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Same as Squirarchy. That such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom. Sterne.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune. O malignant and ill-brooding stars. Shak. Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. Addison.

Influenced in fortune by the stars. [Obs.] My third comfort, Starred most unluckily. Shak.

s and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence Sir W. Scott.

One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.

are fraught with store of victuals. Bacon. With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize. Milton.

lar or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue. Stovepipe hat, the common tall silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]

A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought. [Political Cant]

Power; influence. [Obs.] "Where money beareth [hath] all the stroke." Robynson (More's Utopia). He has a great stroke with the reader. Dryden.

the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun"dism (#), n.

To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.

That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South.

subtile; hence what they think to be humorous, is merely witty. Coleridge. The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's. Hawthorne.

Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness. That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. Shak.

Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to. There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. Spectator.

To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. Young.

The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.