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rticular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified. Pope.

To make a speech; to harangue. [Used derisively or humorously.]

ct of making a speech or speeches. [Used derisively or humorously.] The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.

Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy. [Slang] Kipling.

To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story. [Obs.]

To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct. Burke.

ing in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.

See Stupefy.

To make affable or suave.

To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore. Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves. Moore.

To form or divide into syllables.

To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate. [R.] Harvey.

or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

To make or become tepid, or moderately warm. Goldsmith.

To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.