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Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. "Still as any stone." Chaucer.

mility or subjection. Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. Dryden. These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome. Addison.

an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance. Addison.

er any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation. Landor. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain. Sir W. Temple.

American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species. Strawberry bass. (Zoöl.) See Calico bass, under Calico. -- Strawberry blite. (Bot.) See under Blite. -- Strawberry borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of insects whose larvæ burrow in the crown or root…

A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.

To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground. The snow which does the top of Pindus strew. Spenser. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain Pope.

d with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

ay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. Atterbury.

Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.

) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]

United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [Written also subcarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. Bouvier.

To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.

One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.

To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.