warble

n : a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by

larvae of a botfly or warble fly

v 1: sing with trills [syn: {trill}, {quaver}]

2: sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians

were yodeling in the mountains" [syn: {yodel}, {descant}]

marbles

(From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum

needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or

abstractions. After a bad system {crash}, you need to

determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its

own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from {backups}, or

if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This {compiler} doesn't

even have enough marbles to compile {hello, world}."

[{Jargon File}]

(1998-05-21)