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The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

machine or jenny spins with great exactness. They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.

en outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy. Spurt grass (Bot.), a rush fit for basket work. Dr. Prior.

ort. Squinancy berries, black currants; -- so called because used to cure the quinsy. Dr. Prior.

tanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. V. Knox. In politics I hear you 're stanch. Prior.

ocation. The fig and date -- why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain Prior.

; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. Her mind with thousand virtues stored. Prior. Wise Plato said the world with men was stored. Denham. Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. Sir M. Hale.

and dappled with white and black. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.

g water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior.

a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior.

le, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed. Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime. Prior. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

Acute; piercing; searching. The slow disease and subtile pain. Prior.

ngs of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior.

well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. Prior.

; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior.

To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.

The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.

To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war. Prior.

Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.