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ot, under Bar. -- To ride the stang, to be carried on a pole on men's shoulders. This method of punishing wife beaters, etc., was once in vogue in some parts of England.

The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.

r of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

n a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection (Geom.), a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the projection is made is at right andles to the diameter passing through the center of projection.…

A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.

ecially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, - - a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.

A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.

rather than story him in his own hearing. Shak. It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. Bp. Wilkins.

The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

ce out, as, to strike out sparks with steel. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. "To methodize is as necessary as to strike out." Pope. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See…

in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.

A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.

The quality or state of being subtile; subtility; subtlety. The high orthodox subtilism of Duns Scotus. Milman.

A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.

One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.] Baird.

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

e European purple gallinule. -- Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, or Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink. -- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook. --…