Crossword clues for dabbling
dabbling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dabble \Dab"ble\ (d[a^]b"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dabbled
(d[a^]b"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Dabbling (d[a^]b"bl[i^]ng).]
To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to
moisten; to wet. ``Bright hair dabbled in blood.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context gerund of dabble English) An act in which something is dabbled in vb. (present participle of dabble English)
Usage examples of "dabbling".
He rooted in the sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the air, scraped up the sand again with a fury of his claws, soon ceasing, a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach, vulturing the dead.
They were dabbling in the sand with their spades and buckets, building castles as children do, or playing with their big coloured ball, happy as the day was long.
At his age when dabbling in politics roughly some score of years previously when he had been a quasi aspirant to parliamentary honours in the Buckshot Foster days he too recollected in retrospect (which was a source of keen satisfaction in itself) he had a sneaking regard for those same ultra ideas.
Cheating on examinations, unexpected pregnancies, a rumor of students dabbling in black magic…Nothing was new on the campuses.
Perhaps it had not been Briggs’s dabbling in questionable theology that had caused his expulsion, but rather his inability to conform to the basic tenets of the priestly orders.
Barlow began dabbling in computer journalism, with marked success, as he was a quick study, and both shrewd and eloquent.
Was EFF a genuinely important political development--or merely a clique of wealthy eccentrics, dabbling in matters better left to the proper authorities?
He is nearly emotionless, and what he has done in terms of the satanic stuff is a whole lot more than just dabbling or looking into it for purposes of an intellectual exercise….
But I have heard talk of his proclivity for dabbling in Black Arts and sorcery.
But dabbling with biological techniques was something they could figure out for themselves, using the resources they had.
Witchery—the Falconer had called it that, her own small dabblings in the unknown.
Although he knew that there were countless smaller islands out there, hidden by the subtle curvature of the earth, it was easy enough to imagine that the ocean went on forever, unsullied by the dabblings of the so-called continental engineers and their Creationist clients.