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To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems. "A sable curtain starred with gold." Young.

Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid. Bacon. Pope.

Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser.

To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily. Where the wind Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers, and shifts her sail. Milton.

pire. [Obs.] Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. Dryden.

e; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. Woodward.

n instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.

. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.

To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.

Obedient; submissive. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities. Titus iii. 1.

tate of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws. "To be bound under subjection." Chaucer. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. 1 Peter iii. 1.…

Submissive; humble; obsequious. [Archaic] "Soft Silence and submiss Obedience." Spenser. "Stooping and submiss." R. L. Stevenson.

or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word; We English warrious wot not what it means. Shak.

Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton.

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

f subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.

Submission; obedience. [Obs.] You owe me no subscription. Shak.

jacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army. Robertson.

To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson.

. Special summonses by the king. Hallam. This summons . . . unfit either to dispute or disobey. Bp. Fell. He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded. Sir J. Hayward.