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f perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate. In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer.

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.

s from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.

A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed. Gray. Water starwort, an aquatic plant (Callitriche verna) having some resemblance to chickweed. -- Yellow starwort, a plant of the genus Inula; elecampane.

Fixed; settled; steady; statary. [Obs.]

Fixedly; steadly. [Obs.]

Fixed; settled. [Obs.] "The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair." Sir T. Browne.

The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.

Situated under or below the orbit.

Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.

See Sun star, under Sun.

A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.

anted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air (Physiol.), the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve air. -- Supplemental bi…

Situated above the orbit of the eye. Supraorbital point (Anat.), the middle point of the supraorbital line, which is a line drawn across the narrowest part of the forehead, separating the face from the cranium; the ophryon.

Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.

Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

Same as Termatarium.

Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.

A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.