Word Meanings - SCRAMBLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.

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• BLUENESS
  The quality of being blue; a blue color. Boyle.
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• BLASPHEMOUS
  Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy
• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• BLATTEROON
  A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• BLUE BOOK
  1. A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. 2. The United States official "Biennial Register."
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• BLUNGE
  To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• RESPONSIBLE
  1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy,
• CHILBLAIN
  A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• FORTIFIABLE
  Capable of being fortified. Johnson.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• REMEDIABLE
  Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• INSANABLE
  Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.
• OBLATUM
  An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.