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Abounding in stubs; stubby. A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. R. Browning.

A napkin or handkerchief. [Obs. or R.] Wyclif. R. Browning.

to breathe. Shak. Fireflies that suspire In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning.

Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning.

A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl. "The silent swirl of bats." Mrs. Browning.

t, operation, or result of tanning. [R.] They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.

t brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

drawing; also, the three numbers themselves. She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery. Mrs. Browning.

ing good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. R. Browning.

g-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.

others engaging in Bacchic rites. A good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus. Mrs. Browning. In my hand I bear The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine. Longfellow.

See Ticking. [R.] R. Browning.

A triad; trinity. [R.] A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning. Eternal One, Almighty Trine! Keble.

u think him in danger when most secure. Dryden. What dost thou verily trip upon a word R. Browning.

Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter. R. Browning.

s at unawares upon our walks. Dryden. So we met In this old sleepy town an at unaware. R. Browning.

or companion; to separate from one's fellows; to dissever. Death quite unfellows us. Mrs. Browning.

Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.

Deprived of the faculty of will or volition. Mrs. Browning.

To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. [R.] R. Browning.