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See Slyness.

The quality or state of being slovenly.

Stain; foulness. [R.] Bacon.

The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.

Southerliness.

Vivacity. [Obs.] Aubrey.

A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.

The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity. In dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she [the soul] exert herself! Addison.

See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.

The men in the starboard watch. [Obs.] R. H. Dana, Jr.

The quality or state of being stately. For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse Dr. H. More.

The quality of being steely.

Having straight lines.

The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.

Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body…

Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.

Imperfectly crystallized.

A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.