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Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." G. Eliot. You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic Pope.

Splenetic.

In a splenetical manner.

The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

The quality or state of being stale.

Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar. [R.]

llation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.

The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.

The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.

Willingness to be taught.

Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic (#), a.

Same as Tenability.

A small male hawk. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.

Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.

A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and resembling, toluene; -- called also methyl thiophene.

Unsteadiness. [Obs.] For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.

Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.