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Purfling
- - Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
Purpling
- verb - become purple
- color purple
Puzzling
- verb - be a mystery or bewildering to;
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide;
- lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
- Mystifying
- not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"
Quailing
- verb - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- Shook
Quelling
- verb - forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
- suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
Quilling
- - A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills. (b) One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.
Quisling
- noun - someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
Raddling
- verb - mark or paint with raddle
- twist or braid together, interlace
Raffling
- verb - dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"
Rambling
- verb - (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
- continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs"
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
- of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
- spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"