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o give a start to. [Obs.] If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier. -- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come." 1 Cor. xi. 34. -- To set milk. (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise to the surface. (…

had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs. Collier.

l.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus. -- Sheep dog (Zoöl.), a shepherd dog, or collie. -- Sheep laurel (Bot.), a small North American shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs. -- Sheep pest (Bot.), an Australian plant (Acæna ovina) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered wi…

d of dogs used largely for the herding and care of sheep. There are several kinds, as the collie, or Scotch shepherd dog, and the English shepherd dog. Called also shepherd's dog. -- Shepherd dog, a name of Pan. Keats. -- Shepherd kings, the chiefs of a nomadic people who invaded Egypt from the East in the traditiona…

the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier.

See Splent coal, below. Splent coal, an inferior kind of cannel coal from Scotch collieries; -- called also splent, splint, and splint coal.

Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.] Collier.

Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] Collier.

e to laugh at you again. Denham . Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Collier.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

e or inferior proportions; small; poor. Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.

n by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.

The total sales of coal from a colliery. [Eng.]

; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. G. MacDonald. Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porr…