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Bevelling Bevel Bev"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beveled (?) or Bevelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Beveling or Bevelling.]
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
Drivelling Drivel Driv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Driveledor Drivelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling.] [Cf. OE.
dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E.
drabble. Cf. Drool.]
1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth,
like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. [Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.]
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero;
driveling love. --Shak. Dryden.
Gravelling Graveling Grav"el*ing, or Gravelling Grav"el*ling, n.
1. The act of covering with gravel.
2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
Gravelling Graveling Grav"el*ing, or Gravelling Grav"el*ling, n.
(Zo["o]l.)
A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
Gravelling Gravel Grav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graveledor Gravelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling.]
1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run
aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
When we were fallen into a place between two seas,
they graveled the ship. --Acts xxvii.
41 (Rhemish
version).
Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to
be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in
the sand that he fell to the ground. --Camden.
3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.]
When you were graveled for lack of matter. --Shak.
The physician was so graveled and amazed withal,
that he had not a word more to say. --Sir T.
North.
4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the
shoe and foot.
grovelling Groveling Grov"el*ing, a.
Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] ``A
groveling creature.' --Cowper.
Hovelling Hovel Hov"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoveledor Hovelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Hoveling or Hovelling.]
To put in a hovel; to shelter.
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. --Shak.
The poor are hoveled and hustled together. --Tennyson.
hovelling Hoveling Hov"el*ing, n.
A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering
the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two
of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also
hovelling.]
Levelling Level Lev"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leveled (-[e^]ld) or
Levelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Leveling or Levelling.]
1. To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the
condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat
or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.
2. To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down;
to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
And their proud structures level with the ground.
--Sandys.
He levels mountains and he raises plains. --Dryden.
3. To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to
point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall,
leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow. --Stow.
4. Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in
respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.;
as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.
5. To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level
remarks to the capacity of children.
For all his mind on honor fixed is, To which he
levels all his purposes. --Spenser.
Marvelling Marvel Mar"vel, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marveledor Marvelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Marveling or Marvelling.] [OE. merveilen,
OF. merveillier.]
To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to
wonder.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. --1
john iii. 13.
Ravelling Ravel Rav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raveledor Ravelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Raveling or Ravelling.] [. ravelen, D.
rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.]
1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to
untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out;
as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking.
Revelling Revel Rev"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reveledor Revelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Reveling or Revelling.] [OF. reveler to
revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See Rebel.]
1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the
bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak.
2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. ``Where
joy most revels.' --Shak.
Shovelling Shovel Shov"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shoveledor Shovelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Shoveling or Shovelling.]
1. To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth
into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
2. To gather up as with a shovel.
Shrivelling Shrivel Shriv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveledor
Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.]
[Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to
pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory,
frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel.
skrj?pr brittle, frail.]
To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form
corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin
shrivels with age; -- often with up.
Snivelling Snivel Sniv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniveledor Snivelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Sniveling or Snivelling.] [OE. snivelen,
snevelen, snuvelen, freg. of sneven. See Sniff, and cf.
Snuffle.]
1. To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
2. To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly
or whiningly.
Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. --Sir W.
Scott.
Travelling Travel Trav"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveledor Travelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.] [Properly, to
labor, and the same word as travail.]
1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] --Hooker.
2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the
city, or through the streets.
3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place,
or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his
health; he is traveling in California.
4. To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
--Shak.
