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Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." H. Miller.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.

A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

ference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer. "Solstitial summer's heat." Milton.

The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

Selection or appointment by lot. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A manganesian variety of garnet.

A stitch in lace making used to fill in open spaces with threads resembling a cobweb.

A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.

cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.

A stalactite. [Obs.] Woodward.

Of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.

Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.

A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.

Falling in drops; drawn by a still.

thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.

A kind of hairy wool. [Prov.]