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to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. Stubs sharp and hideous to behold. Chaucer. And prickly stubs instead of trees are found. Dryden.

nce; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. -- Off stump (Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman. -- Stump tracery (Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through…

Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii. 10.

Dried by the heat of the sun. "Sun-dried brick." Sir T. Herbert.

Unheard. [Obs.] Kenrick.

f all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.

Anything very large, forcible; or astonishing. [Obs. or Colloq.] Herrick.

A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. R. A. Proctor.

The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt.

four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.

ss. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.

A spot or stain; also, a trick. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

oo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]

To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.

A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in oil, reheated to between 370º and 670º C., and cooled in air.…

mber of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.

pecies of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

psacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.

To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.