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dabble Verb [-bling, -bled] 1. to be involved in an activity in a superficial way: she dabbles in right-wing politics 2. to splash (one's toes or fingers) in water [probably from Dutch dabbelen] dabbler n
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dabble verb (usually with in or with) play (at or with), potter, tinker (with), trifle (with), dip into, dally (with) |
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who art read in the laws of the Gentiles, and hast sojourned among them who dabble with the Teraphim The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. "I have to be careful," he continued, turning to me with a smile, "for I dabble with poisons a good deal. |
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