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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

2. To debate peevishly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. I. Watts.

Synonyms: dispute; contend; scuffle; wrangle; quarrel; struggle.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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