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Short for Ensilage.

See Seepage. [Scot. & U.S.]

The action of a siphon.

See Scrimmage.

The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

he obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]

A tennant by socage; a socman.

That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like. [Slang, U.S.]

The blades of green or barley. [Obs.] Bailey.

Dues for soundings.

That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Obs. or corrupt forms of Asparagus.

Asperagus. [Obs.] Sylvester.

A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache. -- New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

Espousal. [Obs.] Bale.

Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. [R.]

ions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage. Pope. Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.