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rel hawk (Zoöl.), any rough-legged hawk; especially, the California species Archibuteo ferrugineus. -- Squirrel monkey. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small, soft-haired South American monkeys of the genus Calithrix. They are noted for their graceful form and agility. See Teetee. (b) A marmoset. -- Squirre…

A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope.

Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination. By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. Dryden. Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative. L'Estrange.…

To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now…

Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. "Stubbed, vulgar constitutions." Berkley.

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.

A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.

-- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay." Cowper.

Same as Rugosa.

Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged. [Obs.] -- Tet"ric*al*ness, n.

efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.

A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. Spenser.

or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.

To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.

A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.