mammalogy (mamaloji)

[= Sp. mama logía, mammoring; verbal n. of mammer, v.] A state of hesitation or doubt; quandary; perplexity. There were only v. C. horsemen which a embled themselves together, and stood in a mammoring whether it were better to resist or to fire. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, v. But is not this Thais which I see? It's even she. I am in a mammering : ah, what should I do!