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A stale, or handle; a stalk. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.

bandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows. Holland.

s. or Prov. Eng.] He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. Holland.

Protuberant. [Obs.] Holland.

To subjoin; to subnect. [Obs.] Holland.

A sweetmeat. [Obs.] Holland.

Solstice. [Obs.] "The summer sunsted." Holland.

de, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, or the like. Holland. The superscription of his accusation was written over, The King of the Jews. Mark xv. 26.

That which is supped; broth. [Obs.] Holland.

A table. [Obs.] Tablements and chapters of pillars. Holland.

To cover or work with figures like tapestry. [R.] Holland.

ung animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. A team of ducklings about her. Holland.

A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

Color; tinge; tincture. [Obs.] Holland.

Mixture; compound. [Obs.] Made a temperature of brass and iron together. Holland. Absolute temperature. (Physics) See under Absolute. -- Animal temperature (Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in the bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The ultimate source of the heat is to be…

That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. Holland.

A tendril. [Obs.] Holland.

Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance. Holland.

Theriac. [R.] Holland.

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.