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See Ridgepole.

A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.

Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.

The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.

Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt. Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Milton.

Having or affording wisdom. -- Sa`pi*en"tial*ly, adv. The sapiential books of the Old [Testament]. Jer. Taylor.

Sapiential. [Obs.]

To make sapient. [R.] Coleridge.

In a sapient manner.

cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

See 1st Sea pie.

A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.

t, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated. [Local, U.S.]

The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

The collar of a roof; sparpiece.

The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.

imp. & p. p. of Spy.

anese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.

See Spiegel iron.