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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See numbles.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Alternative form of numbles.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The entrails of a deer; the umbles.

Examples

  • “Sir Tristrem himself, and wrangling and disputing with all around him concerning nombles, briskets, flankards, and raven-bones, then usual terms of the art of hunting, or of butchery, whichever the reader chooses to call it, which are now probably antiquated.”

    The Bride of Lammermoor

  • “I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte — I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir”

    Ivanhoe

  • “I call not the blast either a _recheate_ or a _morte_ --- I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of _curee, arbor, nombles_, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. '”

    Ivanhoe

  • “Ta {n} sey is good/hote wortes, or gruell of befe or of motto {n} is good. [t]  Gelly, mortrus, creme almondes, blau {n} che manger, Iussell, and charlet, cabage, and nombles of a dere, ben good/”

    Early English Meals and Manners

  • “The English yeoman left for them a keg of ale, or a basket of loaves, beneath the hollins green, as sauce for their meal of "nombles of the dere.”

    Hereward, the Last of the English

  • “Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that’s the haunch and the nombles, and e’en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds.””

    The Monastery

  • “I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte -- - I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. ”

    Ivanhoe. A Romance

  • “Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds. ”

    The Monastery

  • “I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of 'curee, arbor, nombles', and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. ”

    Ivanhoe

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