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To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. [Colloq.]

ived from, the meadowsweet (Spiræa); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal. [Obs.]

A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.

nd for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

To hold a quartile position respecting. The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales. Creech.

One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [Obs.] The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism. South.

to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

ed by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

ature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanvill.

Full of juice; juicy. Succulent plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

Succulent; juicy. [R.]

More than politic; above or exceeding policy. Milton.

ne having two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. -- Tandem bicycle or tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.

A tension spoke of a bicycle or similar wheel, secured tangentially to the hub.

knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. Dryden.

t, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon.

cies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the survivor at the end of the tontine period received the entire surplus. This plan of tontine insurance has been replaced in the United States by the semitontine plan, in which…

Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.