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, related to the buckeye, but having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit. -- Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks. Luce (Textbook of Seamanship). -- Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called because obtained fro…

nding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton. Spiny lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Rock lobster, under Rock. See also Lobster.

as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened. [R.] The spissated juice of the poppy. Bp. Warburton.

Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale (1538). "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton. [Now used humorously.]

ifird clergy, out of humanility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls. Bp. Warburton. Loud the monks in their stalls. Longfellow.

Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.

live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton.

Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored. Burton.

also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.

Act of subduing. Bp. Warburton.

t or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.

ture state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. Bp. Warburton.

Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.

tes; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." Bp. Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres." Bp. Hall.

y; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.

l as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle. Bp. Warburton.

. M. Stuart. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Bp. Warburton.

Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.

ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.