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icient grounds. Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras.

astness. Chaucer. This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. Atterbury.

Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

nt swayed by passion. As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed. Hudibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. Tillotson.

camahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.

ishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons. "She to her tackle fell." Hudibras.

To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] Hudibras. To tail in or on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a timber.

ractice secretly; to use bribery. Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. Hudibras.

Unwary; unready. [Obs.] Hudibras.

or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.

bstacles and difficulties, both great and small. Through thick and thin she followed him. Hudibras. He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. Coleridge.

heavy; a thump. With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab tree and old iron rang. Hudibras.

Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.

or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.

, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.

shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden.

catch Shak. His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud. Hudibras.