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To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. Stemming nightly toward the pole. Milton.

r or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. [They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aërial sky. Milton.

one, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

es put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

Facing toward the street. Their little streetward sitting room. Tennyson.

acks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.

istance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty. Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared. Dryden.

f this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less t…

rength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns. Shak. This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. Locke.

Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east. Which were beyond Jordan toward the sunrising. Deut. iv. 47 (Rev. Ver.) Full hot and fast the Saxon rides, with rein of travel slack, And, bending o'ev his saddle, leaves the sunrise at his back. Whittier.

Toward the sun.

Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.

A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.