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Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Next in order after the fifty-ninth.

mals, especially the larva of Dermestes and Anthrenus. -- Skin of the teeth, nothing, or next to nothing; the least possible hold or advantage. Job xix. 20. -- Skin wool, wool taken from dead sheep.

tivelly; material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.

The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

. Shak. There is Percy; if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. Shak.

estern United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.]

om his trunk. Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee Chaucer. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. Creech.

A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire. [Eng.] "His privy knights and squires." Chaucer.

stars (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next. -- Stair rod, a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place. -- Up stairs. See Upstairs in the Vocabulary.

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.

One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.

One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.

Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian teeth of mollusks.

To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer. As he saw him nigh succeed. Spenser.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

luid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.