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A stillion. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.

oper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

ate of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

y he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

r treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.

burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. Stillingfleet.

o find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

e . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

sible; having an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense for infidility." Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is indeed come out at last." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out he has come out well at last.

n a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

ntent; on the other side. "They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary." Bp. Stillingfleet.

ristianity. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet.

nding down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

ody; the state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

rought in such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

nverse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.