Steppe
"Jiünati Steppe" The Jiünati Steppe is a vast region of semi-arid plains extending northward from the Carathay Desert to the Istyuli Plains , inhabited by Scylvendi pastoralists since the early years of the Second Age.

Stitramoses
"Heramari Stitramoses" Thurror Eryelk's Breath-father.

Stone
"Stone Hags" The Stone Hags were a renegade scalper com­pa­ny infamous for at­tack­ing oth­er com­pa­nies . The captain of the Stone Hags was Pafaras , a former Mysunsai Schoolman .

Known Members

- Belmorn
- Erydides
- Heresius
- Hilikas
- Koll
- Osilwas
- Pafaras
- Scroll
- Tûborsa Hurm
- Wulgulu

Stone Hags
The Stone Hags were a renegade scalper com­pa­ny infamous for at­tack­ing oth­er com­pa­nies . The captain of the Stone Hags was Pafaras , a former Mysunsai Schoolman .

Known Members

- Belmorn
- Erydides
- Heresius
- Hilikas
- Koll
- Osilwas
- Pafaras
- Scroll
- Tûborsa Hurm
- Wulgulu

Straits
"Straits of Bajeda" The Straits of Bajeda are the straits separating the southwestern tip of Nron from the southeastern extremeties of Cironj .

Straits of Bajeda
The Straits of Bajeda are the straits separating the southwestern tip of Nron from the southeastern extremeties of Cironj .

Struck
"Struck Table" The Struck Table is an immense stone table located in the Charnal Hall within Ilchara Catacombs . Is it where the leadership of the Cult of Yatwer convenes on rare occasions, the last time occurring in the spring of 4132 where Psatma Nannaferi announced of the coming of the White-Luck Warrior . According to legend, the Struck Table is where Yatwer herself had once 'chastised her wayward daughters.'

Struck Table
The Struck Table is an immense stone table located in the Charnal Hall within Ilchara Catacombs . Is it where the leadership of the Cult of Yatwer convenes on rare occasions, the last time occurring in the spring of 4132 where Psatma Nannaferi announced of the coming of the White-Luck Warrior . According to legend, the Struck Table is where Yatwer herself had once 'chastised her wayward daughters.'

Stubborn
A pony owned by Sorweel after joining the Great Ordeal.

stab
-to pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
-fig.: to injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
-to give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
-to wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
-the thrust of a pointed weapon.
-a wound with a sharp
-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
-fig.: an injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

stabat mater
-a celebrated latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our lord at the foot of the cross. it is read in the mass of the sorrows of the virgin mary, and is sung by catholics when making "the way of the cross" (via crucis). see station, 7 (c).

stabbed
-of stab

stabber
-one who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.
-a small marline spike; a pricker.

stabbing
-of stab

stabbingly
-by stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.

stabiliment
-the act of making firm; firm support; establishment.

stabilitate
-to make stable; to establish.

stability
-the state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
-steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
-fixedness;
-- as opposed to fluidity.

stable
-firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
-steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
-durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
-to fix; to establish.
-a house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
-to put or keep in a stable.
-to dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.

stable stand
-the position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip;
-- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer.

stableboy
-alt. of stableman

stabled
-of stable

stableman
-a boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.

stableness
-the quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

stabler
-a stable keeper.

stabling
-of stable
-the act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
-a building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.

stablish
-to settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.

stablishment
-establishment.

stably
-in a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.

stabulation
-the act of stabling or housing beasts.
-a place for lodging beasts; a stable.

staccato
-disconnected; separated; distinct;
-- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. it is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
-expressed in a brief, pointed manner.

stack
-a large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
-a pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
-a pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
-a number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. hence:
-any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
-a section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
-a data structure within random
-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push
-down stack.
-to lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.

stack
-guard
-a covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.

stackage
-hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.
-a tax on things stacked.

stacked
-of stack

stacket
-a stockade.

stacking
-of stack
-a. & n. from stack.

stackstand
-a staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

stackyard
-a yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.

stacte
-one of the sweet spices used by the ancient jews in the preparation of incense. it was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

staddle
-anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
-the frame of a stack of hay or grain.
-a row of dried or drying hay, etc.
-a small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
-to leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
-to form into staddles, as hay.

stade
-a stadium.
-a landing place or wharf.

stadia
-of stadium

stadimeter
-a horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.

stadium
-a greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. it was equal to 600 greek or 625 roman feet, or 125 roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches english. this was also called the olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot
-race course at olympia.
-hence, a race course; especially, the olympic course for foot races.
-a kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope;
-- also called stadia, and stadia rod.

stadtholder
-formerly, the chief magistrate of the united provinces of holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

stadtholderate
-alt. of stadtholdership

stadtholdership
-the office or position of a stadtholder.

stafette
-an estafet.

staff
-a long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
-a stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
-a pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
-a pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
-the round of a ladder.
-a series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
-the five lines and the spaces on which music is written;
-- formerly called stave.
-an arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
-the grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
-an establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. the general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. see etat major.
-hence: a body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.

staffier
-an attendant bearing a staff.

staffish
-stiff; harsh.

staffman
-a workman employed in silk throwing.

staffmen
-of staffman

staffs
-of staff
-of staff

stag
-the adult male of the red deer (cervus elaphus), a large european species closely related to the american elk, or wapiti.
-the male of certain other species of large deer.
-a colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
-a castrated bull;
-- called also bull stag, and bull seg. see the note under ox.
-an outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
-one who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
-the european wren.
-to act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
-to watch; to dog, or keep track of.

stag
-evil
-a kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.

stag
-horn coral
-alt. of stag
-horn fern

stag
-horn fern
-see under stag.

stag
-horned
-having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag;
-- said of certain beetles.

stage
-a floor or story of a house.
-an elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
-a floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
-a platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
-the floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
-a place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
-the platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. see illust. of microscope.
-a place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
-a degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.
-a degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
-a large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
-one of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
-to exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

stage
-struck
-fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.

stagecoach
-a coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

stagecoachman
-one who drives a stagecoach.

stagecoachmen
-of stagecoachman

stagehouse
-a house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

stagely
-pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.

stageplay
-a dramatic or theatrical entertainment.

stageplayer
-an actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

stager
-a player.
-one who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
-a horse used in drawing a stage.

stagery
-exhibition on the stage.

staggard
-the male red deer when four years old.

stagger
-to move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
-to cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
-to begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
-to cause to reel or totter.
-to cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
-to arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
-an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo;
-- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
-a disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
-bewilderment; perplexity.

staggerbush
-an american shrub (andromeda mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. it grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.

staggered
-of stagger

staggering
-of stagger

staggeringly
-in a staggering manner.

staggerwort
-a kind of ragwort (senecio jacobaea).

staghound
-a large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. the breed is nearly extinct.

staging
-a structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
-the business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.

stagirite
-a native of, or resident in, stagira, in ancient macedonia; especially, aristotle.

stagnancy
-state of being stagnant.

stagnant
-that stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.
-not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.

stagnantly
-in a stagnant manner.

stagnate
-to cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
-to cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
-stagnant.

stagnated
-of stagnate

stagnating
-of stagnate

stagnation
-the condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.
-the cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.

stagworm
-the larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

stahlian
-pertaining to, or taught by, stahl, a german physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the stahlian theory of phlogiston.
-a believer in, or advocate of, stahlism.

