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word: Steeple-crowned
definition:
Steeple-crowned

Stee"ple-crowned`
(-kround`)
a.
1.
Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.

2.
Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown.

This grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor.
Hawthorne.


word: Steepled
definition:
Steepled

Stee"pled
(stē"p'ld)
a.
Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.
Fairfax.


word: Steeply
definition:
Steeply

Steep"ly
(stēp"l&ybreve_;)
adv.
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.


word: Steepness
definition:
Steepness

Steep"ness
n.
1.
Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.

2.
Height; loftiness.
[Obs.]
Chapman.


word: Steep-up
definition:
Steep-up

Steep"-up`
(-ŭp`)
a.
Lofty and precipitous.
[R.]

Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill.
Shak.


word: Steepy
definition:
Steepy

Steep"y
(-&ybreve_;)
a.
Steep; precipitous.
[Poetic]

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb
The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme.
Dryden.


word: Steer
definition:
Steer

Steer
(stēr)
n.
[OE. steer, AS. steór; akin to D. & G. stier a bull, OHG. stior, Icel. stj&omacrrr, þj&omacrrr, Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh, W. tarw, L. taurus, Gr. tay^ros, Skr. sthūra strong, stout, AS. stor large, Icel. st&omacrrr, OHG. stūri, stiuri.  √168.  Cf. Stirk, Taurine, a.]
A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.


word: Steer₃
definition:
Steer

Steer
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Steered (stērd); p. pr. & vb. n. Steering.]
[OE. steeren, steren, AS. stiéran, st&ymacr_;ran, steóran; akin to OFries. stiora, stiura, D. sturen, OD. stieren, G. steuern, OHG. stiuren to direct, support, G. steuer contribution, tax, Icel. st&ymacr_;ra to steer, govern, Sw. styra, Dan. styre, Goth. stiurjan to establish, AS. steór a rudder, a helm, and probably to Icel. staurr a pale, stake, Gr. stayro`s, and perhaps ultimately to E. stand.  √168.  Cf. Starboard, Stern, n.]
To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.

That with a staff his feeble steps did steer.
Spenser.


word: Steer₄
definition:
Steer

Steer
v. i.
1.
To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
steers
Tennyson.

2.
To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.

Where the wind
Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers, and shifts her sail.
Milton.

3.
To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.


word: Steer₅
definition:
Steer

Steer
n.
[AS. steór, stiór; akin to D. stuur, G. steuer, Icel. st&ymacr_;ri.  √168.  See Steer, v. t.]
[Written also stere.]
A rudder or helm.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Steerage
definition:
Steerage

Steer"age
(stēr"a̝j ; 48)
n.
1.
The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.

He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the commonwealth.
Milton.

2.
(Naut.)
(a)
The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
(b)
The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
[R.]
Swift.
(c)
Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.

3.
Direction; regulation; management; guidance.

He that hath the steerage of my course.
Shak.

4.
That by which a course is directed.
[R.]

Here he hung on high,
The steerage of his wings.
Dryden.

Steerage passenger, a passenger who takes passage in the steerage of a vessel.


word: Steerageway
definition:
Steerageway

Steer"age*way`
(-wā`)
n.
(Naut.)
A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.


word: Steering
definition:
Steering

Steer"ing
a. & n. from Steer, v.

Steering wheel (Naut.), the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.


word: Steersman
definition:
Steersman

Steers"man
(stērz"man)
n.
pl. Steersmen (stērz"men).
[Steer a rudder + man: cf. AS. steórmann.]
One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.
Milton.


word: Steersmate
definition:
Steersmate

Steers"mate
(stērz"māt`)
n.
[Steer a rudder + mate a companion.]
One who steers; steersman.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Steeve
definition:
Steeve

Steeve
(stēv)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Steeved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Steeving.]
[Cf. OD. steve staff, E. stem, n.]
(Shipbuilding)
To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.


word: Steeve₂
definition:
Steeve

Steeve
v. t.
1.
(Shipbuilding)
To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.

2.
To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).


word: Steeve₃
definition:
Steeve

Steeve
n.
(Naut.)
(a)
The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving.
(b)
A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.


word: Steg
definition:
Steg

Steg
(stĕg)
n.
[Icel. steggr the male of several animals.  Cf. Stag.]
(Zool.)
A gander.
[Written also stag.]
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Steganographist
definition:
Steganographist

Steg`a*nog"ra*phist
(stĕg`ȧ*n&obreve_;g"rȧ*fĭst)
n.
One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.


word: Steganography
definition:
Steganography

Steg`a*nog"ra*phy
(stĕg`ȧ*n&obreve_;g"rȧ*f&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. stegano`s covered (fr. ste`gein to cover closely) + -graphy.]
1.
The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.

2.
Specifically:
The branch of cryptography in which messages are hidden inside other messages; -- used commonly for the process of hiding messages inside a computerized image file, as for example hiding the name and copyright notice of the owner of an image as protection against violation of the copyright.


word: Steganophthalmata
definition:
Steganophthalmata

Steg`a*noph*thal"ma*ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. stegano`s covered + 'ofqalmo`s the eye.]
(Zool.)
The Discophora, or Phanerocarpae. Called also Steganophthalmia.


word: Steganopodes
definition:
Steganopodes

Steg`a*nop"o*des
(stĕg`ȧ*n&obreve_;p"o̝*dēz)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. stegano`poys, stegano`podos, web-footed; stegano`s covered + poy`s foot.]
(Zool.)
A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.


word: Stegnosis
definition:
Stegnosis

Steg*no"sis
(stĕg*n&omacr"sĭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ste`gnwsis. See Stegnotic.]
(Med.)
Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.


word: Stegnotic
definition:
Stegnotic

Steg*no"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. stegnwtiko`s, fr. stegnoy^n to cover, to make costive, fr. stegno`s, stegano`s, covered, closed.]
(Med.)
Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally.
n. A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.


word: Stegocephala
definition:
Stegocephala

Steg`o*ceph"a*la
(stĕg`o̝*sĕf"ȧ*lȧ)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ste`gh roof + kefalh` head.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

&hand_; Their teeth, in transverse sections, usually show a labyrinthiform arrangement of the cement and dentine. The under side of the body was covered with bony plates. Some of the Stegocephala were of very large size, and the form of the body varied from short, stout forms to others that were as slender as serpents.


word: Stegosauria
definition:
Stegosauria

Steg`o*sau"ri*a
(stĕg`o̝*s&asuml_;"rĭ*ȧ)
n. pl.
[NL. See Stegosaurus.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.


word: Stegosaurus
definition:
Stegosaurus

Steg`o*sau"rus
(stĕg`o̝*s&asuml_;"rŭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ste`gh roof + say^ros a lizard.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.


word: Steinbock
definition:
Steinbock

Stein"bock`
(?)
n.
[G. stein stone + bock buck, D. bok.  Cf. Steenbok.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The European ibex.
(b)
A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.
[Written also steinboc, and steinbok; also called stonebock, and stonebuck.]


word: Stela
definition:
Stela

Ste"la
(?)
n.
pl. Stelae (#).
[L., from Gr. _; a post, an upright stone.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.


word: Stele
definition:
Stele

Ste"le
(stē"lē)
n.
[NL.]
Same as Stela.

One of these steles, containing the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).


word: Stell₂
definition:
Stell

Stell
n.
[See Stell, v. t.]
1.
A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
[Scot.]

2.
A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Stellary
definition:
Stellary

Stellar

{ Stel"lar (?), Stel"la*ry (?), }
a.
[L. stellaris, fr. stella a star. See Star.]
1.
Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.

[These soft fires] in part shed down
Their stellar virtue.
Milton.

2.
Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.


word: Stellated
definition:
Stellated

Stellate

{ Stel"late (?), Stel"la*ted (?), }
a.
[L. stellatus, p. p. of stellare to set or cover with stars, from stella a star. See Stellar.]
1.
Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.

2.
(Bot.)
Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.


word: Stelled
definition:
Stelled

Stelled
(?)
a.
[See Stell to place.]
Firmly placed or fixed.
[Obs.]
stelled
Shak.
[In this passage by some defined as “starry,” as if from stellatus.]


word: steller
definition:
steller

stel"ler
(?)
n.
[After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.]
(Zool.)
The rytina; -- called also stellerine and Steller's sea cow.  See rytina.


word: Stellerida
definition:
Stellerida

Stel*ler"i*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.


word: Stelleridean
definition:
Stelleridean

Stelleridan

{ Stel*ler"i*dan (?), Stel`ler*id"e*an (?), }
n.
(Zool.)
A starfish, or brittle star.


word: Steller's sea cow
definition:
Steller's sea cow

Stel"ler's sea" cow`
(?)
prop. n.
[After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist.]
(Zool.)
The rytina; -- called also stellerine and steller.  See rytina.


word: Stelliferous
definition:
Stelliferous

Stel*lif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. stellifer; stella star + ferre to bear.]
Having, or abounding with, stars.


word: Stellify
definition:
Stellify

Stel"li*fy
(?)
v. t.
[L. stella a star + -fy.]
To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.
[Obs. or R.]
B. Jonson.


word: Stellion
definition:
Stellion

Stel"lion
(?)
n.
[L. stellio a newt having starlike spots on its back, fr. stella a star.]
(Zool.)
A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.


word: Stellionate
definition:
Stellionate

Stel"lion*ate
(?)
n.
[L. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.]
(Scots & Roman Law)
Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
Erskine.


word: Stellular
definition:
Stellular

Stel"lu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. stellula, dim. of stella a star.]
1.
Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

2.
Marked with starlike spots of color.


word: Stelmatopoda
definition:
Stelmatopoda

Stel`ma*top"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a block, post + _;, _;, eye + _;, _;, foot.]
(Zool.)
Same as Gymnolaemata.


word: Stelography
definition:
Stelography

Ste*log"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a post, slab, pillar + -graphy: cf. Gr. _; an inscription on a tablet.]
The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
[R.]
Stackhouse.


word: Steem₃
definition:
Steem

Stem

{ Stem (?), Steem (?), }
v. i.
To gleam.
[Obs.]

His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . 
[And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].
Chaucer.


word: Stem
definition:
Stem

Stem
(stĕm)
n.
[AS. stemn, stefn, staefn; akin to OS. stamn the stem of a ship, D. stam stem, steven stem of a ship, G. stamm stem, steven stem of a ship, Icel. stafn, stamn, stem of a ship, stofn, stomn, stem, Sw. stam a tree trunk, Dan. stamme.  Cf. Staff, Stand.]
1.
The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.

After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
Sir W. Raleigh.

The lowering spring, with lavish rain,
Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.
Dryden.

2.
A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

3.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
stem
Milton.

While I do pray, learn here thy stem
And true descent.
Herbert.

4.
A branch of a family.

This is a stem
Of that victorious stock.
Shak.

5.
(Naut.)
A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

6.
Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
Fuller.

7.
Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

8.
(Bot.)
That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

9.
(Zool.)
(a)
The entire central axis of a feather.
(b)
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.

10.
(Mus.)
The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

11.
(Gram.)
The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

From stem to stern (Naut.), from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length. -- Stem leaf (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.


word: Stem₂
definition:
Stem

Stem
v. t.
1.
To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

2.
To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.


word: Stem₃
definition:
Stem

Stem
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stemmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stemming.]
[Either from stem, n., or akin to stammer; cf. G. stemmen to press against.]
To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
stem
Shak.

[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
Denham.

Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
Pope.


word: Stem₄
definition:
Stem

Stem
v. i.
To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Stemming nightly toward the pole.
Milton.


word: Stem-clasping
definition:
Stem-clasping

Stem"-clasp`ing
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul, as a leaf or petiole.


word: Stemma
definition:
Stemma

Stem"ma
(?)
n.
pl. Stemmata (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, pl. _;, a garland or chaplet.]
(Zool.)
(a)
One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.
(b)
One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.


word: Stemmy
definition:
Stemmy

Stem"my
(?)
a.
Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc.
[Colloq.]


word: Stemple
definition:
Stemple

Stem"ple
(?)
n.
[G. stempel a stamp, a prop, akin to E. stamp.]
(Mining)
A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.


word: Stemson
definition:
Stemson

Stem"son
(?)
n.
[See Stem, n., and Keelson, and cf. Sternson.]
(Shipbuilding)
A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.


word: Stem-winder
definition:
Stem-winder

Stem"-wind`er
(?)
n.
1.
A stem-winding watch.
[Colloq.]

2.
Hence:
(Fig.)
Anything of superior quality, as was attributed to the stem-winding watch; -- esp. used to describe a stirring speech, as in the phrase “a stem-winder of a speech” or “delivered a stem-winder”.


word: Stem-winding
definition:
Stem-winding

Stem"-wind`ing
a.
Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.


word: Stench₂
definition:
Stench

Stench
n.
[AS. stenc a strong smell, fr. stincan. See Stink, v. i.]
1.
A smell; an odor.
[Obs.]

Clouds of savory stench involve the sky.
Dryden.

2.
An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
Cowper.

Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.


word: Stench₃
definition:
Stench

Stench
v. t.
[AS. stencan to emit a smell, fr. stincan to smell. See Stench, n.]
To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
[Obs.]
Young.


word: Stencil
definition:
Stencil

Sten"cil
(?)
n.
[Probably from OF. estincelle spangle, spark, F. étincelle spark, L. scintilla. See Scintillate, and cf. Tinsel.]
A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.


word: Stencil₂
definition:
Stencil

Sten"cil
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stenciled (?) or Stencilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stenciling or Stencilling.]
To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.


word: Stenciler
definition:
Stenciler

Sten"cil*er
(?)
n.
One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil.
[Written also stenciller.]


word: Stenoderm
definition:
Stenoderm

Sten"o*derm
(?)
n.
[Gr. steno`s narrow, little + -derm.]
(Zool.)
Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.


word: Stenodermine
definition:
Stenodermine

Sten`o*der"mine
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.


word: Stenograph
definition:
Stenograph

Sten"o*graph
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stenographed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stenographing (?).]
To write or report in stenographic characters.


word: Stenograph₂
definition:
Stenograph

Sten"o*graph
n.
A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs.
Emerson.


word: Stenographical
definition:
Stenographical

Stenographic

{ Sten`o*graph"ic (?), Sten`o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. sténographique.]
Of or pertaining to stenography.


word: Stenography
definition:
Stenography

Ste*nog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. steno`s narrow, close + graphy: cf. F. sténographie, G. stenographie.]
The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.


word: Stenophyllous
definition:
Stenophyllous

Ste*noph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Gr. steno`s narrow + fy`llon leaf.]
(Bot.)
Having narrow leaves.


word: Stenosis
definition:
Stenosis

Ste*no"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. steno`s narrow.]
(Med.)
A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.


word: Stenostome
definition:
Stenostome

Sten"o*stome
(?)
a.
[Gr. steno`s narrow, little + sto`ma mouth.]
(Zool.)
Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.


word: Stent
definition:
Stent

Stent
(?)
v. t.
[Obs. imp. Stente (?); obs. p. p. Stent.]
[See Stint.]
To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

Then would he weep, he might not be stent.
Chaucer.

Yet n'ould she stent
Her bitter railing and foul revilement.
Spenser.


word: Stent₂
definition:
Stent

Stent
v. i.
To stint; to stop; to cease.

And of this cry they would never stenten.
Chaucer.


word: Stenting
definition:
Stenting

Stent"ing
n.
An opening in a wall in a coal mine.
[Written also stenton.]
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Stentor
definition:
Stentor

Sten"tor
(?)
n.
[L. Stentor, Gr. _;.]
1.
A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.

2.
(Zool.)
Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.

3.
(Zool.)
A howling monkey, or howler.


word: Stentorian
definition:
Stentorian

Sten*to"ri*an
(?)
a.
[L. stentoreus; cf. Gr. _;.]
Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.


word: Stentorin
definition:
Stentorin

Sten"to*rin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.


word: Stentorophonic
definition:
Stentorophonic

Sten`to*ro*phon"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; Stentor + _; a sound, voice. See Stentor.]
Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.
[Obs.]

Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican.
Derham.


word: Step
definition:
Step

Step
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Stepped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stepping.]
[AS. staeppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D. stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr. _; to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?).  Cf. Stamp, n. & a.]
1.
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.

2.
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.

3.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

Home the swain retreats,
His flock before him stepping to the fold.
Thomson.

4.
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
Pope.

To step aside, to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company. -- To step forth, to move or come forth. -- To step in or To step into. (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to advance suddenly in.
[1913 Webster]
Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. John v. 4.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the house. (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate. -- To step out. (a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches. (b) To go out for a short distance or a short time. -- To step short (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules.


word: Step₂
definition:
Step

Step
v. t.
1.
To set, as the foot.

2.
(Naut.)
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

To step off, to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.


word: Step₃
definition:
Step

Step
n.
[AS. staepe. See Step, v. i.]
1.
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.

2.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.

The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
Sir H. Wotton.

3.
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.

To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
Sir I. Newton.

4.
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.

5.
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

6.
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.

7.
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.

The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
Pope.

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
Cowper.

I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
G. W. Cable.

8.
pl.
Walk; passage.

Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
Dryden.

9.
pl.
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.

10.
(Naut.)
In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.

11.
(Mach.)
(a)
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
(b)
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

12.
(Mus.)
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.

&hand_; The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.

13.
(Kinematics)
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
W. K. Clifford.

14.
(Fives)
At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.

Back step, Half step, etc. See under Back, Half, etc. -- Step grate, a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the bars rise above one another in the manner of steps. -- To take steps, to take action; to move in a matter.


word: Step-
definition:
Step-

Step-
[AS. steóp-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D. & G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stj_;p-, Sw. styf-, and to AS. āstēpan, āsteópan, to deprive, bereave, as children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]
A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.


word: Stepbrother
definition:
Stepbrother

Step"broth`er
(?)
n.
A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.


word: Stepchild
definition:
Stepchild

Step"child`
(?)
n.
[AS. steópcild.]
1.
A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
[Obs.]

2.
A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.


word: Stepdaughter
definition:
Stepdaughter

Step"daugh`ter
(?)
n.
[AS. steópdohtor.]
A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.


word: Step-down
definition:
Step-down

Step"-down`
a.
(Elec.)
Transforming or converting a current of high potential or voltage into one of low voltage; as, a step-down transformer.


word: Stepfather
definition:
Stepfather

Step"fa`ther
(?)
n.
[AS. steópfaeder.]
The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.


word: Stephanion
definition:
Stephanion

Ste*pha"ni*on
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _; a crown.]
(Anat.)
The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.


word: Stephanite
definition:
Stephanite

Steph"an*ite
(?)
n.
[So named after the Archduke Stephan, mining director of Austria.]
(Min.)
A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.


word: Stephanotis
definition:
Stephanotis

Steph`a*no"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; fit for a crown, fr. _; crown.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.

2.
A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.


word: Stepmother
definition:
Stepmother

Step"moth`er
(?)
n.
[AS. steópm&omacrder.]
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.


word: Steppe
definition:
Steppe

Steppe
(?)
n.
[From Russ. stepe, through G. or F. steppe.]
One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.

Steppe murrain. (Far.) See Rinderpest.


word: Stepped
definition:
Stepped

Stepped
(?)
a.
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.

Stepped gear, a cogwheel of which the teeth cross the face in a series of steps.


word: Stepping-stone
definition:
Stepping-stone

Step"ping-stone`
(?)
n.
1.
A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.

2.
Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.

These obstacles his genius had turned into stepping-stones.
Macaulay.

That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
Tennyson.


word: Stepstone
definition:
Stepstone

Step"stone`
(?)
n.
A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.


word: Step-up
definition:
Step-up

Step"-up`
a.
(Elec.)
Transforming or converting a low-voltage current into one of high voltage; as, a step-up transformer.


word: -ster
definition:
-ster

-ster
(?)
[OE. & AS. -estre, -istre.]
A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.

&hand_; Brewing, baking, and weaving were formerly feminine labors, and consequently brewster, baxter, and webster meant, originally, the woman (not the man) who brews, bakes, or weaves. When men began to perform these duties the feminine appellations were retained.


word: Stercobilin
definition:
Stercobilin

Ster`co*bi"lin
(?)
n.
[L. stercus dung + E. bilin.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.


word: Stercoraceous
definition:
Stercoraceous

Ster`co*ra"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. stercus, -oris, dung.]
Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.


word: Stercoranist
definition:
Stercoranist

Ster"co*ra*nist
(?)
n.
[LL. stercoranista, fr. L. stercus, -oris, dung.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.


word: Stercorary
definition:
Stercorary

Ster"co*ra*ry
(?)
n.
[LL. stercorarium, from L. stercorarius belonging to dung.]
A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.


word: Stercoration
definition:
Stercoration

Ster`co*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. stercoratio, from stercorare to dung.]
Manuring with dung.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Sterculiaceous
definition:
Sterculiaceous

Ster*cu`li*a"ceous
(?)
a.
[NL. Sterculia, the typical genus, fr. L. Sterculius the deity that presided over manuring, from stercus dung. So called because one of the original species is fetid.]
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.


word: Stere
definition:
Stere

Stere
(?)
n.
[F. stère, fr. Gr. _; solid.]
A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 11/3 cubic yards.


word: Sterelmintha
definition:
Sterelmintha

Ster`el*min"tha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. stereo`s solid + _; a worm.]
(Zool.)
Same as Platyelminthes.


word: Stereo-
definition:
Stereo-

Ste"re*o-
(?)
[Gr. stereo`s solid. See Stare to gaze.]
A combining form meaning solid, hard, firm, as in stereo-chemistry, stereography.


word: Stereobate
definition:
Stereobate

Ste"re*o*bate
(?)
n.
[Gr. stereo`s solid + _; that treads or covers, akin to _; base; cf. F. stéréobate.]
(Arch.)
The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.


word: Stereo-chemical
definition:
Stereo-chemical

Stereo-chemic

{ Ste`re*o-chem"ic (?), Ste`re*o-chem"ic*al (?), }
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.


word: Stereo-chemistry
definition:
Stereo-chemistry

Ste`re*o-chem"is*try
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + chemistry.]
(Chem.)
Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.


word: Stereochromic
definition:
Stereochromic

Ste`re*o*chro"mic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy.
Ste`re*o*chro"mic*al*ly (#), adv.


word: Stereochromy
definition:
Stereochromy

Ste`re*och"ro*my
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + Gr. chrw^ma color.]
A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).


word: Stereoelectric
definition:
Stereoelectric

Ste`re*o*e*lec"tric
(?)
a.
[Stereo- + electric.]
(Physics)
Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.


word: Stereogram
definition:
Stereogram

Ste"re*o*gram
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + -gram.]
A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.


word: Stereograph
definition:
Stereograph

Ste"re*o*graph
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + -graph.]
Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.


word: Stereographical
definition:
Stereographical

Stereographic

{ Ste`re*o*graph"ic (?), Ste`re*o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. stéréographique.]
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth.

Stereographic projection (Geom.), a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the projection is made is at right andles to the diameter passing through the center of projection.


word: Stereographically
definition:
Stereographically

Ste`re*o*graph"ic*al*ly
adv.
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.


word: Stereography
definition:
Stereography

Ste`re*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + graphy: cf. F. stéréographie.]
The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

&hand_; By cutting pieces of cardboard, or other suitable material, in the forms represented in the cut, folding them along the lines indicated, and joining their edges, the five regular solids may be formed.


word: Stereometer
definition:
Stereometer

Ste`re*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + meter.]
(Physics)
1.
An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.

2.
An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.


word: Stereometrical
definition:
Stereometrical

Stereometric

{ Ste`re*o*met"ric (?), Ste`re*o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. stéréométrique.]
Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry.
Ste`re*o*met"ric*al*ly, adv.


word: Stereometry
definition:
Stereometry

Ste`re*om"e*try
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + -metry: cf. F. stéréométrie.]
The art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.


word: Stereomonoscope
definition:
Stereomonoscope

Ste`re*o*mon"o*scope
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + mono- + -scope.]
An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.


word: Stereoplasm
definition:
Stereoplasm

Ste"re*o*plasm
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + Gr. _; anything formed or molded.]
(Biol.)
The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm.


word: Stereopticon
definition:
Stereopticon

Ste`re*op"ti*con
(?)
n.
[NL. See Stereo-, and Optic.]
An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.


word: Stereoscope
definition:
Stereoscope

Ste"re*o*scope
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + -scope.]
An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.

&hand_; In the reflecting stereoscope, the rays from the two pictures are turned into the proper direction for stereoscopic vision by two plane mirrors set at an angle with each other, and between the pictures. In the lenticular stereoscope, the form in general use, the eyeglasses are semilenses, or marginal portions of the same convex lenses, set with their edges toward each other, so that they deflect the rays coming from the picture so as to strike the eyes as if coming direct from an intermediate point, where the two pictures are seen apparently as one.


word: Stereoscopical
definition:
Stereoscopical

Stereoscopic

{ Ste`re*o*scop"ic (?), Ste`re*o*scop"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to the stereoscope; characteristic of, or adapted to, the stereoscope; as, a stereoscopic effect; the stereoscopic function of the eyeglasses; stereoscopic views.
Ste`re*o*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Stereoscopy
definition:
Stereoscopy

Ste`re*os"co*py
(?)
n.
The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.


word: Stereotomical
definition:
Stereotomical

Stereotomic

{ Ste`re*o*tom"ic (?), Ste`re*o*tom"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to stereotomy; performed by stereotomy.


word: Stereotomy
definition:
Stereotomy

Ste`re*ot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + Gr. _; to cut: cf. F. stéréotomie.]
The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.


word: Stereotype
definition:
Stereotype

Ste"re*o*type
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + -type: cf. F. stéréotype.]
1.
A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

&hand_; A stereotype, or stereotypr plate, is made by setting movable type as for ordinary printing; from these a cast is taken in plaster of Paris, paper pulp, or the like, and upon this cast melted type metal is poured, which, when hardened, makes a solid page or column, from which the impression is taken as from type.

2.
The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

Stereotype block, a block, usually of wood, to which a stereotype plate is attached while being used in printing.


word: Stereotype₂
definition:
Stereotype

Ste"re*o*type
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stereotyped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stereotyping (?).]
[Cf. F. stéréotyper.]
1.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

2.
Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
Duke of Argyll (1887).


word: Stereotyped
definition:
Stereotyped

Ste"re*o*typed
(?)
a.
1.
Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.

2.
Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.

Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Stereotyper
definition:
Stereotyper

Ste"re*o*ty`per
(?)
n.
One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.


word: Stereotypery
definition:
Stereotypery

Ste"re*o*ty`per*y
(?)
n.
1.
The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.

2.
A place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.


word: Stereotypography
definition:
Stereotypography

Ste`re*o*ty*pog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Stereo- + typography.]
The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.


word: Stereotypy
definition:
Stereotypy

Ste"re*o*ty`py
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. stéréotypie.]
The art or process of making stereotype plates.


word: Sterhydraulic
definition:
Sterhydraulic

Ster`hy*drau"lic
(?)
a.
[Stereo- + hydraulic.]
Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.

Sterhydraulic press, an hydraulic press producing pressure or motion by the introduction of a solid substance (as a long rod, or a cord wound on a roller) into a cylinder previously filled with a liquid.


word: Sterile
definition:
Sterile

Ster"ile
(?)
a.
[F. stérile, L. sterilis, akin to Gr. stereo`s stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, Goth. stair&omacr, fem., barren. See Stare to gaze.]
1.
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

2.
(Biol.)
(a)
Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
(b)
Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

3.
Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.


word: Sterility
definition:
Sterility

Ste*ril"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. sterilitas: cf. F. stérilité.]
1.
The quality or condition of being sterile.

2.
(Biol.)
Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.


word: Sterilization
definition:
Sterilization

Ster`il*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.


word: Sterilize
definition:
Sterilize

Ster"il*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sterilized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing (?).]
[Cf. F. stériliser.]
1.
To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
[R.]
Sterilizing
Woodward.

2.
(Biol.)
To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
3.
(Microbiology, Medicine)
To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture) or on (a medical instrument), as by heat, so as to prevent contamination by bacteria or other organisms.  A common method of sterilization in laboratories and medical facilities is to heat a liquid sample or an instrument in an autoclave.

