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Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n.

An historian; a chronicler. [Obs.] "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.

Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. Boyle.

or starts. [R.] -- Sub*sul"to*ri*ly, adv. [R.] Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey.

Sweating; perspiring.

Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services. Howell.

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.

Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

The awning or covering of a tent. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Terminative.

ge extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton.

A tractrix.

Treachery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in…

Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.