stahlianism
-the stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul.

stahlism
-alt. of stahlianism

staid
-sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
-of stay

staidly
-in a staid manner, sedately.

staidness
-the quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity;
-- the opposite of wildness, or levity.

stail
-imp. & p. p. of stay.
-a handle, as of a mop; a stale.

stain
-to discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
-to color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
-to spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
-to cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
-to give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
-a discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
-a natural spot of a color different from the gound.
-taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
-cause of reproach; shame.
-a tincture; a tinge.

stained
-of stain

stainer
-one who stains or tarnishes.
-a workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.

staining
-of stain

stainless
-free from stain; immaculate.

stainlessly
-in a stainless manner.

stair
-one step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level;
-- commonly applied to those within a building.
-a series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another;
-- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.

staircase
-a flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.

stairhead
-the head or top of a staircase.

stairway
-a flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

staith
-a landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

staithman
-a man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.

stake
-a piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
-a stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
-the piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.
-a small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top,
-- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
-that which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
-to fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
-to mark the limits of by stakes;
-- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
-to put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
-to pierce or wound with a stake.

stake
-driver
-the common american bittern (botaurus lentiginosus);
-- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. called also meadow hen, and indian hen.

staked
-of stake

stakehead
-a horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.

stakeholder
-the holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

staking
-of stake

staktometer
-a drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. see pipette.

stal
-stole.

stalactic
-alt. of stalactical

stalactical
-stalactic.

stalactite
-a pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
-in an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.

stalactites
-of stalactite
-a stalactite.

stalactitic
-alt. of stalactitical

stalactitical
-of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.

stalactitiform
-having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.

stalactoform
-like a stalactite; resembling a stalactite.

stalagmite
-a deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.

stalagmitic
-alt. of stalagmitical

stalagmitical
-having the form or structure of stalagmites.

stalder
-a wooden frame to set casks on.

stale
-the stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
-vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
-not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
-having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
-worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
-to make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
-to make water; to discharge urine;
-- said especially of horses and cattle.
-that which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
-a prostitute.
-urine, esp. that of beasts.
-something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
-a stalking
-horse.
-a stalemate.
-a laughingstock; a dupe.

staled
-of stale

stalely
-in a state stale manner.
-of old; long since.

stalemate
-the position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
-to subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

staleness
-the quality or state of being stale.

staling
-of stale

stalk
-the stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
-the petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
-that which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
-an ornament in the corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
-one of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
-a stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
-the narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
-the peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
-an iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
-to walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner;
-- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
-to walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
-to walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. the word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
-to approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
-a high, proud, stately step or walk.

stalk
-eyed
-having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle;
-- opposed to sessile
-eyed. said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans.

stalked
-of stalk
-having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.

stalker
-one who stalks.
-a kind of fishing net.

stalking
-of stalk

stalking
-horse
-a horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.
-fig.: something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.

stalkless
-having no stalk.

stalky
-hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.

stall
-a stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
-a stable; a place for cattle.
-a small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
-a bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
-a seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. it is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. the stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
-in the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
-the space left by excavation between pillars. see post and stall, under post.
-to put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
-to fatten; as, to stall cattle.
-to place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
-to plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
-to forestall; to anticipitate. having
-to keep close; to keep secret.
-to live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
-to kennel, as dogs.
-to be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
-to be tired of eating, as cattle.

stall
-fed
-of stall
-feed

stall
-feed
-to feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall
-feed an ox.

stall
-feeding
-of stall
-feed

stallage
-the right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.
-dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.

stallation
-installation.

stalled
-of stall
-put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.

staller
-a standard bearer. obtaining

stalling
-of stall
-stabling.

stallion
-a male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

stallman
-one who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.

stallmen
-of stallman

stallon
-a slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.

stalwart
-alt. of stalworth

stalwartly
-in a stalwart manner.

stalwartness
-the quality of being stalwart.

stalworth
-brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

stalworthhood
-alt. of stalworthness

stalworthness
-the quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring.

stamen
-a thread; especially, a warp thread.
-the male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. it consists of the anther and filament.

stamened
-furnished with stamens.

stamens
-of stamen

stamin
-a kind of woolen cloth.

stamina
-of stamen
-see stamen.
-the fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.
-whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a state.

staminal
-of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.

staminate
-furnished with stamens; producing stamens.
-having stamens, but lacking pistils.
-to indue with stamina.

stamineal
-alt. of stamineous

stamineous
-consisting of stamens or threads.
-of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.

staminiferous
-bearing or having stamens.

staminode
-a staminodium.

staminodia
-of staminodium

staminodium
-an abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.

stammel
-a large, clumsy horse.
-a kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. it seems to have been often of a red color.
-a red dye, used in england in the 15th and 16th centuries.
-of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.

stammer
-to make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
-to utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly;
-- sometimes with out.
-defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.

stammered
-of stammer

stammerer
-one who stammers.

stammering
-of stammer
-apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.
-a disturbance in the formation of sounds. it is due essentially to long
-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.

stamp
-to strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
-to bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
-to crush; to pulverize; specifically (metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
-to impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
-fig.: to impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
-to cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
-to put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
-to strike; to beat; to crush.
-to strike the foot forcibly downward.
-the act of stamping, as with the foot.
-the which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
-the mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
-that which is marked; a thing stamped.
-a picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
-an offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
-hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
-an instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
-a character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
-make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
-a kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
-a half
-penny.
-money, esp. paper money.

stamped
-of stamp

stampede
-a wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
-to run away in a panic;
-- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
-to disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

stamper
-one who stamps.
-an instrument for pounding or stamping.

stamping
-of stamp
-a. & n. from stamp, v.

stance
-a stanza.
-a station; a position; a site.

stanch
-to stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
-to extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
-to cease, as the flowing of blood.
-that which stanches or checks.
-a flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
-strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
-firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
-close; secret; private.
-to prop; to make stanch, or strong.

stanched
-of stanch

stanchel
-a stanchion.

stancher
-one who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

stanching
-of stanch

stanchion
-a prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
-any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
-a vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.

stanchless
-incapable of being stanched, or stopped.
-unquenchable; insatiable.

stanchly
-in a stanch manner.

stanchness
-the quality or state of being stanch.

stand
-to be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
-to be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position;
-- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
-to continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
-to occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, paris stands on the seine.
-to cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
-to remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
-to maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
-to maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
-to adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
-to have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
-to be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
-to be consistent; to agree; to accord.
-to hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
-to offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
-to stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
-to measure when erect on the feet.
-to be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
-to appear in court.
-to endure; to sustain; to bear; as, i can not stand the cold or the heat.
-to resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
-to abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
-to set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
-to be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
-the act of standing.
-a halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
-a place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
-a station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
-a raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
-a small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
-a place where a witness stands to testify in court.
-the situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
-rank; post; station; standing.
-a state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
-a young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
-a weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds,
-- used in weighing pitch.

stand
-by
-one who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

standage
-a reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

standard
-a flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
-that which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
-that which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
-the proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
-a tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
-the upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
-an upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
-an inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
-the sheth of a plow.
-a large drinking cup.
-being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
-hence: having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
-not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
-not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.

standard
-bred
-bred in conformity to a standard. specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the national association of trotting
-horse breeders.

standard
-wing
-a curious paradise bird (semioptera wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.

standardize
-to reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

standel
-a young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

stander
-one who stands.
-same as standel.

stander
-by
-one who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.

standergrass
-a plant (orchis mascula);
-- called also standerwort, and long purple. see long purple, under long.

standgale
-see stannel.

standing
-of stand
-remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.
-not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.
-not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.
-established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.
-not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle
-bed).
-the act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.
-maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing.
-place to stand in; station; stand.
-condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing.

standish
-a stand, or case, for pen and ink.

standpipe
-a vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.
-a supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.

standpoint
-a fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.

standstill
-a standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

stane
-a stone.

stang
-imp. of sting.
-a long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
-in land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
-to shoot with pain.
-of sting

stanhope
-a light two
-wheeled, or sometimes four
-wheeled, carriage, without a top;
-- so called from lord stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

staniel
-see stannel.

stanielry
-hawking with staniels,
-- a base kind of falconry.

stank
-weak; worn out.
-to sigh.
-stunk.
-water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
-a dam or mound to stop water.
-of stink

stannaries
-of stannary

stannary
-of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.
-a tin mine; tin works.

stannate
-a salt of stannic acid.

stannel
-the kestrel;
-- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.

stannic
-of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.

stanniferous
-containing or affording tin.

stannine
-alt. of stannite

stannite
-a mineral of a steel
-gray or iron
-black color; tin pyrites. it is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

stanno
-
-a combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.

stannofluoride
-any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

stannoso
-
-a combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.

stannotype
-a photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.

stannous
-pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.

stannum
-the technical name of tin. see tin.

stannyel
-alt. of stanyel

stant
-alt. of stont

stanyel
-see stannel.

stanza
-a number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
-an apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.

stanzaic
-pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

stanzas
-of stanza

stapedial
-of or pertaining to stapes.

stapelia
-an extensive and curious genus of african plants of the natural order asclepiadaceae (milkweed family). they are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. the odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion.

stapes
-the innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone;
-- so called from its form. see illust. of ear.

staphyline
-of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.

staphylinid
-any rove beetle.

staphyloma
-a protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.

staphylomatous
-of or pertaining to staphyloma; affected with staphyloma.

staphyloplasty
-the operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost.

staphyloraphy
-alt. of staphylorrhaphy

staphylorrhaphy
-the operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.

staphylotomy
-the operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.

staple
-a settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
-hence: place of supply; source; fountain head.
-the principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the united states.
-the principal constituent in anything; chief item.
-unmanufactured material; raw material.
-the fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
-a loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
-a shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
-a small pit.
-a district granted to an abbey.
-pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
-established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
-fit to be sold; marketable.
-regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
-to sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.

stapler
-a dealer in staple goods.
-one employed to assort wool according to its staple.

star
-one of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
-the polestar; the north star.
-a planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.
-that which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.
-specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *];
-- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
-a composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
-a person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.
-to set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.
-to be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.

star
-blind
-half blind.

star
-chamber
-an ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. it consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. it could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. it was abolished by the long parliament in 1641.

star
-crossed
-not favored by the stars; ill
-fated.

star
-read
-doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy.

star
-spangled
-spangled or studded with stars.

starblowlines
-the men in the starboard watch.

starboard
-that side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow;
-- opposed to larboard, or port.
-pertaining to the right
-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard quarter; starboard tack.
-to put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.

starch
-stiff; precise; rigid.
-a widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. it is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
-fig.: a stiff, formal manner; formality.
-to stiffen with starch.

starched
-of starch
-stiffened with starch.
-stiff; precise; formal.

starchedness
-the quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.

starcher
-one who starches.

starching
-of starch

starchly
-in a starched or starch manner.

starchness
-of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

starchwort
-the cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.

starchy
-consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

starcraft
-astrology.

stare
-the starling.
-to look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
-to be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
-to stand out; to project; to bristle.
-to look earnestly at; to gaze at.
-the act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.

starer
-one who stares, or gazes.

starf
-starved.

starfinch
-the european redstart.

starfish
-any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class asterioidea, in which the body is star
-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. the rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. called also sea star, five
-finger, and stellerid.
-the dollar fish, or butterfish.

stargaser
-one who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
-any one of several species of spiny
-rayed marine fishes belonging to uranoscopus, astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family uranoscopidae. the common species of the eastern united states are astroscopus anoplus, and a. guttatus. so called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward.

stargasing
-the act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.
-hence, absent
-mindedness; abstraction.

staringly
-with a staring look.

stark
-stiff; rigid.
-complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.
-strong; vigorous; powerful.
-severe; violent; fierce.
-mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
-wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
-to stiffen.

starkly
-in a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.

starkness
-the quality or state of being stark.

starless
-being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.

starlight
-the light given by the stars.
-lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.

starlike
-resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
-shining; bright; illustrious.

starling
-any passerine bird belonging to sturnus and allied genera. the european starling (sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. it is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. called also stare, and starred. the pied starling of india is sternopastor contra.
-a california fish; the rock trout.
-a structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support;
-- called also sterling.

starlit
-lighted by the stars; starlight.

starmonger
-a fortune teller; an astrologer;
-- used in contempt.

starn
-the european starling.

starnose
-a curious american mole (condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk;
-- called also star
-nosed mole.

starost
-a nobleman who possessed a starosty.

starosty
-a castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.

starproof
-impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm.

starred
-of star
-adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
-influenced in fortune by the stars.

starriness
-the quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.

starring
-of star

starry
-abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
-consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
-shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
-arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

starshine
-the light of the stars.

starshoot
-see nostoc.

starstone
-asteriated sapphire.

start
-to leap; to jump.
-to move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
-to set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
-to become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
-to cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
-to bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
-to cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
-to move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
-to pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
-the act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
-a convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
-a sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
-the beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset;
-- opposed to finish.
-a tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
-the handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
-the curved or inclined front and bottom of a water
-wheel bucket.
-the arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

start
-up
-one who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
-a kind of high rustic shoe.
-upstart.

starter
-one who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
-a dog that rouses game.

startful
-apt to start; skittish.

startfulness
-aptness to start.

starthroat
-any humming bird of the genus heliomaster. the feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.

starting
-a. & n. from start, v.

startingly
-by sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.

startish
-apt to start; skittish; shy;
-- said especially of a horse.

startle
-to move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
-to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
-to deter; to cause to deviate.
-a sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

startled
-of startle

startling
-of startle

startlingly
-in a startling manner.

startlish
-easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish;
-- said especially of a hourse.

starvation
-the act of starving, or the state of being starved.

starve
-to die; to perish.
-to perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
-to perish or die with cold.
-to destroy with cold.
-to kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
-to distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
-to destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
-to deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

starved
-of starve

starvedly
-in the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.

starveling
-one who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.
-hungry; lean; pining with want.

starving
-of starve

starwort
-any plant of the genus aster. see aster.
-a small plant of the genus stellaria, having star
-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.

stasimon
-in the greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

stasis
-a slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. it is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

stasmia
-of stasimon

statable
-that can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.

statal
-of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a state of the american union, as distinguished from the general government.

statant
-in a standing position; as, a lion statant.

statarian
-fixed; settled; steady; statary.

statarianly
-fixedly; steadly.

statary
-fixed; settled.

state
-the circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
-rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
-condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
-appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
-a chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
-estate, possession.
-a person of high rank.
-any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in great britain. cf. estate, n., 6.
-the principal persons in a government.
-the bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the states
-general of holland.
-a form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
-a political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
-in the united states, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
-highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
-stately.
-belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
-to set; to settle; to establish.
-to express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
-a statement; also, a document containing a statement.

statecraft
-the art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.

stated
-of state
-settled; established; fixed.
-recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.

statedly
-at stated times; regularly.

stateful
-full of state; stately.

statehood
-the condition of being a state; as, a territory seeking statehood.

statehouse
-the building in which a state legislature holds its sessions; a state capitol.

stateless
-without state or pomp.

statelily
-in a stately manner.

stateliness
-the quality or state of being stately.

stately
-evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.
-majestically; loftily.

statement
-the act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
-that which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital.

statemonger
-one versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.

stateprison
-see under state, n.

stater
-one who states.
-the principal gold coin of ancient grece. it varied much in value, the stater best known at athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. the attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

stateroom
-a magnificent room in a place or great house.
-a small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.

states
-general
-in france, before the revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
-in the netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.

statesman
-a man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
-one occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
-a small landholder.

statesmanlike
-having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.

statesmanly
-becoming a statesman.

statesmanship
-the qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

statesmen
-of statesman

stateswoman
-a woman concerned in public affairs.

stateswomen
-of stateswoman

stathmograph
-a contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

static
-alt. of statical

statical
-resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.
-pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.

statically
-in a statical manner.

statics
-that branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them;
-- distinguished from dynamics.

stating
-of state
-the act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.

station
-the act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
-a state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
-the spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
-a regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
-the headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
-the place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
-the particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
-a place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
-a place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
-a place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. wilhelm (mil. dict.).
-an enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
-post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
-situation; position; location.
-state; rank; condition of life; social status.
-the fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, wednesday and friday, in memory of the council which condemned christ, and of his passion.
-a church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
-one of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each;
-- called also station of the cross.
-to place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of africa.

stational
-of or pertaining to a station.

stationariness
-the quality or state of being stationary; fixity.

stationary
-not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
-not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
-appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
-one who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

stationed
-of station

stationer
-a bookseller or publisher;
-- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.
-one who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.

stationery
-the articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
-belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.

stationing
-of station

statism
-the art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

statist
-a statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.
-a statistician.

statistic
-alt. of statistical

statistical
-of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.

statistically
-in the way of statistics.

statistician
-one versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.

statistics
-the science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
-classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
-the branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.

statistology
-see statistics, 2.

stative
-of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

statoblast
-one of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh
-water species;
-- also called winter buds.

statocracy
-government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.

statua
-a statue.

statuaries
-of statuary

statuary
-one who practices the art of making statues.
-the art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.
-a collection of statues; statues, collectively.

statue
-the likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of hercules, or of a lion.
-a portrait.
-to place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

statued
-of statue
-adorned with statues.

statueless
-without a statue.

statuelike
-like a statue; motionless.

statuesque
-partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.

statuesquely
-in a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

statuette
-a small statue;
-- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. cf. figurine.

statuing
-of statue

statuminate
-to prop or support.

stature
-the natural height of an animal body;
-- generally used of the human body.

statured
-arrived at full stature.

status
-state; condition; position of affairs.

status in quo
-alt. of status quo

status quo
-the state in which anything is already. the phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.

statutable
-made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.
-made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.

statutably
-conformably to statute.

statute
-an act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation;
-- used in distinction fraom common law. see common law, under common, a.
-an act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
-an assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired;
-- called also statute fair.

statutory
-enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.

staunch
-alt. of staunchness

staunchly
-alt. of staunchness

staunchness
-see stanch, stanchly, etc.

staurolite
-a mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. it is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. called also granatite, and grenatite.

staurolitic
-of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

stauroscope
-an optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light
-vibration in sections of crystals.

staurotide
-staurolite.

stave
-one of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
-one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
-a metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
-the five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
-to break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst;
-- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
-to push, as with a staff;
-- with off.
-to delay by force or craft; to drive away;
-- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
-to suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
-to furnish with staves or rundles.
-to render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
-to burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

staved
-of stave

staves
-of staff
-pl. of staff.
-pl. of stave.

stavesacre
-a kind of larkspur (delphinium staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. they are used as a parasiticide, and in the east for poisoning fish.

stavewood
-a tall tree (simaruba amara) growing in tropical america. it is one of the trees which yields quassia.

staving
-of stave
-a cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

staw
-to be fixed or set; to stay.

stay
-a large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. those which lead forward are called fore
-and
-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. see illust. of ship.
-to stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
-to support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
-to bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
-to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
-to hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
-to remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
-to cause to cease; to put an end to.
-to fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
-to tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
-to remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.
-to continue in a state.
-to wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
-to dwell; to tarry; to linger.
-to rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
-to come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.
-to hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.
-to change tack; as a ship.
-that which serves as a prop; a support.
-a corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
-continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
-cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
-hindrance; let; check.
-restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
-strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.

stayed
-of stay
-staid; fixed; settled; sober;
-- now written staid. see staid.

stayedly
-staidly. see staidly.

stayedness
-staidness.
-solidity; weight.

stayer
-one who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.

staying
-of stay

staylace
-a lace for fastening stays.

stayless
-without stop or delay.

staymaker
-one whose occupation is to make stays.

staynil
-the european starling.

staysail
-any sail extended on a stay.

stayship
-a remora,
-- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

stead
-place, or spot, in general.
-place or room which another had, has, or might have.
-a frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
-a farmhouse and offices.
-to help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
-to fill place of.

steadfast
-firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm.
-not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady.

steadfastly
-in a steadfast manner; firmly.

steadfastness
-the quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.

steadied
-of steady

steadily
-in a steady manner.

steadiness
-the quality or state of being steady.

steading
-the brans, stables, cattle
-yards, etc., of a farm;
-- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.

steady
-firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
-constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
-regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
-to make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
-to become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.

steadying
-of steady

steak
-a slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling;
-- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.

steal
-a handle; a stale, or stele.
-to take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
-to withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
-to gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
-to get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation;
-- with away.
-to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
-to practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
-to withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

stealer
-one who steals; a thief.
-the endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

stealing
-of steal
-the act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
-that which is stolen; stolen property;
-- chiefly used in the plural.

stealingly
-by stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion.

stealth
-the act of stealing; theft.
-the thing stolen; stolen property.
-the bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action;
-- in either a good or a bad sense.

stealthful
-given to stealth; stealthy.

stealthily
-in a stealthy manner.

stealthiness
-the state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.

stealthlike
-stealthy; sly.

stealthy
-done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.

steam
-the elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
-the mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor;
-- so called in popular usage.
-any exhalation.
-to emit steam or vapor.
-to rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
-to move or travel by the agency of steam.
-to generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
-to exhale.
-to expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

steam engine
-an engine moved by steam.

steamboat
-a boat or vessel propelled by steam power;
-- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.

steamboating
-the occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
-the shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards.

steamed
-of steam

steamer
-a vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
-a steam fire engine. see under steam.
-a road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
-a vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
-the steamer duck.

steaminess
-the quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.

steaming
-of steam

steamship
-a ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

steamy
-consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.

stean
-see steen.

steaningp
-see steening.

steapsin
-an unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. it decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.

stearate
-a salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

stearic
-pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.

