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g or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte. This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor.

To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape. I viewed in may mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world. T. Burnet. He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent. A…

the deep transported mind may soar. Milton. Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune. Addison.

Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party.

h the Earth has one (see Moon.), Mars two, Jupiter five, Saturn nine, Uranus four, and Neptune one. The asteroids, between Mars and Jupiter, thus far discovered (1900), number about five hundred, the first four of which were found near the beginning of the century, and are called Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta.…

The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity.

A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

led the Sonstadt or Thoulet solution) having a maximum specific gravity of 3.2, or of borotungstate of cadium (Klein solution, specific gravity 3.6), and the like. Such solutions are much used in determining the specific gravities of minerals, and in separating them when mechanically mixed as in a pulverized rock. --…

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak.

Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

ore generally, any poetical strain; a poem. The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song. Dryden.

A female fortune teller. [Scot.]

To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. "Fortune speed us!" Shak. With rising gales that speed their happy flight. Dryden.

Very conspicuous; illustrious. "Great and splendent fortunes." Sir H. Wotton.

That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

mestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet. Locke.

e's word. (d) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. "Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away." Bacon. (e) To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so.

Stunk.