Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)

Displaying 14 result(s) from the 1913 edition:

Copple (Page: 319)

Cop"ple (?), n. [A dim. of Cop.] Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

Dapple (Page: 367)

Dap"ple (?), n. [Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.] One of the spots on a dappled animal.

He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

Dapple (Page: 367)

Dap"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot.

The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak.

The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Fipple (Page: 562)

Fip"ple (f&etil;r), n. [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.] A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] Bacon.

Hopple (Page: 705)

Hop"ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoppled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hoppling (?).] [From Hop; cf. Hobble.]

1. To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

2. Fig.: To entangle; to hamper. Dr. H. More.

Hopple (Page: 705)

Hop"ple, n. A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Nipple (Page: 976)

Nip"ple (?), n. [Formerly neble, a dim. of neb. See Neb, Nib.]

1. (Anat.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [R.] Derham.

3. Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.

4. (Mech.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings. Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering. [977]

Popple (Page: 1114)

Pop"ple (?), v. i. [Cf. Pop.] To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble. Cotton.

Popple (Page: 1114)

Pop"ple, n.

1. The poplar. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

2. Tares. [Obs.] To sow popple among wheat." Bale.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple (?), n. [FRom Rip, v.] An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, v. t.

1. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

2. Hence, to scratch or tear. Holland.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rippled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rippling (?).] [Cf. Rimple, Rumple.]

1. To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

2. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, v. t. To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, n.

1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.

2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter. Ripple grass. (Bot.) See Ribwort. -- Ripple marks, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum.

Displaying 5 result(s) from the 1828 edition:

DAP''PLE, a. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification.

DAP''PLE, v.t. To spot; to variegate with spots.

The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots

of gray. Shak.

The dapples pink, and blushing rose. Prior.

FIP''PLE, n. [L. fibula.] A stopper. [Not in use.]

HOP''PLE, v.t. To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.

NIP''PLE, n.

1. A teat; a dug; the spungy protuberance by which milk is drawn from the breasts of females.

2. The orifice at which any animal liquor is separated.

RIP''PLE, v.i.

To fret on the surface; as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom, appears rough and broken, or as if ripped or torn.

RIP''PLE, v.t.

1. To clean, as flax.

2. To agitate the surface of water.

RIP''PLE, n.

1. The fretting of the surface of water; little curling waves.

2. A large comb or hatchel for cleaning flax.