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Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.

Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chætura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines.

ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it darts down and out. [Cant] -- Spit baller.

d to sponge a pugilist between rounds throwing his sponge in the air in token of defeat. [Cant or Slang] "He was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate." Lowell. -- Vegetable sponge. (Bot.) See Loof. -- Velvet sponge, a fine, soft commercial sponge (Spongia equina, variety meandriniformis) found in Florida an…

Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] Crescent spot (Zoöl.), any butterfly of the family Melitæidæ having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. -- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pen…

ving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated; hence, conspicuous public notice. [Cant or Colloq.]

To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch. [Cant]

elivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon. [Broker's Cant]

- Java squirrel (Zoöl.). See Jelerang. -- Squirrel corn (Bot.), a North American herb (Dicantra Canadensis) bearing little yellow tubers. -- Squirrel cup (Bot.), the blossom of the Hepatica triloba, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earlies…

An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. [Cant]

To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type. [Cant]

Same as Paster, 2. [Political Cant, U.S.]

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. Woodward. She stints them in their meals. Law.

stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes. [Cant] -- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

pose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train; to break one's journey. [Railroad Cant, U.S.] stopover

stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]

e him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [Broker's Cant]

egularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot. [Political Cant, U.S.] Straight arch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch. -- A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or other emotion. -- A straigh…

A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought. [Political Cant]

To wander about idly and vacantly. [Obs.]