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uns along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. Addison.

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. He's here stuck in a slough. Milton.

wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, sir, have you taken soil here It is well a man may reach you after three hou…

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak.

things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew. Shak. The points of spears are stuck within the shield. Dryden.

Stuck. And in the sand her ship sticked so fast. Chaucer. They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt. Sir T. Browne.

Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.] Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.

One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. His habit fit for speed succinct. Milton.

The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker.

Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires. A. Tucker.

ke his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. Macaulay.

nating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker.

the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet. His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head. Motley.

Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.

ntroduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.