Word Meanings - TOUSLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.

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• TOUSE; TOUZE
  To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.
• TUMBLERFUL
  As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
• TUMBLE-DOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
• TUMBLEWEED
  Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• TOUSER
  One who touses.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• DISORDERED
  1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
• TUMBLE
  violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to
• TUMBLER
  A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. 4. A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed
• TUMBLEBUG
  See TUMBLEDUNG
• DISORDERLINESS
  The state of being disorderly.
• TUMBLEDUNG
  Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which
• TOUSE
  A pulling; a disturbance. Halliwell.
• TOUSEL
  See TOUSLE
• BETUMBLE
  To throw into disorder; to tumble. From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.
• STUMBLER
  One who stumbles.
• VENTOUSE
  A cupping glass. Chaucer.
• STUMBLE
  1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. There stumble steeds strong and down go all. Chaucer. The way of the wicked is as darkness: