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BafflingBaffling Baf"fling (b[a^]f"fl[i^]ng), a.
Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling
currents, winds, tasks. -- Baff"ling*ly, adv. --
Baff"ling*ness, n. BafflinglyBaffling Baf"fling (b[a^]f"fl[i^]ng), a.
Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling
currents, winds, tasks. -- Baff"ling*ly, adv. --
Baff"ling*ness, n. BafflingnessBaffling Baf"fling (b[a^]f"fl[i^]ng), a.
Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling
currents, winds, tasks. -- Baff"ling*ly, adv. --
Baff"ling*ness, n. Dwarfling
Dwarfling Dwarf"ling, n.
A diminutive dwarf.
Figure flinger2/22/42/8 4/22/44/8 3/23/43/8 6/46/46/8
Academy figure, Canceled figures, Lay figure, etc. See
under Academy, Cancel, Lay, etc.
Figure caster, or Figure flinger, an astrologer. ``This
figure caster.' --Milton.
Figure flinging, the practice of astrology.
Figure-of-eight knot, a knot shaped like the figure 8. See
Illust. under Knot.
Figure painting, a picture of the human figure, or the act
or art of depicting the human figure.
Figure stone (Min.), agalmatolite.
Figure weaving, the art or process of weaving figured
fabrics.
To cut a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] --Sir W.
Scott. Figure flinging2/22/42/8 4/22/44/8 3/23/43/8 6/46/46/8
Academy figure, Canceled figures, Lay figure, etc. See
under Academy, Cancel, Lay, etc.
Figure caster, or Figure flinger, an astrologer. ``This
figure caster.' --Milton.
Figure flinging, the practice of astrology.
Figure-of-eight knot, a knot shaped like the figure 8. See
Illust. under Knot.
Figure painting, a picture of the human figure, or the act
or art of depicting the human figure.
Figure stone (Min.), agalmatolite.
Figure weaving, the art or process of weaving figured
fabrics.
To cut a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] --Sir W.
Scott. Flingdust
Flingdust Fling"dust`, n.
One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
[Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
Flinger
Flinger Fling"er, n.
One who flings; one who jeers.
Highland flingHighland High"land, n.
Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated
region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.
Highland fling, a dance peculiar to the Scottish
Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe. MufflingMuffle Muf"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muffled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Muffling.] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel
a muff. See Muff.]
1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to
wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds;
hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to
inclose; -- often with up. --South.
The face lies muffled up within the garment.
--Addison.
He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden.
Muffled up in darkness and superstition.
--Arbuthnot.
2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound
about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
3. To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of;
as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an
oar which rests in the rowlock. Nerfling
Nerfling Nerf"ling, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The id.
Outfling
Outfling Out"fling`, n.
A gibe; a contemptuous remark.
PifflingPiffle Pif"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Piffled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Piffling.]
To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk
triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or
Slang] Purfling
Purfling Pur"fling, n.
Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the
inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
RafflingRaffle Raf"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raffled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Raffling.]
To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch. RiflingRifling Ri"fling, n.
(a) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled
cannon or gun barrel.
(b) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the
groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate
loading with shot having projections which enter by the
deeper part of the grooves. RufflingRuffle Ruf"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ruffled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ruffling.] [From Ruff a plaited collar, a drum beat, a
tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.]
1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers,
plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by
agitation or commotion.
The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled
the placid bosom of the Nile. --I. Taylor.
She smoothed the ruffled seas. --Dryden.
4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
[the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson.
5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in
him and ruffled all his heart. --Tennyson.
7. To throw into disorder or confusion.
Where best He might the ruffled foe infest.
--Hudibras.
8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.]
I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. --Chapman
To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to
irritate. ScufflingScuffle Scuf"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scuffled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Scuffling.] [Freq. of scuff, v.i.; cf. Sw. skuffa to
push, shove, skuff a push, Dan. skuffe a drawer, a shovel,
and E. shuffle, shove. See Shove, and cf. Shuffle.]
1. To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in
a rough fashion.
2. Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle
confusedly or at haphazard.
A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage
in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with
an undisciplined rabble. --Eikon
Basilike. Shuffling
Shuffling Shuf"fling, a.
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. ``A shuffling
nag.' --Shak.
2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet.
Shuffling
Shuffling Shuf"fling, v.
In a shuffling manner.
Shunt riflingRifling Ri"fling, n.
(a) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled
cannon or gun barrel.
(b) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the
groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate
loading with shot having projections which enter by the
deeper part of the grooves. Skiffling
Skiffling Skif"fling, n. (Quarrying)
Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections;
knobbing.
SnafflingSnaffle Snaf"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snaffled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Snaffling.]
To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle;
to bridle. SnufflingSnuffle Snuf"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snuffled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Snuffling.] [Freq. of snuff, v.i.; akin to LG. snuffeln,
G. schn["u]ffeln, D. snuffeln, Dan. sn["o]vle. Cf.
Sniffle.]
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when
it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable
rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his
throat. --Dryden. StiflingStifle Sti"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stifled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stifling.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[=i]fla to
dam up.]
1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the
windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into
the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of
by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
--Dryden.
I took my leave, being half stifled with the
closeness of the room. --Swift.
2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to
stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which
they do not reflect or transmit. --Sir I.
Newton.
3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to
conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to
stifle passion.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as
they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
--Waterland. TriflingTrifling Tri"fling, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. --
Tri"fling*ness, n. TriflinglyTrifling Tri"fling, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. --
Tri"fling*ness, n. TriflingnessTrifling Tri"fling, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. --
Tri"fling*ness, n. WhifflingWhiffle Whif"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whiffled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Whiffling.] [Freq. of whiff to puff, perhaps influenced
by D. weifelen to waver.]
1. To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to
shift, turn, or veer about. --D?mpier.
2. To change from one opinion or course to another; to use
evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. Wolfling
Wolfling Wolf"ling, n.
A young wolf. --Carlyle.
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gained po****rity in the
early 19th century. The word '
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