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A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.

Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful. So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. Milton.

Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

ard to Chili; -- called also plume bird. -- Snowy lemming (Zoöl.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. -- Snowy owl (Zoöl.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or N. nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometim…

ticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.

A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen. Sperm cell (Physiol.), one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed. -- Sperm morula. (Biol.) Same as Spermosphere.

A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.

The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.

The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.

To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

Sly; crafty; cunning; artful. [R.]

Elevated by joy; elate. [Poetic] Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. Milton.

Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme. [In this sense now commonly written subtle.]

Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.

Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle traitor." Shak.

The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness. The fox which lives by subtlety. Shak.

In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly. Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise. Milton.

A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak. Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel. Pope.