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Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.

See Quinsy. [Obs.]

Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.

See Stee.

See Stymie.

Close; sultry. [Prov. Eng.]

See Story.

A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.

A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

o view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country. Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above. Milton.

Survey. [R.] Barrow.

Survey; inspection. [R.]

, with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geodesy. -- Maritime, or Nautical, surveying, that branch of surveying which determines the forms of coasts and harbors, the entrances of rivers, with the position of islands, rocks, and shoals, the depth…

erintend others; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak.

The office of a surveyor.

See Sweeny.

Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]

See Tacky.

A thin plate of metal. [Obs.] "A teyne of silver." Chaucer.