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Supplication; entreaty. When Greece her knee in suppliance bent. Halleck.

anifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.

A knee placed under the cathead.

That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.

n, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.

ghtens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.

- Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer having a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional to the strength of the current. -- Tangent of an angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the angle. -- Tangent of an arc…

ckish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery. -- Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.

o wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.

One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.…

To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.

as between two parties. They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize. Daniel.

suade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate. Tempt not the brave and needy to despair. Dryden. Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire. Pope.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]

e to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally a sign of disease. See Knee jerk, under Knee.

urpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them. Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John ii. 25.