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Maunder, Maund v. i.

To beg. (Obs.)

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."

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Etymology of 'Maunder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maunder" Quotes from Famous Books

... him — a school whose reed has a short gamut, and plays but two notes, Mors and Eros, hopeless death and lawless love. But poetry is larger and finer than they know. Its face is toward the world's future; it does not maunder after the flower-decked nymphs and yellow-skirted fays that have forever fled — and good riddance — their haunted springs and tangled thickets. It can feed on its growing sweet and fresh faiths, but will draw foul contagion from the rank mists that float over old ...

— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... circumference, which does not allow the darkness to become deep and complete." No further reference to this phenomenon occurs until near the end of the sixteenth century. It should, however, be here mentioned that Mr. E.W. Maunder has pointed out the probability[6] that we have a very ancient symbolic representation of the corona in the "winged circle," "winged disc," or "ring with wings," as it is variously called, which appears so often upon Assyrian ...

— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage

Words linked to "Maunder" : vagabond, roll, blabber, tattle, rove, swan, clack, blab, twaddle, speak, gabble, blather, babble, chatter, prattle, drift, mouth, palaver, roam, mussitate, blither, mumble, piffle, cast, tramp, ramble, blether, gibber, talk, prate, tittle-tattle, stray, verbalize, mutter