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Expressed in a brief, pointed manner. Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism]. G. Eliot.

or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.

Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. [R.]

A stockade. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.

One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax. Ex. xxx. 34.

Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.

A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Same as Supracretaceous.

Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.

Sustenance. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

Having tentacles.

Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.