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x inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.

ver subject longed to be a king, As I do long and wish to be a subject. Shak. The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it. Swift.

To declare over one's signature; to publish. [Obs.] Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. Shak.

To come under, as a support or stay; to happen. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. Bp. Warburton.

An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue." Milton.

Able to suffer or endure; patient. [Obs.] "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer.

The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak.

Suggestion. [R.] They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment. Hare.

r deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.

left; which if it slide, and he can not make it stand on by reason there is too much, he must drink again for his penance. Nash.

To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to. Causes of one kind must be supplemented by bringing to bear upon them a causation of another kind. I. Taylor.

s under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.

other. He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. Dryden. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Spectator.

clusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration;

ems. I. Watts. A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell.

A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. [Obs. or Colloq.] Drayton.

A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Bouvier.

Scott. The tacksmen, who formed what may be called the "peerage" of the little community, must be the captains. Macaulay.

Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.

To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.