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of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nd rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. Tennyson.

To desire or choose; to please. The wind bloweth where it listeth. John iii. 8. Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth. Hooker. Let other men think of your devices as they list. Whitgift.

ion of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.

A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.

A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.

A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

Pertaining to parturition; obstetric. [R.]

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

or recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.

endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud. James iv. 6. Contrary to his high will Whom we resist. Milton.

ghteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, hope, and charity, and other Christian virtues. Hooker. Only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Westminster Catechism.

A sestet.

See Sestet.

rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. As a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Rev. vi. 13. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis. Milton.

two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

uality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. Bickersteth.

s manner, or by craft or stealth. Fame by surreption got May stead us for the time, but lasteth not. B. Jonson.

To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. Ps. xlii. 2.