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Noun
en-noun
- One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
#:1604 The world hath noted, and your name is great
#:In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,
#:That you unlace your reputation thus
#:And spend your rich opinion for the name
#:Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.
#::� Shakespeare, Othello, s:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Othello%2C_The_Moor_of_Venice#ACT_2._SCENE_III.__A_hall_in_the_castle.|Act 2 Scene 3.
#:1611 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
#:Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
#:One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
#:(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) � 1 Timothy 3:2-5, KJV.
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