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rescribed by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912 for use by ships in distress.

. Prov. xxv. 25. God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the aword! Shak. Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. Loudon.

To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.

brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue. -- Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity. -- Spring beetle (Zoöl.), a snapping beetle; an elater. -- Spring box, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of…

The short wooden buttress of a post.

To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.

To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender. Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot.

ve passed away. Cowper. I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses. G. W. Cable.

One who stitches; a seamstress.

g party (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.

A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. Rankine.

Difficult; distressful; straited. To make your strait circumstances yet straiter. Secker.

To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.

r an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.

stain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.

A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.

To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.

f which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.

owledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton.