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A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.

ce and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one. Sesquialteral ratio (Math.), the ratio of one and a half to one; thus, 9 and 6 are in a sequialteral ratio.

Sesquialteral.

A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.

rom all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.…

2d per. sing. of Shall.

The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.

The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty. It was ordained by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance. Blackstone.

Shrievalty. Johnson.

pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.

Deep blue, like smalt.

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

An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.

Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A knife used in splitting codfish. [Written also spalding knife.]

Particularity. Specialty of rule hath been neglected. Shak.

Smaltite.

An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. Shak.

A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak.

e as Squirarchy. That such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom. Sterne.