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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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(Warbilling,) Warbling, ppl. adj.2 [e.m.E. warblyng (1549), warbling (1573).] a. Writhing, quivering. b. Quarrelsome, wrangling. —a. 1632 Lithgow Trav. viii 376.
Whilst I cut, and crush their [sc. the serpents'] warbling wombe —b. 1632 Lithgow Trav. i 2.
[He] can crowd and chawe from his warbling waspishness, this stinging censure of absurd vntrueth
