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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

4. A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] Huloet.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

2. To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

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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