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A pouch, as for tobacco. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.

A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.

A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.

Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. [R.] -- Strait"-hand`ed*ness, n. [R.]

Violence; force; power. It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand. Sir W. Raleigh.

enus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anilene sulphonic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A salt of sulphantimonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonic acid) analogous to sulpharsenic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.

A salt of sulphantimonious acid.

The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: -

An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney.

Sycophancy. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

Sycophancy.

To play the sycophant.