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To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.

Having no stipend.

The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.

Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.

Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.

m engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. Milman.

A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

See Styptic.

A stipule.

Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.

Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.

The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.

An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

ed in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.

Same as Thermopile.

A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.