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lue to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier.

er to such persons. Shak. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.

ive a start to. [Obs.] If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier. -- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come." 1 Cor. xi. 34. -- To set milk. (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise to the surface. (b)…

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. Shank painter (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. -- To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk.

but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs. Collier.

e scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier.

Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.

A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

See Splent coal, below. Splent coal, an inferior kind of cannel coal from Scotch collieries; -- called also splent, splint, and splint coal.

A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural.

Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

at the breast. Addison. The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. Shak. They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. Landor.

r smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.] Collier.

. to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.

as formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.

Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] Collier.

od season. Timely advised, the coming evil shun. Prior. Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it. Shak.

To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey.