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ess; -- as opposed to Ant: fluidity. Since fluidness and stability are contary qualities. Boyle.

lking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." Piers Plowman. The boy was the very staff of my age. Shak. He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand. Prof. Wilson.…

Strong; vigorous; powerful. A stark, moss-trooping Scot. Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Beau. & Fl.

The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness. Boyle.

the past and present state of things. Dryden. Keep the state of the question in your eye. Boyle.

or; to issue, or pass off, as vapor. The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air. Boyle.

rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little. Boyle.

mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

Destitute of strength. Boyle.

bstances. The inner membrane . . . because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken. Boyle.

A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.

Self-important and supercilious, [Colloq.] The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.

To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket. Tennyson. To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]

Secret entrance. [R.] Boyle.

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. Boyle.

Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. Boyle.

ew or lay under anything. [Obs.] The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand. Boyle.

To make thin or rare. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Sub`til*i*a"tion, n. [Obs.] Boyle.

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle.

acy. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. Boyle.