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The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.

ord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.

, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.

An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example; -- The soul is a…

post (Mus.), a small post in a violin, violoncello, or similar instrument, set under the bridge as a support, for propagating the sounds to the body of the instrument; -- called also sound post. -- Sounding rod (Naut.), a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold. -- In soundings, within the eighty-fa…

A variant of Sovereign. [Poetic] On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc. Coleridge.

Without space. Coleridge.

he spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.

aria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. Coleridge. Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one species from every other species of the same genus. -- Specific disease (Med.) (a) A disease which produces a determinate definite eff…

ternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice. Dryden.

prinkling; as, a spice of mischief. So much of the will, with a spice of the willful. Coleridge.

Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.

lmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.

A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon. Spool stand, an article holding spools of thread, turning on pins, -- used by women at their work.

er by means of the extract or by decoction. -- Spruce grouse. (Zoöl.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. -- Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. -- Spruce partridge (Zoöl.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse.

it close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

The partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. [U. S.]

ly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.