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Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

Having or wearing a stole. After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn. G. Fletcher.

Having a bill like that of the stork.

Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay.

Having a short, thick tail. Stump-tailed lizard (Zoöl.), a singular Australian scincoid lizard (Trachydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also sleeping lizard.

Bound with the surcingle.

a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow- tailed coat.

Having united cotyledonous.

of ropes tacked together. My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair. Shak.

tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.

A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.

nk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard.

es, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.

Made tensile. [R.]

Having tentacles.

Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. [R.] Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece. Shak.

ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks. [U. S.]