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A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

To stumble. [Obs.]

The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling. Quain.

A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

from its being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. Also, a cigar stump. [Slang]

All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.

r of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.

Zoöl.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix. -- Venus's hair (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern (Adiantum Capillus-Veneris) having a slender…

er, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.

A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.

h sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.

A stump of a tree. Cowell.