Word Meanings - LOGGERHEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.

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• RABBLE
  An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• LOGGERHEADED
  Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.
• STUPID
  1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid,
• RABBLER
  A scraping tool for smoothing metal.
• LOGGERHEAD
  An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (more info) 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton. 2. A spherical mass of iron, with
• LOGGERHEADS
  The knapweed.
• RABBLEMENT
  A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser. And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted. Shak.
• RABBLE-ROUT
  A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.
• BRABBLE
  To clamor; to contest noisily.
• 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.
• DRABBLER
  A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
• 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.
• DRABBLE-TAIL
  A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
• BRABBLER
  A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. Shak.