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A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall. There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way. Shak. Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle. Bunyan.

To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup. [Obs.] With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene. Spenser.

Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. No woman shall succeed in Salique land. Shak.

Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle. Superior conjunction, Superior planets, etc. See Conjunction, Planet, etc. -- Superior figure, Superior letter (Print.), a figure or letter printed above the line, as a reference to a note or an index of a power, etc; as, in x2 + yn, 2 is a supe…

n arrangement of tracks whereby elevations otherwise insurmountable are passed. The track ascends by a series of zigzags, the engine running alternately forward and back, until the summit is reached. -- Switch board (Elec.), a collection of switches in one piece of apparatus, so arranged that a number of circuits may…

The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.

Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. J. Burroughs.

To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.

To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.

Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.

To run up; to ascend. The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun. Chaucer. [A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood. Cowper.

Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird (Zoöl.), the apteryx.