n.
An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
n.
Plumbago, or black lead.
n.
A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
n.
Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Waddle
v. i.
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
v. t.
To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
n.
One who, or that which, waddles.
adv.
In a waddling manner.
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