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To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.

See Slabber.

A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.

To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift.

To sober. [R.] Crabbe.

h produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.

Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." Swift. He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. Shak.

A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.

A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore. Crabb.

o the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse. Crabb.

ak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe.

A district granted to an abbey. [Obs.] Camden.

One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.

The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.

ns were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. Abp. Abbot.

y exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict senteries." Milton.

Silly talk; babbling.

Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.