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Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe.

Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.

An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.

ualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.

on from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish. The start of first performance is all. Bacon. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. Shak. At a start, at once; in an instant. [Obs.] At a start he was betwixt them two. Chaucer. To get, or have, the start, to before…

A state of standing or rest; equilibrium. [Obs.] All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry. -- Ste`re*o*met"ric*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to stereotomy; performed by stereotomy.

A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. [R.] Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.

To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.

Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will,…

To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.

Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]

n; 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.

Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.

Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.