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Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

Suicidal. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering. [R.]

ain. Bacon. Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] Shak. -- Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; -- called also suit service. Blackstone. -- Suit broker, one who made a trade…

Like or resembling the sun. "A spot of sunlike brilliancy." Tyndall.

A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

To sweeten. [Obs.] Udall.

s.), a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, the uncovering of which by means of a pedal produces increased sound. -- Swell shark (Zoöl.), a small shark (Scyllium ventricosum) of the west coast of North America, which takes in air when caught, and swells up like a swellfish.

A small, flexible twig or rod. Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch. Addison.

A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.

The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. Line of syzygies (Astron.), the straight line connecting the earth, the sun, and the moon or a planet, when the latter is in conjunction or opposition; -- used chiefly of the moon.

In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.

inds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.

and not by weight. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.

iciously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.

chnique. They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike Artificer. Tyndall.

chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. Blackstone.…

Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall.

Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. Longfellow.