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One who simpers. Sir W. Scott. A simperer that a court affords. T. Nevile.

re exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.

om the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. J. S. Harford.

An upstart. [Obs.] Ford.

Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.

A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule (Zoöl.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. -- Slipper flower.(Bot.) Slipperwort. -- Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zoöl.), a boat shell.…

Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. The slippery tops of human state. Cowley.

r Swedish system, in which wood carving was a chief feature. Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.

Smugly; finically. [Obs.] Ford.

Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party.

To associate. [Obs.] Shelford.

Affording solace; as, a solacious voice. [Obs.] Bale.

ceforth study to forget The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever Solicit thy deserts. Ford.

To afford suitable sustenance. [Obs.] Warner.

Affording view. [R.] "Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount." Milton. Specular iron. (Min.) See Hematite.

rms by spleen. Pope. There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Wordsworth.

ich marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man. Fabyan.

Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming)

. With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Dryden. Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. Addison. I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. Mericale.