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destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.

To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift.

ll spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so. A week or so will probably reconcile us. Gay.

ts gay France from sober Spain Prior. See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby. Pope. Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

Princely; royal. "Most sovereign name." Shak. At Babylon was his sovereign see. Chaucer.

The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx). Sphinx baboon (Zoöl.), a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), often kept in menageries. -- Sphinx moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Sphinx, 3.

h. Job xxxviii. 27. Do not blast my springing hopes. Rowe. O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. Pope.

horse beetle. -- Stag dance, a dance by men only. [slang, U.S.] -- Stag hog (Zoöl.), the babiroussa. -- Stag-horn coral (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large branching corals of the genus Madrepora, which somewhat resemble the antlers of the stag, especially Madrepora cervicornis, and M. palmata, of Florida an…

Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from apparent change of place due to solar motion.-- ## = star streaming --

The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.

ty or value for money. Sterling was the known and approved standard in England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign. S. M. Leake.

To stop, as noise; to silence. With his name the mothers still their babies. Shak.

Silly talk; babbling.

Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.

Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.

, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. (f) Etym: [Probably fr. Gr. (Bot.)

lly, juice of the intestines.] (Physiol.) A fluid secreted in small by certain glands (probably the glands of Lieberkühn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is somewhat doubtful.

sugar. See Sucrose. -- Diabetes, or Diabetic, sugar (Med. Chem.), a variety of sugar (probably grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus. -- Fruit sugar. See under Fruit, and Fructose. -- Grape sugar, a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingred…

Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Sumer, or its inhabitants or their language.