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A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consist of arsenic and cobalt.

The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.

To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter. [Colloq.] Carleton.

One who splutters.

To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve.

One who sputters.

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

One who struts.

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay.

One who stutters; a stammerer.

The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.

A plow for turning up grass land.

A large American butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.

To open or remove the shutters of. T. Hughes.

Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.

A person who cuts wood.

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.