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In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

grapplement. Spenser. All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartly wish were false. Hooker.

To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

e nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed. -- Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail. -- Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is…

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic] Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.

Partly covered by another charge; -- said of an ordinary or other bearing.

A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

osition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] Milton.

outh or the region of the larynx. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. -- Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.

to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. "In tomb of marble stones." Chaucer.

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]

Partly shrublike.

Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden.