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The constellation Sextans. Box sextant, a small sextant inclosed in a cylindrical case to make it more portable.

One who solicits.

Looking forward.

Stands. Chaucer.

In a standing position; as, a lion statant.

Substantial; firm. [R.] "[The glacier's] substant ice." The Century.

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley.

The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.

To make substantial.

In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially. In him all his Father shone, Substantially expressed. Milton. The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.

Essential parts. Ayliffe.

establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Coleridge.

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive. -- Sub`stan*ti"val*ly, adv.

Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.

The quality or state of being substantive.

To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective. Fitzed. Hall.

Reserved. [R.]