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The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

eneral, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. [R.] Swift.

Local, U.S.] Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent.

To assuage. [Obs.] Dryden.

A subordinate agency.

A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.

Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.] Subesophageal ganglion (Zoöl.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. I ask your voices and your suffrages. Shak.

A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also sulliage, and sullage.] Sir H. Wotton.

Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [Obs.] The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.

we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue.

Surplusage. [Obs.] "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.

What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.

Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra- oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]

Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. Emerson.

See Assuage. [Obs.]

The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

See Tallage.