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Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still. The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still. Addison.

screen, as for the end of the suctionpipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was op…

The act of scattering or spreading.

of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

gainst which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed. (b) A part of the centering of an arch, which is driven back to loosen the centering in striking it.

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay.

The act of subministering. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.

arine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine.

The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. Addison.

new That what before she but surmised, was true. Dryden. This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it. Woodward.

A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]

One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.

f or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.

The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.