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Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.

An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

Cabling. See Cabling. gwilt.

Climbing.

Sitting; inactive; quiet. [R.]

In a sedentary manner.

Quality of being sedentary.

Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. "Sedentary, scholastic sophists." Bp. Warburton.

Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant. -- Self`-con"fi*dent*ly, adv.

Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.

Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth. -- Self`-ev"i*dent*ly, adv.

Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4.

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

nds a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. Shak.

A body of students. [R.]

The state of being a student.

Indented beneath.

Suddenness; a sudden. [Scot.] On a suddenty, on a sudden. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

stitution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.