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In a serpentine manner.

See Sextain.

The quality or state of being shifty. Diplomatic shiftiness and political versatility. J. A. Syminds.

Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus. Sistine chapel, a chapel in the Vatican at Rome, built by Pope Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by Michael Angelo and others.

Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.

The state of being sleety.

A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. Johnson.

The state or quality of being spotty.

Swarthiness. [Obs.]

Quality or state of being sweaty.

The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry. Locke.

Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.

picules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinæ.

One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines.

The state of being thirsty; thirst.

The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.

The apar.

ree, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance. Too many of the financiers by professions are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on lives, and tontines, and perpetual rents, and all the small wares of the shop. Burke.…