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ating odor; -- used in the counter operations of miners. To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest.

The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.

being drawn aside. -- Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting. -- Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer. -- Lift lock, a canal lock. -- Lift pump, a lifting pump. -- Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the s…

Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.

The stilt.

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also loup.]

A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.

A stilt. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

l itself. Wordsworth. The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves. Milton.

Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled. [R.] A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side. Shak.

A subtilty; an equivocation. [Obs.] Shak. By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. Drayton.

Subtilty; nicety; quibble. "Nice, sharp quillets of the law." Shak.

An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel. [Written also quintin.]

k or . . . evasion." Spenser. We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks. Barrow.

A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point. These are your quodlibets, but no learning. P. Fletcher.

To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Atterbury.

the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements. Swift.

A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. -- Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.

Stilts. [Prov. Eng.]

Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.