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To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily. Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel. Coleridge.

To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.

To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective. Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. Dryden. The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. Dryden. Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. Dryden.

To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea. He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it. Woodward.

serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares. The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. J. H. Walsh.

One who receives a stipend. If thou art become A tyrant's vile stipendiary. Glover.

To become the object of notice; to be on foot. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. I. Watts.

-- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ, or young medusæ.

, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf- , sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).…

To be, or to become, subdivided.

To become surely; -- with for. [R.] Shak.

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. "Heaven's subsiding hill." Dryden.

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. Prior.

To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon.

To become soft and pliant. The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. Dryden.

or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.