stearin
-one of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. it is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

stearolic
-of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.

stearone
-the ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (c17h35)2.co, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

stearoptene
-the more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils;
-- contrasted with elaeoptene.

stearrhea
-seborrhea.

stearyl
-the hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

steatite
-a massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. it forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

steatitic
-pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.

steatoma
-a cyst containing matter like suet.

steatomatous
-of the nature of steatoma.

steatopyga
-a remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of africans of certain tribes, especially of hottentot women.

steatopygous
-having fat buttocks.

sted
-alt. of stedfastly

stedfast
-alt. of stedfastly

stedfastly
-see stead, steadfast, etc.

stee
-a ladder.

steed
-a horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war;
-- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.

steedless
-having no steed; without a horse.

steek
-alt. of steik

steel
-a variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
-an instrument or implement made of steel
-a weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
-an instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
-a piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
-fig.: anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
-a chalybeate medicine.
-to overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
-to make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
-fig.: to cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
-to cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. the iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

steelbow goods
-those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.

steeled
-of steel

steeler
-one who points, edges, or covers with steel.
-same as stealer.

steelhead
-a north pacific salmon (salmo gairdneri) found from northern california to siberia;
-- called also hardhead, and preesil.
-the ruddy duck.

steeliness
-the quality of being steely.

steeling
-of steel
-the process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. see steel, v.

steely
-made of steel; consisting of steel.
-resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.

steelyard
-a form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a roman balance;
-- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.

steem
-see esteem.
-see 1st and 2nd stem.
-to gleam.
-a gleam of light; flame.

steen
-a vessel of clay or stone.
-a wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.
-to line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.

steenbok
-same as steinbock.

steening
-a lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well.

steenkirk
-alt. of steinkirk

steep
-bright; glittering; fiery.
-to soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. often used figuratively.
-to undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.
-something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.
-a rennet bag.
-making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
-difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
-excessive; as, a steep price.
-a precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.

steep
-down
-deep and precipitous, having steep descent.

steep
-up
-lofty and precipitous.

steeped
-of steep

steepen
-to become steep or steeper.

steepened
-of steepen

steepening
-of steepen

steeper
-a vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.

steepiness
-steepness.

steeping
-of steep

steepish
-somewhat steep.

steeple
-a spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. see spire.

steeple
-crowned
-bearing a steeple; as, a steeple
-crowned building.
-having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple
-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown.

steeplechasing
-the act of riding steeple chases.

steepled
-furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.

steeply
-in a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

steepness
-quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.
-height; loftiness.

steepy
-steep; precipitous.

steer
-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.
-to castrate;
-- said of male calves.
-to direct the course of; to guide; to govern;
-- applied especially to a vessel in the water.
-to direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
-to be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
-to conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.
-a rudder or helm.
-a helmsman, a pilot.

steerable
-capable of being steered; dirigible.

steerage
-the act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
-the effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
-the hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
-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.
-direction; regulation; management; guidance.
-that by which a course is directed.

steerageway
-a rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

steered
-of steer

steerer
-one who steers; as, a boat steerer.

steering
-of steer
-a. & n. from steer, v.

steerless
-having no rudder.

steerling
-a young small steer.

steersman
-one who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.

steersmate
-one who steers; steersman.

steersmen
-of steersman

steeve
-to project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel;
-- said of the bowsprit, etc.
-to elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon;
-- said of the bowsprit, etc.
-to stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. see steeve, n. (b).
-the angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel;
-- called also steeving.
-a spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.

steeved
-of steeve

steeving
-of steeve
-the act or practice of one who steeves.
-see steeve, n. (a).

steg
-a gander.

steganographist
-one skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

steganography
-the art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.

steganophthalmata
-the discophora, or phanerocarpae. called also steganophthalmia.

steganopod
-one of the steganopodes.

steganopodes
-a division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. it includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.

steganopodous
-having all four toes webbed together.

stegnosis
-constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

stegnotic
-tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally.
-a stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

stegocephala
-an extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the mesozoic rocks; called also stegocephali, and labyrinthodonta.

stegosauria
-an extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera stegosaurus, omosaurus, and their allies.

stegosaurus
-a genus of large jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

steik
-to pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to sew; also, to fix; to fasten.
-see steek.

stein
-see steen.

steinbock
-the european ibex.
-a small south african antelope (nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts;
-- called also steenbok.

steingale
-the stannel.

steining
-see steening.

steinkirk
-a kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.
-same as steenkirk.

steinkle
-the wheater.

stela
-a small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.

stelae
-of stela

stele
-same as stela.
-a stale, or handle; a stalk.

stelene
-resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.

stell
-to place or fix firmly or permanently.
-a prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
-a partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.

stellar
-alt. of stellary

stellary
-of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.
-full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.

stellate
-alt. of stellated

stellated
-resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
-starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.

stellation
-radiation of light.

stelled
-firmly placed or fixed.

steller
-the rytina;
-- called also stellerine.

stellerid
-a starfish.

stellerida
-an extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

stelleridan
-alt. of stelleridean

stelleridean
-a starfish, or brittle star.

stelliferous
-having, or abounding with, stars.

stelliform
-like a star; star
-shaped; radiated.

stellify
-to turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.

stellion
-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.

stellionate
-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.

stellular
-having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.
-marked with starlike spots of color.

stellulate
-minutely stellate.

stelmatopoda
-same as gymnolaemata.

stelography
-the art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

stem
-alt. of steem
-alt. of steem
-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.
-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.
-the stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
-a branch of a family.
-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.
-fig.: an advanced or leading position; the lookout.
-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.
-that part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
-the entire central axis of a feather.
-the basal portion of the body of one of the pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
-the short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
-the part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
-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.
-to ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
-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.
-to move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

stem
-clasping
-embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

stem
-winder
-a stem
-winding watch.

stem
-winding
-wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem
-winding watch.

stemless
-having no stem; (bot.) acaulescent.

stemlet
-a small or young stem.

stemma
-one of the ocelli of an insect. see ocellus.
-one of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.

stemmata
-of stemma

stemmed
-of stem

stemmer
-one who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

stemmery
-a large building in which tobacco is stemmed.

stemming
-of stem

stemmy
-abounding in stems, or mixed with stems;
-- said of tea, dried currants, etc.

stemple
-a crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

stemson
-a piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

stench
-to stanch.
-a smell; an odor.
-an ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
-to cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

stenchy
-having a stench.

stencil
-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.
-to mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

stenciled
-of stencil

stenciler
-one who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil.

stenciling
-of stencil

stencilled
-of stencil

stencilling
-of stencil

stenoderm
-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.

stenodermine
-of or pertaining to the genus stenoderma, which includes several west indian and south american nose
-leaf bats.

stenograph
-to write or report in stenographic characters.
-a production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

stenographed
-of stenograph

stenographer
-one who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

stenographic
-alt. of stenographical

stenographical
-of or pertaining to stenography.

stenographing
-of stenograph

stenographist
-a stenographer.

stenography
-the art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.

stenophyllous
-having narrow leaves.

stenosis
-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.

stenostome
-having a small or narrow mouth;
-- said of certain small ground snakes (opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.

stent
-of stent
-to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
-to stint; to stop; to cease.
-an allotted portion; a stint.

stente
-of stent

stenting
-an opening in a wall in a coal mine.

stentor
-a herald, in the iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.
-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.
-a howling monkey, or howler.

stentorian
-of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.

stentorin
-a blue coloring matter found in some stentors. see stentor, 2.

stentorious
-stentorian.

stentoronic
-stentorian.

stentorophonic
-speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.

step
-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.
-to walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
-to walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
-fig.: to move mentally; to go in imagination.
-to set, as the foot.
-to fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
-an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
-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 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.
-a small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
-a print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
-gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
-proceeding; measure; action; an act.
-walk; passage.
-a portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
-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.
-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.
-a bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
-the intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
-a change of position effected by a motion of translation.

step
-
-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.

stepbrother
-a brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

stepchild
-a bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
-a son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

stepdame
-a stepmother.

stepdaughter
-a daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

stepfather
-the husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.

stephanion
-the point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.

stephanite
-a sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron
-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.

stephanotis
-a genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of madagascar, malaya, etc. they have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.
-a perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of stephanotis floribunda.

stepladder
-a portable set of steps.

stepmother
-the wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

stepparent
-stepfather or stepmother.

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.

stepped
-of step
-provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.

stepper
-one who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.

stepping
-of step

stepping
-stone
-a stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.
-fig.: a means of progress or advancement.

stepsister
-a daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

stepson
-a son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.

stepstone
-a stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

stercobilin
-a coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal,
-- identical with hydrobilirubin.

stercolin
-same as serolin (b).

stercoraceous
-of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.

stercoranism
-the doctrine or belief of the stercoranists.

stercoranist
-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.

stercorarian
-a stercoranist.

stercorary
-a place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.

stercorate
-excrement; dung.

stercoration
-manuring with dung.

stercorianism
-the doctrine or belief of the stercoranists.

stercorin
-same as serolin (b).

stercory
-excrement; dung.

sterculiaceous
-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.

stere
-a unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.
-to stir.
-a rudder. see 5th steer.
-helmsman. see 6th steer.

sterelmintha
-same as platyelminthes.

stereo
-
-a combining form meaning solid, hard, firm, as in stereo
-chemistry, stereography.

stereo
-chemic
-alt. of stereo
-chemical

stereo
-chemical
-pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo
-chemic formula.

stereo
-chemistry
-chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

stereobate
-the lower part or basement of a building or pedestal;
-- used loosely for several different forms of basement.

stereochrome
-stereochromic picture.

stereochromic
-pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy.

stereochromy
-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).

stereoelectric
-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.

stereogram
-a diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.

stereograph
-any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.

stereographic
-alt. of stereographical

stereographical
-made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth.

stereographically
-in a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.

stereography
-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.

stereometer
-an instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.
-an instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.

stereometric
-alt. of stereometrical

stereometrical
-of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry.

stereometry
-the art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures;
-- distinguished from planimetry.

stereomonoscope
-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.

stereoplasm
-the solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. see hygroplasm.

stereopticon
-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.

stereoscope
-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.

stereoscopic
-alt. of stereoscopical

stereoscopical
-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.

stereoscopist
-one skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.

stereoscopy
-the art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.

stereostatic
-geostatic.

stereotomic
-alt. of stereotomical

stereotomical
-of or pertaining to stereotomy; performed by stereotomy.

stereotomy
-the science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

stereotype
-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.
-the art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.
-to prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the bible.
-fig.: to make firm or permanent; to fix.

stereotyped
-of stereotype
-formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.
-fig.: formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.

stereotyper
-one who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.

stereotypery
-the art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.
-a place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.

stereotypic
-of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.

stereotyping
-of stereotype

stereotypist
-a stereotyper.

stereotypographer
-a stereotype printer.

stereotypography
-the act or art of printing from stereotype plates.

stereotypy
-the art or process of making stereotype plates.

sterhydraulic
-pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.

sterile
-producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
-incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
-free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
-fig.: barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

sterility
-the quality or condition of being sterile.
-quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.

sterilization
-the act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

sterilize
-to make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
-to deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
-to destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.

sterilized
-of sterilize

sterilizing
-of sterilize

sterlet
-a small sturgeon (acipenser ruthenus) found in the caspian sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. the finest caviare is made from its roe.

sterling
-same as starling, 3.
-any english coin of standard value; coined money.
-a certain standard of quality or value for money.
-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.
-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.

stern
-the black tern.
-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 helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
-the after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
-fig.: the post of management or direction.
-the hinder part of anything.
-the tail of an animal;
-- now used only of the tail of a dog.
-being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

stern
-wheel
-having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern
-wheel steamer.

stern
-wheeler
-a steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

sterna
-of sternum

sternage
-stern.

sternal
-of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

sternbergite
-a sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.

sternebra
-one of the segments of the sternum.

sternebrae
-of sternebra

sterned
-having a stern of a particular shape;
-- used in composition; as, square
-sterned.

sterner
-a director.

sternforemost
-with the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.

sternite
-the sternum of an arthropod somite.

sternly
-in a stern manner.

sternmost
-farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.

sternness
-the quality or state of being stern.

sterno
-
-a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.

sternocoracoid
-of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.

sternocostal
-of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.

sternohyoid
-of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

sternomastoid
-of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.

sternothyroid
-of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

sternpost
-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.

sternsman
-a steersman.

sternson
-the end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted;
-- called also stern knee.

sternum
-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.
-the ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

sternums
-of sternum

sternutation
-the act of sneezing.

sternutative
-having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

sternutatory
-sternutative.
-a sternutatory substance or medicine.

sternway
-the movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

sterquilinous
-pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.

sterre
-a star.

sterrink
-the crab
-eating seal (lobodon carcinophaga) of the antarctic ocean.

sterrometal
-any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.

stert
-started.

sterte
-p. p. of start.

stertorious
-stertorous.

stertorous
-characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.

sterve
-to die, or cause to die; to perish. see starve.

stet
-let it stand;
-- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
-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.

stethal
-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.

stethograph
-see pneumatograph.

stethometer
-an apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration;
-- also called thoracometer.

stethoscope
-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.
-to auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

stethoscopic
-alt. of stethoscopical

stethoscopical
-of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.

stethoscopist
-one skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

stethoscopy
-the art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

stetted
-of stet

stetting
-of stet

steve
-to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. see steeve.

stevedore
-one whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

steven
-voice; speech; language.
-an outcry; a loud call; a clamor.

stew
-a small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
-an artificial bed of oysters.
-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.
-to be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
-a place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
-a brothel;
-- usually in the plural.
-a prostitute.
-a dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
-a state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

steward
-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.
-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.
-a fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a methodist church.
-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.
-in scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
-to manage as a steward.

stewardess
-a female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

stewardly
-in a manner, or with the care, of a steward.

stewardship
-the office of a steward.

stewartry
-an overseer or superintendent.
-the office of a steward; stewardship.
-in scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.

stewed
-of stew

stewing
-of stew

stewish
-suiting a stew, or brothel.

stewpan
-a pan used for stewing.

stewpot
-a pot used for stewing.

stey
-see stee.

sthenic
-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.

stiacciato
-the lowest relief,
-- often used in italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.

stian
-a sty on the eye. see styan.

stibborn
-stubborn.

stibial
-like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.

stibialism
-antimonial intoxication or poisoning.

stibiated
-combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).

stibic
-antimonic;
-- used with reference to certain compounds of antimony.

stibiconite
-a native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.

stibine
-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.

stibious
-antimonious.

stibium
-the technical name of antimony.
-stibnite.

stibnite
-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.

stibonium
-the hypothetical radical sbh4, analogous to ammonium;
-- called also antimonium.

sticcado
-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.

stich
-a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
-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.
-a row, line, or rank of trees.

stichic
-of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.

stichida
-of stichidium

stichidium
-a special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. it is found in certain red algae.

stichomancy
-divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.

stichometrical
-of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.

stichometry
-measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
-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.

stichwort
-a kind of chickweed (stellaria holostea).

stick
-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.
-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.
-anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
-a derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
-a composing stick. see under composing. it is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
-a thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
-to penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.
-to cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.
-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.
-to set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
-to set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
-to fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
-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.
-to compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
-to run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. such moldings are said to be stuck.
-to cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
-to impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
-to adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.
-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.
-to be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
-to be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple;
-- often with at.
-to cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

stick
-lac
-see the note under lac.

stick
-seed
-a plant (echinospermum lappula) of the borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.

stick
-tight
-beggar's ticks.

sticked
-of stick
-stuck.

sticker
-one who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
-that which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
-in the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
-same as paster, 2.

stickful
-as much set type as fills a composing stick.

stickfuls
-of stickful

stickiness
-the quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.

sticking
-of stick
-a. & n. from stick, v.

stickit
-stuck; spoiled in making.

stickle
-to separate combatants by intervening.
-to contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
-to play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
-to separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
-to intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
-a shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

stickleback
-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.

stickled
-of stickle

stickler
-one who stickles.
-one who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
-one who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.

stickling
-of stickle

sticktail
-the ruddy duck.

sticky
-having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

stiddy
-an anvil; also, a smith shop. see stithy.

stied
-of sty

sties
-of sty

stiff
-not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
-not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
-firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
-not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
-not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
-harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
-bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel;
-- opposed to crank.
-very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.

stiff
-backed
-obstinate.

stiff
-hearted
-obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.

stiff
-necked
-stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff
-necked pride; a stiff
-necked people.

stiff
-neckedness
-the quality or state of being stiff
-necked; stubbornness.

stiff
-tailed
-having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.

stiffen
-to make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
-to inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
-to make torpid; to benumb.
-to become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

stiffened
-of stiffen

stiffener
-one who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

stiffening
-of stiffen
-act or process of making stiff.
-something used to make anything stiff.

stiffish
-somewhat stiff.

stiffly
-in a stiff manner.

stiffness
-the quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

stifftail
-the ruddy duck.

stifle
-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.
-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.
-to stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
-to suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
-to die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

stifled
-of stifle
-stifling.

stifler
-one who, or that which, stifles.
-see camouflet.

stifling
-of stifle

stigma
-a mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
-any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-one of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
-one of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. see illust. of scorpion.
-one of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of amphioxus.
-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.
-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.

stigmaria
-the fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus sigillaria.

stigmas
-of stigma

stigmata
-of stigma
-pl. of stigma.

stigmatic
-a notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
-a person who is marked or deformed by nature.
-a person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of jesus christ caused by his crucifixion;
-- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
-alt. of stigmatical

stigmatical
-marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
-impressing with infamy or reproach.
-of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.

stigmatically
-with a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

stigmatist
-one believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of christ's wounds. see stigma, 8.

stigmatization
-the act of stigmatizing.
-the production of stigmata upon the body. see stigma, 8.

stigmatize
-to mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
-to set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.

stigmatized
-of stigmatize

stigmatizing
-of stigmatize

stigmatose
-same as stigmatic.

stigonomancy
-divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

stike
-stanza.

stilar
-of or pertaining to the style of a dial.

stilbene
-a hydrocarbon, c14h12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals;
-- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.

stilbite
-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.

stile
-a pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. see style.
-mode of composition. see style.
-a step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
-one of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

stilet
-a stiletto.
-see stylet, 2.

stiletto
-a kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
-a pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
-a beard trimmed into a pointed form.
-to stab or kill with a stiletto.

stilettoed
-of stiletto

stilettoing
-of stiletto

stilettos
-of stiletto

still
-motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
-uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
-not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
-comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
-constant; continual.
-not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
-freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
-a steep hill or ascent.
-to this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
-in the future as now and before.
-in continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
-in an increasing or additional degree; even more;
-- much used with comparatives.
-notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless;
-- sometimes used as a conjunction. see synonym of but.
-after that; after what is stated.
-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.
-to stop, as noise; to silence.
-to appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
-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.
-a house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
-to cause to fall by drops.
-to expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
-to drop, or flow in drops; to distill.

still
-burn
-to burn in the process of distillation; as, to still
-burn brandy.

still
-closing
-ever closing.

still
-hunt
-a hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously.

stillage
-a low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.

stillatitious
-falling in drops; drawn by a still.

stillatory
-an alembic; a vessel for distillation.
-a laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed.

stillbirth
-the birth of a dead fetus.

stillborn
-dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
-fig.: abortive; as, a stillborn poem.

stilled
-of still

stiller
-one who stills, or quiets.

stillhouse
-a house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.

stillicide
-a continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.

stillicidious
-falling in drops.

stilliform
-having the form of a drop.

stilling
-of still
-a stillion.

stillion
-a stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

stillness
-the quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
-habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

stillroom
-a room for distilling.
-an apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept.

stillstand
-a standstill.

stilly
-still; quiet; calm.
-in a still manner; quietly; silently; softly.

stilpnomelane
-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.

stilt
-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.
-a crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
-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.
-to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

stiltbird
-see stilt, n., 3.

stilted
-of stilt
-elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.

stiltify
-to raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

stilting
-of stilt

stilty
-unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

stime
-a slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.

stimulant
-serving to stimulate.
-produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
-that which stimulates, provokes, or excites.
-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.

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

stimulated
-of stimulate

stimulating
-of stimulate

stimulation
-the act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.
-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.

stimulative
-having the quality of stimulating.
-that which stimulates.

stimulator
-one who stimulates.

stimulatress
-a woman who stimulates.

stimuli
-of stimulus

stimulism
-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.
-the practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.

stimulus
-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.
-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.

sting
-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.
-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.
-anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
-the thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
-a goad; incitement.
-the point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
-to pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
-to pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
-to goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.

stingaree
-any sting ray. see under 6th ray.

stingbull
-the european greater weever fish (trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. see weever.

stinger
-one who, or that which, stings.

stingfish
-the weever.

stingily
-in a stingy manner.

stinginess
-the quality or state of being stingy.

stinging
-of sting
-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.

stingless
-having no sting.

stingo
-old beer; sharp or strong liquor.

stingtail
-a sting ray.

stingy
-stinging; able to sting.
-extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

stink
-to emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
-to cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
-a strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

stinkard
-a mean, stinking, paltry fellow.
-the teledu of the east indies. it emits a disagreeable odor.

stinkball
-a composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor;
-- used formerly in naval warfare.

stinker
-one who, or that which, stinks.
-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.

stinkhorn
-a kind of fungus of the genus phallus, which emits a fetid odor.

stinking
-of stink
-a. & n. from stink, v.

stinkingly
-in a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

stinkpot
-an earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell,
-- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.
-a vessel in which disinfectants are burned.
-the musk turtle, or musk tortoise. see under musk.

stinkstone
-one of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck;
-- called also swinestone.

stinkweed
-stramonium. see jamestown weed, and datura.

