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To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

The fossil track of a saurian.

s of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes. [Written also slich, slick.]

Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

Partially chaotic.

A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.

Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.

See Schlich.

Dirty foul. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines. [R.]

A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algæ.

Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.

Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.

Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea). [Written also stitchwort.]

Of or pertaining to stoichiology.

That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.

Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.

The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.