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Falling in drops; drawn by a still.

Inflammation of the mouth.

Strontic.

Put secretly in the place of something else; foisted in. [R.]

Surreptitious. [Obs.] -- Sub`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Helping; aiding; supporting. Urquhart.

te or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion. And the truth With superstitions and traditions taint. Milton.

One addicted to superstition. [Obs.] "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.

Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.

else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon.

out proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Treating of; handling. [R.]

A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington.

, adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.

Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

To make sad. [Obs.] Feltham.

two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.