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Stiff; harsh. [Obs.] Ascham.

a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. Shak. Into the chamber he stalked him full still. Chaucer. [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed. Dryden.

Same as Standel. [Obs.] Ascham.

An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.

In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.

ff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. Sir H. Wotton.

re, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.

sts. It is used in various sacred functions. Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal household. [Eng.] Brande & C.

scular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. Clarendon. The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. Daniel.

ange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

rovides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham.

a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely…

to smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.

act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. -- Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. -- Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raise…

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.

A sweet apple. Ascham.

The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.

elineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.

infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.

tween Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis…