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A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also stoup.] Fetch me a stoop of liquor. Shak.

A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.]

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.

ally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

t crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun"dism (#),…

Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridæ. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the a…

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

ch one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.

A member of the most prominent tribe of the Moro tribes, occupying the Sulu Archipelago; also, their language.

uperficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.

rplus population; surplus words. When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, and break no more ground. Carew.

r holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoöspore.

y do their work in the days of peace . . . and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague. Jer. Taylor.