Crossword clues for maunder
maunder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maund \Maund\, Maunder \Maund"er\, v. i. [Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant.]
To beg. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl.-
To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
--Sir W. Scott.
Maunder \Maund"er\, n. A beggar. [Obs.]
Maunder \Maund"er\, v. t. To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
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 maunder is uncertain, it is clear that it is not a corruption of meander" [Fowler], but the two words seem to have influenced each other. Fowler writes that maunder is "best confined to speech, & suggests futility rather than digression ... & failure to reach an end rather than loitering on the way to it." Related: Maundered; maundering.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A beggar. vb. 1 To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle. 2 To wander or walk aimlessly.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Maunder may refer to:
- Maunder (surname)
- Maunder Minimum, period c. AD 1645–1715, when sunspots became exceedingly rare
- Maunder (lunar crater)
- Maunder (Martian crater)
Maunder is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the western limb. This region is sometimes brought into view during favorable librations, but not much detail can be seen. The crater lies at the northern end of the Mare Orientale, within the ring of mountains named Montes Rook, and it is the largest crater on this lunar mare. To the southeast is the crater Kopff, and due south is the small Hohmann.
The rim of Maunder is roughly circular, with a sharp edge that has not been significantly eroded. The inner walls are somewhat terraced, and slump down to a rough but level interior floor. At the midpoint of the crater is a double central peak, with the northeastern peak being the larger of the two. Surrounding the crater is a rough outer rampart that mixes with the rugged terrain along the northern half of the rim. Secondary impacts are visible in the surface to the south.
Maunder Crater is an old, eroded crater in the Noachis quadrangle of Mars, located at 50 South and 358.5 West. It is 107.5 km in diameter and was named after Edward W.Maunder, a British astronomer (1851-1928).
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 (1858–1920), English composer and organist
- Lucy Maunder, Australian cabaret and theatre performer
- Maria Maunder (born 1972), Canadian rower
- Paul Maunder (born 1945), New Zealand film director, playwright and cultural activist
- Samuel Maunder (1785–1849), English writer and composer
- Wayne Maunder (born 1937), Canadian-American actor
- William Maunder (born 1903), Australian association football player
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?