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A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale.

Arithmetical subtraction. Sir M. Hale.

Subitaneous; sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Hales.

r; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale.

To supply; to afford. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. Sir M. Hale. Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! Milton.

To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.

drating agent. Called also sulphuric anhydride, and formerly sulphuric acid. -- Sulphur whale. (Zoöl.) See Sulphur-bottom. -- Vegetable sulphur (Bot.), lycopodium powder. See under Lycopodium.

A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.

In suspense. [Obs.] Hales.

e corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Marti…

s. The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament. Sir M. Hale.

A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives. [Written also thionaphtene.]

er allied species. See Brown thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. -- Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, w…