dabbing machine (dabingmashen")

In type - founding, a machine for casting large metal types. dabble dabble (dab'l), v.; pret. and pp. dabbled, ppr. dabbling. [Early mod. E. also dable; = MD. dabbelen, pinch, knead, fumble, dabble, = Icel. dafla, dabble; freq. and dim. of dab1, v.] Ι. trans. To dip a little and often; hence, to wet; moisten; spatter; sprinkle. Then came wandering by A shadow like an angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood. Shak ., Rich. III., i. 4. The lively Liquor-God With dabbled heels hath swelling clusters trod. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. II. in trans. 1. To play in water, as with the hands; splash or play, as in water. The good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be dabbling in Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 167. water. Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge. Words worth, Evening Walk. 2. To do anything in a slight or superficial manner; touch or try here and there; dip into anything: with in: as, to dabble in railway shares; to dabble in literature. On the old frame remain these lines, probably written by the painter [Lucas de Heere] himself, who, we have seen, dabbled in poetry! Walpole , Anecdotes of Painting, I. vii. I had dabbled a little in the Universal History. 3. To tamper; meddle. Lamb, My First Play. You, I think, have been dabbling . with the text. Bp. Atterbury, To Pope. dabbler (dab'lėr), n. 1. One who dabbles or plays in water, or as in water.-2. One who dabbles in or dips slightly into some pursuit, busine , or study; a superficial worker or thinker. In matters of science he [Jefferson] was rather a dabbler than a philosopher. Theodore Parker , Historic Americans, p. 283. dabblingly (dab'ling-li), adv. In a dabbling manner; as a dabbler. IMG:content-1970.jpg:[blocks in formation] As when a dab - chick waddles through the copse On feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops. Pope , Dunciad, ii. 63. Hence-2t. A delectable morsel; a childish, tender, delicate person. She is a delicate dabchick ! I must have her. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 1. 3. A small grebe; a water-bird of the family Podicipedida: especially applied in Europe to the Podiceps minor, the little grebe, and in the United States to the Podilymbus podiceps, the Carolina or pied-billed grebe. Also dop- chicken. daberlack (dab'er-lak), n. [Sc.] 1. The seaweed Alaria esculent a: same as badderlocks. 2. Any wet, dirty strip of cloth or leather. -3. The hair of the head hanging in lank, tangled, and separate locks.