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One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill.

A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. "A brutal sot." Granville. Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. Roscommon.

A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.

An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An anvil; a stithy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. Holland.

An anvil. Sir W. Scott.

The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.

To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] Glanvill.

nce. Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. I was no stranger to the original. Dryden.

ay under severe agonies of mind. Atterbury. This is the utmost stretch that nature can. Granville.

eness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address. Glanvill.

and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanvill.

stantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.

or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter. As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed. Spenser.

. Dryden. The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. Glanvill.

Concurrence. [R.] Glanvill.

owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.

A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Serving as a text; authoritative. Glanvill.