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Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).

A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. Knight. Spray drain (Agric.), a drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open.

Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.

To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

th, for the purpose of killing, as game. As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Sir W. Scott.

rude hands grisly grapplement. Spenser. All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartly wish were false. Hooker.

steadfast manner; firmly. Steadfast believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true. Wake.

genitors. "All that are of noble stem." Milton. While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. Herbert.

Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze. Stony coral. (Zoöl.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like. Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes. Thomson.

ishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander. With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. Massinger.

ute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern. This sturdy marquis gan his hearte dress To rue upon her wifely steadfastness. Chaucer. This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took…

er. Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli.

osition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.

ituated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords.

Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable. If happinessbe a substantial good. Denham. The substantial ornaments of virtue. L'Estrange.

Nicely; delicately. In the nice bee what sense so subtly true. Pope. Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind. Hawthorne.