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ments, which have agreed to transport mail matter through their several territories at a stipulated rate.

To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] It is less labor to plow than to pot it. Feltham.

Tippling. [Obs.] Shak.

Nearly drunk; tipsy. [Obs.]

The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.

A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate, church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

To contract, engage, or stipulate previously.

self as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.

One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.

On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever. Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost indifferent to their truth. G. H. Lewes.

That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.

which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. Shak.

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.

The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat. Pussy willow (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American Salix discolor; -- called also glaucous willow, and swamp willow.

riginating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers." Sir T. Browne.