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Rest; relaxation; ease. [Obs.] To make his steed some solace. Chaucer.

Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be kept soluble." Dunglison. Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.

Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful. [R.] A brow solute, and ever-laughing eye. Young.

Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative. Bacon.

A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus. [Obs.] oodward.

Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry. Spasmodic croup (Med.), an affection of childhood characterized by a stoppage of brathing developed suddenly and without fever, and produced by spasmodic contraction of the vocal cords. It is sometimes fatal. Called also laryngismus st…

t, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

everal species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds belonging to Synallaxis and allied genera of the family Dendrocolaptidæ. They are allied to the ovenbirds.

To assume a spread-eagled position; -- it may be done reclining, for relaxation, or momentarily, as an exhibitionary maneuver in a sport.

A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Any plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe. -- Spurge laurel, a European shrub (Daphne Laureola) with oblong evergreen leaves. -- Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Dap…

The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.

be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.

An instrument used in dressing flax. [Prov. Eng.]

Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.

.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. Moxon. -- Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) Th…

Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.

To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.