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Voice; speech; language. [Obs. or Scot.] Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven. Chaucer.

That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

village containing a church. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott Sitting at the clachon alehouse. R. L. Stevenson.

Free from dross. Stevens.

esounding them. Fuller. Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart. R. L. Stevenson.

promised heaven forego. Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson.

f scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson.

hondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] When we are hipped or in high spirits. R. L. Stevenson.

ling round, advantage for to take. Spenser. Down the hurtling cataract of the ages. R. L. Stevenson.

merica as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

ic affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights. It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.

et the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

Unharmed. R. L. Stevenson. He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. Sir W. Scott.

The light of the stars. [R.] The starshine lights upon our heads. R. L. Stevenson.

sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.

, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore. [Scot.] The long green strath of Napa valley. R. L. Stevenson.

s. [Archaic] "Soft Silence and submiss Obedience." Spenser. "Stooping and submiss." R. L. Stevenson.