4.
To destroy all spores or germs on (a surface) by wetting with an antiseptic liquid, such as an alcoholic solution.


word: Sterilizer
definition:
Sterilizer

Ster"il*i`zer
(?)
n.
One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.


word: Sterlet
definition:
Sterlet

Ster"let
(?)
n.
[Russ. sterliade.]
(Zool.)
A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviar is made from its roe.


word: Sterling₂
definition:
Sterling

Ster"ling
n.
[OE. sterlynge, starling, for easterling, LL. esterlingus, probably from Easterling, once the popular name of German trades in England, whose money was of the purest quality: cf. MHG. sterlink a certain coin.  Cf. East. “Certain merchants of Norwaie, Denmarke, and of others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our vulgar language we tearme them), easterlings, because they lie east in respect of us.” Holinshed. “In the time of . . . King Richard the First, monie coined in the east parts of Germanie began to be of especiall request in England for the puritie thereof, and was called Easterling monie, as all inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings, and shortly after some of that countrie, skillful in mint matters and allaies, were sent for into this realme to bring the coine to perfection; which since that time was called of them sterling, for Easterling.” Camden. “Four thousand pound of sterlings.” R. of Gloucester.]
1.
Any English coin of standard value; coined money.

So that ye offer nobles or sterlings.
Chaucer.

And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
Arbuthnot.

2.
A certain standard of quality or value for money.

Sterling was the known and approved standard in England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign.
S. M. Leake.


word: Sterling₃
definition:
Sterling

Ster"ling
(?)
a.
1.
Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
sterling
Shak.

2.
Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.


word: Stern₂
definition:
Stern

Stern
a.
[Compar. Sterner (?); superl. Sternest.]
[OE. sterne, sturne, AS. styrne; cf. D. stuurish stern, Sw. stursk refractory. √166.]
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

The sterne wind so loud gan to rout.
Chaucer.

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.
Shak.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Shak.

Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard.
Dryden.

These barren rocks, your stern inheritance.
Wordsworth.


word: Stern₃
definition:
Stern

Stern
n.
[Icel. stj&omacrrn a steering, or a doubtful AS. steórn. √166. See Steer, v. t.]
1.
The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
(Naut.)
The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

3.
Fig.: The post of management or direction.

And sit chiefest stern of public weal.
Shak.

4.
The hinder part of anything.
Spenser.

5.
The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.

By the stern. (Naut.) See By the head, under By.


word: Stern₄
definition:
Stern

Stern
a.
Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Stern board (Naut.), a going or falling astern; a loss of way in making a tack; as, to make a stern board. See Board, n., 8 (b). -- Stern chase. (Naut.) (a) See under Chase, n. (b) A stern chaser. -- Stern chaser (Naut.), a cannon placed in a ship's stern, pointing backward, and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit. -- Stern fast (Naut.), a rope used to confine the stern of a ship or other vessel, as to a wharf or buoy. -- Stern frame (Naut.), the framework of timber forms the stern of a ship. -- Stern knee. See Sternson. -- Stern port (Naut.), a port, or opening, in the stern of a ship. -- Stern sheets (Naut.), that part of an open boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. -- Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels.


word: Sternal
definition:
Sternal

Ster"nal
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.


word: Sternbergite
definition:
Sternbergite

Stern"berg*ite
(?)
n.
[So named after Count Kaspar Sternberg of Prague.]
(Min.)
A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.


word: Sternebra
definition:
Sternebra

Ster"ne*bra
(?)
n.
pl. Sternebrae (#).
[NL., fr. sternum + -bra of vertebra.]
(Anat.)
One of the segments of the sternum.
Ster"ne*bral (#), a.


word: Sterned
definition:
Sterned

Sterned
(?)
a.
Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.


word: Sternforemost
definition:
Sternforemost

Stern`fore"most`
(?)
adv.
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.

A fatal genius for going sternforemost.
Lowell.


word: Sternmost
definition:
Sternmost

Stern"most`
(?)
a.
Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.


word: Sterno-
definition:
Sterno-

Ster"no-
(?)
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.


word: Sternocoracoid
definition:
Sternocoracoid

Ster`no*cor"a*coid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.


word: Sternocostal
definition:
Sternocostal

Ster`no*cos"tal
(?)
a.
[Sterno- + costal.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.


word: Sternohyoid
definition:
Sternohyoid

Ster`no*hy"oid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.


word: Sternomastoid
definition:
Sternomastoid

Ster`no*mas"toid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.


word: Sternothyroid
definition:
Sternothyroid

Ster`no*thy"roid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.


word: Sternpost
definition:
Sternpost

Stern"post`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.


word: Sternson
definition:
Sternson

Stern"son
(?)
n.
[See Stern, n., and cf. Stemson.]
(Naut.)
The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.


word: Sternum
definition:
Sternum

Ster"num
(?)
n.
pl. L. Sterna (#), E. Sternums (#).
[NL., from Gr. _;, the breast, chest.]
1.
(Anat.)
A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

&hand_; The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or with both. In man it is a flat bone, broad anteriorly, narrowed behind, and connected with the clavicles and the cartilages of the seven anterior pairs of ribs. In most birds it has a high median keel for the attachment of the muscles of the wings.

2.
(Zool.)
The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.


word: Sternutation
definition:
Sternutation

Ster`nu*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. sternutatio, fr. sternutare to sneeze, intens. from sternuere.]
The act of sneezing.
Quincy.


word: Stern-wheeler
definition:
Stern-wheeler

Stern"-wheel`er
(?)
n.
A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.
[Colloq. U.S.]


word: Sterquilinous
definition:
Sterquilinous

Ster*quil"i*nous
(?)
a.
[L. sterquilinium a dung pit, fr. stercus dung.]
Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.
[Obs.]
Howell.


word: Sterrink
definition:
Sterrink

Ster"rink
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.


word: Sterrometal
definition:
Sterrometal

Ster"ro*met`al
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; firm, solid + E. metal.]
Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.


word: Stertorous
definition:
Stertorous

Ster"to*rous
(stẽr"to̝*rŭs)
a.
[L. stertere to snore: cf. F. stertoreux.]
Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompanies inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.

Burning, stertorous breath that hurt her cheek.
Mrs. Browning.

The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls.
Dickens.


word: Sterve
definition:
Sterve

Sterve
(stẽrv)
v. t. & i.
To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Spenser.


word: Stet
definition:
Stet

Stet
(stĕt)
L., subj. 3d pers. sing. of stare to stand, remain.
[See Stand.]
(Print.)
Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.


word: Stet₂
definition:
Stet

Stet
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stetted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stetting.]
(Print.)
To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.


word: Stethal
definition:
Stethal

Steth"al
(?)
n.
[Stearic + ethal.]
(Chem.)
One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.


word: Stethometer
definition:
Stethometer

Ste*thom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; chest + -meter.]
(Physiol.)
An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.


word: Stethoscope
definition:
Stethoscope

Steth"o*scope
(stĕth"o̝*sk&omacrp)
n.
[Gr. sth^qos the breast + -scope: cf. F. stéthoscope.]
(Med.)
An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.


word: Stethoscopical
definition:
Stethoscopical

Stethoscopic

{ Steth`o*scop"ic (?), Steth`o*scop"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. stéthoscopique.]
Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.
Steth`o*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Stevedore
definition:
Stevedore

Ste"ve*dore`
(?)
n.
[Sp. estivador a packer, a stower, fr. estivar to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E. stiff. See Stiff, Stive to stuff.]
One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.


word: Steven
definition:
Steven

Ste"ven
(?)
n.
[AS. stefn, stemn, voice; akin to D. stem, G. stimme, Goth. stibna.]
1.
Voice; speech; language.
[Obs. or Scot.]

Ye have as merry a steven
As any angel hath that is in heaven.
Chaucer.

2.
An outcry; a loud call; a clamor.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

To set steven, to make an appointment. [Obs.]

They setten steven for to meet
To playen at the dice.
Chaucer.


word: Stew
definition:
Stew

Stew
(?)
n.
[Cf. Stow.]
1.
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Chaucer. Evelyn.

2.
An artificial bed of oysters.
[Local, U.S.]


word: Stew₂
definition:
Stew

Stew
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stewed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stewing.]
[OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. étuver, fr. OF. estuve, F. étuve, a sweating house, a room heated for a bath; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stove. See Stove, and cf. Stive to stew.]
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.


word: Stew₄
definition:
Stew

Stew
n.
[OE. stue, stuwe, OF. estuve. See Stew, v. t.]
1.
A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
[Obs.]

As burning Aetna from his boiling stew
Doth belch out flames.
Spenser.

The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews.
Abp. Abbot.

2.
A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
Bacon. South.

There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews.
Aschman.

3.
A prostitute.
[Obs.]
Sir A. Weldon.

4.
A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

5.
A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
[Colloq.]


word: Steward
definition:
Steward

Stew"ard
(?)
n.
[OE. stiward, AS. stīweard, stigweard, literally, a sty ward; stigu sty + weard warden, guardian, -- his first duty having been probably to attend to the domestic animals. √164. See Sty pen for swine, Ward.]
1.
A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.

Worthy to be stewards of rent and land.
Chaucer.

They came near to the steward of Joseph's house.
Gen. xliii. 19.

As good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1 Pet. iv. 10.

2.
A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.

3.
A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.

4.
In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.

5.
In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
Erskine.

Lord high steward, formerly, the first officer of the crown; afterward, an officer occasionally appointed, as for a coronation, or upon the trial of a peer. [Eng.]


word: Stewardess
definition:
Stewardess

Stew"ard*ess
n.
A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.


word: Stewardly
definition:
Stewardly

Stew"ard*ly
adv.
In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.
[R.]

To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent.
Tooker.


word: Stewartry
definition:
Stewartry

Stew"art*ry
(?)
n.
1.
An overseer or superintendent.
[R.]
stewartry
Tooke.

2.
The office of a steward; stewardship.
[R.]
Byron.

3.
In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.


word: Sthenic
definition:
Sthenic

Sthen"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; strength: cf. F. sthénique.]
(Med.)
Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.

Sthenic theory. See Stimulism (a).


word: Stiacciato
definition:
Stiacciato

Sti*ac*cia"to
(?)
n.
[It., crushed, flattened.]
(Sculp.)
The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.


word: Stibiated
definition:
Stibiated

Stib"i*a`ted
(?)
a.
[NL. stibiatus, from L. stibium antimony.]
(Med. Chem.)
Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).

Stibiated tartar. See Tartar emetic, under Tartar.


word: Stibiconite
definition:
Stibiconite

Stib"i*co*nite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.


word: Stibine
definition:
Stibine

Stib"ine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.


word: Stibium
definition:
Stibium

Stib"i*um
(?)
n.
[L. stibium, stibi, Gr. _;, _;.]
1.
(Chem.)
The technical name of antimony.

2.
(Min.)
Stibnite.
[Obs.]


word: Stibnite
definition:
Stibnite

Stib"nite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.


word: Stibonium
definition:
Stibonium

Sti*bo"ni*um
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.


word: Sticcado
definition:
Sticcado

Stic*ca"do
(?)
n.
[Cf. It. steccato a palisade.]
(Mus.)
An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.


word: Stich
definition:
Stich

Stich
(?)
n.
[Gr. sti`chos a row, line, akin to to go, march, E. sty, v. i.]
1.
A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

2.
A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

3.
A row, line, or rank of trees.


word: Stichic
definition:
Stichic

Stich"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. stichiko`s.]
Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
[R.]


word: Stichidium
definition:
Stichidium

Sti*chid"i*um
(?)
n.
pl. Stichida (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, dim. of _; a row.]
(Bot.)
A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.


word: Stichomancy
definition:
Stichomancy

Stich"o*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a line + -mancy.]
Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.


word: Stichometrical
definition:
Stichometrical

Stich`o*met"ric*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.


word: Stichometry
definition:
Stichometry

Stich*om"e*try
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a line + -metry.]
1.
Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

2.
Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.


word: Stichwort
definition:
Stichwort

Stich"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea).
[Written also stitchwort.]


word: Stick
definition:
Stick

Stick
(?)
n.
[OE. sticke, AS. sticca; akin to stician to stab, prick, pierce, G. stecken a stick, staff, OHG. steccho, Icel. stik a stick. See Stick, v. t..]
1.
A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

Withered sticks to gather, which might serve
Against a winter's day.
Milton.

2.
Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.

3.
Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.

4.
A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
[Colloq.]

5.
(Print.)
A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.

6.
A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stick chimney, a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. [U.S.] -- Stick insect, (Zool.), any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidae, which have a long round body, resembling a stick in form and color, and long legs, which are often held rigidly in such positions as to make them resemble small twigs. They thus imitate the branches and twigs of the trees on which they live. The common American species is Diapheromera femorata. Some of the Asiatic species are more than a foot long. -- To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, to run away. [Slang] De Quincey.


word: Stick₂
definition:
Stick

Stick
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stuck (?) (Obs. Sticked (_;)); p. pr. & vb. n. Sticking.]
[OE. stikien, v.t. & i., combined with steken, whence E. stuck), AS. stician, v.t. & i., and (assumed) stecan, v.t.; akin to OFries. steka, OS. stekan, OHG. stehhan, G. stechen, and to Gr. _; to prick, Skr. tij to be sharp.  Cf. Distinguish, Etiquette, Extinct, Instigate, Instinct, Prestige, Stake, Steak, Stick, n., Stigma, Stimulate, Sting, Stitch in sewing, Style for or in writing.]
1.
To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.

And sticked him with bodkins anon.
Chaucer.

It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.

Thou stickest a dagger in me.
Shak.

3.
To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.

My shroud of white, stuck all with yew.
Shak.

The points of spears are stuck within the shield.
Dryden.

4.
To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.

5.
To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.

6.
To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.

7.
To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.

8.
(Print.)
To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
[Cant]

9.
(Joinery)
To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.

10.
To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
[Colloq.]

11.
To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
[Slang]

To stick out, to cause to project or protrude; to render prominent.


word: Stick₃
definition:
Stick

Stick
(?)
v. i.
1.
To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.

The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh.
Bacon.

2.
To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.

A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Prov. xviii. 24.

I am a kind of bur; I shall stick.
Shak.

If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown,
'T will ever stick through malice of your own.
Young.

3.
To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.

I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
Stuck in my throat.
Shak.

The trembling weapon passed
Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last.
Dryden.

4.
To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.

They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas.
Locke.

Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will.
Arbuthnot.

5.
To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable.
Swift.

To stick by. (a) To adhere closely to; to be firm in supporting. “We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you.” Davenant. (b) To be troublesome by adhering. “I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.” Pope. -- To stick out. (a) To project; to be prominent. “His bones that were not seen stick out.” Job xxxiii. 21. (b) To persevere in a purpose; to hold out; as, the garrison stuck out until relieved. [Colloq.] -- To stick to, to be persevering in holding to; as, to stick to a party or cause. “The advantage will be on our side if we stick to its essentials.” Addison. -- To stick up, to stand erect; as, his hair sticks up. -- To stick up for, to assert and defend; as, to stick up for one's rights or for a friend. [Colloq.] -- To stick upon, to dwell upon; not to forsake. “If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought.” Locke.


word: Sticked
definition:
Sticked

Stick"ed
(?)
obs.
imp.
of Stick
Stuck.

And in the sand her ship sticked so fast.
Chaucer.

They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Sticker
definition:
Sticker

Stick"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

2.
That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
[Colloq.]
Tackeray.

3.
(Mus.)
In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

4.
Same as Paster, 2.
[Political Cant, U.S.]


word: Stickful
definition:
Stickful

Stick"ful
(?)
n.
pl. Stickfuls (_;).
(Print.)
As much set type as fills a composing stick.


word: Sticking
definition:
Sticking

Stick"ing
a. & n. from Stick, v.

Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point.
[1913 Webster]
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail. Shak.
[1913 Webster]
-- Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses. -- Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above.


word: Stickit
definition:
Stickit

Stick"it
(?)
a.
Stuck; spoiled in making.
[Scot.]

Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.


word: Stickle
definition:
Stickle

Stic"kle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Stickled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.]
[Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti_;tlen, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to establish.]
1.
To separate combatants by intervening.
[Obs.]

When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
Dryden.

2.
To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle,
And for the foe began to stickle.
Hudibras.

While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
Dryden.

The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
Hazlitt.

3.
To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.


word: Stickle₂
definition:
Stickle

Stic"kle
v. t.
1.
To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
[Obs.]

Which [question] violently they pursue,
Nor stickled would they be.
Drayton.

2.
To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
[Obs.]

They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Stickle₃
definition:
Stickle

Stic"kle
n.
[Cf. stick, v. t. & i.]
A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Patient anglers, standing all the day
Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.
W. Browne.


word: Stickleback
definition:
Stickleback

Stic"kle*back`
(?)
n.
[OE. & Prov E. stickle a prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Banstickle.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.


word: Stickler
definition:
Stickler

Stic"kler
(stĭk"klẽr)
n.
[See Stickle, v. t.]
One who stickles.

Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
Sir P. Sidney.

Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war,
First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
Dryden.

The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
Swift.


word: Stick-seed
definition:
Stick-seed

Stick"-seed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.


word: stick-tight
definition:
stick-tight

stick"-tight`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
1.
any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes.
RHUD

2.
a seed from a sticktight{1}.


word: Sticky
definition:
Sticky

Stick"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stickier (?); superl. Stickiest.]
Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk.
Bacon.


word: Stiddy
definition:
Stiddy

Stid"dy
(?)
n.
[See Stithy.]
An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Stiff
definition:
Stiff

Stiff
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stiffer (?); superl. Stiffest.]
[OE. stif, AS. stīf; akin to D. stijf, G. steif, Dan. stiv, Sw. styf, Icel. stīfr, Lith. stipti to be stiff; cf. L. stipes a post, trunk of a tree, stipare to press, compress.  Cf. Costive, Stifle, Stipulate, Stive to stuff.]
1.
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower
The mid aerial sky.
Milton.

2.
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.

3.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.

4.
Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.

It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
Jer. Taylor.

A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause,
Stiff to defend their hospitable laws.
Dryden.

5.
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.

The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.
Addison.

6.
Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
stiff
Shak.

7.
(Naut.)
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Totten.

8.
Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
[Slang]

Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be moved without difficulty and pain.


word: Stiffen
definition:
Stiffen

Stiff"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stiffened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stiffening.]
[See Stiff.]
1.
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Shak.

2.
To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

3.
To make torpid; to benumb.


word: Stiffen₂
definition:
Stiffen

Stiff"en
v. i.
To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

Like bristles rose my stiffening hair.
Dryden.

The tender soil then stiffening by degrees.
Dryden.

Some souls we see,
Grow hard and stiffen with adversity.
Dryden.


word: Stiffener
definition:
Stiffener

Stiff"en*er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.


word: Stiffening
definition:
Stiffening

Stiff"en*ing
n.
1.
Act or process of making stiff.

2.
Something used to make anything stiff.

Stiffening order (Com.), a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.


word: Stiff-hearted
definition:
Stiff-hearted

Stiff"-heart`ed
(?)
a.
[Stiff + heart.]
Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.
Ezek. ii. 4.


word: Stiff-necked
definition:
Stiff-necked

Stiff"-necked`
(?)
a.
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
Ex. xxxii. 9.


word: Stiff-neckedness
definition:
Stiff-neckedness

Stiff"-neck`ed*ness
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.


word: Stiffness
definition:
Stiffness

Stiff"ness
n.
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.
South.


word: Stifle
definition:
Stifle

Sti"fle
(?)
n.
[From Stiff.]
(Far.)
The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.

Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.


word: Stifle₂
definition:
Stifle

Sti"fle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stifled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stifling (?).]
[Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. stīfla to dam up.]
1.
To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.

Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
Dryden.

I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
Swift.

2.
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.

Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit.
Sir I. Newton.

3.
To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.

I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
Waterland.


word: Stifle₃
definition:
Stifle

Sti"fle
(?)
v. i.
To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

You shall stifle in your own report.
Shak.


word: Stigma
definition:
Stigma

Stig"ma
(?)
n.
pl. E. Stigmas (#), L. Stigmata (#).
[L., a mark, a brand, from Gr. _;, _;, the prick or mark of a pointed instrument, a spot, mark, from _; to prick, to brand. See Stick, v. t.]
1.
A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

2.
Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.

The blackest stigma that can be fastened upon him.
Bp. Hall.

All such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery.
Sir G. Buck.

3.
(Bot.)
That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

4.
(Anat.)
A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

5.
(Pathol.)
A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

6.
(Zool.)
(a)
One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
(b)
One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
(c)
One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.

7.
(Geom.)
A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

8.
pl.
(R. C. Ch.)
Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.


word: Stigmaria
definition:
Stigmaria

Stig*ma"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Stigma.]
(Paleon.)
The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.


word: Stigmatic
definition:
Stigmatic

Stig*mat"ic
(?)
n.
1.
A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
[R.]
Bullokar.

2.
A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
Shak.


word: Stigmatical
definition:
Stigmatical

Stigmatic

{ Stig*mat"ic (?), Stig*mat"ic*al (?), }
a.
[See Stigma.]
1.
Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.

2.
Impressing with infamy or reproach.
[R.]

3.
(Bot., Anat., etc)
Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.

Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.


word: Stigmatist
definition:
Stigmatist

Stig"ma*tist
(?)
n.
One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8.


word: Stigmatization
definition:
Stigmatization

Stig`ma*ti*za"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of stigmatizing.

2.
(R. C. Ch.)
The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma, 8.


word: Stigmatize
definition:
Stigmatize

Stig"ma*tize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stigmatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing (?).]
[F. stigmatiser, Gr. _;.]
1.
To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.

That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness.
Milton.

2.
To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.

To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
Addison.


word: Stigonomancy
definition:
Stigonomancy

Stig"o*no*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, one who is marked, or one who marks (_; to mark with a pointed instrument, to prick) + -mancy.]
Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.


word: Stilar
definition:
Stilar

Sti"lar
(?)
a.
[From Stile a style.]
Of or pertaining to the style of a dial.
[Written also stylar.]


word: Stilbene
definition:
Stilbene

Stil"bene
(?)
n.
[See Stilbite.]
(Chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.


word: Stilbite
definition:
Stilbite

Stil"bite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; to glitter, shine: cf. F. stilbite.]
(Min.)
A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.


word: Stile
definition:
Stile

Stile
(?)
n.
[See Style.]
1.
A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
Moxon.

2.
Mode of composition. See Style.
[Obs.]

May I not write in such a stile as this?
Bunyan.


word: Stile₂
definition:
Stile

Stile
n.
[OE. stile, AS. stigel a step, a ladder, from stīgan to ascend; akin to OHG. stigila a stile. √164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Stair.]
1.
A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.

There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way.
Shak.

Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle.
Bunyan.

2.
(Arch.)
One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

&hand_; In an ordinary door the principal upright pieces are called stiles, the subordinate upright pieces mullions, and the crosspieces rails. In wainscoting the principal pieces are sometimes called stiles, even when horizontal.

Hanging stile, Pulley stile. See under Hanging, and Pulley.


word: Stilet
definition:
Stilet

Sti"let
(?)
n.
[Written also stilette, and stylet.]
1.
A stiletto.
[R.]

2.
(Surg.)
See Stylet, 2.


word: Stiletto
definition:
Stiletto

Sti*let"to
(?)
n.
pl. Stilettos (#).
[It., dim. of stilo a dagger, fr. L. stilus a pointed instrument. See Style for writing, and cf. Stylet.]
1.
A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.

2.
A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.

3.
A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
[Obs.]

The very quack of fashions, the very he that
Wears a stiletto on his chin.
Ford.


word: Stiletto₂
definition:
Stiletto

Sti*let"to
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stilettoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stilettoing (?).]
To stab or kill with a stiletto.
Bacon.


word: Still
definition:
Still

Still
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stiller (?); superl. Stillest.]
[OE. stille, AS. stille; akin to D. stil, OS. & OHG. stilli, G. still, Dan. stille, Sw. stilla, and to E. stall; from the idea of coming to a stand, or halt.  Cf. Still, adv.]
1.
Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
Still
Chaucer.

2.
Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.

The sea that roared at thy command,
At thy command was still.
Addison.

3.
Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
still
Milton.

4.
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
still
1 Kings xix. 12.

5.
Constant; continual.
[Obs.]

By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
Shak.

6.
Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.

Still life. (Fine Arts) (a) Inanimate objects. (b) (Painting) The class or style of painting which represents inanimate objects, as fruit, flowers, dead game, etc.


word: Still₂
definition:
Still

Still
n.
[Cf. G. stille.]
1.
Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
[Poetic]

2.
A steep hill or ascent.
[Obs.]
W. Browne.


word: Still₃
definition:
Still

Still
adv.
[AS. stille quietly. See Still, a. The modern senses come from the idea of stopping and staying still, or motionless.]
1.
To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.

It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.
Bacon.

2.
In the future as now and before.

Hourly joys be still upon you!
Shak.

3.
In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.

The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
Addison.

Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.
Boyle.

4.
In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.
Shak.

5.
Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.

As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
Moore.

6.
After that; after what is stated.

In the primitive church, such as by fear being compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel.
Whitgift.

Still and anon, at intervals and repeatedly; continually; ever and anon; now and then.

And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.
Shak.


word: Still₄
definition:
Still

Still
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stilling.]
[AS. stillan, from stille still, quiet, firm. See Still, a.]
1.
To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.

He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it.
Woodward.

2.
To stop, as noise; to silence.

With his name the mothers still their babies.
Shak.

3.
To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
Shak.

Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me.
Hawthorne.


word: Still₅
definition:
Still

Still
(?)
n.
[Cf. OE. stillatorie. See Still, v., to distill.]
1.
A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.

2.
A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.

Still watcher, a device for indicating the progress of distillation by the density of the liquid given over. Knight.


word: Still₆
definition:
Still

Still
v. t.
[Abbreviated fr. distill.]
1.
To cause to fall by drops.

2.
To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
Tusser.


word: Still₇
definition:
Still

Still
v. i.
[L. stillare.  Cf. Distill.]
To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Stillage
definition:
Stillage

Stil"lage
(?)
n.
(Bleaching)
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.
Knight.


word: Stillatitious
definition:
Stillatitious

Stil`la*ti"tious
(?)
a.
[L. stillaticius, fr. stillare to drop, stilla a drop.]
Falling in drops; drawn by a still.


word: Stillatory
definition:
Stillatory

Stil"la*to*ry
(?)
n.
pl. -ries (#).
[From Still, for distill.  Cf. Still, n., and Distillatory, a.]
1.
An alembic; a vessel for distillation.
[R.]
Bacon.

2.
A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed.
[R.]
Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.


word: Stillborn
definition:
Stillborn

Still"born`
(?)
a.
1.
Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.

2.
Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.
Swift.


word: Still-burn
definition:
Still-burn

Still"-burn`
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. still-burnt (?) or Still-burned (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Still-burning.]
To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.


word: Still-hunt
definition:
Still-hunt

Still"-hunt`
(?)
n.
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously.
Still"-hunt`er (#), n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. [U.S.]


word: Stillicide
definition:
Stillicide

Stil"li*cide
(?)
n.
[L. stillicidium; stilla a drop + cadere to fall.]
A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.
Bacon.


word: Stilling
definition:
Stilling

Still"ing
(?)
n.
[Cf. LG. stelling, G. stellen to set, to place.]
A stillion.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


word: Stillion
definition:
Stillion

Stil"lion
(?)
n.
[See Stilling.]
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.


word: Still life
definition:
Still life

Still" life
(?)
n.
1.
a type of painting in which inanimate objects such as flowers or fruit are represented.

2.
the inanimate subject matter of a still life painting or photograph; as, to painted only still life.


word: Stillness
definition:
Stillness

Still"ness
(?)
n.
1.
The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages.
J. A. Symonds.

2.
Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

The gravity and stillness of your youth
The world hath noted.
Shak.


word: Stillroom
definition:
Stillroom

Still"room`
(?)
n.
1.
A room for distilling.

2.
An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept.
[Eng.]

Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action.
Dickens.


word: Stillson wrench
definition:
Stillson wrench

Still"son wrench
(?)
A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece sliding in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.


word: Stilly₂
definition:
Stilly

Stil"ly
(?)
adv.
In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly.
Dr. H. More.

