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elf. [Obs.] His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. Milton. When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. Swift.

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. Fuller.

A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stick chimney, a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. [U.S.] -- Stick insect, (Zoöl.), any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ…

Having the form of a drop. Owen.

ssor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.

To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. "Floating straight." Shak. I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. Addison. Everything was going on straight. W. Black.…

To mark with striaæ. "Striated longitudinally." Owen.

Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden.

A wencher; a lewd man. [Obs.] Massinger.

A libertine; a wencher. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Slightly concave. Owen.

Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth. Owen.

To dress; to clothe. [Obs.] So went he suited to his watery tomb. Shak.

herence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."

s, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.

rrelsome; scolding. -- Ter"ma*gant*ly, adv. A termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate wench. Arbuthnot.

A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

mbling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty- four atoms of carbon in the molecule.

per, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed. Jolif and glad they went unto here [their] rest And casten hem [them] full early for to sail. Chaucer. They of Italy salute you. Heb. xiii. 24. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matt. v. 6.