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See Sill., n. a foundation.

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

ary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

See Diatom.

Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.

Rod-shaped.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

Of the nature of a codicil.

According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

To nourish. [Obs.] Blount.

Comfort; support. [Obs.]

Slender; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion. [R.]

er algæ, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.

uctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth. The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits. Dc Quincey.