The hum of either army stilly sounds.
Shak.


word: Stilpnomelane
definition:
Stilpnomelane

Stilp*nom"e*lane
(?)
n.
[Gr. stilpno`s shining + me`las, -anos, black.]
(Min.)
A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.


word: Stilt
definition:
Stilt

Stilt
(?)
n.
[OE. stilte; akin to Dan. stylte, Sw. stylta, LG. & D. stelt, OHG. stelza, G. stelze, and perh. to E. stout.]
1.
A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Landor.

2.
A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

3.
(Zool.)
Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.

&hand_; The American species (Himantopus Mexicanus) is well known. The European and Asiatic stilt (Himantopus candidus) is usually white, except the wings and interscapulars, which are greenish black. The white-headed stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus) and the banded stilt (Cladorhynchus pectoralis) are found in Australia.

Stilt plover (Zool.), the stilt. -- Stilt sandpiper (Zool.), an American sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus) having long legs. The bill is somewhat expanded at the tip.


word: Stilt₂
definition:
Stilt

Stilt
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stilted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stilting.]
To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.


word: Stilted
definition:
Stilted

Stilt"ed
a.
Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.

Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.


word: Stilton
definition:
Stilton

Stilton cheese

{ Stil"ton cheese" (?), or Stil"ton  }
n.
A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.
Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner from the soup to the stilton.
C. Lever.


word: Stime
definition:
Stime

Stime
(?)
n.
[Etymology uncertain.]
A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Stimulant
definition:
Stimulant

Stim"u*lant
(?)
a.
[L. stimulans, p. pr.; cf. F. stimulant. See Stimulate.]
1.
Serving to stimulate.

2.
(Physiol.)
Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.


word: Stimulant₂
definition:
Stimulant

Stim"u*lant
n.
[Cf. F. stimulant.]
1.
That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.

His feelings had been exasperated by the constant application of stimulants.
Macaulay.

2.
(Physiol. & Med.)
An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.


word: Stimulate
definition:
Stimulate

Stim"u*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stimulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stimulating.]
[L. stimulatus, p. p. of stimulare to prick or goad on, to incite, fr. stimulus a goad. See Stimulus.]
1.
To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.

To excite and stimulate us thereunto.
Dr. J. Scott.

2.
(Physiol.)
To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.


word: Stimulation
definition:
Stimulation

Stim`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. stimulatio: cf. F. stimulation.]
1.
The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

2.
(Physiol.)
The irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation.


word: Stimulism
definition:
Stimulism

Stim"u*lism
(?)
n.
(Med.)
(a)
The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.
(b)
The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.
Dr. H. Hartshorne.


word: Stimulus
definition:
Stimulus

Stim"u*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Stimuli (#).
[L., for stigmulus, akin to L. instigare to stimulate. See Instigare, Stick, v. t.]
1.
A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

2.
That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

&hand_; Of the stimuli applied to the sensory apparatus, physiologists distinguish two kinds: (a) Homologous stimuli, which act only upon the end organ, and for whose action the sense organs are especially adapted, as the rods and cones of the retina for the vibrations of the either. (b) Heterologous stimuli, which are mechanical, chemical, electrical, etc., and act upon the nervous elements of the sensory apparatus along their entire course, producing, for example, the flash of light beheld when the eye is struck.
Landois & Stirling.


word: Sting
definition:
Sting

Sting
(?)
n.
[AS. sting a sting. See Sting, v. t.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.

2.
(Bot.)
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.

3.
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.

The sting of death is sin.
1 Cor. xv. 56.

4.
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
sting
Shak.

5.
A goad; incitement.
Shak.

6.
The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

Sting moth (Zool.), an Australian moth (Doratifera vulnerans) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body, with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs. -- Sting ray. (Zool.) See under 6th Ray. -- Sting winkle (Zool.), a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.


word: Sting₂
definition:
Sting

Sting
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stung (?) (Archaic Stang (_;)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stinging.]
[AS. stingan; akin to Icel. & Sw. stinga, Dan. stinge, and probably to E. stick, v.t.; cf. Goth. usstiggan to put out, pluck out.  Cf. Stick, v. t.]
1.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.

2.
To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
stings
Pope.

3.
To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.


word: Stingbull
definition:
Stingbull

Sting"bull`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.


word: Stinger
definition:
Stinger

Sting"er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, stings.

Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusae of our seas are stingers.
Owen.


word: Stinging
definition:
Stinging

Sting"ing
(?)
a.
Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
Sting"ing*ly, adv.

Stinging cell. (Zool.) Same as Lasso cell, under Lasso.


word: Stingo
definition:
Stingo

Stin"go
(?)
n.
[From Sting.]
Old beer; sharp or strong liquor.
[Old Slang]

Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow?
Addison.


word: Stingray
definition:
Stingray

Sting ray

{ Sting ray or Sting"ray`  }
n.
Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidae, syn. Trygonidae, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American Pacific coast, are very destructive to oysters.


word: Stingy₂
definition:
Stingy

Stin"gy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stingier (?); superl. Stingiest.]
[Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.]
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten.
L'estrange.


word: Stink
definition:
Stink

Stink
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Stunk (?), Stank (_;), p. pr. & vb. n. Stinking.]
[AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. _; rancid.  Cf. Stench.]
To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.


word: Stink₃
definition:
Stink

Stink
n.
[AS. stinc.]
A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

Fire stink. See under Fire. -- Stink-fire lance. See under Lance. -- Stink rat (Zool.), the musk turtle. [Local, U.S.] -- Stink shad (Zool.), the gizzard shad. [Local, U.S.] -- Stink trap, a stench trap. See under Stench.


word: Stinkard
definition:
Stinkard

Stink"ard
(?)
n.
1.
A mean, stinking, paltry fellow.
B. Jonson.

2.
(Zool.)
The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.


word: Stinkball
definition:
Stinkball

Stink"ball`
(?)
n.
A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.


word: Stinker
definition:
Stinker

Stink"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, stinks.

2.
(Zool.)
Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.


word: Stinkhorn
definition:
Stinkhorn

Stink"horn`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.


word: Stinking
definition:
Stinking

Stink"ing
a. & n. from Stink, v.

Stinking badger (Zool.), the teledu. -- Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).


word: Stinkpot
definition:
Stinkpot

Stink"pot`
(?)
n.
1.
An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

2.
A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

3.
(Zool.)
The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.


word: Stinkstone
definition:
Stinkstone

Stink"stone`
(?)
n.
(Min.)
One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.


word: Stinkwood
definition:
Stinkwood

Stink"wood`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.


word: Stint
definition:
Stint

Stint
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
(b)
A phalarope.


word: Stint₂
definition:
Stint

Stint
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stinting.]
[OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull, stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial, Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short.  Cf. Stent, Stunt.]
1.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
Woodward.

She stints them in their meals.
Law.

2.
To put an end to; to stop.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.

4.
To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.

The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
J. H. Walsh.


word: Stint₃
definition:
Stint

Stint
v. i.
To stop; to cease.
[Archaic]

They can not stint till no thing be left.
Chaucer.

And stint thou too, I pray thee.
Shak.

The damsel stinted in her song.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Stint₄
definition:
Stint

Stint
n.
[Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1.
Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
South.

2.
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
Cowper.


word: Stintless
definition:
Stintless

Stint"less
a.
Without stint or restraint.

The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus.
Marston.


word: Stipe
definition:
Stipe

Stipe
(?)
n.
[L. stipes a stock, post, branch: cf. F. stipe.]
(Bot.)
(a)
The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
(b)
The stalk of a pistil.
(c)
The trunk of a tree.
(d)
The stem of a fungus or mushroom.


word: Stipend
definition:
Stipend

Sti"pend
(?)
n.
[L. stipendium; stips, gen. stipis, a gift, donation, given in small coin + pendere to weigh or pay out.]
Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.


word: Stipendiarian
definition:
Stipendiarian

Sti*pen`di*a"ri*an
(?)
a.
Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary.
A. Seward.


word: Stipendiary
definition:
Stipendiary

Sti*pen"di*a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. stipendiarius: cf. F. stipendiaire.]
Receiving 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.


word: Stipendiary₂
definition:
Stipendiary

Sti*pen"di*a*ry
n.
pl. Stipendiaries (_;).
One who receives a stipend.

If thou art become
A tyrant's vile stipendiary.
Glover.


word: Stipendiate
definition:
Stipendiate

Sti*pen"di*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. stipendiatus, p. p. of stipendiari to receive pay.]
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.


word: Stipes
definition:
Stipes

Sti"pes
(-pēz)
n.
pl. Stipites (#).
[L., a stock.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
(b)
An eyestalk.


word: Stipitate
definition:
Stipitate

Stip"i*tate
(?)
a.
[NL. stipitatus, from L. stipes, gen. stipitis, a stock. See Stipe.]
(Bot.)
Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.


word: Stipitiform
definition:
Stipitiform

Stip"i*ti*form
(?)
a.
[Stipes + -form.]
(Bot.)
Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.


word: Stipple
definition:
Stipple

Stip"ple
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stippled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stippling (?).]
[D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.]
1.
To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect.
Milman.

2.
To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.


word: Stippling
definition:
Stippling

Stipple

{ Stip"ple (?), Stip"pling (?), }
n.
(Engraving)
A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

2.
(Paint.)
A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.


word: Stipula
definition:
Stipula

Stip"u*la
(?)
n.
pl. E. Stipulas (#), L. Stipulae (#).
[L., a stalk, stem.]
1.
(Bot.)
A stipule.

2.
(Zool.)
A newly sprouted feather.


word: Stipular
definition:
Stipular

Stipulaceous

{ Stip`u*la"ceous (?), Stip"u*lar (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. stipulacé, stipulaire. See Stipula.]
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.


word: Stipulate₂
definition:
Stipulate

Stip"u*late
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Stipulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stipulating.]
[L. stipulatus, p. p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post.  Cf. Stiff.]
To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.


word: Stipulation
definition:
Stipulation

Stip`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. stipulatio: cf. F. stipulation.]
1.
The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

2.
That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.

3.
(Law)
A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
Bouvier. Wharton.


word: Stipulation₂
definition:
Stipulation

Stip`u*la"tion
n.
[See Stipule.]
(Bot.)
The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.


word: Stipule
definition:
Stipule

Stip"ule
(?)
n.
[L. stipula a stalk, stem, straw: cf. F. stipule.  Cf. Stubble.]
(Bot.)
An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.


word: Stir
definition:
Stir

Stir
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stirred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stirring.]
[OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian; probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. stören, OHG. st&omacrren to scatter, destroy. √166.]
1.
To change the place of in any manner; to move.

My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
Shak.

3.
To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.

Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
Bacon.

4.
To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
stir
Chaucer.

An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
Shak.

And for her sake some mutiny will stir.
Dryden.

&hand_; In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.


word: Stir₂
definition:
Stir

Stir
v. i.
1.
To move; to change one's position.

I had not power to stir or strive,
But felt that I was still alive.
Byron.

2.
To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.

All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
Byron.

The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
Merivale.

3.
To become the object of notice; to be on foot.

They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.
I. Watts.

4.
To rise, or be up, in the morning.
[Colloq.]
Shak.


word: Stir₃
definition:
Stir

Stir
n.
1.
The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?
Denham.

Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
Locke.

2.
Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
Sir J. Davies.

3.
Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.


word: Stirabout
definition:
Stirabout

Stir"a*bout`
(?)
n.
A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.


word: Stirk
definition:
Stirk

Stirk
(?)
n.
[AS. stric, from steór a steer. See Steer a young ox.]
A young bullock or heifer.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Stirpiculture
definition:
Stirpiculture

Stir"pi*cul`ture
(?)
n.
[L. stirps, stirpis, stem, stock, race + cultura culture.]
The breeding of special stocks or races.


word: Stirps
definition:
Stirps

Stirps
(?)
n.
pl. Stirpes (#).
[L., stem, stock.]
1.
(Law)
Stock; race; family.
Blackstone.

2.
(Bot.)
A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.


word: Stirrer
definition:
Stirrer

Stir"rer
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.
Shak.

Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.


word: Stirring
definition:
Stirring

Stir"ring
(?)
a.
Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it.
Southey.


word: Stirrup
definition:
Stirrup

Stir"rup
(?)
n.
[OE. stirop, AS. stigrāp; stīgan to mount, ascend + rāp a rope; akin to G. stegreif a stirrup. √164. See Sty, v. i., and Rope.]
1.
A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.

Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon.
Chaucer.

2.
(Carp. & Mach.)
Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.

3.
(Naut.)
A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
Totten.

Stirrup bone (Anat.), the stapes. -- Stirrup cup, a parting cup taken after mounting. -- Stirrup iron, an iron stirrup. -- Stirrup leather, or Stirrup strap, the strap which attaches a stirrup to the saddle. See Stirrup, 1.


word: Stirt
definition:
Stirt

Stirt
(?)
obs.
p. p.
of Start, v. i.
Started; leaped.

They privily be stirt into a well.
Chaucer.


word: Stitch
definition:
Stitch

Stitch
(?)
n.
[OE. stiche, AS. stice a pricking, akin to stician to prick. See Stick, v. i.]
1.
A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

2.
A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.

3.
[Cf. OE. sticche, stecche, stucche, a piece, AS. stycce.  Cf. Stock.]
A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.

You have gone a good stitch.
Bunyan.

In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.
Holland.

4.
A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.

He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.
Bp. Burnet.

5.
A contortion, or twist.
[Obs.]

If you talk,
Or pull your face into a stitch again,
I shall be angry.
Marston.

6.
Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
[Colloq.]

7.
A furrow.
Chapman.

8.
An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc.

Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary. -- Pearl stitch, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2.


word: Stitch₂
definition:
Stitch

Stitch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stitched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stitching.]
1.
To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.

2.
To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

3.
(Agric.)
To form land into ridges.

To stitch up, to mend or unite with a needle and thread; as, to stitch up a rent; to stitch up an artery.


word: Stitching
definition:
Stitching

Stitch"ing
n.
1.
The act of one who stitches.

2.
Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.


word: Stith₂
definition:
Stith

Stith
n.
[Icel. steði an anvil, akin to staðr place. See Stead.]
An anvil; a stithy.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith.
Holland.


word: Stithy
definition:
Stithy

Stith"y
(?)
n.
[See Stith, and cf. Stiddy.]
1.
An anvil.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge.
stithy
Shak.


word: Stive
definition:
Stive

Stive
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stiving.]
[Probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, L. stipare: cf. It. stivare, Sp. estivar.  Cf. Stevedore, Stiff.]
To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
Sandys.

His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Stiver
definition:
Stiver

Sti"ver
(?)
n.
[D. stuiver; akin to G. stüber, Dan. styver, Sw. styfver.]
A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.


word: Stoat
definition:
Stoat

Stoat
(?)
n.
[OE. stot a stoat, horse, bullock; perhaps originally only of male animals, and akin to D. stooten to push, E. stutter; cf. Icel. st_;tr a bull, Sw. stut a bullock.  Cf. Stot.]
(Zool.)
The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.


word: Stocah
definition:
Stocah

Sto"cah
(?)
n.
[Ir. & Gael. stocach an idle fellow who lives on the industry of others, a lounger.]
A menial attendant.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Stoccado
definition:
Stoccado

Stoc*ca"do
(?)
n.
[F. estocade, fr. Sp. estocada, or It. stoccata, from Sp. estoque, or It. stocco, a rapier, fr. G. stock a stick. See Stock.]
A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
Shak.


word: Stochastic
definition:
Stochastic

Sto*chas"tic
(sto̝*kăs"tĭk)
a.
[Gr. stochastiko`s, from stocha`zesqai to aim, to guess, fr. sto`chos mark or aim.]
1.
Conjectural; able to conjecture.
[Obs.]
Whitefoot.

2.
random; chance; involving probability; opposite of deterministic.

3.
(Statistics)
of or pertaining to a process in which a series of calculations, selections, or observations are made, each one being randomly determined as a sample from a probability distribution.
Where physical phenomena are modelled as a stochastic process, each subsequent calculation of a series may depend on the result of the previous calculation, as in the modelling of the process of diffusion of molecules.  Many series may be calculated, and the results averaged, to estimate the most likely result.  See also Markov chain.


word: Stock
definition:
Stock

Stock
(st&obreve_;k)
n.
[AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust.  Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck a rapier.]
1.
The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job xiv. 8,9.

2.
The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

The scion overruleth the stock quite.
Bacon.

3.
A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
Milton.

Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
Fuller.

4.
Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
Shak.

5.
The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.

6.
The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.

And stand betwixt them made, when, severally,
All told their stock.
Chapman.

Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock
From Dardanus.
Denham.

7.
(Finance)
Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.

8.
(Bookkeeping)
Same as Stock account, below.

9.
Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

Add to that stock which justly we bestow.
Dryden.

10.
(Agric.)
Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.

11.
(Card Playing)
That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.

I must buy the stock; send me good cardings.
Beau. & Fl.

12.
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
[Obs.]

13.
[Cf. Stocking.]
A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
[Obs.]

With a linen stock on one leg.
Shak.

14.
A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

15.
pl.
A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.

He shall rest in my stocks.
Piers Plowman.

16.
pl.
(Shipbuilding)
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

17.
pl.
Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
[Eng.]

18.
(Bot.)
Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (Matthiola annua).

19.
(Geol.)
An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

20.
A race or variety in a species.

21.
(Biol.)
In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

22.
The beater of a fulling mill.
Knight.

23.
(Cookery)
A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.

24.
Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.

25.
(Soap Making)
A plain soap which is made into  toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.

Bit stock. See Bitstock. -- Dead stock (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above. -- Head stock. See Headstock. -- Paper stock, rags and other material of which paper is made. -- Stock account (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn. -- Stock car, a railway car for carrying cattle. -- Stock company (Com.), an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value. -- Stock duck (Zool.), the mallard. -- Stock exchange. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks. (b) An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. Wharton. Brande & C. -- Stock farmer, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock. -- Stock gillyflower (Bot.), the common stock. See Stock, n., 18. -- Stock gold, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. -- Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. -- Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door. -- Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for live stock. -- Stock pigeon. (Zool.) Same as Stockdove. -- Stock purse. (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.] -- Stock shave, a tool used by blockmakers. -- Stock station, a place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] W. Howitt. -- Stock tackle (Naut.), a tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. Totten. -- Stock taking, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically. -- Tail stock. See Tailstock. -- To have something on the stock, to be at work at something. -- To take stock, to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. Dickens. -- To take stock in. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity. [Slang] -- To take stock of, to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). [Eng.]

At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
Leslie Stephen.


word: Stock₂
definition:
Stock

Stock
(st&obreve_;k)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stocked (st&obreve_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
1.
To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

2.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.

3.
To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

4.
To put in the stocks.
[R.]
Shak.

To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place. -- To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called to stack the deck. [Cant] -- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.


word: Stock₃
definition:
Stock

Stock
a.
Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.
stock
C. Kingsley.

Stock company (Theater), a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management.


word: Stockade
definition:
Stockade

Stock*ade"
(?)
n.
[F. estacade stockade, boom (confused in French with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata a palisade (influenced by OF. estach, estaque, a stake, post), or from Sp. estacada a palisade; both of German origin, and akin to E. stake, stick; cf. G. stecken stick, OHG. steccho. See Stake, n., Stick, n. & v. t., and cf. Estacade, Stacket.]
1.
(Mil.)
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
[Written also stoccade.]

2.
An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.


word: Stockade₂
definition:
Stockade

Stock*ade"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stockaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stockading.]
To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.


word: Stockdove
definition:
Stockdove

Stock"dove`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.

&hand_; The name is applied, also, to other related species, as the Indian stockdove (Palumbaena Eversmanni).


word: Stockfish
definition:
Stockfish

Stock"fish`
(?)
n.
[Cf. D. stokvisch.]
1.
Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

2.
(Zool.)
Young fresh cod.


word: Stockholder
definition:
Stockholder

Stock"hold`er
(?)
n.
One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.


word: Stockinet
definition:
Stockinet

Stock`i*net"
(?)
n.
An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.


word: Stocking
definition:
Stocking

Stock"ing
(?)
n.
[From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
1.
A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.

2.
Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking{1};
as:
(a)
A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse.
(b)
A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.


word: Stockish
definition:
Stockish

Stock"ish
a.
Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
Shak.


word: Stockjobber
definition:
Stockjobber

Stock"job`ber
(?)
n.
[Stock + job.]
One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.


word: Stockjobbing
definition:
Stockjobbing

Stock"job`bing
(?)
n.
The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.


word: Stockman
definition:
Stockman

Stock"man
(?)
n.
pl. Stockmen (_;).
A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.
[Australia & U.S.]
W. Howitt.


word: Stock-still
definition:
Stock-still

Stock"-still`
(?)
a.
[CF. G. stock-still.]
Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.

His whole work stands stock-still.
Sterne.


word: Stockwork
definition:
Stockwork

Stock"work`
(?)
n.
[G. stockwerk.]
1.
(Mining)
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.

2.
(Geol.)
A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.


word: Stocky
definition:
Stocky

Stock"y
(?)
a.
[From Stock.]
1.
Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
Addison.

Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.
Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

2.
Headstrong.
[Prov. Eng.]
G. Eliot.


word: Stoechiometry
definition:
Stoechiometry

Stoechiology

Stoech`i*ol"o*gy (?), n., Stoech`i*om"e*try (_;), n., etc.
See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc.


word: Stogy₂
definition:
Stogy

Sto"gy
n.
pl. Stogies (_;)
[Written also stogie.]
[Colloq.]
1.
A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.

2.
A kind of cheap, but not necessary inferior, cigar made in the form of a cylindrical roll.


word: Stoic
definition:
Stoic

Sto"ic
(?)
n.
[L. stoicus, Gr. _;, fr. _;, adj., literally, of or pertaining to a colonnade, from _; a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught.]
1.
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

2.
Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.

A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear.
Campbell.

School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch.


word: Stoical
definition:
Stoical

Stoic

{ Sto"ic (?), Sto"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. stoicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. stoïque. See Stoic, n.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

2.
Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint.
Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sto"ic*al*ness, n.


word: Stoichiology
definition:
Stoichiology

Stoi`chi*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a first element + -logy.]
[Written also stoechiology.]
1.
That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.

2.
(Logic)
The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought.
Sir W. Hamilton.

3.
The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.


word: Stoichiometrical
definition:
Stoichiometrical

Stoichiometric

{ Stoi`chi*o*met"ric (?), Stoi`chi*o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.

2.
(Chem.)
of, pertaining to, using, or consuming, reagents in the exact proportions required for a given reaction; as, a stoichiometric reaction, i. e., a reaction which goes to completion, rather than stopping partway at an equilibrium point.


word: Stoichiometry
definition:
Stoichiometry

Stoi`chi*om"e*try
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a first principle, or element + -metry.]
The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.


word: Stoicism
definition:
Stoicism

Sto"i*cism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. stoïcisme.]
1.
The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

2.
A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.


word: Stoke
definition:
Stoke

Stoke
(?)
v. t.
[OE. stoken, fr. D. stoken, fr. stok a stick (cf. OF. estoquier to thrust, stab; of Teutonic origin, and akin to D. stok). See Stock.]
1.
To stick; to thrust; to stab.
[Obs.]

Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting.
Chaucer.

2.
To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.


word: Stokehold
definition:
Stokehold

Stoke"hold`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with  closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.


word: Stokehole
definition:
Stokehole

Stoke"hole`
(?)
n.
The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.


word: Stoker
definition:
Stoker

Stok"er
(?)
n.
[D. See Stoke, v. t.]
1.
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.

2.
A fire poker.
[R.]
C. Richardson (Dict.).


word: Stola
definition:
Stola

Sto"la
(?)
n.
pl. Stolae (#).
[L. See Stole a garment.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.

The stola was not allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands.
Fairholt.


word: Stole₃
definition:
Stole

Stole
n.
[AS. stole, L. stola, Gr. _; a stole, garment, equipment, fr. _; to set, place, equip, send, akin to E. stall. See Stall.]
1.
A long, loose garment reaching to the feet.
Spenser.

But when mild morn, in saffron stole,
First issues from her eastern goal.
T. Warton.

2.
(Eccl.)
A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions.

Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal household. [Eng.] Brande & C.


word: Stoled
definition:
Stoled

Stoled
(?)
a.
Having or wearing a stole.

After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled
In shining lawn.
G. Fletcher.


word: Stolid
definition:
Stolid

Stol"id
(?)
a.
[L. stolidus.]
Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.


word: Stolidity
definition:
Stolidity

Sto*lid"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. stoliditas.]
The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself.
Bentley.


word: Stolon
definition:
Stolon

Sto"lon
(?)
n.
[L. stolo, -onis: cf. F. stolon.  Cf. Stole a stolon, 1st Stool.]
1.
(Bot.)
A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

2.
(Zool.)
An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma.


word: Stoloniferous
definition:
Stoloniferous

Stol`o*nif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Stolon + -ferous: cf. F. stolonifère.]
Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.


word: Stoma
definition:
Stoma

Sto"ma
(?)
n.
pl. Stomata (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, a mouth.]
1.
(Anat.)
One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.

2.
(Bot.)
(a)
The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
(b)
The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.

3.
(Zool.)
A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).


word: Stomach
definition:
Stomach

Stom"ach
(?)
n.
[OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.]
1.
(Anat.)
An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

2.
The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
Shak.

3.
Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart.
Shak.

4.
Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
[Obs.]

Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.
Spenser.

This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
Locke.

5.
Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
[Obs.]

He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach.
Shak.

Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it. -- Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach. -- Stomach worm (Zool.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.


word: Stomach₂
definition:
Stomach

Stom"ach
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stomached (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stomaching.]
[Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.]
1.
To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
Shak.

The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
L'Estrange.

The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.
Milton.

2.
To bear without repugnance; to brook.
[Colloq.]


word: Stomachal
definition:
Stomachal

Stom"ach*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. stomacal.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.

2.
Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.


word: Stomacher
definition:
Stomacher

Stom"ach*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who stomachs.

2.
(_; or _;)
An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated.

A stately lady in a diamond stomacher.
Johnson.


word: Stomachful
definition:
Stomachful

Stom"ach*ful
(?)
a.
Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.
[Obs.]
Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n. [Obs.]


word: Stomachical
definition:
Stomachical

Stomachic

{ Sto*mach"ic (?), Sto*mach"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. stomachicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. stomachique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.

2.
Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.


word: Stomachous
definition:
Stomachous

Stom"ach*ous
(?)
a.
[L. stomachosus angry, peexish. See Stomach.]
Stout; sullen; obstinate.
[Obs.]

With stern looks and stomachous disdain.
Spenser.


word: Stomachy
definition:
Stomachy

Stom"ach*y
(?)
a.
Obstinate; sullen; haughty.

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


word: Stomapoda
definition:
Stomapoda

Sto*map"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Stoma, and -poda.]
(Zool.)
An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.


word: Stomatic₂
definition:
Stomatic

Sto*mat"ic
n.
[Gr. sto`ma, -atos, mouth.]
(Med.)
A medicine for diseases of the mouth.
Dunglison.


word: Stomatiferous
definition:
Stomatiferous

Stom`a*tif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. sto`ma, -atos mouth + -ferous.]
Having or producing stomata.


word: Stomatitis
definition:
Stomatitis

Stom`a*ti"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. sto`ma, -atos, mouth + -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the mouth.


word: Stomatoda
definition:
Stomatoda

Stom`a*to"da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, mouth.]
(Zool.)
A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.


word: Stomatode
definition:
Stomatode

Stom"a*tode
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa.
n. One of the Stomatoda.


word: Stomatogastric
definition:
Stomatogastric

Stom`a*to*gas"tric
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, mouth + E. gastric.]
Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.


word: Stomatology
definition:
Stomatology

Sto`ma*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, mouth + -logy.]
(Med.)
Scientific study or knowledge of the mouth.


word: Stomatoplastic
definition:
Stomatoplastic

Stom`a*to*plas"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, mouth + -plastic.]
(Med.)
Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.


word: Stomatoplasty
definition:
Stomatoplasty

Stom"a*to*plas`ty
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, mouth + -plasty.]
Plastic surgery of the mouth.


word: Stomatoscope
definition:
Stomatoscope

Stom"a*to*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, mouth + -scope.]
(Med.)
An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.


word: Stomodaeum
definition:
Stomodaeum

Stom`o*dae"um
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;, _;, mouth + _; to divide.]
1.
(Anat.)
A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.

2.
(Zool.)
The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.


word: Stond
definition:
Stond

Stond
(?)
n.
[For stand.]
1.
Stop; halt; hindrance.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

2.
A stand; a post; a station.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Stone
definition:
Stone

Stone
(?)
n.
[OE. ston, stan, AS. stān; akin to OS. & OFries. stēn, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. _;, _;, a pebble. √167.  Cf. Steen.]
1.
Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
stone
Chaucer.

They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.
Gen. xi. 3.

&hand_; In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.

2.
A precious stone; a gem.
stone
Chaucer.
stones
Shak.

3.
Something made of stone. Specifically: -

Lend me a looking-glass;
If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
Why, then she lives.
Shak.

Should some relenting eye
Glance on the where our cold relics lie.
Pope.

4.
(Med.)
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

5.
One of the testes; a testicle.
Shak.

6.
(Bot.)
The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

7.
A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
[Eng.]

&hand_; The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs.

8.
Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
Pope.

9.
(Print.)
A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.

&hand_; Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc.

Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] “Citron tables, or Atlantic stone.” Milton. -- Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. Encyc. Brit. -- Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. -- Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher. -- Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone. -- Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this. -- Stone bass (Zool.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; -- called also sea perch. -- Stone biter (Zool.), the wolf fish. -- Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. Tylor. -- Stone borer (Zool.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava. -- Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble (Rubus saxatilis). -- Stone-break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga; saxifrage. -- Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone. -- Stone canal. (Zool.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand. -- Stone cat (Zool.), any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds. -- Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal. -- Stone coral (Zool.), any hard calcareous coral. -- Stone crab. (Zool.) (a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food. (b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia). Stone crawfish (Zool.), a European crawfish (Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species (Astacus fluviatilis). -- Stone curlew. (Zool.) (a) A large plover found in Europe (Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee. (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.] -- Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above. -- Stone eater. (Zool.) Same as Stone borer, above. -- Stone falcon (Zool.), the merlin. -- Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls. -- Stone fly (Zool.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larvae are aquatic. -- Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry. -- Stone grig (Zool.), the mud lamprey, or pride. -- Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone. -- Stone hawk (Zool.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones. -- Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware. -- Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid. -- Stone lugger. (Zool.) See Stone roller, below. -- Stone marten (Zool.), a European marten (Mustela foina) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also beech marten. -- Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone. -- Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances. -- Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum. -- Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley. -- Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine, and Piñon. -- Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug. -- Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch. -- Stone plover. (Zool.) (a) The European stone curlew. (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover (Esacus recurvirostris). (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.] (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds. -- Stone roller. (Zool.) (a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish (Campostoma anomalum); -- called also stone lugger. -- Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's throw from each other. -- Stone snipe (Zool.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.] -- Stone toter. (Zool.) (a) See Stone roller (a), above. (b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York.  It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips. -- To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.


word: Stone₂
definition:
Stone

Stone
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning.]
[From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st_;nan, Goth. stainjan.]
1.
To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Acts vii. 59.

2.
To make like stone; to harden.

O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.
Shak.

3.
To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

4.
To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

5.
To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.


word: Stonebird
definition:
Stonebird

Stone"bird`
(?)
n.
The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
[Local, U.S.]


word: Stonechat
definition:
Stonechat

Stone"chat`
(?)
n.
[Stone + chat.]
[So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
(b)
The wheatear.
(c)
The blue titmouse.

&hand_; The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata).


word: Stone-cold
definition:
Stone-cold

Stone"-cold`
(?)
a.
Cold as a stone.

Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame.
Fairfax.


word: Stonecrop
definition:
Stonecrop

Stone"crop`
(?)
n.
[AS. stāncropp.]
1.
A sort of tree.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.

2.
(Bot.)
Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine.

Virginian stonecrop, or Ditch stonecrop, an American plant (Penthorum sedoides).


word: Stonecutter
definition:
Stonecutter

Stone"cut`ter
(?)
n.
One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.


word: Stonegall
definition:
Stonegall

Stone"gall`
(?)
n.
[Cf. D. steengal, G. steingall. See Stannel.]
(Zool.)
See Stannel.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Stonehenge
definition:
Stonehenge

Stone"henge
(?)
n.
An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.


word: Stoner
definition:
Stoner

Ston"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

2.
One who walls with stones.


word: Stoneroot
definition:
Stoneroot

Stone"root`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.


word: Stonerunner
definition:
Stonerunner

Stone"run`ner
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.
[Prov. Eng.]
(b)
The dotterel.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Stonesmickle
definition:
Stonesmickle

Stone"smic`kle
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Stoneweed
definition:
Stoneweed

Stone"weed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.


word: Stonewort
definition:
Stonewort

Stone"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.


word: Stony
definition:
Stony

Ston"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stonier (?); superl. Stoniest.]
[AS. stānig. See Stone.]
1.
Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

2.
Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

The stony dart of senseless cold.
Spenser.

3.
Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.

Stony coral. (Zool.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.


word: Stook
definition:
Stook

Stook
(?)
n.
[Scot. stook, stouk; cf. LG. stuke a heap, bundle, G. stauche a truss, bundle of flax.]
(Agric.)
A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.


word: Stook₂
definition:
Stook

Stook
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stooked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stooking.]
(Agric.)
To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.


word: Stool
definition:
Stool

Stool
(?)
n.
[L. stolo. See Stolon.]
(Hort.)
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
P. Henderson.


word: Stool₃
definition:
Stool

Stool
(?)
n.
[AS. st&omacrl a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. st&omacrl, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st&omacrll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. st&omacrls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. √163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.]
1.
A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

2.
A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

3.
A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
[U. S.]

4.
(Naut.)
A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
Totten.

5.
A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
J. P. Peters.

6.
A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

7.
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
[Local, U.S.]

Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat. -- Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.] -- Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.


word: Stoolball
definition:
Stoolball

Stool"ball`
(?)
n.
A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.

Nausicaa
With other virgins did at stoolball play.
Chapman.


word: Stoop
definition:
Stoop

Stoop
(?)
n.
[D. stoep.]
(Arch.)
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
[U. S.]


word: Stoop₂
definition:
Stoop

Stoop
n.
[OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. steáp, D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.]
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
[Written also stoup.]

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.
Shak.


word: Stoop₄
definition:
Stoop

Stoop
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Stooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping.]
[OE. stoupen; akin to AS. st_;pian, OD. stuypen, Icel. stūpa, Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt. Cf 5th Steep.]
1.
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

2.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . 
Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
Dryden.

These are arts, my prince,
In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
Addison.

3.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
stoops
Goldsmith.

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
Bacon.

4.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
Milton.

5.
To sink when on the wing; to alight.

And stoop with closing pinions from above.
Dryden.

Cowering low
With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.
Milton.


word: Stoop₅
definition:
Stoop

Stoop
v. t.
1.
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
stooped
Shak.

2.
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

3.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
[Obs.]

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears
Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
Chapman.

4.
To degrade.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Stoop₆
definition:
Stoop

Stoop
n.
1.
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

2.
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

Can any loyal subject see
With patience such a stoop from sovereignty?
Dryden.

3.
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
L'Estrange.


word: Stoor
definition:
Stoor

Stoor
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. D. storen to disturb.  Cf. Stir.]
To rise in clouds, as dust.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Stor
definition:
Stor

Stoor

{ Stoor (?), Stor (?), }
a.
[AS. st&omacrr; akin to LG. stur, Icel. st&omacrrr.]
Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.
[Obs. or Scot.]

O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?
Chaucer.


word: Stop
definition:
Stop

Stop
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stopping.]
[OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan. stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum.  Cf. Estop, Stuff, Stupe a fomentation.]
1.
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Shak.

2.
To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.

3.
To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.

4.
To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.

Whose disposition all the world well knows
Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Shak.

5.
(Mus.)
To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

6.
To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
[R.]

If his sentences were properly stopped.
Landor.

7.
(Naut.)
To make fast; to stopper.

To stop off (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting. -- To stop the mouth. See under Mouth.


word: Stop₂
definition:
Stop

Stop
(?)
v. i.
1.
To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

He bites his lip, and starts;
Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground;
Then lays his finger on his temple: strait
Springs out into fast gait; then stops again.
Shak.

2.
To cease from any motion, or course of action.

Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career!
Cowper.

3.
To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
[Colloq.]

By stopping at home till the money was gone.
R. D. Blackmore.

To stop over, to stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey.  See stopover, n.


word: Stop₃
definition:
Stop

Stop
n.
1.
The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
De Foe.

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
Sir I. Newton.

It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
Locke.

2.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.

A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
Daniel.

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
Rogers.

3.
(Mach.)
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

4.
(Mus.)
(a)
The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.

The organ sound a time survives the stop.
Daniel.

5.
(Arch.)
A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

6.
A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.

7.
(Opt.)
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

8.
(Zool.)
The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.

9.
(Phonetics)
Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
H. Sweet.

Stop bead (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide. -- Stop motion (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains. -- Stop watch, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See Independent seconds watch, under Independent, a.


word: Stopcock
definition:
Stopcock

Stop"cock`
(?)
n.
1.
A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

2.
The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
[R.]


word: Stope
definition:
Stope

Stope
(?)
n.
[Cf. Step, n. & v. i.]
(Mining)
A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.


word: Stope₂
definition:
Stope

Stope
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stoped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping.]
(Mining)
(a)
To excavate in the form of stopes.
(b)
To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.


word: Stopen
definition:
Stopen

Stope

{ Stope (?), Sto"pen (?), }
p. p.
of Step
Stepped; gone; advanced.
[Obs.]

A poor widow, somedeal stope in age.
Chaucer.


word: Stop-gap
definition:
Stop-gap

Stop"-gap`
(?)
n.
That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue.
Hare.


word: Stop order
definition:
Stop order

Stop order
(Finance)
An order in a financial market that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98.
For a simple stop order, when the specified price has been reached by a traded security, the order becomes a market order to buy or sell at the market price.  Thus in the given example, the stock bought at 100 might in fact be sold at 97 if the market is dropping rapidly.  A stop-limit order is allowed by some exchanges and traders, in which case, when the specified price has been reached by a traded security, the order becomes a limit order to buy or sell, with the possibility that the ordered transaction may not take place.


word: Stop-over
definition:
Stop-over

Stopover

Stop"o`ver, Stop"-o`ver
(?)
a.
Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.


word: Stop-over₂
definition:
Stop-over

Stopover

Stop"o`ver, Stop"-o`ver
n.
1.
the act or privilege of stopping over; stopping at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; the temporary interruption of one's journey.

2.
a brief visit.


word: Stoppage
definition:
Stoppage

Stop"page
(?)
n.
The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.


word: Stopped
definition:
Stopped

Stopped
(?)
a.
(Phonetics)
Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
H. Sweet.


word: Stopper
definition:
Stopper

Stop"per
(?)
n.
1.
One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

2.
(Naut.)
A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
Totten.

3.
(Bot.)
A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
C. S. Sargent.

Ring stopper (Naut.), a short rope or chain passing through the anchor ring, to secure the anchor to the cathead. -- Stopper bolt (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.


word: Stopper₂
definition:
Stopper

Stop"per
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stoppered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoppering.]
To close or secure with a stopper.


word: Stopping
definition:
Stopping

Stop"ping
(?)
n.
1.
Material for filling a cavity.

2.
(Mining)
A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

3.
(Far.)
A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
Youatt.


word: Stopping-out
definition:
Stopping-out

Stop"ping-out`
(?)
n.
A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.


word: Stopple
definition:
Stopple

Stop"ple
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. stöpfel, stöpsel. See Stop, n. & v. t.]
That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.


word: Stopple₂
definition:
Stopple

Stop"ple
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stoppled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoppling.]
To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.
Cowper.


word: Stopship
definition:
Stopship

Stop"ship`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Sylvester.


word: Storage
definition:
Storage

Stor"age
(?)
n.
1.
The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

2.
Space for the safe keeping of goods.

3.
The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.


word: Storax
definition:
Storax

Sto"rax
(?)
n.
[L. storax, styrax, Gr. _;.  Cf. Styrax.]
Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

&hand_; A yellow aromatic honeylike substance, resembling, and often confounded with, storax, is obtained from the American sweet gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), and is much used as a chewing gum, called sweet gum, and liquid storax.  Cf. Liquidambar.


word: Store
definition:
Store

Store
(?)
n.
[OE. stor, stoor, OF. estor, provisions, supplies, fr. estorer to store. See Store, v. t.]
1.
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
Bacon.

With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and give the prize.
Milton.

2.
A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

3.
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
[U.S. & British Colonies]

4.
pl.
Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
Chaucer.

In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. “I have better news in store for thee.” Shak. -- Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop or store; -- in distinction from that which is home-made. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Store pay, payment for goods or work in articles from a shop or store, instead of money. [U.S.] -- To set store by, to value greatly; to have a high appreciation of. -- To tell no store of, to make no account of; to consider of no importance.

In his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
Shak.

Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . 
Concocted and adjusted, they reduced
To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
Milton.


word: Store₃
definition:
Store

Store
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storing.]
[OE. storen, OF. estorer to construct, restore, store, LL. staurare, for L. instaurare to renew, restore; in + staurare (in comp.) Cf. Instore, Instaurate, Restore, Story a floor.]
1.
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

Dora stored what little she could save.
Tennyson.

2.
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Prior.

Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Denham.

Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
Sir M. Hale.

3.
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.


word: Stored
definition:
Stored

Stored
(?)
a.
Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.

It is charged with stored virtue.
Bagehot.


word: Storehouse
definition:
Storehouse

Store"house`
(?)
n.
1.
A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians.
Gen. xli. 56.

The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Hooker.

2.
A mass or quality laid up.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Storekeeper
definition:
Storekeeper

Store"keep`er
(?)
n.
1.
A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.

2.
One who keeps a “store;” a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.
[U. S.]


word: Storeroom
definition:
Storeroom

Store"room`
(?)
n.
Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.


word: Storeship
definition:
Storeship

Store"ship`
(?)
n.
A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.


word: Storge
definition:
Storge

Stor"ge
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;, _;, to love.]
Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.


word: Storied
definition:
Storied

Sto"ried
(?)
a.
[From Story.]
1.
Told in a story.

2.
Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.

Some greedy minion, or imperious wife,
The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.
Pope.

Can storied urn, or animated bust,
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Gray.

3.
Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.


word: Storify
definition:
Storify

Sto"ri*fy
(?)
v. t.
[Story + -fy.]
To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
[Obs.]


word: Stork
definition:
Stork

Stork
(?)
n.
[AS. storc; akin to G. storch, OHG. storah, Icel. storkr, Dan. & Sw. stork, and perhaps to Gr. _; a vulture.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill.  They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera.  The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known.  It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar.  The black stork (Ciconia nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Black-necked stork, the East Indian jabiru. -- Hair-crested stork, the smaller adjutant of India (Leptoptilos Javanica). -- Giant stork, the adjutant. -- Marabou stork. See Marabou. -- Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See Jabiru. -- Stork's bill (Bot.), any plant of the genus Pelargonium; -- so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See Pelargonium.


word: Storm
definition:
Storm

Storm
(?)
n.
[AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. _; assault, onset, Skr. s_; to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. Stratum). √166.]
1.
A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.

We hear this fearful tempest sing,
Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
Shak.

2.
A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

I will stir up in England some black storm.
Shak.

Her sister
Began to scold and raise up such a storm.
Shak.

3.
A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
Pope.

4.
(Mil.)
A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.

&hand_; Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging, stormproof, storm-tossed, and the like.

Anticyclonic storm (Meteor.), a storm characterized by a central area of high atmospheric pressure, and having a system of winds blowing spirally outward in a direction contrary to that cyclonic storms. It is attended by low temperature, dry air, infrequent precipitation, and often by clear sky. Called also high-area storm, anticyclone. When attended by high winds, snow, and freezing temperatures such storms have various local names, as blizzard, wet norther, purga, buran, etc. -- Cyclonic storm. (Meteor.) A cyclone, or low-area storm. See Cyclone, above. -- Magnetic storm. See under Magnetic. -- Storm-and-stress period [a translation of G. sturm und drang periode], a designation given to the literary agitation and revolutionary development in Germany under the lead of Goethe and Schiller in the latter part of the 18th century. -- Storm center (Meteorol.), the center of the area covered by a storm, especially by a storm of large extent. -- Storm door (Arch.), an extra outside door to prevent the entrance of wind, cold, rain, etc.; -- usually removed in summer. -- Storm path (Meteorol.), the course over which a storm, or storm center, travels. -- Storm petrel. (Zool.) See Stormy petrel, under Petrel. -- Storm sail (Naut.), any one of a number of strong, heavy sails that are bent and set in stormy weather. -- Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.

Storms beat, and rolls the main;
O! beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain.
Pope.

What at first was called a gust, the same
Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name.
Donne.


word: Storm₂
definition:
Storm

Storm
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stormed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storming.]
(Mil.)
To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.


word: Storm₃
definition:
Storm

Storm
v. i.
[Cf. AS. styrman.]
1.
To raise a tempest.
Spenser.

2.
To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.

3.
To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

The master storms, the lady scolds.
Swift.


word: Stormcock
definition:
Stormcock

Storm"cock`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The missel thrush.
(b)
The fieldfare.
(c)
The green woodpecker.


word: Stormglass
definition:
Stormglass

Storm"glass`
(?)
n.
A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.


word: Storminess
definition:
Storminess

Storm"i*ness
n.
The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.


word: Storming
definition:
Storming

Storm"ing
a. & n. from Storm, v.

Storming party (Mil.), a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.


word: Stormwind
definition:
Stormwind

Storm"wind`
(?)
n.
A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
Longfellow.


word: Stormy
definition:
Stormy

Storm"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stormier (?); superl. Stormiest.]
1.
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
stormy
Milton.

2.
Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

3.
Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.

Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Storthing
definition:
Storthing

Stor"thing
(?)
n.
[Norw. storting; stor great + ting court, court of justice; cf. Dan. ting, thing.]
The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.


word: Story
definition:
Story

Sto"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Stories (#).
[OF. estoré, estorée, built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store. See Store, v. t.]
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
[Written also storey.]

&hand_; A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories.

Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.


word: Story₂
definition:
Story

Sto"ry
n.
[OE. storie, OF. estoire, F. histoire, fr. L. historia. See History.]
1.
A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story.
Barrow.

Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story.
Ed. Rev.

The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.
Addison.

3.
A euphemism or child's word for “a lie;” a fib; as, to tell a story.
[Colloq.]


word: Story₃
definition:
Story

Sto"ry
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Storied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Storying.]
To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
Shak.

It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
Bp. Wilkins.


word: Storybook
definition:
Storybook

Sto"ry*book`
(?)
n.
A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.


word: Story-teller
definition:
Story-teller

Sto"ry-tell`er
(?)
n.
1.
One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.

2.
An historian; -- in contempt.
Swift.

3.
A euphemism or child's word for “a liar.”


word: Story-telling
definition:
Story-telling

Sto"ry-tell`ing
a.
Being accustomed to tell stories.
n. The act or practice of telling stories.


word: Story-writer
definition:
Story-writer

Sto"ry-writ`er
(?)
n.
1.
One who writes short stories, as for magazines.

2.
An historian; a chronicler.
[Obs.]
story-writer
1 Esdr. ii. 17.


word: Stot
definition:
Stot

Stot
(st&obreve_;t)
n.
[AS. stotte a hack, jade, or worthless horse; cf. Sw. stut a bull, Dan. stud an ox.  Cf. Stoat.]
1.
A horse.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Thorold Rogers.

2.
A young bull or ox, especially one three years old.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Stound
definition:
Stound

Stound
(stound)
v. i.
[Cf. Astound, Stun.]
To be in pain or sorrow.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Stound₃
definition:
Stound

Stound
n.
1.
A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
Astonishment; amazement.
[Obs.]
Spenser. Gay.


word: Stound₄
definition:
Stound

Stound
n.
[AS. stund; akin to D. stond, G. stunde, Icel. stund.]
1.
Hour; time; season.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
A brief space of time; a moment.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

In a stound, suddenly. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Stoup
definition:
Stoup

Stoup
(stōp)
n.
[See Stoop a vessel.]
1.
A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

2.
(Eccl.)
A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup or holy-water font.


word: Stour
definition:
Stour

Stour
(stour or stōr)
n.
[OF. estour, estor, tumult, combat, of Teutonic origin. See Storm.]
A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
[Obs.]
Fairfax.
stowre
Spenser.

She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts].
Chaucer.


word: Stout
definition:
Stout

Stout
(stout)
a.
[Compar. Stouter (stout"ẽr); superl. Stoutest.]
[D. stout bold (or OF. estout bold, proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and perh. to E. stilt.]
1.
Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.

With hearts stern and stout.
Chaucer.

A stouter champion never handled sword.
Shak.

He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.
Clarendon.

The lords all stand
To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
Daniel.

2.
Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
[Archaic]

Your words have been stout against me.
Mal. iii. 13.

Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout.
Latimer.

3.
Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

4.
Large; bulky; corpulent.


word: stout
definition:
stout

stout
n.
A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is Guinness' stout.
Swift.


word: Stout-hearted
definition:
Stout-hearted

Stout"-heart`ed
(stout"härt`ĕd)
a.
Having a brave heart; courageous.
Stout"-heart`ed*ness, n.


word: Stoutly
definition:
Stoutly

Stout"ly
adv.
In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.


word: Stovine
definition:
Stovine

Stovain

{ Sto"va*in (?), n. Also Sto"vine  }
[Stove (a translation of the name of the discoverer, Fourneau + -in, -ine.]
(Pharm.)
A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction.  Called also amylocaine hydrochloride.  Chemically it is the hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol.


word: Stove₂
definition:
Stove

Stove
n.
[D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw. stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin.  Cf. Estufa, Stew, Stufa.]
1.
A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.

When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
Earl of Strafford.

How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
Burton.

2.
An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.

3.
Hence, in modern dwellings:
An appliance having a top surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in a single unit; a cooking stove.  Such units commonly have two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.

Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking. -- Dry stove. See under Dry. -- Foot stove. See under Foot. -- Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary. -- Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. -- Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.


word: Stove₃
definition:
Stove

Stove
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stoved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stoving.]
1.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
Bacon.

2.
To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.


word: Stovepipe
definition:
Stovepipe

Stove"pipe`
(st&omacrv"pīp`)
n.
Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.

Stovepipe hat, A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's. [Slang, U.S.]


word: Stover
definition:
Stover

Sto"ver
(st&omacr"vẽr)
n.
[OE. estoveir, estovoir, necessity, provisions, properly an inf., “to be necessary.”  Cf. Estovers.]
Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

Where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep.
Shak.

Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require,
Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire.
Tusser.


word: Stow
definition:
Stow

Stow
(st&omacr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stowed (st&omacrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stowing.]
[OE. stowen, fr. stowe a place, AS. stow; cf. Icel. eldst&omacra fireplace, hearth, OFries. st&omacr, and E. stand. √163.]
1.
To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.

Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides.
Dryden.

2.
To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.

Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?
Shak.

3.
To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.


word: Stowage
definition:
Stowage

Stow"age
(?)
n.
1.
The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

2.
Room in which things may be stowed.
Cook.

In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures.
Addison.

3.
The state of being stowed, or put away.
stowage
Shak.

4.
Things stowed or packed.
Beau. & Fl.

5.
Money paid for stowing goods.


word: Stowaway
definition:
Stowaway

Stow"a*way`
(?)
n.
One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.


word: Stowce
definition:
Stowce

Stowce
(?)
n.
(Mining)
(a)
A windlass.
(b)
A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.


word: Stowing
definition:
Stowing

Stow"ing
(?)
n.
(Mining)
A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.


word: Strabismometer
definition:
Strabismometer

Stra`bis*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Strabismus + -meter.]
(Med.)
An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.


word: Strabismus
definition:
Strabismus

Stra*bis"mus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to squint, fr. _; distorted, squinting.]
(Med.)
An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.


word: Strabotomy
definition:
Strabotomy

Stra*bot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; squinting + _; to cut.]
(Surg.)
The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.


word: Straddle
definition:
Straddle

Strad"dle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Straddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Straddling (?).]
[Freq. from the root of stride.]
1.
To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

2.
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.


word: Straddle₂
definition:
Straddle

Strad"dle
v. t.
To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.


word: Straddle₃
definition:
Straddle

Strad"dle
n.
1.
The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.

2.
The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.

3.
A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a “put” and a “call,” i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.
[Broker's Cant]


word: Straddling
definition:
Straddling

Strad"dling
(?)
a.
Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.
Knight.


word: Stradometrical
definition:
Stradometrical

Strad`o*met"ric*al
(?)
a.
[It. strada street or road + E. metrical.]
Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads.
[R.]


word: Straggle
definition:
Straggle

Strag"gle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Straggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Straggling (?).]
[Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke, v. t.]
1.
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
Dryden.

2.
To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.

The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
L'Estrange.

3.
To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
Mortimer.

4.
To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
Straggling
Sir W. Scott.

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Straggler
definition:
Straggler

Strag"gler
(?)
n.
1.
One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.

2.
A roving vagabond.
Shak.

3.
Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.

Let thy hand supply the pruning knife,
And crop luxuriant stragglers.
Dryden.

4.
Something that stands alone or by itself.


word: Stragulum
definition:
Stragulum

Strag"u*lum
(?)
n.
pl. Stragula (#).
[L., a spread or covering, from sternere to spread out.]
(Zool.)
The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.


word: Straight
definition:
Straight

Straight
(?)
a.
A variant of Strait, a.
[Obs. or R.]

Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow.
Sir J. Mandeville.


word: Straight₂
definition:
Straight

Straight
a.
[Compar. Straighter (?); superl. Straightest.]
[OE. strei_;t, properly p. p. of strecchen to stretch, AS. streht, p. p. of streccan to stretch, to extend. See Stretch.]
1.
Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.

And the crooked shall be made straight.
Isa. xl. 4.

There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight.
Dryden.

2.
(Bot.)
Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.

3.
(Card Playing)
Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.

4.
Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.

5.
Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
[Slang]

6.
Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
[Political Cant, U.S.]

Straight arch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch. -- A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or other emotion. -- A straight line. “That which lies evenly between its extreme points.” Euclid. “The shortest line between two points.” Chauvenet. “A line which has the same direction through its whole length.” Newcomb. -- Straight-way valve, a valve which, when opened widely, affords a straight passageway, as for water.


word: Straight₃
definition:
Straight

Straight
(?)
adv.
In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
straight
Shak.

I know thy generous temper well;
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
Addison.

Everything was going on straight.
W. Black.


word: Straight₄
definition:
Straight

Straight
n.
(Poker)
A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.


word: Straightedge
definition:
Straightedge

Straight"edge`
(?)
n.
A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.


word: Straighten
definition:
Straighten

Straight"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Straighted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Straighting.]
1.
To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

2.
To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.

To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.


word: Straightforward
definition:
Straightforward

Straight`for"ward
(?)
a.
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
adv. In a straightforward manner.
Straight`for"ward*ly, adv. -- Straight`for"ward*ness, n.


word: Straight-joint
definition:
Straight-joint

Straight"-joint`
(?)
a.
(Arch.)
Having straight joints.
(a)
Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
Brandle & C.
(b)
In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.


word: Straightness
definition:
Straightness

Straight"ness
n.
The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.


word: Straight-out
definition:
Straight-out

Straight"-out`
(?)
a.
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
[Colloq. U.S.]

Straight-out and generous indignation.
Mrs. Stowe.


word: Straight-pight
definition:
Straight-pight

Straight"-pight`
(?)
a.
Straight in form or upright in position; erect.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Straight-spoken
definition:
Straight-spoken

Straight"-spo`ken
(?)
a.
Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
[Colloq. U.S.]
Lowell.


word: Straightway
definition:
Straightway

Straight"way`
(?)
adv.
Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.

He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose.
Mark v. 41,42.


word: Strain
definition:
Strain

Strain
(?)
n.
[See Strene.]
1.
Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

He is of a noble strain.
Shak.

With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
Darwin.

2.
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
Tillotson.

3.
Rank; a sort.
strain
Dryden.

4.
(Hort.)
A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated.


word: Strain₂
definition:
Strain

Strain
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Straining.]
[OF. estraindre, estreindre, F. étreindre, L. stringere to draw or bind tight; probably akin to Gr. _; a halter, _; that which is squeezwd out, a drop, or perhaps to E. strike.  Cf. Strangle, Strike, Constrain, District, Strait, a. Stress, Strict, Stringent.]
1.
To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
strain
Dryden.

2.
(Mech.)
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.

3.
To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.

He sweats,
Strains his young nerves.
Shak.

They strain their warbling throats
To welcome in the spring.
Dryden.

4.
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.

There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
Swift.

5.
To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.

6.
To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.

Prudes decayed about may track,
Strain their necks with looking back.
Swift.

7.
To squeeze; to press closely.

Evander with a close embrace
Strained his departing friend.
Dryden.

8.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth
Is forced and strained.
Denham.

The quality of mercy is not strained.
Shak.

9.
To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.

Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Shak.

10.
To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.

To strain a point, to make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings. -- To strain courtesy, to go beyond what courtesy requires; to insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others; -- often used ironically. Shak.


word: Strain₃
definition:
Strain

Strain
(strān)
v. i.
1.
To make violent efforts.
Straining
Pope.

To build his fortune I will strain a little.
Shak.

2.
To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.


word: Strain₄
definition:
Strain

Strain
n.
1.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation.
Landor.

Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
(Mus.)
A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

Their heavenly harps a lower strain began.
Dryden.

3.
Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.
strain
Sir W. Scott.

Such take too high a strain at first.
Bacon.

The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs.
Tillotson.

It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains
Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains.
Bunyan.

4.
Turn; tendency; inborn disposition.  Cf. 1st Strain.

Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements.
Hayward.


word: Strainable
definition:
Strainable

Strain"a*ble
(-ȧ*b'l)
a.
1.
Capable of being strained.

2.
Violent in action.
Holinshed.


word: Strained
definition:
Strained

Strained
(?)
a.
1.
Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

2.
Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.


word: Strainer
definition:
Strainer

Strain"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who strains.

2.
That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.


word: Straining
definition:
Straining

Strain"ing
a. & n. from Strain.

Straining piece (Arch.), a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.


word: Straint
definition:
Straint

Straint
(strānt)
n.
[OF. estrainte, estreinte, F. étrainte. See 2nd Strain.]
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Strait₂
definition:
Strait

Strait
(?)
a.
[Compar. Straiter (?); superl. Straitest.]
[OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F. étroit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p. p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf. Strict.]
1.
Narrow; not broad.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matt. vii. 14.

Too strait and low our cottage doors.
Emerson.

2.
Tight; close; closely fitting.
Shak.

3.
Close; intimate; near; familiar.
[Obs.]
strait
Sir P. Sidney.

4.
Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.
Shak.

The straitest sect of our religion.
Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).

5.
Difficult; distressful; straited.

To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
Secker.

6.
Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
[Obs.]

I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
Shak.


word: Strait₄
definition:
Strait

Strait
n.
pl. Straits (#).
[OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1.
A narrow pass or passage.

He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
Spenser.

Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast.
Shak.

2.
(Geog.)
A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.

We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.
De Foe.

3.
A neck of land; an isthmus.
[R.]

A dark strait of barren land.
Tennyson.

4.
Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.

For I am in a strait betwixt two.
Phil. i. 23.

Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
South.

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
Broome.


word: Straiten
definition:
Straiten

Strait"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Straitened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Straitening.]
1.
To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.
Bacon.

In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe.
Milton.

2.
To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

They straiten at each end the cord.
Pope.

3.
To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.


word: Strait-handed
definition:
Strait-handed

Strait"-hand`ed
(?)
a.
Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
[R.]
Strait"-hand`ed*ness, n. [R.]


word: Strait-jacket
definition:
Strait-jacket

Strait"-jack`et
(?)
n.
A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.


word: Strait-laced
definition:
Strait-laced

Strait"-laced`
(?)
a.
1.
Bound with stays.

Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced.
Locke.

2.
Restricted; stiff; constrained.
[R.]
Fuller.

3.
Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.


word: Straitly
definition:
Straitly

Strait"ly
adv.
1.
In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
Mark i. 43.

2.
Closely; intimately.
[Obs.]


word: Straitness
definition:
Straitness

Strait"ness
n.
The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.


word: Strake₂
definition:
Strake

Strake
n.
[See Streak.]
1.
A streak.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
strake
Gen. xxx. 37.

2.
An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.

3.
(Shipbuilding)
One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.

&hand_; The planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes.

4.
(Mining)
A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.


word: Stram
definition:
Stram

Stram
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. LG. strammen to strain, straiten, stretch, D. stram strained, tight, G. stramm.]
To spring or recoil with violence.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Stramash
definition:
Stramash

Stram"ash
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Stramazoun.]
To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Stramazoun
definition:
Stramazoun

Stram"a*zoun
(?)
n.
[F. estramaçon, It. stramazzone.]
A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Stramineous
definition:
Stramineous

Stra*min"e*ous
(?)
a.
[L. stramineus, fr. stramen straw, fr. sternere, stratum, to spread out, to strew.]
1.
Strawy; consisting of straw.
Robinson.

2.
Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Burton.


word: Stramonium
definition:
Stramonium

Stra*mo"ni*um
(?)
n.
[NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.]
(Bot.)
A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.


word: Strand
definition:
Strand

Strand
(?)
n.
[Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. strähne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.]
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.


word: Strand₃
definition:
Strand

Strand
n.
[AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. strönd.]
The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
Chaucer.

Strand birds. (Zool.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zool.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zool.), the brown hyena.


word: Strand₄
definition:
Strand

Strand
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding.]
To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.


word: Strand₅
definition:
Strand

Strand
(?)
v. i.
To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.


word: Strange
definition:
Strange

Strange
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stranger (?); superl. Strangest (?).]
[OE. estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
1.
Belonging to another country; foreign.
strange
Chaucer.

One of the strange queen's lords.
Shak.

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
Ascham.

2.
Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

So she, impatient her own faults to see,
Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
Sir J. Davies.

3.
Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
Shak.

4.
Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.
strange
Shak.

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive
Strange alteration in me.
Milton.

5.
Reserved; distant in deportment.
Shak.

She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
Hawthorne.

6.
Backward; slow.
[Obs.]

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange
In favoring the cause.
Beau. & Fl.

7.
Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
Shak.

&hand_; Strange is often used as an exclamation.

Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow
High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
Waller.

Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. -- Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. Prov. v. 3. -- To make it strange. (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. Shak. (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To make strange, To make one's self strange. (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment. (b) To assume the character of a stranger. Gen. xlii. 7.


word: Strange₄
definition:
Strange

Strange
v. i.
1.
To be estranged or alienated.
[Obs.]

2.
To wonder; to be astonished.
[Obs.]
Glanvill.


word: Strangely
definition:
Strangely

Strange"ly
adv.
1.
As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.

You all look strangely on me.
Shak.

I do in justice charge thee . . . 
That thou commend it strangely to some place
Where chance may nurse or end it.
Shak.

3.
In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.

How strangely active are the arts of peace!
Dryden.

It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses.
Law.


word: Strangeness
definition:
Strangeness

Strange"ness
n.
The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).


word: Stranger
definition:
Stranger

Stran"ger
(?)
n.
[OF. estrangier, F. étranger. See Strange.]
1.
One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

I am a most poor woman and a stranger,
Born out of your dominions.
Shak.

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear,
And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
Granville.

My child is yet a stranger in the world.
Shak.

I was no stranger to the original.
Dryden.

2.
One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

To honor and receive
Our heavenly stranger.
Milton.

3.
(Law)
One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.


word: Strangle
definition:
Strangle

Stran"gle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling (?).]
[OF. estrangler, F. étrangler, L. strangulare, Gr. _;, _;, fr. _; a halter; and perhaps akin to E. string, n.  Cf. Strain, String.]
1.
To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.

Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.
Ayliffe.

2.
To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . 
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Shak.

3.
To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Strangle
Shak.


word: Strangle hold
definition:
Strangle hold

Stran"gle hold
1.
(Wrestling)
a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.

2.
a forceful influence that strongly inhibits freedom of action; as, the oil price jump put a stranglehold on the economy.

Zona believes that Microsoft's entry into this fray breaks what has been, by all appearances, Netscape's stranglehold on the Internet.  Microsoft is not licensing any technology from Netscape, and as part of this announcement, several alliances which historically would have been with Netscape were included. The impact of this announcement on Netscape was huge.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 6, 1996 --  If Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates were a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wanted some of the precious liquid to cut a deal with him.
   With that statement, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison closed a question-and-answer session with reporters and analysts held here Tuesday at Oracle OpenWorld. During his hour-long appearance, Ellison agitated in favor of low-cost, generic network computers and against Windows-based PCs.
   "The notion of one company controlling the whole [computer] industry is shocking and unacceptable," Ellison said, referring to what he describes as Microsoft's stranglehold on PCs through its ubiquitous Windows operating systems.


word: Strangles
definition:
Strangles

Stran"gles
(?)
n.
A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.


word: Strangulated
definition:
Strangulated

Stran"gu*la`ted
(?)
a.
1.
(Med.)
Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.

2.
(Bot.)
Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.

Strangulated hernia. (Med.) See under Hernia.


word: Strangulation
definition:
Strangulation

Stran"gu*la`tion
(?)
n.
[L. strangulatio: cf. F. strangulation. See Strangle.]
1.
The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

2.
(Med.)
Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.


word: Strangurious
definition:
Strangurious

Stran*gu"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. stranguriosus.]
(Med.)
Of or pertaining to strangury.
Cheyne.


word: Strangury
definition:
Strangury

Stran"gu*ry
(?)
n.
[L. stranguria, Gr. _;; _;, _;, a drop + _; to make water, _; urine: cf. F. strangurie. See Strangle, and Urine.]
1.
(Med.)
A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

2.
(Bot.)
A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.


word: Strap
definition:
Strap

Strap
(?)
n.
[OE. strope, AS. stropp, L. stroppus, struppus, perhaps fr. Gr. _; a band or cord, fr. _; to twist, to turn (cf. Strophe).  Cf. Strop a strap, a piece of rope.]
1.
A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.

A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.
Addison.

2.
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.

3.
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.

4.
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.

5.
(Bot.)
(a)
The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
(b)
The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

6.
A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.

Strap bolt, a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length. -- Strap head (Mach.), a journal box, or pair of brasses, secured to the end of a connecting rod by a strap. See Illust. of Gib and key, under Gib. -- Strap hinge, a hinge with long flaps by which it is fastened, as to a door or wall. -- Strap rail (Railroads), a flat rail formerly used.


word: Strap₂
definition:
Strap

Strap
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strapping.]
1.
To beat or chastise with a strap.

2.
To fasten or bind with a strap.
Cowper.

3.
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.


word: Strappado
definition:
Strappado

Strap*pa"do
(?)
n.
pl. Strappadoes (#).
[It. strappata a pull, the strappado, from strappare to pull, from Prov. G. strapfen: cf. G. straff tense, stretched.]
A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.
Shak.


word: Strapper
definition:
Strapper

Strap"per
(?)
n.
1.
One who uses strap.

2.
A person or thing of uncommon size.
[Colloq.]


word: Strapping
definition:
Strapping

Strap"ping
(?)
a.
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
[Colloq.]

There are five and thirty strapping officers gone.
Farquhar.


word: Strapple
definition:
Strapple

Strap"ple
(?)
v. t.
To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
[Obs.]
Chapman.


word: Strapwork
definition:
Strapwork

Strap"work`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.


word: Strass
definition:
Strass

Strass
(?)
n.
[So called from its inventor, a German jeweler: cf. F. stras.]
(Chem.)
A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium.  Cf. Glass.


word: Stratagem
definition:
Stratagem

Strat"a*gem
(?)
n.
[F. stratagème (cf. Sp. estratagema, It. stratagemma), L. strategema, Gr. _;, fr. _; to be leader of an army, fr. _; a general; _; an army (probably as being spread out; cf. Stratum) + _; to lead. See Agent.]
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
Shak.

Those oft are stratagems which error seem,
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Pope.


word: Stratagemical
definition:
Stratagemical

Strat`a*gem"ic*al
(?)
a.
Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
[R.]
Swift.


word: Stratarithmetry
definition:
Stratarithmetry

Strat`a*rith"me*try
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; army + _; number + -metry.]
(Mil.)
The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.


word: Strategical
definition:
Strategical

Strategic

{ Stra*te"gic (?), Stra*te"gic*al, }
a.
[Gr. _; of or for a general: cf. F. stratégique.]
Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.
Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv.

Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.


word: Strategist
definition:
Strategist

Strat"e*gist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. stratégiste.]
One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.


word: Strategus
definition:
Strategus

Stra*te"gus
(?)
n.
pl. Strategi (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;. See Stratagem.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
The leader or commander of an army; a general.


word: Strategy
definition:
Strategy

Strat"e*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. stratégie. See Stratagem.]
1.
The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

2.
The use of stratagem or artifice.


word: Strath
definition:
Strath

Strath
(?)
n.
[Gael. srath.]
A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.
[Scot.]

The long green strath of Napa valley.
R. L. Stevenson.


word: Strathspey
definition:
Strathspey

Strath"spey`
(?)
n.
[So called from the district of Strath Spey in Scotland.]
A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.


word: Straticulate
definition:
Straticulate

Stra*tic"u*late
(?)
a.
[Dim. Fr. stratum.]
(Min.)
Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.


word: Stratification
definition:
Stratification

Strat`i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. stratification.]
1.
The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

2.
(Physiol.)
The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.


word: Stratified
definition:
Stratified

Strat"i*fied
(?)
a.
Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.


word: Stratify
definition:
Stratify

Strat"i*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stratified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stratifying (?).]
[Stratum + -fy: cf. F. stratifier.]
To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.


word: Stratigraphical
definition:
Stratigraphical

Stratigraphic

{ Strat`i*graph"ic (?), Strat`i*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
(Geol.)
Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence.
Strat`i*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Stratigraphy
definition:
Stratigraphy

Stra*tig"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Stratum + -graphy.]
That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.


word: Stratocracy
definition:
Stratocracy

Stra*toc"ra*cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; an army + -cracy, as in democracy: cf. F. stratocratie.]
A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.


word: Strato-cumulus
definition:
Strato-cumulus

Stra`to-cu"mu*lus
(?)
n.
[Stratus + cumulus.]
(Meteor.)
Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.


word: Stratographical
definition:
Stratographical

Stratographic

{ Strat`o*graph"ic (?), Strat`o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to stratography.


word: Stratography
definition:
Stratography

Stra*tog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; an army + -graphy.]
A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.


word: Stratum
definition:
Stratum

Stra"tum
(?)
n.
pl. E. Stratums (#), L. Strata (#). The latter is more common.
[L., from sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to Gr. _; to spread, strew. See Strew, and cf. Consternation, Estrade, Prostrate, Stratus, Street.]
1.
(Geol.)
A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.

2.
A bed or layer artificially made; a course.


word: Stratus
definition:
Stratus

Stra"tus
(?)
n.
[L. stratus a spreading out, scattering, from sternere, stratum, to spread.]
(Meteor.)
A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.


word: Straught₂
definition:
Straught

Straught
v. t.
To stretch; to make straight.
[Written also straucht.]
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Straw₂
definition:
Straw

Straw
n.
[OE. straw, stre, stree, AS. streáw, from the root of E. strew; akin to OFries. strē, D. stroo, G. stroh, OHG. str&omacr, Icel. strā, Dan. straa, Sw. strå. √166. See Strew.]
1.
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

2.
The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

3.
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.

I set not a straw by thy dreamings.
Chaucer.

&hand_; Straw is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, straw-built, straw-crowned, straw-roofed, straw-stuffed, and the like.

Man of straw, an effigy formed by stuffing the garments of a man with straw; hence, a fictitious person; an irresponsible person; a puppet. -- Straw bail, worthless bail, as being given by irresponsible persons. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Straw bid, a worthless bid; a bid for a contract which the bidder is unable or unwilling to fulfill. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Straw cat (Zool.), the pampas cat. -- Straw color, the color of dry straw, being a delicate yellow. -- Straw drain, a drain filled with straw. -- Straw plait, or Straw plat, a strip formed by plaiting straws, used for making hats, bonnets, etc. -- To be in the straw, to be brought to bed, as a pregnant woman. [Slang]


word: Strawberry
definition:
Strawberry

Straw"ber*ry
(?)
n.
[AS. streáwberige; streáw straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws.]
(Bot.)
A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, Fragaria vesca.  There are also other less common species.

Strawberry bass. (Zool.) See Calico bass, under Calico. -- Strawberry blite. (Bot.) See under Blite. -- Strawberry borer (Zool.), any one of several species of insects whose larvae burrow in the crown or roots of the strawberry vine. Especially: (a) The root borer (Anarsia lineatella), a very small dark gray moth whose larvae burrow both in the larger roots and crown, often doing great damage. (b) The crown borer (Tyloderma fragariae), a small brown weevil whose larva burrows in the crown and kills the plant. -- Strawberry bush (Bot.), an American shrub (Euonymus Americanus), a kind of spindle tree having crimson pods and the seeds covered with a scarlet aril. -- Strawberry crab (Zool.), a small European spider crab (Eurynome aspera); -- so called because the back is covered with pink tubercles. -- Strawberry fish (Zool.), the amadavat. -- Strawberry geranium (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage (Saxifraga sarmentosa) having reniform leaves, and producing long runners like those of the strawberry. -- Strawberry leaf. (a) The leaf of the strawberry. (b) The symbol of the rank or estate of a duke, because the ducal coronet is twined with strawberry leaves. “The strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on her ladyship's heart.” Thackeray. -- Strawberry-leaf roller (Zool.), any one of several species of moths whose larvae roll up, and feed upon, the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially, Phoxopteris fragariae, and Eccopsis permundana. -- Strawberry moth (Zool.), any one of several species of moth whose larvae feed on the strawberry vines; as: (a) The smeared dagger (Apatela oblinita), whose large hairy larva is velvety black with two rows of bright yellow spots on each side. (b) A geometrid (Angerona crocataria) which is yellow with dusky spots on the wings. Called also currant moth. -- Strawberry pear (Bot.), the red ovoid fruit of a West Indian plant of the genus Cereus (Cereus triangularia).  It has a sweetish flavor, and is slightly acid, pleasant, and cooling.  Also, the plant bearing the fruit. -- Strawberry sawfly (Zool.), a small black sawfly (Emphytus maculatus) whose larva eats the leaves of the strawberry vine. -- Strawberry tomato. (Bot.) See Alkekengi. -- Strawberry tree. (Bot.) See Arbutus. -- Strawberry vine (Bot.), the plant which yields the strawberry. -- Strawberry worm (Zool.), the larva of any moth which feeds on the strawberry vine.


word: Stray
definition:
Stray

Stray
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Strayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Straying.]
[OF. estraier, estraer, to stray, or as adj., stray, fr. (assumed) L. stratarius roving the streets, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved road. See Street, and Stray, a.]
1.
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
Denham.

2.
To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.

Now, until the break of day,
Through this house each fairy stray.
Shak.

A sheep doth very often stray.
Shak.

3.
Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

We have erred and strayed from thy ways.
_;_;_; of Com. Prayer.

While meaner things, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.
Cowper.


word: Stray₃
definition:
Stray

Stray
a.
[Cf. OF. estraié, p. p. of estraier. See Stray, v. i., and cf. Astray, Estray.]
Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.

Stray line (Naut.), that portion of the log line which is veered from the reel to allow the chip to get clear of the stern eddies before the glass is turned. -- Stray mark (Naut.), the mark indicating the end of the stray line.


word: Stray₄
definition:
Stray

Stray
n.
1.
Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.  Used also figuratively.

Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray.
Dryden.

2.
The act of wandering or going astray.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Streak
definition:
Streak

Streak
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Stretch, Streek.]
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Streak₂
definition:
Streak

Streak
n.
[OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line, stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth. stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See Strike, Stroke, n., and cf. Strake.]
1.
A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.

What mean those colored streaks in heaven?
Milton.

2.
(Shipbuilding)
A strake.

3.
(Min.)
The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.

4.
The rung or round of a ladder.
[Obs.]


word: Streak₃
definition:
Streak

Streak
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Streaked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Streaking.]
1.
To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black.
Sandys.

Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.
Prior.

2.
With it as an object: To run swiftly.
[Colloq.]


word: Streaked
definition:
Streaked

Streaked
(?)
a.
1.
Marked or variegated with stripes.

2.
Uncomfortable; out of sorts.
[Local, U.S.]


word: Stream
definition:
Stream

Stream
(strēm)
n.
[AS. streám; akin to OFries. strām, OS. str&omacrm, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, strūm, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to flow, Skr. sru. √174.  Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea, Rheum, Rhythm.]
1.
A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

2.
A beam or ray of light.
streams
Chaucer.

3.
Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
stream
Atterbury.
stream
Macaulay.

4.
A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
stream
Shak.

5.
Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

Gulf stream. See under Gulf. -- Stream anchor, Stream cable. (Naut.) See under Anchor, and Cable. -- Stream ice, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in some definite direction. -- Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is the principal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel. -- Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. Ure. -- To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.


word: Stream₂
definition:
Stream

Stream
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Streamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Streaming.]
1.
To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.

Beneath those banks where rivers stream.
Milton.

2.
To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

A thousand suns will stream on thee.
Tennyson.

3.
To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

4.
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.


word: Stream₃
definition:
Stream

Stream
v. t.
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

It may so please that she at length will stream
Some dew of grace into my withered heart.
Spenser.

2.
To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.
Bacon.

3.
To unfurl.
Shak.

To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.


word: Stream clock
definition:
Stream clock

Stream clock
(Physiol.)
An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.


word: Streamer
definition:
Streamer

Stream"er
(?)
n.
1.
An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.

Brave Rupert from afar appears,
Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.
Dryden.

3.
A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
Macaulay.

While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
Lowell.

3.
(Mining)
A searcher for stream tin.

4.
(Journalism)
a banner.


word: Streaming₂
definition:
Streaming

Stream"ing
n.
1.
The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

2.
(Mining)
The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.

3.
(Biol.)
the rapid flow of cytoplasm within a cell; -- called also protoplasmic streaming.


word: Streamless
definition:
Streamless

Stream"less
a.
Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.


word: Stream line
definition:
Stream line

Stream line
The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.


word: Streamline
definition:
Streamline

Stream"line`
(?)
a.
Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship; -- the current usuage prefers the term streamlined.


word: streamline
definition:
streamline

stream"line
v. t.
1.
to design or modify so as to present the least possible resistance to fluid flow; -- used mostly of vehicles, such as automobiles, airplanes, or ships.

2.
[Fig.]
to change so as to make more efficient; -- used especially of organizations, procedures, or methods.
streamlined


word: Stream wheel
definition:
Stream wheel

Stream wheel
A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.


word: Streamy
definition:
Streamy

Stream"y
(?)
a.
1.
Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.

Arcadia
However streamy now, adust and dry,
Denied the goddess water.
Prior.

2.
Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.

His nodding helm emits a streamy ray.
Pope.


word: Streek
definition:
Streek

Streek
(?)
v. t.
To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Streel
definition:
Streel

Streel
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. Stroll.]
To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.


word: Street
definition:
Street

Street
(strēt)
n.
[OE. strete, AS. str&aemacr_;t, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p. p. of sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See Strew, and cf. Stratum, Stray, v. & a.]
1.
Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field.
Coverdale.

At home or through the high street passing.
Milton.

&hand_; In an extended sense, street designates besides the roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border the thoroughfare.

His deserted mansion in Duke Street.
Macaulay.

2.
the roadway of a street{1}, as distinguished from the sidewalk; as, children playing in the street.

3.
the inhabitants of a particular street; as, the whole street knew about their impending divorce.

The street (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also, figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street would not take the bonds. -- on the street, (a) homeless. (b) unemployed. (a) not in prison, or released from prison; the murderer is still on the street. --Street Arab, Street broker, etc. See under Arab, Broker, etc. -- Street door, a door which opens upon a street, or is nearest the street. -- street person, a homeless person; a vagrant.


word: Streetward
definition:
Streetward

Street"ward`
(?)
n.
An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.
[Obs.]
Cowell.


word: Streetward₂
definition:
Streetward

Street"ward
(?)
a.
Facing toward the street.

Their little streetward sitting room.
Tennyson.


word: Strelitz
definition:
Strelitz

Strel"itz
(?)
n. sing. & pl.
[Russ. strieliéts' a shooter, archer.]
A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.


word: Strelitzia
definition:
Strelitzia

Stre*litz"i*a
(?)
n.
[NL., named after Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and queen of George III of Great Britain.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.


word: Strene
definition:
Strene

Strene
(?)
n.
[OE. stren, streen, streon, AS. gestriénan, gestr_;nan, gestreónan, to beget, to obtain, gestreón gain, wealth; akin to OHG. striunan to gain.  Cf. Strian race, family.]
Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Strengest
definition:
Strengest

Strenger

{ Stren"ger (?), Stren"gest (?), }
the original compar. & superl. of Strong.
[Obs.]

Two of us shall strenger be than one.
Chaucer.


word: Strength
definition:
Strength

Strength
(?)
n.
[OE. strengthe, AS. strengðu, fr. strang strong. See Strong.]
1.
The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were.
Chaucer.

Thou must outlive
Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty.
Milton.

2.
Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.
strength
Milton.

3.
Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
strength
Shak.

4.
That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

5.
One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

God is our refuge and strength.
Ps. xlvi. 1.

What they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths.
Sprat.

Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
Jer. Taylor.

6.
Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

7.
Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

And praise the easy vigor of a life
Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join.
Pope.

8.
Intensity; -- said of light or color.

Bright Phoebus in his strength.
Shak.

9.
Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

10.
A strong place; a stronghold.
[Obs.]
Shak.

On the strength of, or Upon the strength of, in reliance upon. “The allies, after a successful summer, are too apt, upon the strength of it, to neglect their preparations for the ensuing campaign.” Addison.


word: Strengthen
definition:
Strengthen

Strength"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strengthened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strengthening.]
1.
To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . 
With powerful policy strengthen themselves.
Shak.

2.
To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.

Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him.
Deut. iii. 28.


word: Strengthen₂
definition:
Strengthen

Strength"en
(?)
v. i.
To grow strong or stronger.

The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Pope.


word: Strengthening
definition:
Strengthening

Strength"en*ing
a.
That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.
Strength"en*ing*ly, adv.

Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.


word: Strengthful
definition:
Strengthful

Strength"ful
(?)
a.
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong.
Strength"ful*ness, n.

Florence my friend, in court my faction
Not meanly strengthful.
Marston.


word: Strenuous
definition:
Strenuous

Stren"u*ous
(?)
a.
[L. strenuus; cf. Gr. _; strong, hard, rough, harsh.]
Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.

And spirit-stirring wine, that strenuous makes.
Chapman.

Strenuous, continuous labor is pain.
I. Taylor.


word: Strepent
definition:
Strepent

Strep"ent
(?)
a.
[L. strepens, p. pr. of strepere to make a noise.]
Noisy; loud.
[R.]
Shenstone.


word: Streperous
definition:
Streperous

Strep"er*ous
(?)
a.
[LL. streperus, fr. L. strepere. See Strepent, and cf. Obstreperous.]
Loud; boisterous.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Strepitores
definition:
Strepitores

Strep`i*to"res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. strepitus clamor.]
(Zool.)
A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.


word: Strepsipteran
definition:
Strepsipteran

Strepsipter

{ Strep*sip"ter (?), Strep*sip"ter*an (?), }
n.
(Zool.)
One of the Strepsiptera.


word: Strepsiptera
definition:
Strepsiptera

Strep*sip"te*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a turning (fr. _; to twist) + _; a wing.]
(Zool.)
A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.


word: Strepsipterous
definition:
Strepsipterous

Strep*sip"ter*ous
(?)
a.
[See Strepsiptera.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.


word: Strepsorhina
definition:
Strepsorhina

Strep`so*rhi"na
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a turning + _;, _;, the nose.]
(Zool.)
Same as Lemuroidea.


word: Strepsorhine
definition:
Strepsorhine

Strep"so*rhine
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs.
n. (Zool.) One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.


word: Streptobacteria
definition:
Streptobacteria

Strep`to*bac*te"ri*a
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Streptobracterium (_;)
[NL., fr. Gr. _; pliant, bent + E. & NL. bacteria.]
(Biol.)
A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.


word: Streptococcus
definition:
Streptococcus

Strep`to*coc"cus
(?)
n.
pl. Streptococci (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; pliant, curved + _; a grain, seed.]
(Biol.)
A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.


word: Streptoneura
definition:
Streptoneura

Strep`to*neu"ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; curved + _; a sinew.]
(Zool.)
An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.


word: Streptothrix
definition:
Streptothrix

Strep"to*thrix
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; pliant, bent + _; a hair.]
(Biol.)
A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.


word: Stress
definition:
Stress

Stress
(?)
n.
[Abbrev. fr. distress; or cf. OF. estrecier to press, pinch, (assumed) LL. strictiare, fr. L. strictus. See Distress.]
1.
Distress.
[Obs.]

Sad hersal of his heavy stress.
Spenser.

2.
Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.

The faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.
Locke.

A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream.
L'Estrange.

3.
(Mech. & Physics)
The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
Rankine.

Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter.
Clerk Maxwell.

4.
(Pron.)
Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 31-35.

5.
(Scots Law)
Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.

Stress of voice, unusual exertion of the voice. -- Stress of weather, constraint imposed by continued bad weather; as, to be driven back to port by stress of weather. -- To lay stress upon, to attach great importance to; to emphasize. “Consider how great a stress is laid upon this duty.” Atterbury. -- To put stress upon, or To put to a stress, to strain.


word: Stress₂
definition:
Stress

Stress
(strĕs)
v. t.
1.
To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
[R.]
Spenser.

2.
To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.

3.
To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.

4.
To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.


word: Stretch
definition:
Stretch

Stretch
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stretched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stretching.]
[OE. strecchen, AS. streccan; akin to D. strekken, G. strecken, OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. straekke; cf. AS. straeck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to E. strong.  Cf. Straight.]
1.
To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

And stretch forth his neck long and small.
Chaucer.

I in conquest stretched mine arm.
Shak.

2.
To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.

3.
To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.

4.
To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.

The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain.
Shak.

5.
To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve.
Doddridge.

6.
To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.

They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative.
Burke.


word: Stretch₂
definition:
Stretch

Stretch
v. i.
1.
To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.

As far as stretcheth any ground.
Gower.

2.
To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.

3.
To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.

The inner membrane . . . because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken.
Boyle.

4.
To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
[Obs. or Colloq.]

5.
(Naut.)
To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Stretch out, an order to rowers to extend themselves forward in dipping the oar.


word: Stretch₃
definition:
Stretch

Stretch
n.
1.
Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.

By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.
Dryden.

Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative.
L'Estrange.

2.
A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.

A great stretch of cultivated country.
W. Black.

But all of them left me a week at a stretch.
E. Eggleston.

3.
The extent to which anything may be stretched.

Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind.
Atterbury.

This is the utmost stretch that nature can.
Granville.

4.
(Naut.)
The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.

5.
Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.

To be on the stretch, to be obliged to use one's utmost powers. -- Home stretch. See under Home, a.


word: Stretcher
definition:
Stretcher

Stretch"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, stretches.

2.
(Masonry)
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
Gwilt.

3.
(Arch.)
A piece of timber used in building.

4.
(Naut.)
(a)
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
(b)
A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
Dana.

5.
A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.

6.
An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
[Slang]

7.
One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.

8.
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.

9.
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.


word: Stretching
definition:
Stretching

Stretch"ing
(?)
a. & n. from Stretch, v.

Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.


word: Stretto
definition:
Stretto

Stret"to
(?)
n.
[It., close or contacted, pressed.]
(Mus.)
(a)
The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
(b)
In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
[Written also stretta.]


word: Strew
definition:
Strew

Strew
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strewed (?); p. p. strewn (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strewing.]
[OE. strewen, strawen, AS. strewian, streówian; akin to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. strā, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. sternere, stratum, Gr. _;, _;, Skr. st_;. √166.  Cf. Stratum, Straw, Street.]
1.
To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.

And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
Dryden.

On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about.
Beaconsfield.

2.
To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.

The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Spenser.

Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
Pope.

3.
To spread abroad; to disseminate.

She may strew dangerous conjectures.
Shak.


word: Strewing
definition:
Strewing

Strew"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act of scattering or spreading.

2.
Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Shak.


word: Stria
definition:
Stria

Stri"a
(?)
n.
pl. Striae (#).
[L., a furrow, channel, hollow.]
1.
A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.

2.
(Arch.)
A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
Oxf. Gloss.


word: Striate
definition:
Striate

Stri"ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Striated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Striating.]
[See Striate, a.]
To mark with striaae.
Striated
Owen.


word: Striated
definition:
Striated

Striate

{ Stri"ate (?), Stri"a*ted (?), }
a.
[L. striatus, p. p. of striare to furnish with channels, from stria a channel.]
Marked with striaae, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.


word: Striation
definition:
Striation

Stri*a"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The quality or condition of being striated.

2.
A stria; as, the striations on a shell.


word: Stricken
definition:
Stricken

Strick"en
(?)
p. p. & a.
Strike
1.
Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
[See Strike, n.]

2.
Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.

Abraham was old and well stricken in age.
Gen. xxiv. 1.

3.
Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
[Scot.]

He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle.
Sir W. Scott.

Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week.
Bayne.


word: Strickle
definition:
Strickle

Stric"kle
(?)
n.
[See Strike.]
1.
An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

2.
An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.

3.
(Founding)
An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.

4.
(Carp. & Mason.)
A templet; a pattern.

5.
An instrument used in dressing flax.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Strict
definition:
Strict

Strict
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stricter (?); superl. Strictest.]
[L. strictus, p. p. of stringere to draw or bind tight, to strain. See Strain, and cf. Strait, a.]
1.
Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
Dryden.

2.
Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.

3.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Shak.

It shall be still in strictest measure.
Milton.

4.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
strict
Milton.

5.
Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.

6.
(Bot.)
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

And rules as strict his labored work confine,
As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line.
Pope.

Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: -
“What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!”
Milton.

The Strict Observance, or Friars of the Strict Observance. (R. C. Ch.) See Observance.


word: Striction
definition:
Striction

Stric"tion
(?)
n.
[L. strictio. See Stringent.]
The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.

Line of striction (Geom.), the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.


word: Stricture
definition:
Stricture

Stric"ture
(?)
n.
[L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict.]
1.
Strictness.
[Obs.]

A man of stricture and firm abstinence.
Shak.

2.
A stroke; a glance; a touch.
[Obs.]
Sir M. Hale.

3.
A touch of adverse criticism; censure.

[I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage.
Hammond.

4.
(Med.)
A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body.  Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
Arbuthnot.


word: Strid
definition:
Strid

Strid
(?)
n.
[See Stride.]
A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
[Prov. Eng.]
Howitt.

This striding place is called the Strid.
Wordsworth.


word: Stride
definition:
Stride

Stride
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Strode (?) (Obs. Strid (_;)); p. p. Stridden (?) (Obs. Strid); p. pr. & vb. n. Striding.]
[AS. strīdan to stride, to strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strīda to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. strītan; of uncertain origin.  Cf. Straddle.]
1.
To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.

Mars in the middle of the shining shield
Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.
Dryden.

2.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.


word: Stride₂
definition:
Stride

Stride
v. t.
1.
To pass over at a step; to step over.
stride
Shak.

2.
To straddle; to bestride.

I mean to stride your steed.
Shak.


word: Stride₃
definition:
Stride

Stride
n.
The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
Pope.

God never meant that man should scale the heavens
By strides of human wisdom.
Cowper.


word: Strident
definition:
Strident

Stri"dent
(?)
a.
[L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.]
Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
strident
Thackeray.


word: Stridor
definition:
Stridor

Stri"dor
(?)
n.
[L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound.]
A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.
Dryden.


word: Stridulate
definition:
Stridulate

Strid"u*late
(?)
v. t.
[See Stridulous.]
To make a shrill, creaking noise
(Zool.)
to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.


word: Stridulation
definition:
Stridulation

Strid`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
The act of stridulating.
(Zool.)
(a)
The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
(b)
The noise itself.

&hand_; The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.


word: Stridulatory
definition:
Stridulatory

Strid"u*la*to*ry
(?)
a.
Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.
Darwin.


word: Stridulous
definition:
Stridulous

Strid"u*lous
(?)
a.
[L. stridulus. See Strident.]
Making a shrill, creaking sound.
Sir T. Browne.

The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.
Longfellow.

Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.


word: Strife
definition:
Strife

Strife
(?)
n.
[OF. estrif. See Strive.]
1.
The act of striving; earnest endeavor.
[Archaic]
Shak.

2.
Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

Doting about questions and strifes of words.
1 Tim. vi. 4.

Thus gods contended -- noble strife -
Who most should ease the wants of life.
Congreve.

3.
Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.

Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
Shak.

These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above
Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.
Dryden.

4.
That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
[Obs.]
strife
Spenser.


word: Strifeful
definition:
Strifeful

Strife"ful
(?)
a.
Contentious; discordant.

The ape was strifeful and ambitious.
Spenser.


word: Striges
definition:
Striges

Stri"ges
(?)
n. pl.
[L., pl. of strix a streech owl; cf. Gr. _; a screaming night bird.]
(Zool.)
The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.


word: Strigil
definition:
Strigil

Strig"il
(?)
n.
[L. strigilis, from stringere to graze, scrape.]
(Gr. & Rom. Antiq.)
An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.


word: Strigment
definition:
Strigment

Strig"ment
(?)
n.
[L. strigmentum.]
Scraping; that which is scraped off.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Strigose
definition:
Strigose

Stri*gose"
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. strigueux. See Strigil.]
(Bot.)
Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.


word: Strike
definition:
Strike

Strike
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Struck (?); p. p. Struck, Stricken (_;) (Stroock (_;), Strucken (_;), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.]
[OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. strīcan to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strīhhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow.  Cf. Streak, Stroke.]
1.
To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.

He at Philippi kept
His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck
The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
Shak.

2.
To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.

3.
To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
Ex. xii. 7.

Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
Byron.

4.
To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

5.
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.

6.
To punish; to afflict; to smite.

To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
Prov. xvii. 26.

7.
To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

8.
To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

9.
To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.

Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
Atterbury.

They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
Pope.

10.
To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.

How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
Landor.

11.
To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.

Waving wide her myrtle wand,
She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Milton.

12.
To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.

13.
To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.

&hand_; Probably borrowed from the L. foedus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.

14.
To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
[Old Slang]

15.
To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

16.
(Masonry)
To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

17.
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

18.
To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
[Slang]

19.
To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
B. Edwards.

20.
To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
2 Kings v. 11.

21.
To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
struck
Shak.

To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance. -- To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. Burrill. -- To strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] -- To strike a ledger or To strike an account, to balance it. -- To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with. -- To strike off. (a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt. (b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book. (c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt. -- To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.] -- To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- To strike out. (a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. “To methodize is as necessary as to strike out.” Pope. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. -- To strike sail. See under Sail. -- To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. “Strike up the drums.” Shak. (b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune. (c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die. -- To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.


word: Strike₂
definition:
Strike

Strike
(?)
v. i.
To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.

A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily].
Piers Plowman.

2.
To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand,
With which he stroke so furious and so fell.
Spenser.

Strike now, or else the iron cools.
Shak.

3.
To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.

4.
To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.

A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Byron.

5.
To make an attack; to aim a blow.

A puny subject strikes
At thy great glory.
Shak.

Struck for throne, and striking found his doom.
Tennyson.

6.
To touch; to act by appulse.

Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish.
Locke.

7.
To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.

8.
To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

Till a dart strike through his liver.
Prov. vii. 23.

Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
Dryden.

9.
To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.

10.
To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.

That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.
Bp. Burnet.

11.
To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

12.
To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

13.
To steal money.
[Old Slang, Eng.]
Nares.

To strike at, to aim a blow at. -- To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for. -- To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect. -- To strike in. (a) To enter suddenly. (b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease. (c) To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. “I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.” Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing. -- To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. “To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace.” South. -- To strike out. (a) To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life. (b) To strike with full force. (c) (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat. -- To strike up, to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument.  “Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up.” Shak.


word: Strike₃
definition:
Strike

Strike
(?)
n.
1.
The act of striking.

2.
An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

3.
A bushel; four pecks.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tusser.

4.
An old measure of four bushels.
[Prov. Eng.]

5.
Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike.
Sir W. Scott.

6.
An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
[Obs.]

7.
The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, usually organized by a labor union, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.

Strikes are the insurrections of labor.
F. A. Walker.

8.
(Iron Working)
A puddler's stirrer.

9.
(Geol.)
The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.

10.
The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

11.
A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial.

12.
(Bowling, U. S.)
The act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called double spare.  Throwing a strike entitles the player to add to the score for that frame the total number of pins knocked down in the next two bowls.

13.
(Baseball)
Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it.
strikes
[Take me out to the ball game]

14.
(Tenpins)
Same as Ten-strike.

Strike block (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. Moxon. -- Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.


word: Strikeout
definition:
Strikeout

Strike"out
(?)
n.
(Baseball)
an out made by a batter against whom three strikes were called in a single at-bat; also, the same out as credited to the pitcher, in the scoring of the game.


word: Striker
definition:
Striker

Strik"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.

2.
A harpoon; also, a harpooner.

Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish.
Dampier.

3.
A wencher; a lewd man.
[Obs.]
Massinger.

4.
A workman who is on a strike.

5.
A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.
[Political Cant]


word: Strike zone
definition:
Strike zone

Strike" zone
(?)
n.
(Baseball)
the area above home plate where, if a pitched ball passes through and is not hit by the batter, the pitch counts as a strike.  Specifically, it is directly above home plate and at a height from the knees to the shoulders of the batter.


word: Striking
definition:
Striking

Strik"ing
a. & n. from Strike, v.

Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. -- Striking plate. (a) The plate against which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed. (b) A part of the centering of an arch, which is driven back to loosen the centering in striking it.


word: Striking₂
definition:
Striking

Strik"ing
a.
Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
striking
De Quincey.
Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.


word: String
definition:
String

String
(strĭng)
n.
[OE. string, streng, AS. streng; akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. straeng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see Strong); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to E. strangle.]
1.
A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
Shak.

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
Prior.

2.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
string
Gibbon.

3.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
Milton.

4.
The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
strings
Ps. xxx. iii. 2.

Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of lute, or viol still.
Milton.

5.
The line or cord of a bow.
Ps. xi. 2.

He twangs the grieving string.
Pope.

6.
A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
Bacon.

7.
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

The string of his tongue was loosed.
Mark vii. 35.

8.
(Shipbuilding)
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

9.
(Bot.)
The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.

10.
(Mining)
A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
Ure.

11.
(Arch.)
Same as Stringcourse.

12.
(Billiards)
The points made in a game.

13.
(a)
In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
(b)
In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

14.
(Billiards & Pool)
(a)
The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
(b)
Act of stringing for break.

15.
A hoax; a trumped-up or “fake” story.
[Slang]

16.
a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.

17.
(Physics)
A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration.  Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics.  See also string theory.

String band (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments. -- String beans. (a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; -- so called because the strings are stripped off. (b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean. -- To have two strings to one's bow, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.


word: String₂
definition:
String

String
(strĭng)
v. t.
[imp. Strung (strŭng); p. p. Strung (R. Stringed (strĭngd)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stringing.]
1.
To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet
With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?
Gay.

2.
To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung,
That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
Addison.

3.
To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

4.
To make tense; to strengthen.

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
Dryden.

5.
To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

6.
To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
[Slang]


word: String₃
definition:
String

String
v. i.
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.


word: Stringcourse
definition:
Stringcourse

String"course`
(-k&omacrrs`)
n.
(Arch.)
A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.


word: Stringed
definition:
Stringed

Stringed
(strĭngd)
a.
1.
Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.
Ps. cl. 4.

2.
Produced by strings.
stringed
Milton.


word: Stringent
definition:
Stringent

Strin"gent
(strĭn"jent)
a.
[L. stringens, -entis, p. pr. of stringere to draw or bind tight. See Strain.]
Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.

They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringent code of procedure.
Macaulay.


word: Stringer
definition:
Stringer

String"er
(strĭng"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
Ascham.

2.
A libertine; a wencher.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

3.
(Railroad)
A longitudinal sleeper.

4.
(Shipbuilding)
A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

5.
(Carp.)
A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

6.
(Newspapers)
A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; -- called also string correspondent.

7.
(Aviation)
a longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.


word: Stringhalt
definition:
Stringhalt

String"halt`
(?)
n.
(Far.)
An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
[Written also springhalt.]


word: Stringpiece
definition:
Stringpiece

String"piece`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
(a)
A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:
(b)
One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.


word: string theory
definition:
string theory

string" the`o*ry
(strĭng" thē`o̝*r&ybreve_;)
n.
(Physics)
A mathematical theory for describing the properties of fundamental particles, which represents the particles as one-dimensional string-like objects, which exist in the normal four dimensions of space-time plus additional dimensions, the total dimensions being ten, eleven, or twenty-six depending on the version of the theory.  The properties of fundamental particles in string theory and their manner of interaction with each other depend upon the modes of vibration of the strings{17}.  The attractiveness of this theory rests in part on its ability to provide a unified treatment of gravity as well as the three other basic forces of nature, in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics.  The great difficulty of doing the calculations required by the theory, however, has thus far (1999) made it impossible to calculate the observable properties, such as the mass, of known particles, such as the electron, proton, mesons, quarks, and neutron; thus there is as yet no experimental verification for the theory.  The most popular version of the theory depends on a mathematical property called supersymmetry, and the theory derived form this principle is properly called superstring theory, a term which is often used interchangeably with string theory.  See also string{17}.


word: Stringy
definition:
Stringy

String"y
(?)
a.
1.
Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

2.
Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

Stringy bark (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as Eucalyptus amygdalina, Eucalyptus obliqua, Eucalyptus capitellata, Eucalyptus macrorhyncha, Eucalyptus piperita, Eucalyptus pilularis, and Eucalyptus tetradonta), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.


word: Strip
definition:
Strip

Strip
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stripped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.]
[OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str_;pan in bestr_;pan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]
1.
To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.

And strippen her out of her rude array.
Chaucer.

They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
Gen. xxxvii. 23.

Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
Macaulay.

2.
To divest of clothing; to uncover.

Before the folk herself strippeth she.
Chaucer.

Strip your sword stark naked.
Shak.

3.
(Naut.)
To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

4.
(Agric.)
To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

5.
To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

6.
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
[Obs.]

When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
Chapman.

Before he reached it he was out of breath,
And then the other stripped him.
Beau. & Fl.

7.
To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.
Gilpin.

8.
(Mach.)
(a)
To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
(b)
To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

9.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

10.
(Carding)
To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

11.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).


word: Strip₂
definition:
Strip

Strip
(?)
v. i.
1.
To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

2.
(Mach.)
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.


word: Strip₃
definition:
Strip

Strip
n.
1.
A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

2.
(Mining)
A trough for washing ore.

3.
(Gunnery)
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Farrow.


word: Stripe
definition:
Stripe

Stripe
(?)
n.
[OD. strijpe a stripe, streak; akin to LG. stripe, D. streep, Dan. stribe, G. strief, striefen, MHG. striefen to glide, march.]
1.
A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.

2.
(Weaving)
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

3.
A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.

4.
A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
Deut. xxv. 3.

5.
A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.

Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.
Thomson.

6.
Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
[Colloq. U.S.]

7.
pl.
(Mil.)
The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.

Stars and Stripes. See under Star, n.


word: Stripe₂
definition:
Stripe

Stripe
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Striped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Striping.]
1.
To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

2.
To strike; to lash.
[R.]


word: Striped
definition:
Striped

Striped
(?)
a.
Having stripes of different colors; streaked.

Striped bass. (Zool.) See under Bass. -- Striped maple (Bot.), a slender American tree (Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood. -- Striped mullet. (Zool.) See under Mullet, 2. -- Striped snake (Zool.), the garter snake. -- Striped squirrel (Zool.), the chipmunk.


word: Stripling
definition:
Stripling

Strip"ling
(?)
n.
[Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.]
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.

Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
1 Sam. xvii. 56.


word: Stripper
definition:
Stripper

Strip"per
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, strips;
specifically,
a machine for stripping cards.

2.
(Agric.)
A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.

3.
(Agric.)
A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants.

4.
a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface.

5.
a person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; -- also called an ecdysiast, exotic dancer, or strip-teaser.


word: Stripping
definition:
Stripping

Strip"ping
(?)
n.
1.
The act of one who strips.

The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
H. Spencer.

Never were cows that required such stripping.
Mrs. Gaskell.

2.
pl.
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.


word: Strisores
definition:
Strisores

Stri*so"res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.; cf. L. stridere to creak, whiz, buzz.]
(Zool.)
A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.


word: Strive
definition:
Strive

Strive
(?)
v. i.
[imp. Strove (?); p. p. Striven (?) (Rarely, Strove); p. pr. & vb. n. Striving.]
[OF. estriver; of Teutonic origin, and akin to G. streben, D. streven, Dan. straebe, Sw. sträfva.  Cf. Strife.]
1.
To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

Was for this his ambition strove
To equal Caesar first, and after, Jove?
Cowley.

2.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
Chaucer.

My Spirit shall not always strive with man.
Gen. vi. 3.

Why dost thou strive against him?
Job xxxiii. 13.

Now private pity strove with public hate,
Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
Denham.

3.
To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
Chaucer.

[Not] that sweet grove
Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired
Castalian spring, might with this paradise
Of Eden strive.
Milton.


word: Strive₂
definition:
Strive

Strive
n.
1.
An effort; a striving.
[R.]
Chapman.

2.
Strife; contention.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (luke xxi. 9).


word: Strived
definition:
Strived

Strived
(?)
obs.
p. p.
of Strive
Striven.

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel.
Rom. xv. 20.


word: Stroam
definition:
Stroam

Stroam
(?)
v. i.
[Prov. E. strome to walk with long strides.]
1.
To wander about idly and vacantly.
[Obs.]

2.
To take long strides in walking.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Strobila
definition:
Strobila

Stro*bi"la
(?)
n.
pl. Strobilae (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; anything twisted, a pine cone.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.
(b)
A mature tapeworm.


word: Strobilaceous
definition:
Strobilaceous

Strob`i*la"ceous
(?)
a.
[See Strobila.]
(Bot.)
(a)
Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone.
(b)
Producing strobiles.


word: Strobilation
definition:
Strobilation

Strob`i*la"tion
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.


word: Strobile
definition:
Strobile

Strob"ile
(?)
n.
[L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. _;: cf. F. strobole.]
[Written also strobil.]
1.
(Bot.)
A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

2.
(Biol.)
An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

3.
(Zool.)
Same as Strobila.


word: Strobiline
definition:
Strobiline

Strob"i*line
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.


word: Stroboscope
definition:
Stroboscope

Strob"o*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a whirling + -scope.]
1.
An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

2.
An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.


word: Strockle
definition:
Strockle

Stroc"kle
(?)
n.
(Glass Manuf.)
A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.
[Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]


word: Stroke₂
definition:
Stroke

Stroke
n.
[OE. strok, strook, strak, fr. striken. See Strike, v. t.]
1.
The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.

His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree.
Deut. xix. 5.

A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Prov. xviii. 6.

He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke.
Bacon.

2.
The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Isa. xxx. 26.

3.
The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

Well, but what's o'clock?
- Upon the stroke of ten. -- Well, let is strike.
Shak.

4.
A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
Dryden.

5.
A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.

O, lasting as those colors may they shine,
Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.
Pope.

6.
Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
Addison.

7.
A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.

At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
Harte.

8.
A throb or beat, as of the heart.
Tennyson.

9.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
(Rowing)
(a)
The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(b)
The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
(c)
The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.

10.
A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

11.
(Mach.)
The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.

&hand_; The respective strokes are distinguished as up and down strokes, outward and inward strokes, forward and back strokes, the forward stroke in stationary steam engines being toward the crosshead, but in locomotives toward the front of the vehicle.

12.
Power; influence.
[Obs.]
stroke
Robynson (More's Utopia).

He has a great stroke with the reader.
Dryden.

13.
Appetite.
[Obs.]
Swift.

To keep stroke, to make strokes in unison.

The oars where silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.
Shak.


word: Stroke₃
definition:
Stroke

Stroke
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strokeed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strokeing.]
[OE. stroken, straken, AS. strācian, fr. strīcan to go over, pass. See Strike, v. t., and cf. Straggle.]
1.
To strike.
[Obs.]

Ye mote with the plat sword again
Stroken him in the wound, and it will close.
Chaucer.

2.
To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.

He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind,
He stroked her cheeks.
Dryden.

3.
To make smooth by rubbing.
Longfellow.

4.
(Masonry)
To give a finely fluted surface to.

5.
To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.


word: Stroker
definition:
Stroker

Strok"er
(?)
n.
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.

Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker.
Bp. Warburton.


word: Strokesman
definition:
Strokesman

Strokes"man
(?)
n.
pl. Strokesman (_;).
(Rowing)
The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
Totten.


word: Stroking
definition:
Stroking

Strok"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.

I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.
Milton.

2.
(Needlework)
The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.

3.
pl.
See Stripping, 2.
Smollett.


word: Stroll
definition:
Stroll

Stroll
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Strolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strolling.]
[Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about, Icel. strj_;ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G. straucheln.  Cf. Struggle.]
To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
Swift.


word: Stroma
definition:
Stroma

Stro"ma
(?)
n.
pl. Stromata (#).
[L., a bed covering, Gr. _; a couch or bed.]
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.
(b)
The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.

2.
(Bot.)
A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.


word: Stromatic
definition:
Stromatic

Stro*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; coverlet of a bed, pl. _; patchwork (for such a coverlet), also applied to several miscellaneous writings, fr. _; anything spread out for resting upon, a bed, fr. _; to spread out.]
Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.


word: Stromatology
definition:
Stromatology

Stro`ma*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, a bed + -logy.]
(Geol.)
The history of the formation of stratified rocks.


word: Stromb
definition:
Stromb

Stromb
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.


word: Strombuliform
definition:
Strombuliform

Strom*bu"li*form
(?)
a.
[NL. strombulus, dim. of strombus + -form. See Strombus.]
1.
(Geol.)
Formed or shaped like a top.

2.
(Bot.)
Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.


word: Strombus
definition:
Strombus

Strom"bus
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
(Zool.)
A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.


word: Stromeyerite
definition:
Stromeyerite

Stro"mey`er*ite
(?)
n.
[So named from the German chemist Friedrich Stromeyer.]
(Min.)
A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.


word: Strong
definition:
Strong

Strong
(?)
a.
[Compar. Stronger (?); superl. Strongest (?).]
[AS. strang, strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng strict, severe.  Cf. Strength, Stretch, String.]
1.
Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

That our oxen may be strong to labor.
Ps. cxliv. 14.

Orses the strong to greater strength must yield.
Dryden.

2.
Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

3.
Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.

4.
Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

5.
Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.

6.
Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.

7.
Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.

8.
Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.

9.
Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.

Her mother, ever strong against that match.
Shak.

10.
Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.

11.
Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.

12.
Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.

13.
Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
Heb. v. 12.

14.
Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.

15.
Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.

He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears.
Heb. v. 7.

16.
Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.

I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism.
Dryden.

17.
Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.

Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song,
As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong.
E. Smith.

18.
(Stock Exchange)
Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.

19.
(Gram.)
(a)
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
(b)
Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
F. A. March.

Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of a strong verb; -- called also old conjugation, or irregular conjugation, and distinguished from the weak conjugation or regular conjugation.

&hand_; Strong is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, strong-backed, strong-based, strong-bodied, strong-colored, strong-fisted, strong-handed, strong-ribbed, strong-smelling, strong-voiced, etc.


word: strongbox
definition:
strongbox

strong"box`
(?)
n.
A box of rigid and durable construction fitted with a lock, used for the purpose of protecting valuable items, such as jewelry or money.

Syn. -- lockbox.


word: Stronghand
definition:
Stronghand

Strong"hand`
(?)
n.
Violence; force; power.

It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Stronghold
definition:
Stronghold

Strong"hold`
(?)
n.
A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.


word: Strongly
definition:
Strongly

Strong"ly
adv.
In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.


word: Strong-minded
definition:
Strong-minded

Strong"-mind`ed
(?)
a.
Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.
Strong"-mind`ed*ness, n.


word: Strong-water
definition:
Strong-water

Strong"-wa`ter
(?)
n.
1.
An acid.
[Obs.]

2.
Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.


word: Strongyloid
definition:
Strongyloid

Stron"gy*loid
(?)
a.
[NL. Strongylus the genus (from Gr. _; round) + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.
n. A strongyloid worm.


word: Strontia
definition:
Strontia

Stron"ti*a
(?)
n.
[NL. strontia, fr. Strontian, in Argyleshire, Scotland, where strontianite was first found.]
(Chem.)
An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.


word: Strontianite
definition:
Strontianite

Stron"ti*an*ite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.


word: Strontic
definition:
Strontic

Stron"tic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.


word: Strontium
definition:
Strontium

Stron"ti*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Strontia.]
(Chem.)
A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.


word: Strop₂
definition:
Strop

Strop
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stropped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stropping.]
To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.


word: Strop₃
definition:
Strop

Strop
n.
[Cf. F. estrope, étrope, fr. L. struppus. See Strop a strap.]
(Naut.)
A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.


word: Strophanthus
definition:
Strophanthus

Stro*phan"thus
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _; a turning + _; a flower.]
(Bot.)
A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.


word: Strophe
definition:
Strophe

Stro"phe
(?)
n.
pl. Strophes (#).
[NL., from Gr. _;, fr. _; to twist, to turn; perh. akin to E. strap.]
In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.


word: Strophiolated
definition:
Strophiolated

Strophiolate

{ Stro"phi*o*late (?), Stro"phi*o*la`ted (?), }
a.
(Bot.)
Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.
Gray.


word: Strophiole
definition:
Strophiole

Stro"phi*ole
(?)
n.
[L. strophiolum a little chaplet, dim. of strophium a band, Gr. _;, dim. of _; a twisted band: cf. F. strophiole.]
(Bot.)
A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.


word: Strouding
definition:
Strouding

Stroud"ing
n.
Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.


word: Strout₂
definition:
Strout

Strout
v. t.
To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Strow
definition:
Strow

Strow
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Strowed (?); p. p. Strown (?) or Strowed.]
Same as Strew.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa.
Milton.

A manner turbid . . . and strown with blemished.
M. Arnold.


word: Struck
definition:
Struck

Struck
(?)
imp. & p. p. of Strike.

Struck jury (Law), a special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to try the cause.


word: Structural
definition:
Structural

Struc"tur*al
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.

2.
(Biol.)
Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.


word: Structural formula
definition:
Structural formula

Struc"tur*al form"u*la
(Chem.)
a symbolic representation of the structure of one molecule of a chemical compound, showing the attachments of the atoms to each other, and representing their arrangement in space; the spatial representation is symbolic and approximate, and it may or may not depict the stereochemical relations of the bonds.  Distinguished from empirical formula. See also Rational formula, under Formula.


word: Structural shape
definition:
Structural shape

Struc"tur*al shape
(Engin. & Arch.)
The shape of a member especially adapted to structural purposes, esp. in giving the greatest strength with the least material.
Hence,
Colloq.
any steel or iron member of such shape, as channel irons, I beams, T beams, etc., or, sometimes, a column, girder, etc., built up with such members.


word: Structural steel
definition:
Structural steel

Structural steel
(a)
Rolled steel in structural shapes.
(b)
A kind of strong mild steel, suitable for structural shapes.


word: Structure
definition:
Structure

Struc"ture
(?)
n.
[L. structura, from struere, structum, to arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to E. strew: cf. F. structure.  Cf. Construe, Destroy, Instrument, Obstruct.]
1.
The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
[R.]

His son builds on, and never is content
Till the last farthing is in structure spent.
J. Dryden, Jr.

2.
Manner of building; form; make; construction.

Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.
Woodward.

3.
Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.

It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure.
Dana.

4.
(Biol.)
Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.

5.
That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.

There stands a structure of majestic frame.
Pope.

Columnar structure. See under Columnar.


word: Structured
definition:
Structured

Struc"tured
(?)
a.
(Biol.)
Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process.
H. Spencer.


word: Structureless
definition:
Structureless

Struc"ture*less
(?)
a.
Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.


word: Struggle
definition:
Struggle

Strug"gle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Struggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Struggling (?).]
[OE. strogelen; cf. Icel. strj_;ka to stroke, to beat, to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln to stumble.  Cf. Stroll.]
1.
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

2.
To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract.
Lincoln.

3.
To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

'T is wisdom to beware,
And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Dryden.


word: Struggle₂
definition:
Struggle

Strug"gle
(?)
n.
1.
A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

2.
Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
Macaulay.

3.
Contest; contention; strife.

An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.
Addison.


word: Strum
definition:
Strum

Strum
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Strummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strumming.]
[Probably of imitative origin.  Cf. Thrum.]
To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.


word: Struma
definition:
Struma

Stru"ma
(?)
n.
[L., a scrofulous tumor.]
1.
(Med.)
Scrofula.

2.
(Bot.)
A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.


word: Strumose
definition:
Strumose

Stru*mose"
(?)
a.
[L. strumosus: cf. F. strumeux.]
1.
(Med.)
Strumous.

2.
(Bot.)
Having a struma.


word: Strumpet
definition:
Strumpet

Strum"pet
(?)
n.
[OE. strumpet, strompet; cf. OF. stupe debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum debauchery, Gael. & Ir. striopach a prostitute.]
A prostitute; a harlot.
Shak.


word: Strumpet₂
definition:
Strumpet

Strum"pet
a.
Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.

Out on thy more than strumpet impudence.
B. Jonson.


word: Strumpet₃
definition:
Strumpet

Strum"pet
v. t.
1.
To debauch.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.

With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.
Massinger.


word: Strut
definition:
Strut

Strut
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Strutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strutting.]
[OE. struten, strouten, to swell; akin to G. strozen to be swelled, to be puffed up, to strut, Dan. strutte.]
1.
To swell; to bulge out.
[R.]

The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
Dryden.

2.
To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.

Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait?
Shak.


word: Strut₂
definition:
Strut

Strut
n.
[For senses 2 & 3 cf. LG. strutt rigid.]
1.
The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

2.
(Arch.)
In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.

3.
(Engin.)
Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.


word: Struthio
definition:
Struthio

Stru"thi*o
(?)
n.
pl. Struthiones (#).
[L., an ostrich, fr. Gr. _;.]
(Zool.)
A genus of birds including the African ostriches.


word: Struthioidea
definition:
Struthioidea

Stru`thi*oi"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Struthio, and -oid.]
(Zool.)
Same as Struthiones.


word: Struthiones
definition:
Struthiones

Stru`thi*o"nes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Struthio.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.
(b)
In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitae, or Dromaeognathae.


word: Struthious
definition:
Struthious

Stru"thi*ous
(?)
a.
[L. struthius, strutheus.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.


word: Struvite
definition:
Struvite

Struv"ite
(?)
n.
[After the Russian minister Von Struve.]
(Min.)
A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.


word: Strychnic
definition:
Strychnic

Strych"nic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning
(Chem.)
used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.


word: Strychnine
definition:
Strychnine

Strych"nine
(?)
n.
[L. strychnos a kind of nightshade, Gr. _;: cf. F. strychnine.]
(Chem.)
A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.


word: Strychnos
definition:
Strychnos

Strych"nos
(?)
n.
[L., a kind of nightshade, Gr. _;.]
(Bot.)
A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the family Loganiaceae. See Nux vomica.


word: Stryphnic
definition:
Stryphnic

Stryph"nic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; astringent.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.


word: Stub
definition:
Stub

Stub
(?)
n.
[OE. stubbe, AS. stub, styb; akin to D. stobbe, LG. stubbe, Dan. stub, Sw. stubbe, Icel. stubbr, stubbi; cf. Gr. _;.]
1.
The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.

Stubs sharp and hideous to behold.
Chaucer.

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
Dryden.

2.
A log; a block; a blockhead.
[Obs.]
Milton.

3.
The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.

4.
A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

5.
A pen with a short, blunt nib.

6.
A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.

Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened. -- Stub iron, iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed. -- Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail. -- Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. -- Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.


word: Stub₂
definition:
Stub

Stub
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stubbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stubbing.]
1.
To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.

What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land.
Berkley.

2.
To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.

3.
To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
[U. S.]


word: Stubbed
definition:
Stubbed

Stub"bed
(?)
a.
1.
Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

2.
Abounding in stubs; stubby.

A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood.
R. Browning.

3.
Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.
Stubbed
Berkley.


word: Stubble
definition:
Stubble

Stub"ble
(?)
n.
[OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. étuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila.  Cf. Stipule.]
The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
stubble
Mortimer.

Stubble goose (Zool.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.


word: Stubbled
definition:
Stubbled

Stub"bled
(?)
a.
1.
Covered with stubble.

A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain.
Gay.

2.
Stubbed; as, stubbled legs.
[Obs.]
Skelton.


word: Stubborn
definition:
Stubborn

Stub"born
(?)
a.
[OE. stoburn, stiborn; probably fr. AS. styb a stub. See Stub.]
Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
stubborn
Shak.
Stubborn
Locke.
Stubborn
Swift.

And I was young and full of ragerie [wantonness]
Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie.
Chaucer.

These heretics be so stiff and stubborn.
Sir T. More.

Your stubborn usage of the pope.
Shak.


word: Stubby
definition:
Stubby

Stub"by
(?)
a.
1.
Abounding with stubs.

2.
Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.


word: Stucco
definition:
Stucco

Stuc"co
(?)
n.
pl. Stuccoes (#), Stuccos.
[It., fr. OHG. stucchi a crust, piece, G. stück piece; akin to AS. stycce. See Stock.]
1.
Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.

2.
Work made of stucco; stuccowork.


word: Stucco₂
definition:
Stucco

Stuc"co
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stuccoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stuccoing (?).]
To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.


word: Stuck-up
definition:
Stuck-up

Stuck"-up`
(?)
a.
Self-important and supercilious, _;onceited; vain; arrogant.
[Colloq.]

The airs of small, stuck-up, men.
A. K. H. Boyd.


word: Stud
definition:
Stud

Stud
(?)
n.
[OE. stod, stood, AS. st&omacrd; akin to OHG. stuota, G. stute a mare, Icel. st&omacr_; stud, Lith. stodas a herd, Russ. stado, and to E. stand. The sense is properly, a stand, an establishment. √163. See Stand, and cf. Steed.]
A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor, and size.
Sir W. Temple.

He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
Macaulay.


word: Stud₂
definition:
Stud

Stud
(?)
n.
[AS. studu a post; akin to Sw. stöd a prop, Icel. sto_; a post, sty_;ja to prop, and probably ultimately to E. stand; cf. D. stut a prop, G. stütze. See Stand.]
1.
A stem; a trunk.
[Obs.]

Seest not this same hawthorn stud?
Spenser.

2.
(Arch.)
An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

3.
A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs.
Marlowe.

Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems
And studs of pearl.
Milton.

4.
An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.

5.
(Mach.)
(a)
A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
(b)
A stud bolt.

6.
An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Stud bolt, a bolt with threads on both ends, to be screwed permanently into a fixed part at one end and receive a nut upon the other; -- called also standing bolt.


word: Stud₃
definition:
Stud

Stud
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Studded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Studding.]
1.
To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.

Thy horses shall be trapped,
Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
Shak.

2.
To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.

The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen.
Bp. Hobart.


word: Studbook
definition:
Studbook

Stud"book`
(?)
n.
A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.


word: Studdery
definition:
Studdery

Stud"der*y
(?)
n.
A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.
[Obs.]

King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery.
Holinshed.


word: Studding sail
definition:
Studding sail

Stud"ding sail`
(?)
(Naut.)
A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail.
Toten.


word: Student
definition:
Student

Stu"dent
(?)
n.
[L. studens, -entis, p. pr. of studere to study. See Study, n.]
1.
A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book.
Shak.

2.
One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.


word: Studfish
definition:
Studfish

Stud"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as Fundulus catenatus.


word: Studied
definition:
Studied

Stud"ied
a.
1.
Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

2.
Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.

I shrewdly suspect that he is little studied of a theory of moral proportions.
Burke.

3.
Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult.
Studied
Hawthorne.

4.
Intent; inclined.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Studier
definition:
Studier

Stud"i*er
(?)
n.
A student.
[R.]
W. Irving.

Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy.
Tillotson.


word: Studio
definition:
Studio

Stu"di*o
(?)
n.
pl. Studios (#).
[It. studio, properly, study. See Study.]
The working room of an artist.


word: Studious
definition:
Studious

Stu"di*ous
(?)
a.
[L. studious: cf. F. studieux. See Study.]
1.
Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

2.
Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
Locke.

3.
Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.

You that are so studious
Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own.
Massinger.

4.
Planned with study; deliberate; studied.

For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented?
Rambler.

5.
Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.
[Poetic]

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister's pale.
Milton.


word: Study
definition:
Study

Stud"y
(?)
n.
pl. Studies (#).
[OE. studie, L. studium, akin to studere to study; possibly akin to Gr. _; haste, zeal, _; to hasten; cf. OF. estudie, estude, F. étude.  Cf. Etude, Student, Studio, Study, v. i.]
1.
A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.

Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study.
Bp. Fell.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.

Just men they seemed, and all their study bent
To worship God aright, and know his works.
Milton.

3.
Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
Law.

The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope.

4.
A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.
study
Hawthorne.

5.
(Fine Arts)
A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.

6.
(Mus.)
A piece for special practice. See Etude.


word: Study₂
definition:
Study

Stud"y
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Studied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Studying (?).]
[OE. studien, OF. estudier, F. étudier. See Study, n.]
1.
To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
Chaucer.

I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.
Swift.

2.
To apply the mind to books or learning.
Shak.

3.
To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
1 Thes. iv. 11.


word: Study₃
definition:
Study

Stud"y
v. t.
1.
To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

2.
To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.

Study thyself; what rank or what degree
The wise Creator has ordained for thee.
Dryden.

3.
To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.

4.
To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.

For their heart studieth destruction.
Prov. xxiv. 2.


word: Stufa
definition:
Stufa

Stu"fa
(?)
n.
[It. stufa a stove. See Stove.]
A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.


word: Stuff
definition:
Stuff

Stuff
(?)
n.
[OF. estoffe, F. étoffe; of uncertain origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t.  Cf. Stuff, v. t.]
1.
Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
Ex. xxxvi. 7.

Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff.
Shak.

The workman on his stuff his skill doth show,
And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
Sir J. Davies.

2.
The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder.
Shak.

3.
Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?
Shak.

It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively.
F. G. Lee.

4.
Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
Hayward.

5.
A medicine or mixture; a potion.
Shak.

6.
Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

Anger would indite
Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
Dryden.

7.
(Naut.)
A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

8.
Paper stock ground ready for use.

&hand_; When partly ground, called half stuff.
Knight.

Clear stuff. See under Clear. -- Small stuff (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Stuff gown, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.


word: Stuff₂
definition:
Stuff

Stuff
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stuffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.]
[OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. étoffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. étouffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop.  Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]
1.
To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown,
And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.
Gay.

Lest the gods, for sin,
Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
Dryden.

2.
To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.
Bacon.

3.
To fill by being pressed or packed into.

With inward arms the dire machine they load,
And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
Dryden.

4.
(Cookery)
To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

5.
To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.
Shak.

6.
To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.

7.
To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
Swift.

8.
To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

9.
To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
[U. S.]


word: Stuff₃
definition:
Stuff

Stuff
(?)
v. i.
To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Taught harmless man to cram and stuff.
Swift.


word: Stuffing
definition:
Stuffing

Stuff"ing
n.
1.
That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

2.
(Cookery)
Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.

3.
A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.


word: Stuffy
definition:
Stuffy

Stuff"y
(?)
a.
1.
Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

2.
Angry and obstinate; sulky.
[U. S.]

3.
Ill-ventilated; close.


word: Stull
definition:
Stull

Stull
(?)
n.
[CF. Stum.]
A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Stulm
definition:
Stulm

Stulm
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. stollen a post, a stulm, E. stall, stand.]
A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
[Local, Eng.]
Bailey.


word: Stulp
definition:
Stulp

Stulp
(?)
n.
[Cf. Icel. st&omacrlpi, Dan., Sw., & OD. stolpe.]
A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Stultification
definition:
Stultification

Stul`ti*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.


word: Stultify
definition:
Stultify

Stul"ti*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stultified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stultifying (?).]
[L. stultus foolish + -fy.]
1.
To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
Burke.

2.
To regard as a fool, or as foolish.
[R.]

The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own.
Hazlitt.

3.
(Law)
To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.


word: Stultiloquence
definition:
Stultiloquence

Stul*til"o*quence
(?)
n.
[L. stultiloquentia; stultus foolish + loquentia a talking, fr. loquens, p. pr. of loqui to talk.]
Silly talk; babbling.


word: Stultiloquent
definition:
Stultiloquent

Stul*til"o*quent
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. stultiloquus. See Stultiloquence.]
Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling.
Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.


word: Stultiloquy
definition:
Stultiloquy

Stul*til"o*quy
(?)
n.
[L. stultiloquium.]
Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Stum
definition:
Stum

Stum
(?)
n.
[D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin muet stum.  Cf. Stammer, Stoom.]
1.
Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.

Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
B. Jonson.

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
Dryden.

2.
Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.
Hudibras.


word: Stum₂
definition:
Stum

Stum
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming.]
To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

We stum our wines to renew their spirits.
Floyer.


word: Stumble
definition:
Stumble

Stum"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Stumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stumbling (?).]
[OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1.
To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
Chaucer.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble.
Prov. iv. 19.

2.
To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
To fall into a crime or an error; to err.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him.
1 John ii. 10.

4.
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.

Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
Dryden.

Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake.
C. Smart.


word: Stumble₂
definition:
Stumble

Stum"ble
v. t.
1.
To cause to stumble or trip.

2.
Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
Milton.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
Locke.


word: Stumble₃
definition:
Stumble

Stum"ble
n.
1.
A trip in walking or running.

2.
A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L'Estrange.


word: Stumbling-block
definition:
Stumbling-block

Stum"bling-block`
(?)
n.
Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.

We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness.
1 Cor. i. 23.


word: Stumbling-stone
definition:
Stumbling-stone

Stum"bling-stone`
(?)
n.
A stumbling-block.

This stumbling-stone we hope to take away.
T. Burnet.


word: Stump
definition:
Stump

Stump
(?)
n.
[OE. stumpe, stompe; akin to D. stomp, G. stumpf, Icel. stumpr, Dan. & Sw. stump, and perhaps also to E. stamp.]
1.
The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

2.
The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.

3.
pl.
The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
[Slang]

4.
(Cricket)
One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

5.
A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.

6.
A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. -- Off stump (Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman. -- Stump tracery (Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. -- To go on the stump, or To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts.  Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]

on the stump
campaigning for public office; running for election to office.


word: Stump₂
definition:
Stump

Stump
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stumping.]
1.
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.
Dr. H. More.

2.
To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
[Colloq.]

3.
To challenge; also, to nonplus.
[Colloq.]

4.
To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
[Colloq. U.S.]

5.
(Cricket)
(a)
To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
T. Hughes.
(b)
To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.

A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And stumped the wicket.
Tennyson.

To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]


word: Stump₃
definition:
Stump

Stump
v. i.
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

To stump up, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.


word: Stumpage
definition:
Stumpage

Stump"age
(?)
n.
1.
Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.
[Local, U.S.]

Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land.
C. S. Sargent.

2.
A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.
[Local, U.S.]
The Nation.


word: Stumper
definition:
Stumper

Stump"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who stumps.

2.
A boastful person.
[Slang]

3.
A puzzling or incredible story.
[Slang, U.S.]


word: Stump-tailed
definition:
Stump-tailed

Stump"-tailed`
(?)
a.
Having a short, thick tail.

Stump-tailed lizard (Zool.), a singular Australian scincoid lizard (Trachydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also sleeping lizard.


word: Stumpy
definition:
Stumpy

Stump"y
(?)
a.
1.
Full of stumps; hard; strong.

2.
Short and thick; stubby.
[Colloq.]
stumpy
J. C. Harris.


word: Stun
definition:
Stun

Stun
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stunned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.]
[OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. stöhnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. _;, Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. √168.]
1.
To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
And one a heavy mace to stun the foe.
Dryden.

2.
To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.

And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
Pope.

3.
To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.

William was quite stunned at my discourse.
De Foe.


word: Stundist
definition:
Stundist

Stun"dist
(?)
n.
[Russ. shtundist, prob. fr. G. stunde hour; -- from their meetings for Bible reading.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship.
Stun"dism (#), n.


word: Stunner
definition:
Stunner

Stun"ner
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, stuns.

2.
Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.
[Slang]
Thackeray.


word: Stunning
definition:
Stunning

Stun"ning
(?)
a.
1.
Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

2.
Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
[Slang]
C. Kingsley.
Stun"ning*ly, adv. [Slang]


word: Stunsail
definition:
Stunsail

Stun"sail
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A contraction of Studding sail.

With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all.
Lowell.


word: Stunt
definition:
Stunt

Stunt
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stunted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stunting.]
[See Stint.]
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation.
Burke.


word: Stunt₂
definition:
Stunt

Stunt
(?)
n.
1.
A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

2.
Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.


word: Stunt₃
definition:
Stunt

Stunt
(?)
n.
[Cf. Stint a task.]
1.
A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.
[Colloq.]
An extraordinary man does three or four different “stunts” with remarkable dexterity.
The Bookman.
He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming.
L. Hutton.

2.
an unusual action performed to gain public attention; as, a publicity stunt.


word: Stupe
definition:
Stupe

Stupe
(?)
n.
[L. stupa, or better stuppa, tow.  Cf. Stop, v. t.]
(Med.)
Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.


word: Stupe₂
definition:
Stupe

Stupe
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stuped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stuping.]
To foment with a stupe.
Wiseman.


word: Stupefacient
definition:
Stupefacient

Stu`pe*fa"cient
(?)
a.
[L. stupefaciens, p. pr. of stupefacere to stupefy; stupere to be stupefied + facere to make.  Cf. Stupefy.]
[Written also stupifacient.]
Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.
n. (Med.) Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.


word: Stupefaction
definition:
Stupefaction

Stu`pe*fac"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. stupéfaction. See Stupefacient.]
The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied.
[Written also stupifaction.]

Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it.
South.


word: Stupefactive
definition:
Stupefactive

Stu`pe*fac"tive
(?)
a. & n.
[Cf. F. stupéfactif, LL. stupefactivus.]
Same as Stupefacient.
[Written also stupifactive.]


word: Stupefy
definition:
Stupefy

Stu"pe*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stupefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stupefying (?).]
[F. stupéfier, fr. L. stupere to be stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See Stupid, Fact, and cf. Stupefacient.]
[Written also stupify, especially in England.]
1.
To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
South.

2.
To deprive of material mobility.
[Obs.]

It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied.
Bacon.


word: Stupendous
definition:
Stupendous

Stu*pen"dous
(?)
a.
[L. stupendus astonishing, p. future pass. of stupere to be astonished at.  Cf. Stupid.]
Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.
stupendous
Macaulay.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
Pope.


word: Stupeous
definition:
Stupeous

Stu"pe*ous
(?)
a.
[L. stupa, or better stuppa, tow; cf. L. stuppeus made of tow.  Cf. Stupose.]
Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.


word: Stupid
definition:
Stupid

Stu"pid
(?)
a.
[L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.]
1.
Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . 
As to forsake the living God!
Milton.

With wild surprise,
A moment stupid, motionless he stood.
Thomson.

2.
Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.

Observe what loads of stupid rhymes
Oppress us in corrupted times.
Swift.


word: Stupidity
definition:
Stupidity

Stu*pid"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidité.]
1.
The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

2.
Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.
[R.]

A stupidity
Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear.
Chapman.


word: Stupor
definition:
Stupor

Stu"por
(?)
n.
[L., from stupere to be struck senseless.]
1.
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

2.
Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.


word: Stupose
definition:
Stupose

Stu*pose
(?)
a.
[L. stupa, or better stuppa, tow.  Cf. Stupeous.]
(Bot.)
Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.


word: Stuprate
definition:
Stuprate

Stu"prate
(?)
v. t.
[L. stupratus, p. p. of stuprare to ravish, fr. stuprum defilement.]
To ravish; to debauch.
[R.]
Heywood.


word: Sturdy
definition:
Sturdy

Stur"dy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Sturdier (?); superl. Sturdiest.]
[OE. sturdi inconsiderable, OF. estourdi stunned, giddy, thoughtless, rash, F. étourdi, p. p. of OF. estourdir to stun, to render giddy, to amaze, F. étourdir; of uncertain origin. The sense has probably been influenced by E. stout.]
1.
Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.

This sturdy marquis gan his hearte dress
To rue upon her wifely steadfastness.
Chaucer.

This must be done, and I would fain see
Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.
Hudibras.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps.
Atterbury.

2.
Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.

3.
Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.

How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Gray.

4.
Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
Milton.

He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Sturdy₂
definition:
Sturdy

Stur"dy
(?)
n.
[OF. estourdi giddiness, stupefaction.]
(Vet.)
A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.


word: Sturgeon
definition:
Sturgeon

Stur"geon
(?)
n.
[F. esturgeon, LL. sturio, sturgio, OHG. sturjo, G. stör; akin to AS. styria, styriga.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia.  Caviar is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

&hand_; The common North American species are Acipenser sturio of the Atlantic coast region, Acipenser transmontanus of the Pacific coast, and Acipenser rubicundus of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In Europe, the common species is Acipenser sturio, and other well-known species are the sterlet and the huso.
    The sturgeons are included in the order Chondrostei. Their body is partially covered by five rows of large, carinated, bony plates, of which one row runs along the back. The tail is heterocercal. The toothless and protrusile mouth is beneath the head, and has four barbels in front.

Shovel-nosed sturgeon. (Zool.) See Shovelnose (d).


word: Sturiones
definition:
Sturiones

Stu`ri*o"nes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from LL. sturio. See Sturgeon.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes including the sturgeons.


word: Sturionian
definition:
Sturionian

Stu`ri*o"ni*an
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.


word: Sturnoid
definition:
Sturnoid

Stur"noid
(?)
a.
[L. sturnus a starling + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the starlings.


word: Sturt
definition:
Sturt

Sturt
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Start, v. i.]
To vex; to annoy; to startle.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Sturt₂
definition:
Sturt

Sturt
n.
1.
Disturbance; annoyance; care.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sturt
J. Rolland.

2.
(Mining)
A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Raymond.


word: Stutter
definition:
Stutter

Stut"ter
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Stuttered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stuttering.]
[Freq. of stut, OE. stoten; probably of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen, Icel. stauta, Sw. stöta, Dan. stöde, Goth. stautan, L. tundere, Skr. tud to thrust.  Cf. Contuse, Obtuse.]
To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
Macaulay.


word: Stutter₂
definition:
Stutter

Stut"ter
n.
1.
The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.

2.
One who stutters; a stammerer.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Stuttering
definition:
Stuttering

Stut"ter*ing
n.
The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.


word: Sty
definition:
Sty

Sty
(stī)
n.
pl. Sties (stīz).
[Written also stigh.]
[AS. stigu, fr. stīgan to rise; originally, probably, a place into which animals climbed or went up. √164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Steward.]
1.
A pen or inclosure for swine.

2.
A place of bestial debauchery.

To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Milton.


word: Sty₂
definition:
Sty

Sty
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Stied (stīd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stying (stī"ĭng).]
To shut up in, or as in, a sty.
Shak.


word: Sty₃
definition:
Sty

Sty
v. i.
[OE. stien, sti&yogh_;en, AS. stīgan to rise; akin to D. stijgen, OS. & OHG. stīgan, G. steigen, Icel. stīga, Sw. stiga, Dan. stige, Goth. steigan, L. vestigium footstep, Gr. _; to walk, to go, Skr. stigh to mount.  Cf. Distich, Stair steps, Stirrup, Sty a boil, a pen for swine, Vestige.]
To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.
[Obs.]

With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty,
To the last praises of this Faery Queene.
Spenser.


word: Sty₄
definition:
Sty

Sty
n.
[For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye, AS. stīgend (sc. eáge eye), properly, rising, or swelling (eye), p. p. of stīgan to rise. See Sty, v. i.]
(Med.)
An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
[Written also stye.]


word: Styca
definition:
Styca

Sty"ca
(?)
n.
[LL., fr. AS. stic, styc, stycge.]
An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.
S. M. Leake.


word: Stycerin
definition:
Stycerin

Sty"cer*in
(?)
n.
[Styryl + glycerin.]
(Chem.)
A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.


word: Stygian
definition:
Stygian

Styg"i*an
(stĭj"ĭ*an)
a.
[L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr. Sty`x, Stygo`s, the Styx.]
Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.

