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hich excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. Hakewill. But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. Milton.

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. G. H. Lewes An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentieny of the mind. Earle.

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

In a sentient or perceptive way.

A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded.

Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

A Shetland pony.

The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

A fish, the bib. [Prov. Eng.]

Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [Obs.] Hutton.

A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

The wren. [Prov. Eng.]

Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.

Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.

The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.

The black guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]