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overing of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

Holding persons in slavery.

The act of transporting or riding on a sled.

That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.

An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.

See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.

A spalting knife.

A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron. [Scot.]

The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]

, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.

Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.

The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

ee winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.

The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.

The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.

The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.