Word Meanings - COLLUVIES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends. 2. A medley; offscourings or rabble.

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• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• RABBLE
  An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
• RUBBISH
  Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• RABBLER
  A scraping tool for smoothing metal.
• RABBLEMENT
  A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser. And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted. Shak.
• MEDLEY
  A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri. Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, potpourri to instrumental, compositions. 4. A cloth of mixed colors. Fuller. (more info) 1. A mixture; a mingled and
• COLLECTION
  1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
• RABBLE-ROUT
  A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.
• COLLECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
• GATHERING
  1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• BRABBLE
  To clamor; to contest noisily.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• DRABBLER
  A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• SCRABBLE
  1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his
• DRABBLE
  To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.
• BRABBLEMENT
  A brabble. Holland.
• BEDRABBLE
  To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
• FORGATHER
  To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.