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A long, loose garment reaching to the feet. Spenser. But when mild morn, in saffron stole, First issues from her eastern goal. T. Warton.

Having or wearing a stole. After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn. G. Fletcher.

p. p. of Steal.

A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

A little epistle. Lamb.

See Fridstol. Fuller.

Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.

The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.

oon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.

One who uses a pistol. [R.] Carlyle.

A small pistol. Donne. Beau. & Fl.

ies by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.

f doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. Milton.

A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously. There's a certain buzz Of a stolen marriage. Massinger.