At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng
Bent their aspect.
Milton.


word: Stylagalmaic
definition:
Stylagalmaic

Sty`la*gal*ma"ic
(stī`lȧ*găl*mā"ĭk)
a.
[Gr. sty^los a column + 'a`galma an image.]
(Arch.)
Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images.
[Written also stylogalmaic.]


word: Stylaster
definition:
Stylaster

Sty*las"ter
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. sty^los pillar + 'asth`r star.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.


word: Style
definition:
Style

Style
(?)
n.
[OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed connection with Gr. sty^los a pillar.]
1.
An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

2.
Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.

3.
Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.

High style, as when that men to kinges write.
Chaucer.

Style is the dress of thoughts.
Chesterfield.

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Swift.

It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
I. Disraeli.

4.
Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.

The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
Sir J. Reynolds.

5.
Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.

According to the usual style of dedications.
C. Middleton.

6.
Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.

One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe.
Burke.

7.
(Chron.)
A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

&hand_; Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian manner of computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius Caesar, in which every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched, and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days, and any other year 365 days.

Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court in its proceedings. Ayliffe.


word: Style₂
definition:
Style

Style
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Styled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Styling.]
To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
Styled
Milton.

How well his worth and brave adventures styled.
Dryden.


word: Stylet
definition:
Stylet

Sty"let
(?)
n.
[F., dim. of style; cf. It. stiletto. See Stiletto.]
A small poniard; a stiletto.

2.
(Surg.)
(a)
An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.
(b)
A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.

3.
(Zool.)
Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.


word: Styliform
definition:
Styliform

Sty"li*form
(?)
a.
[Style + -form: cf. F. styliforme.]
Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.


word: Stylish
definition:
Stylish

Styl"ish
(?)
a.
Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.
Styl"ish*ly, adv. -- Styl"ish*ness, n.


word: Stylist
definition:
Stylist

Styl"ist
n.
One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.

Distinguished as a stylist, for ease.
Fitzed. Hall.


word: Stylistic
definition:
Stylistic

Sty*lis"tic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to style in language.
[R.]
Stylistic
J. A. Symonds.

The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him [Wyclif].
G. P. Marsh.


word: Stylite
definition:
Stylite

Sty"lite
(stī"līt)
n.
[Gr. styli`ths, fr. sty^los a pillar.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen.  Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom.  This was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the Christian equivalent of a flagpole sitter; in other words, Vulfolaic was a monk whose main austerity consisted in living on top of a pillar.  By carrying out this feat in the rain, snow, and frost of the Moselle valley, Vulfolaic had convinced the local population to overthrow and abandon the idol of Diana to which they were addicted.
Walter Goffart, FOREIGNERS IN THE HISTORIES OF GREGORY OF TOURS (http://www.arts.uwo.ca/florilegium/goffart.html).


word: Stylo-
definition:
Stylo-

Sty"lo-
(stī"lo̝-)
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.


word: Stylobate
definition:
Stylobate

Sty"lo*bate
(stī"lo̝*ba̝t)
n.
[L. stylobates, stylobata, Gr. styloba`ths; sty^los a pillar + ba`ths one that treads, fr. bai`nein to go.]
(Arch.)
The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.


word: Styloglossal
definition:
Styloglossal

Sty`lo*glos"sal
(?)
a.
[Stylo- + glossal.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.


word: Stylographic
definition:
Stylographic

Sty`lo*graph"ic
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.

2.
Pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.

Stylographic pen, a pen with a conical point like that of a style, combined with a reservoir for supplying it with ink. -- Stylographic pencil, a pencil used in stylography.


word: Stylography
definition:
Stylography

Sty*log"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Style + -graphy.]
A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.


word: Stylohyal
definition:
Stylohyal

Sty`lo*hy"al
(?)
n.
[Stylo- + the Gr. letter _;.]
(Anat.)
A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.


word: Stylohyoid
definition:
Stylohyoid

Sty`lo*hy"oid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.


word: Styloid
definition:
Styloid

Sty"loid
(?)
a.
[Style + -oid: cf. F. styloïde, Gr. _;.]
1.
Styliform; as, the styloid process.

2.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

Styloid process (Anat.), a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.


word: Stylomastoid
definition:
Stylomastoid

Sty`lo*mas"toid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.


word: Stylomaxillary
definition:
Stylomaxillary

Sty`lo*max"il*la*ry
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.


word: Stylommata
definition:
Stylommata

Sty*lom"ma*ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a pillar + _;, _;, the eye.]
Same as Stylommatophora.


word: Stylommatophora
definition:
Stylommatophora

Sty*lom`ma*toph"o*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; column + _; eye + fe`rein to bear.]
(Zool.)
A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.


word: Stylopodium
definition:
Stylopodium

Sty`lo*po"di*um
(?)
n.
pl. Stylopodia (#).
[NL. See Style, and Podium.]
(Bot.)
An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.


word: Stylops
definition:
Stylops

Sty"lops
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a pillar + _;, _;, the eye.]
(Zool.)
A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.


word: Stylus
definition:
Stylus

Sty"lus
(?)
n.
[L. stylus, or better stilus.]
1.
An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

2.
That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle.  The stylus is frequently composed of a hard metal or of diamond.

3.
The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record; it is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record.

4.
(Computers)
A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.


word: Stimy
definition:
Stimy

Stymie

{ Sty"mie (?), n. Also Sti"my  }
[Orig. uncertain.]
(Golf)
The position of two balls on the putting green such that, being more than six inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.


word: Stimy₂
definition:
Stimy

Stymie

{ Sty"mie, v. t. Also Sti"my  }
(Golf)
To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.


word: Styphnic
definition:
Styphnic

Styph"nic
(?)
a.
[Gr. (spurious) sty`fein to contract.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.


word: Styptic
definition:
Styptic

Styp"tic
(?)
a.
[L. stypticus, Gr. _;, fr. _; to contract.]
Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
[Written also stiptic.]

Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.


word: Stypticity
definition:
Stypticity

Styp*tic"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. stypticité.]
The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.


word: Styracin
definition:
Styracin

Styr"a*cin
(?)
n.
[See Styrax.]
(Chem.)
A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.


word: Styrax
definition:
Styrax

Sty"rax
(?)
n.
[L. styrax, storax, Gr. _;. See Storax.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and Styrax Benzoin yields benzoin.

2.
Same as Storax.


word: Styrolene
definition:
Styrolene

Sty"ro*lene
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.


word: Styrone
definition:
Styrone

Sty"rone
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic alcohol or styryl alcohol.


word: Styryl
definition:
Styryl

Sty"ryl
(?)
n.
[Styrax + -yl.]
(Chem.)
A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.


word: Styx
definition:
Styx

Styx
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
(Class. Myth.)
The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.


word: Suability
definition:
Suability

Su`a*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
(Law)
Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.


word: Suable
definition:
Suable

Su"a*ble
(?)
a.
(Law)
Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.
Story.


word: Suant
definition:
Suant

Su"ant
(?)
a.
[Cf. Sue to pursue.]
Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even.
[Written also suent.]
[Local, U.S. & Prov. Eng.]
Su"ant*ly, adv. [Local, U.S. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Suasible
definition:
Suasible

Sua"si*ble
(?)
a.
[L. suadere, suasum, to persuade.]
Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.


word: Suasion
definition:
Suasion

Sua"sion
(?)
n.
[L. suasio, fr. suadere, suasum, to advise, persuade, fr. suadus persuading, persuasive; akin to suavis sweet: cf. OF. suasion. See Suave, and cf. Dissuade, Persuade.]
The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.


word: Suasive
definition:
Suasive

Sua"sive
(?)
a.
Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.
South.
suasive
Earle.
Sua"sive*ly, adv.


word: Suave
definition:
Suave

Suave
(?)
a.
[L. suavis sweet, pleasant: cf. F. suave. See Sweet, and cf. Suasion.]
Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
Suave"ly, adv.


word: Suavify
definition:
Suavify

Suav"i*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Suavified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Suavifying (?).]
[Suave + -fy.]
To make affable or suave.


word: Suaviloquent
definition:
Suaviloquent

Sua*vil"o*quent
(?)
a.
[L. suaviloquens; suavis sweet + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.]
Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech.
[R.]


word: Suavity
definition:
Suavity

Suav"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. suavitas: cf. F. suavité.]
1.
Sweetness to the taste.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

2.
The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
Glanvill.


word: Sub-
definition:
Sub-

Sub-
(?)
[L. sub under, below; akin to Gr. _;, Skr. upa to, on, under, over.  Cf. Hypo-, Super-.]
1.
A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).

2.
(Chem.)
A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc.  Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate.
[Obsoles.]


word: Sub
definition:
Sub

Sub
n.
1.
A subordinate; a subaltern.
[Colloq.]

2.
a shortened form of submarine, the boat.

3.
a shortened form of submarine sandwich; also called hero, hero sandwich, and grinder.


word: Subacid
definition:
Subacid

Sub*ac"id
(?)
a.
[L. subacidus. See Sub-, Acid.]
Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.
n. A substance moderately acid.


word: Subact
definition:
Subact

Sub*act"
(?)
v. t.
[L. subactus, p. p. of subigere to subdue; sub under + agere to lead, bring.]
To reduce; to subdue.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Subaction
definition:
Subaction

Sub*ac"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. L. subactio a working up, discipline.]
The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Subaerial
definition:
Subaerial

Sub`a*e"ri*al
(?)
a.
Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.


word: Subagent
definition:
Subagent

Sub*a"gent
(?)
n.
(Law)
A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.
Bouvier. Chitty.


word: Subagitation
definition:
Subagitation

Sub*ag`i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. subagitatio, fr. subagitare to lie with illicity.]
Unlawful sexual intercourse.
[Obs.]


word: Subah
definition:
Subah

Su"bah
(sō"bȧ)
n.
[Per. & Hind. sūbah.]
A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.
[India]


word: Subahdar
definition:
Subahdar

Su"bah*dar
(?)
n.
[Per. & Hind. sūbah-dār, Per. sūbah a province + dār holding, keeping.]
A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.
[India]


word: Subahship
definition:
Subahship

Subahdary

{ Su"bah*dar`y (?), Su"bah*ship (?), }
n.
The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.


word: Subaid
definition:
Subaid

Sub*aid"
(?)
v. t.
To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.
[R.]
Daniel.


word: Subalpine
definition:
Subalpine

Sub*al"pine
(?)
a.
[L. subalpinus.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.


word: Subaltern
definition:
Subaltern

Sub*al"tern
(?)
a.
[F. subalterne, LL. subalternus, fr. L. sub under + alter the one, the other of two. See Alter.]
1.
Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

2.
(Logic)
Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.

Subaltern genus. (Logic) See under Genus.


word: Subaltern₂
definition:
Subaltern

Sub*al"tern
(?)
n.
1.
A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.

2.
(Logic)
A subaltern proposition.
Whately.


word: Subalternate
definition:
Subalternate

Sub`al*ter"nate
(?)
a.
1.
Succeeding by turns; successive.

2.
Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.

All their subalternate and several kinds.
Evelyn.


word: Subalternate₂
definition:
Subalternate

Sub`al*ter"nate
n.
(Logic)
A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2.


word: Subalternation
definition:
Subalternation

Sub*al"ter*na`tion
(?)
n.
The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.


word: Subapennine
definition:
Subapennine

Sub*ap"en*nine
(?)
a.
Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.


word: Subapical
definition:
Subapical

Sub*ap"ic*al
(?)
a.
Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.


word: Subaqueous
definition:
Subaqueous

Subaquatic

{ Sub`a*quat"ic (?), Sub*a"que*ous (?), }
a.
1.
Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

2.
(Geol.)
Formed in or under water; as, subaqueous deposits.


word: Subarachnoidal
definition:
Subarachnoidal

Subarachnoid

{ Sub`a*rach"noid (?), Sub*ar`ach*noid"al (?), }
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under the arachnoid membrane.


word: Subarctic
definition:
Subarctic

Sub*arc"tic
(?)
a.
Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.


word: Subarcuated
definition:
Subarcuated

Subarcuate

{ Sub*ar"cu*ate (?), Sub*ar"cu*a`ted (?), }
a.
Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.


word: Subarration
definition:
Subarration

Sub`ar*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. sub- + L. arra, arrha, earnest money. See Earnest a pledge.]
The ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.


word: Subarytenoid
definition:
Subarytenoid

Sub`a*ryt"e*noid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.


word: Subatom
definition:
Subatom

Sub*at"om
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.


word: Subaud
definition:
Subaud

Sub*aud"
(?)
v. t.
[L. subaudire, subauditum; sub under + audire to hear.]
To understand or supply in an ellipsis.
[R.]


word: Subaudition
definition:
Subaudition

Sub`au*di"tion
(?)
n.
[L. subauditio.]
The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.
Trench.


word: Subaxillary
definition:
Subaxillary

Sub*ax"il*la*ry
(?)
a.
1.
(Anat.)
Situated under the axilla, or armpit.

2.
(Bot.)
Placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch.


word: Sub-base
definition:
Sub-base

Sub"-base`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.


word: Sub-bass
definition:
Sub-bass

Sub"-bass`
n.
(Mus.)
The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.
[Written also sub-base.]
Ayliffe.


word: Subbrachiales
definition:
Subbrachiales

Sub*brach`i*a"les
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Sub-, and Brachial.]
(Zool.)
A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.


word: Subbreed
definition:
Subbreed

Sub"breed`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.


word: Subbronchial
definition:
Subbronchial

Sub*bron"chi*al
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.


word: Subcaliber
definition:
Subcaliber

Sub*cal"i*ber
(?)
a.
Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.
[Written also subcalibre.]

Subcaliber projectile, a projectile having a smaller diameter than the caliber of the arm from which it is fired, and to which it is fitted by means of a sabot. Knight.


word: Subcarbonate
definition:
Subcarbonate

Sub*car"bon*ate
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.


word: Subcarboniferous
definition:
Subcarboniferous

Sub*car`bon*if"er*ous
(?)
a.
(Geol.)
Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone.
n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.


word: Subcarbureted
definition:
Subcarbureted

Sub*car"bu*ret`ed
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion.
[Written also subcarburetted.]
[Obsoles.]


word: Subcartilaginous
definition:
Subcartilaginous

Sub*car`ti*lag"i*nous
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
(a)
Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.
(b)
Partially cartilaginous.


word: Subcaudal
definition:
Subcaudal

Sub*cau"dal
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.


word: Subcellar
definition:
Subcellar

Sub*cel"lar
(?)
n.
A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.


word: Subchanter
definition:
Subchanter

Sub*chant"er
(?)
n.
(Eccl.)
An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.


word: Subclass
definition:
Subclass

Sub"class`
(?)
n.
One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.


word: Subclavian
definition:
Subclavian

Sub*cla"vi*an
(?)
a.
[Pref. sub- + L. clavis a key. See Clavicle.]
(Anat.)
Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.


word: Subcommittee
definition:
Subcommittee

Sub`com*mit"tee
(?)
n.
An under committee; a part or division of a committee.

Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed.
Milton.


word: Subconscious
definition:
Subconscious

Sub*con"scious
(?)
a.
1.
Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.

2.
Partially conscious; feebly conscious.


word: Subconsciousness
definition:
Subconsciousness

Sub*con"scious*ness
(?)
n.
The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.


word: Subconstellation
definition:
Subconstellation

Sub*con`stel*la"tion
(?)
n.
(Astron.)
A subordinate constellation.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Subcontracted
definition:
Subcontracted

Sub`con*tract"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Contracted after a former contract.

2.
Betrothed for the second time.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Subcontractor
definition:
Subcontractor

Sub`con*tract"or
(?)
n.
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.


word: Subcontrary
definition:
Subcontrary

Sub*con"tra*ry
(?)
a.
1.
Contrary in an inferior degree.

2.
(Geom.)
Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
Brande & C.

3.
(Logic)
Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.


word: Subcontrary₂
definition:
Subcontrary

Sub*con"tra*ry
n.
pl. Subcontraries (_;).
(Logic)
A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.


word: Subcoracoid
definition:
Subcoracoid

Sub*cor"a*coid
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.


word: Subcorneous
definition:
Subcorneous

Sub*cor"ne*ous
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
(a)
Situated under a horny part or layer.
(b)
Partially horny.


word: Subcostal
definition:
Subcostal

Sub*cos"tal
(?)
a.
(Anat. & Zool.)
Situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles.

&hand_; The subcostal muscles are distinct from, and within, the intercostal.


word: Subcostal₂
definition:
Subcostal

Sub*cos"tal
n.
1.
(Anat.)
A subcostal muscle.

2.
(Zool.)
One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.


word: Subcranial
definition:
Subcranial

Sub*cra"ni*al
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.


word: Subcrustaceous
definition:
Subcrustaceous

Sub`crus*ta"ceous
(?)
a.
Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.


word: Subcultrated
definition:
Subcultrated

Subcultrate

{ Sub*cul"trate (?), Sub*cul"tra*ted (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.


word: Subcutaneous
definition:
Subcutaneous

Sub`cu*ta"ne*ous
(?)
a.
Situated under the skin; hypodermic.
Sub`cu*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv.

Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.


word: Subcylindric
definition:
Subcylindric

Subcylindrical

{ Sub`cy*lin"dric*al (?), Sub`cy*lin"dric (?), }
a.
Imperfectly cylindrical; approximately cylindrical.


word: Subdeacon
definition:
Subdeacon

Sub*dea"con
(?)
n.
[Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L. subdiaconus.]
(Eccl.)
One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.


word: Subdeaconship
definition:
Subdeaconship

Subdeaconry

{ Sub*dea"con*ry (?), Sub*dea"con*ship, }
n.
(Eccl.)
The order or office of subdeacon.


word: Subdean
definition:
Subdean

Sub"dean`
(?)
n.
[Pref. sub- + dean: cf. F. sousdoyen.]
An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
Ayliffe.


word: Subdelegate₂
definition:
Subdelegate

Sub*del"e*gate
(?)
v. t.
To appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete.


word: Subdepartment
definition:
Subdepartment

Sub`de*part"ment
(?)
n.
A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau.


word: Subderisorious
definition:
Subderisorious

Sub`der*i*so"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. sub- + L. derisorius. See Derisory.]
Ridiculing with moderation.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Subderivative
definition:
Subderivative

Sub`de*riv"a*tive
(?)
n.
A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, “friendliness” is a subderivative, being derived from “friendly”, which is in turn a derivative from “friend.”


word: Subdiaconate
definition:
Subdiaconate

Sub`di*ac"o*nate
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.


word: Subdial
definition:
Subdial

Sub*di"al
(?)
a.
[L. subdialis in the open air.]
Of or pertaining to the open air; being under the open sky.
[R.]
N. Bacon.


word: Subdichotomy
definition:
Subdichotomy

Sub`di*chot"o*my
(?)
n.
A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision.
[R.]

Many subdichatomies of petty schisms.
Milton.


word: Subdititious
definition:
Subdititious

Sub`di*ti"tious
(?)
a.
[L. subdititius, subditicius, fr. subdere to substitute.]
Put secretly in the place of something else; foisted in.
[R.]


word: Subdiversify
definition:
Subdiversify

Sub`di*ver"si*fy
(?)
v. t.
To diversify aggain what is already diversified.
[R.]
Sir M. Hale.


word: Subdivide
definition:
Subdivide

Sub`di*vide"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Subdivided (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Subdividing.]
[L. subdividere, sub under + dividere to divide. See Divide.]
To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided.

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.
Dryden.


word: Subdivine
definition:
Subdivine

Sub`di*vine"
(?)
a.
Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree.
Bp. Hall.


word: Subdivision
definition:
Subdivision

Sub`di*vi"sion
(?)
n.
[L. subdivisio: cf. F. subdivision.]
1.
The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

2.
A part of a thing made by subdividing.

In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit.
Arbuthnot.


word: Subdolous
definition:
Subdolous

Sub"do*lous
(?)
a.
[L. subdolus, sub + dolus deceit.]
Sly; crafty; cunning; artful.
[R.]


word: Subdominant
definition:
Subdominant

Sub*dom"i*nant
(?)
n.
(Mus.)
The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.


word: Subduct
definition:
Subduct

Subduce

{ Sub*duce" (?), Sub*duct" (?), }
v. t.
[L. subducere, subductum; sub under + ducere to lead, to draw. See Duke, and cf. Subdue.]
1.
To withdraw; to take away.
Milton.

2.
To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.

If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.
Sir M. Hale.


word: Subduction
definition:
Subduction

Sub*duc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. subductio.]
1.
The act of subducting or taking away.
Bp. Hall.

2.
Arithmetical subtraction.
Sir M. Hale.


word: Subdue
definition:
Subdue

Sub*due"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Subdued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Subduing.]
[OE. soduen, OF. sosduire to seduce, L. subtus below (fr. sub under) + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Subduct.]
1.
To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

I will subdue all thine enemies.
1 Chron. xvii. 10.

2.
To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.

Nothing could have subdued nature
To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters.
Shak.

If aught . . . were worthy to subdue
The soul of man.
Milton.

3.
To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.

4.
To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.

5.
To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.

6.
To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.

7.
To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.

8.
To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.


word: Subdued
definition:
Subdued

Sub*dued"
(?)
a.
1.
Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.

2.
Not glaring in color; soft in tone.


word: Subduple
definition:
Subduple

Sub"du*ple
(?)
a.
(Math.)
Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two.

Subduple ratio, the ratio of 1 to 2: thus, 3:6 is a subduple ratio, as 6:3 is a duple ratio.


word: Subduplicate
definition:
Subduplicate

Sub*du"pli*cate
(?)
a.
(Math.)
Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios.

Subduplicate ratio, the ratio of the square roots, or the square root of a ratio; thus, the subduplicate ratio of a to b is √a to √b, or √a/b.


word: Subdural
definition:
Subdural

Sub*du"ral
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.


word: Subereous
definition:
Subereous

Su*be"re*ous
(?)
a.
[L. subereus of the cork tree.]
Of or pertaining to cork; of the nature of cork; suberose.


word: Suberic
definition:
Suberic

Su*ber"ic
(?)
a.
[L. suber the cork tree: cf. F. subéreque.]
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to cork; specifically, designating an acid, C6H12.(CO2H)2, homologous with oxalic acid, and obtained from cork and certain fatty oils, as a white crystalline substance.


word: Suberin
definition:
Suberin

Su"ber*in
(?)
n.
[L. suber the cork tree: cf. F. subérine.]
(Bot.)
A material found in the cell walls of cork. It is a modification of lignin.


word: Suberite
definition:
Suberite

Su"ber*ite
(?)
n.
[L. suber the cork tree.]
(Zool.)
Any sponge of the genus Suberites and allied genera. These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules.


word: Suberization
definition:
Suberization

Su`ber*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.


word: Suberize
definition:
Suberize

Su"ber*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. -ized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. -izing (?).]
[L. suber cork.]
(Bot.)
To effect suberization of.


word: Suberone
definition:
Suberone

Su"ber*one
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
(a)
The hypothetical ketone of suberic acid.
(b)
A colorless liquid, analogous suberone proper, having a pleasant peppermint odor. It is obtained by the distillation of calcium suberate.


word: Suberous
definition:
Suberous

Suberose

{ Su"ber*ose` (?), Su"ber*ous (?), }
a.
[L. suber the cork tree: cf. F. subéreux.]
(Bot.)
Having a corky texture.


word: Subesophageal
definition:
Subesophageal

Sub*e`so*phag"e*al
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Situated beneath the esophagus.
[Written also suboesophageal.]

Subesophageal ganglion (Zool.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.


word: Subfamily
definition:
Subfamily

Sub*fam"i*ly
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.


word: subfusc
definition:
subfusc

sub*fusc"
(?)
a.
[L. subfuscus, suffuscus. See Sub-, and Fuscous.]
1.
Same as subfuscous.

2.
Drab; dingy; dull.
[Chiefty Brit.]


word: Subfuscous
definition:
Subfuscous

Sub*fus"cous
(?)
a.
[L. subfuscus, suffuscus. See Sub-, and Fuscous.]
Duskish; dusky; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.

Syn. -- subfusc{1}.


word: Subgenus
definition:
Subgenus

Sub*ge"nus
(?)
n.
pl. Subgenera (_;).
(Biol.)
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.


word: Subglacial
definition:
Subglacial

Sub*gla"cial
(?)
a.
Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.


word: Subglottic
definition:
Subglottic

Sub*glot"tic
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords.


word: Subhepatic
definition:
Subhepatic

Sub`he*pat"ic
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.


word: Subhornblendic
definition:
Subhornblendic

Sub`horn*blend"ic
(?)
a.
(Min.)
Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.


word: Subhumerate
definition:
Subhumerate

Sub*hu"mer*ate
(?)
v. t.
[See Sub-, Humerus.]
To place the shoulders under; to bear.
[Obs.]

Nothing surer ties a friend than freely to subhumerate the burden which was his.
Feltham.


word: Subhyoidean
definition:
Subhyoidean

Sub`hy*oid"e*an
(?)
a.
(Anat. & Med.)
Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.


word: Subimago
definition:
Subimago

Sub`i*ma"go
(?)
n.
[NL. See Sub-, and Imago.]
(Zool.)
A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago.


word: Subincusation
definition:
Subincusation

Sub*in`cu*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. sub + L. incusatio accusation, fr. incusare to accuse.]
A slight charge or accusation.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Subindex
definition:
Subindex

Sub*in"dex
(?)
n.
pl. Subindices (_;).
(Math.)
A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.


word: Subindicate
definition:
Subindicate

Sub*in"di*cate
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. sub + indicate: cf. L. subindicare.]
To indicate by signs or hints; to indicate imperfectly.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Subindication
definition:
Subindication

Sub*in`di*ca"tion
(?)
n.
The act of indicating by signs; a slight indication.
[R.]
subindication
Barrow.


word: Subindividual
definition:
Subindividual

Sub*in`di*vid"u*al
(?)
n.
A division of that which is individual.

An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals.
Milton.


word: Subinfeudation
definition:
Subinfeudation

Sub*in`feu*da"tion
(?)
n.
(Law)
(a)
The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure.
Craig.
(b)
Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.

The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation, or undertenancy.
Blackstone.


word: Subintestinal
definition:
Subintestinal

Sub`in*tes"ti*nal
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.


word: Subinvolution
definition:
Subinvolution

Sub*in`vo*lu"tion
(?)
n.
Partial or incomplete involution; as, subinvolution of the uterus.


word: Subitaneous
definition:
Subitaneous

Sub`i*ta"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[L. subitaneus. See Sudden.]
Sudden; hasty.
[Obs.]
Bullokar.
Sub`i*ta"ne*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]


word: Subjacent
definition:
Subjacent

Sub*ja"cent
(?)
a.
[L. subjacens, p. pr. of subjacere to lie under; sub under + jacere to lie.]
1.
Lying under or below.

2.
Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.


word: Subject
definition:
Subject

Sub*ject"
(?)
a.
[OE. suget, OF. souzget, sougit (in which the first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p. p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
1.
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

Esau was never subject to Jacob.
Locke.

3.
Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.

All human things are subject to decay.
Dryden.

4.
Obedient; submissive.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities.
Titus iii. 1.


word: Subject₂
definition:
Subject

Sub*ject"
n.
[From L. subjectus, through an old form of F. sujet. See Subject, a.]
1.
That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

2.
Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.

Was never subject longed to be a king,
As I do long and wish to be a subject.
Shak.

The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it.
Swift.

&hand_; In international law, the term subject is convertible with citizen.

3.
That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.

4.
That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
subject
Milton.

Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.
Dryden.

The unhappy subject of these quarrels.
Shak.

5.
The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject.
C. Middleton.

6.
(Logic & Gram.)
That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.

The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied.
I. Watts.

7.
That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.

That which manifests its qualities -- in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong -- is called their subject or substance, or substratum.
Sir W. Hamilton.

8.
Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego.  Cf. Object, n., 2.

The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing.
Sir W. Hamilton.

9.
(Mus.)
The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.

The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
Rockstro.

10.
(Fine Arts)
The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.


