Confused or unintelligible speech.

(obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.

(obsolete) mutilation

(obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.

To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.

To make false by mutilation or addition.

(obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.