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Your ships are stayed at Venice. Shak. This business staid me in London almost a week. Evelyn. I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. Locke.

d or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Evelyn.

To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.

osed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in." Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing. -- To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. "To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace." South.…

Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.

Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.

the ground. It is a magnificent strong building, with a substruction very remarkable. Evelyn.

Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii. 10.

tution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. Rogers.

weating bath; a vapor bath. These sudatories are much in request for many infirmities. Evelyn.

eedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.

ified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. Coleridge.

Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.

To pour (something) over or on something else. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [R.] Evelyn.

h, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]

A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

The awning or covering of a tent. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy. Clad very plain, but clean and tight. Evelyn. I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight. Gay.