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Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.

A wooden frame to set casks on. [Prov. Eng.]

Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense. Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under an affectation of simplicity and religion. L'Estrange. How much more abominable is it to make of him [Christ] and religion a stalking-horse, to get and enjoy the world! Bunyan.

To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.

g, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

d upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor.

To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.

To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

trippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required such stripping. Mrs. Gaskell.

st thou not made me here thy substitute Milton. Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol. De Quincey.

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle.

ice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. I ask your voices and your suffrages. Shak.

abond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

The basking, or liver, shark.

To supply with supper. [R.] "Kester was suppering the horses." Mrs. Gaskell.

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden.

Entreating; asking submissively. Shak. -- Sup"pli*cant*ly, adv.

To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.