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orshiped stocks and stones. Milton. Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. Fuller.

or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs. The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. Bp. Hobart.

Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.

To let down; to lower. [Obs.] Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. Dryden.

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. "Heaven's subsiding hill." Dryden.

naries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. South.

brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill. Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. Addison.

m, an income tax of sixpence for every pound in addition to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds £3,000 when his total income exceeds £5,000.

g with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden.

e a view of; to 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.

or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes. The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Isa. xxviii. 17. I have already swept the stakes. Dryden.

and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton.

or Swing plough. (a) A plow without a fore wheel under the beam. (b) A reversible or sidehill plow. -- Swing wheel. (a) The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum. (b) The balance of a watch.

n reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]

Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

A hill or mound. W. M. Thomson.

or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.

A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.

A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.