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The technical name of tin. See Tin.

See Stannel.

Stands. Chaucer.

er like or unlike, in measure. Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

In a standing position; as, a lion statant.

A standstill. [R.] Shak.

Restraint; stoppage. [Obs.]

Situated under the skin; hypodermic. -- Sub`cu*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.

Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Bullokar. -- Sub`i*ta"ne*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Subitaneous; sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Hales.

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

eal or existing essence. These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident! Chaucer. Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose. Dryden.

Having no substance; unsubstantial. [R.] Coleridge.

Substantial; firm. [R.] "[The glacier's] substant ice." The Century.

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley.

The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.

To make substantial.

In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially. In him all his Father shone, Substantially expressed. Milton. The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.