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cle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill. To put a spoke in one's wheel, to thwart or obstruct one in the execution of some design.

The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring. [Obs.]

et. Spenser. But when mild morn, in saffron stole, First issues from her eastern goal. T. Warton.

Suburban. [Obs.] "Suburbial fields." Warton. "Suburbian muse." Dryden.

To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.

A drinking together; a merry feast. T. Warton.

Formed in latticework; latticed. T. Warton.

Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. [R.] T. Warton.

Of or pertaining to weaving. T. Warton.

See Thwart.

The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. T. Warton.

flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.

earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

ober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.

ons of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. Stewart.

Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustar…

Across; athwart. [Obs.] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.

Athwart; across; crosswise.

y three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation. T. Warton.

Trite. [Obs.] T. Warton. -- Trit"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Trit"ic*al*ness, n. [Obs.]