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Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

A small table or flat surface.

Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

To shape with a flat surface.

A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.

The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern. [Written also tafferel.]

Flattery; soft phrases. [Slang]

A kind of Scotch cap of wool, worsted, or the like, having a round, flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head, and usually having a tassel in the center.

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

ous species of cestode worms belonging to Tænia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, de…

Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.

A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.

solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo. [Written also thaar, and tahr.]

s throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably.

e, under Deck. -- Through cold, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] Holland. -- Through stone, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also through stane.] Sir W. Scott. -- Through ticket, a ticket for the whole journey. -- Through train, a train which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a long route.

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.