v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blundered p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering. ] [ OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture. ] 1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,
And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to blunder. [ Obs. ] “To blunder an adversary.” Ditton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Confusion; disturbance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Either fr. blunder + D. bus tube, box, akin to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus (literally) thunder box, gun, musket. ] 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is apt to blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blunder + head. ] A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by blunders. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blundering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of birds including some of the puffins.
Syn. -- genus Lunda. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plundered p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering. ] [ G. plündern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage. ] 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. “He shared in the plunder.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [ Slang, Southwestern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mar. Law) The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plunders or pillages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Trade name ] A form of silicon carbide, produced in the electric furnace, possessing great hardness, and high electrical resistance, and not subject to oxidation below 2880° F., or 1600° C. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]