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aucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. Ascham.

In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. [R.] Ascham.

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham.

Stiff; harsh. [Obs.] Ascham.

Same as Standel. [Obs.] Ascham.

trange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham.

A sweet apple. Ascham.

Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.

in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy. Ascham.

Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.

d; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish. Ascham.

irpate. "Weed up thyme." Shak. Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things. Ascham. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Bacon.

Macaulay. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike. Ascham. -- Wom"an*ish*ly, adv. -- Wom"an*ish*ness, n.

isse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." Ascham. A right good knight, and true of word ywis. Spenser.