a. [ Formerly rome, a slang word for good; possibly of Gypsy origin; cf. Gypsy rom a husband, a gypsy. ] Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [ Slang, Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ probably shortened from Prov. E. rumbullion a great tumult, formerly applied in the island of Barbadoes to an intoxicating liquor. ] A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rum bud, a grog blossom. [ Colloq. ] --
Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring extract. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A noisy report; rumor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Delighting ever in rumble that is new. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Merged in the rumble of awakening day. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. romblen, akin to D. rommelen, G. rumpeln, Dan. rumle; cf. Icel. rymja to roar. ] 1. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To murmur; to ripple. [ 1913 Webster ]

To rumble gently down with murmur soft. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. One who, or that which, rumbles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Rumble, v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rumbling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Grog. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]