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Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone. Sphenoid bone (Anat.), an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid, Basisphenoid, Orbitosphenoid, Presphenoid.

m it. -- Split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of the candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]

An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field. [Prov. Eng.]

ss sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges having the surface irregularly tufted, as Spongia graminea, and S. equina, variety cerebriformis, of Florida and the West Indies. -- Horse sponge, a coarse commercial sponge, especially Spongia equina. -- Platinum sponge. (Chem.) See under Platinum.…

To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.

To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.

Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. Hooker. I have not kept my square. Shak.

An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. [Cant]

A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful. "Sober and staid persons." Addison. O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Milton.

The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age wanting. Dryden.

Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief. Wool, the great staple commodity of England. H

Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.

At stated times; regularly.

A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.

precipice. Dryden. We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices. Addison. Bare steeps, where desolation stalks. Wordsworth.

a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.