*rawl*

v. t. To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brawled p. pr. & vb. n. Brawling. ] [ OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr&unr_;ulen, 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. &unr_;95. ] 1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain loudly; to scold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To wrangle; squabble; contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that brawls; wrangler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a brawling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crawled p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling. ] [ Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kräla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch. ] 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. [ 1913 Webster ]

A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

Secretly crawling up the battered walls. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absurd opinions crawl about the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Kraal. ] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Swimming) A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Creepy. [ Colloq. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drawled p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling. ] [ Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle. ] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A housebreaker or thief. [ Obs. ] Old Play (1631). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

n. Same as Drawbar (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A species of damask made on the drawloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; an earthworm. It often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, and is used as bait by anglers. The term is used mostly in the northern and western U. S.
Syn. -- earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, dew worm, red worm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. 1. 1 to go from one pub or tavern to the next and get progressively more drunk.
Syn. -- bar hop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. 1. In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without proper preparation or provision. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Crawl. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scrawled p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling. ] [ Probably corrupted from scrabble. ] To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. [ 1913 Webster ]

The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sprawled p. pr. & vb. n. Sprawling. ] [ OE. spraulen; cf. Sw. sprattla to sprawl, dial. Sw. spralla, Dan. spraelle, spraelde, D. spartelen, spertelen, to flounder, to struggle. ] 1. To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or trees; to spread ungracefully, as chirography. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The position or state resulting from sprawling; as, he sat on the couch in a sprawl; uncontrolled urban sprawl. [ PJC ]

n. pl. Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OF. trauler, troller, F. trôter, to drag about, to stroll about; probably of Teutonic origin. Cf. Troll, v. t. ] To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter. [ U. S. & Canada ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, trawls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Trawlermen A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish. [ Obs. ] Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Trawl, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet. [ 1913 Webster ]