Word Meanings - DELITIGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chiding; brawl.

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• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• BRAWLING
  1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
• CHIDERESS
  She who chides.
• CHIDINGLY
  In a chiding or reproving manner.
• BRAWLER
  One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler , one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.
• BRAWLINGLY
  In a brawling manner.
• BRAWL
  brallen to brag, MHG. prulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. 1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously. Let a man that
• CHIDE
  1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak. 2. Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come,
• GLOCHIDIUM
  The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• ORCHIDOLOGY
  The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
• ORCHIDOLOGIST
  One versed in orchidology.
• ARCHIDIACONAL
  Of or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson.
• ORCHIDEAN
  Orchidaceous.
• GLOCHIDIATE
  Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray.
• RHACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.
• ORCHIDACEOUS
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all
• STICHIDIUM
  A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algæ.
• ECHIDNA
  A monster, half maid and half serpent.
• ORCHID
  Any plant of the order Orchidaceæ. See Orchidaceous.