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maunder

Word definitions for maunder in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maunder \Maund"er\, v. t. To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Maunder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Maunder (1861–1932), British sport shooter Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868–1947), Irish astronomer and mathematician Edward Walter Maunder (1851–1928), English astronomer J. H. Maunder ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. wander aimlessly talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: mumble , mutter , mussitate ] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter , piffle , palaver , prate , tittle-tattle , twaddle , clack , prattle , blab , gibber ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to wander about aimlessly," c.1746, earlier "to mumble, grumble" (1620s), both senses perhaps from frequentative of maund "to beg" (1560s), which is possibly from French mendier "to beg," from Latin mendicare (see mendicant ). "Though the etymology of ...

Usage examples of maunder.

While thus she was maundering and afflicting her self, Lampis the Herdsman coming upon her with a band of rusticks, ravisht her away, presuming Daphnis had cast off all thoughts of Chloe, and Dryas too to gape on Daphnis.

Where was any call for that confession, about which the soutar had maundered so foolishly?

Not because of what the Blackshirts had done to him, but because of those sinister black birds maundering around the castle grounds.

She sat down on the bed and began to talk of Daniel Dabbs, as she had often done already, in a maundering way.

There was this guy Maunder at the end of the last century who claimed that in the late 1600s sunspots almost disappeared for a period of seventy years.

Eddy indagò nei re­soconti di cui disponeva, e tro­vò che le osservazioni di aurore boreali erano praticamente as­senti durante il periodo del minimo di Maunder.

He repeated names which I recognized from bygone browsings in forbidden volumes, and at times made me shudder with a certain thread of mythological consistency - or convincing coherence - which ran through his maundering.

And Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side.

Sometimes I see a milkiness in the blebs, you know, and I think it’s there to remind me of the babes—” While he maundered on, Tesla realized that the finery he’d unfurled was not a garment at all: It was his body.

To be harried and bullied and exposed to awful danger--and then just cut adrift with hardly a thank-you-damn-your-eyes from a man who, but for me, would have been feeding the fishes--God, I found myself hating that shilly-shally Carl Gustaf, and that sour-faced old turd Sapten-- aye, and that mealy Grundvig, with his pious maundering.

Why, I remember the time when old Maunders as had three-and-twenty wans--I remember the time when old Maunders had in his cottage in Spa Fields in the winter time, when the season was over, eight male and female dwarfs setting down to dinner every day, who was waited on by eight old giants in green coats, red smalls, blue cotton stockings, and high-lows: and there was one dwarf as had grown elderly and wicious who whenever his giant wasn’t quick enough to please him, used to stick pins in his legs, not being able to reach up any higher.

The account maundered on for a couple more paragraphs, but Erwin merely skimmed them.

The Fisher maundered on about having to make hundreds of casts during a Singer's lifetime.

Though Concera had maundered on and on about how careful Singers were to protect their claims by using devious routes to and from, Keborgen might just as easily have flown straight in the hope of reaching safety.

But Your Majesty will have noticed that, though he professes to be now a Christian, the old dotard maundered much about his dead mate's still wandering the world—and why?