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.
• CONTROVERSION
  Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.
• CONTROVERSIALIST
  One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.
• INCONTROVERTIBLE
  Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
• PROVERBIALLY
  In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy.
• CONTROVERTIST
  One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.