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e lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton.

Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate. Starry ray (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raita radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

ected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style. The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved. Addison.

it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.; also: (Rowing)

and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

Same as Zenick. [Written also suricate, surikate.]

rved; supper. Arabian tea, the leaves of Catha edulis; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See Kat. -- Assam tea, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. -- Australian, or Botany Bay, tea (Bot.), a woody clambing plant (Smilax glycyphylla). -- Brazilian tea. (a) The dried le…

A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

A skate. [Prov. Eng.]

dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. -- Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine. -- Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] -- Tobacco pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. --…

, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.

Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.

A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also wyvern.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. Sir W. Scott.

Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. [R.] Pope.

A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.