subs. (sporting).—1.  A hound giving too much tongue.

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  1732.  BERKELEY, Works (1732), I. 169. You shall often see among the Dogs a loud BABLER with a bad Nose lead the unskilful.

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  1735.  SOMERVILLE, Chase [CHALMERS, xi. 167. 1], IV. 66.

                  The vain BABBLER shun,
Ever loquacious, ever in the wrong.

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  1880.  Encyclopædia Britannica, XII. 315. After a fox has been found, the BABBLER announces the fact for the next ten minutes, and repeats his refrain whenever the least opportunity presents itself.

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  2.  See BABBLE.

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