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To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. [Written also spoon.] When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. Dryden.

pot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. It was determined upon the spot. Swift.

aves her bed, amd springs a light. Dryden. The friends to the cause sprang a new project. Swift.

A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer. [Written also springboc, and springbock.]…

caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. Swift.

; to see. One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration. Swift.

body; also, a shock of soft bodies. Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. Swift.

The European swift.

The rank or state of a squire; squireship. Swift.

prevent their being damaged. -- The staff of life, bread. "Bread is the staff of life." Swift. -- Staff tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Celastrus, mostly climbing shrubs of the northern hemisphere. The American species (C. scandens) is commonly called bittersweet. See 2d Bittersweet, 3 (b). -- To set, or To put…

oach; an omnibus. "A parcel sent you by the stage." Cowper. I went in the sixpenny stage. Swift.

A natural spot of a color different from the gound. Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. Pope.

out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common. Swift. Wit itself, if stale is less pleasing. Grew. How weary, stale flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak. Stale affidavit (Law), an affidavit held above a year. Craig. -- Stale demand (Law), a claim…

on; test. The court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech. Swift. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Burke.

A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.

In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift. Stang ball, a projectile consisting of two half balls united by a bar; a bar shot. See Illust. of Bar shot, under Bar. -- To ride the stang, to be carried on a pole on men's shoulders. This method of punishing wife beaters, etc., was once in vogue in…

Fit to be sold; marketable. [R.] Swift.

Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.

tars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift.

went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. Swift.