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The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.

The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.

Having stipels.

Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.

Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.

iving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.

Having no stipend.

The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soi…

The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillæ of insects.

Money paid for the support of a parson. [Scot.] What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for Sir W. Scott.

etired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like. To all that kept the city pensions and wages. 1 Esd. iv. 56.…

A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery. Henslow.

A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate, church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

fligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.