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ts. [U. S.] The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay (Life of Lincoln).

Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]

A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. [Obs.]

and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.

y. Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. Hayward. In wit a man; simplicity a child. Pope.

ourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

t they should see his face no more. Acts xx. 38. I desire no man to sorrow for me. Sir J. Hayward.

lathe. To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale. -- To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. -- To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]

imp. & p. p. of Spin. Spun hay, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition. -- Spun silk, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. -- Spu…

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. [R.]

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.

The frame of a stack of hay or grain. [Eng.]

his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them. Hayward.

il his revolution was at stay. Milton. Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay. Hayward.

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak. Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.

in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

cause heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.

goods; domestic vessels or utensils. He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. Hayward.