stinkwood
-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.

stint
-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.
-a phalarope.
-to restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
-to put an end to; to stop.
-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.
-to serve successfully; to get with foal;
-- said of mares.
-to stop; to cease.
-limit; bound; restraint; extent.
-quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

stintance
-restraint; stoppage.

stinted
-of stint

stintedness
-the state of being stinted.

stinter
-one who, or that which, stints.

stinting
-of stint

stintless
-without stint or restraint.

stipe
-the stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
-the stalk of a pistil.
-the trunk of a tree.
-the stem of a fungus or mushroom.

stipel
-the stipule of a leaflet.

stipellate
-having stipels.

stipend
-settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
-to pay by settled wages.

stipendiarian
-acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary.

stipendiaries
-of stipendiary

stipendiary
-receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation.
-one who receives a stipend.

stipendiate
-to provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay.

stipendless
-having no stipend.

stipes
-the second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
-an eyestalk.

stipitate
-supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.

stipites
-of stipes

stipitiform
-having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.

stipple
-to engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
-to paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
-alt. of stippling

stippled
-of stipple

stippling
-of stipple
-a mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
-a mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.

stiptic
-see styptic.

stipula
-a stipule.
-a newly sprouted feather.

stipulaceous
-alt. of stipular

stipulae
-of stipula

stipular
-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.

stipulary
-of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.

stipulas
-of stipula

stipulate
-furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
-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.

stipulated
-of stipulate

stipulating
-of stipulate

stipulation
-the act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
-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.
-a material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
-the situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.

stipulator
-one who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.

stipule
-an appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

stipuled
-furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

stir
-to change the place of in any manner; to move.
-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.
-to bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
-to incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
-to move; to change one's position.
-to be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
-to become the object of notice; to be on foot.
-to rise, or be up, in the morning.
-the act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
-public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
-agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

stirabout
-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.

stiriated
-adorned with pendants like icicles.

stirious
-resembling icicles.

stirk
-a young bullock or heifer.

stirless
-without stirring; very quiet; motionless.

stirp
-stock; race; family.

stirpes
-of stirps

stirpiculture
-the breeding of special stocks or races.

stirps
-stock; race; family.
-a race, or a fixed and permanent variety.

stirrage
-the act of stirring; stir; commotion.

stirred
-of stir

stirrer
-one who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.

stirring
-of stir
-putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

stirrup
-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.
-any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. see bridle iron.
-a rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.

stirt
-started; leaped.

stirte
-imp. of start, v. i. & t.

stitch
-a single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
-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.
-a space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
-a local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
-a contortion, or twist.
-any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
-a furrow.
-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.
-to sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
-to form land into ridges.
-to practice stitching, or needlework.

stitched
-of stitch

stitchel
-a kind of hairy wool.

stitcher
-one who stitches; a seamstress.

stitchery
-needlework;
-- in contempt.

stitching
-of stitch
-the act of one who stitches.
-work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.

stitchwort
-see stichwort.

stith
-strong; stiff; rigid.
-an anvil; a stithy.

stithy
-an anvil.
-a smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge.
-to forge on an anvil.

stive
-to stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
-to be stifled or suffocated.
-the floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

stived
-of stive

stiver
-a dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.

stives
-stews; a brothel.

stiving
-of stive

stoak
-to stop; to choke.

stoat
-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.

stocah
-a menial attendant.

stoccade
-see stockade.

stoccado
-a stab; a thrust with a rapier.

stochastic
-conjectural; able to conjecture.

stock
-the stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
-the stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
-a block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
-hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
-the principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
-the wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
-the handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
-the block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
-the wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. see illust. of anchor.
-the support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
-a handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
-the part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. see counterfoil.
-the original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
-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.
-same as stock account, below.
-supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
-domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.;
-- called also live stock.
-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.
-a thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
-a covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
-a kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
-a frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
-the frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
-red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
-any cruciferous plant of the genus matthiola; as, common stock (matthiola incana) (see gilly
-flower); ten
-weeks stock (m. annua).
-an irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
-a race or variety in a species.
-in tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
-the beater of a fulling mill.
-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.
-to lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
-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.
-to suffer to retain milk for twenty
-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
-to put in the stocks.
-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 sermon.

stock
-blind
-blind as a stock; wholly blind.

stock
-still
-still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.

stockade
-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.
-an inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
-to surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

stockaded
-of stockade

stockading
-of stockade

stockbroker
-a broker who deals in stocks.

stockdove
-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.

stocked
-of stock

stocker
-one who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.

stockfish
-salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
-young fresh cod.

stockholder
-one who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.

stockinet
-an elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under
-garments, etc., are made.

stocking
-of stock
-a close
-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
-to dress in gbs.

stockinger
-a stocking weaver.

stockish
-like a stock; stupid; blockish.

stockjobber
-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.

stockjobbing
-the act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

stockman
-a herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.

stockmen
-of stockman

stockwork
-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.
-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.

stocky
-short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
-headstrong.

stodgy
-wet.

stoechiology
-alt. of stoechiometry

stoechiometry
-see stoichiology, stoichiometry, etc.

stoic
-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.
-hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
-alt. of stoical

stoical
-of or pertaining to the stoics; resembling the stoics or their doctrines.
-not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.

stoichiological
-of or pertaining to stoichiology.

stoichiology
-that part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.
-the doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought.
-the statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.

stoichiometric
-alt. of stoichiometrical

stoichiometrical
-of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.

stoichiometry
-the art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.

stoicism
-the opinions and maxims of the stoics.
-a real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

stoicity
-stoicism.

stoke
-to stick; to thrust; to stab.
-to poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
-to poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.

stokehole
-the mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.

stoker
-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.
-a fire poker.

stokey
-close; sultry.

stola
-a long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by roman women.

stolae
-of stola

stole
-of steal
-imp. of steal.
-a stolon.
-a long, loose garment reaching to the feet.
-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.

stoled
-having or wearing a stole.

stolen
-of steal
-p. p. of steal.

stolid
-hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

stolidity
-the state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

stolidness
-same as stolidity.

stolon
-a trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
-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.

stoloniferous
-producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

stoma
-one of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.
-the minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
-the line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. it is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. see illust. of sporangium.
-a stigma. see stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).

stomach
-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.
-the desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
-hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
-violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
-pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
-to resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
-to bear without repugnance; to brook.
-to be angry.

stomachal
-of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.
-helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
-a stomachic.

stomached
-of stomach

stomacher
-one who stomachs.
-an ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. those worn by women were often richly decorated.

stomachful
-willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.

stomachic
-alt. of stomachical
-a medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

stomachical
-of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.
-strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.

stomaching
-of stomach
-resentment.

stomachless
-being without a stomach.
-having no appetite.

stomachous
-stout; sullen; obstinate.

stomachy
-obstinate; sullen; haughty.

stomapod
-one of the stomapoda.

stomapoda
-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.

stomata
-of stoma

stomate
-a stoma.

stomatic
-of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.
-a medicine for diseases of the mouth.

stomatiferous
-having or producing stomata.

stomatitis
-inflammation of the mouth.

stomatoda
-a division of protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.

stomatodaeum
-same as stomodaeum.

stomatode
-having a mouth;
-- applied to certain protozoa.
-one of the stomatoda.

stomatogastric
-of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain mollusca.

stomatoplastic
-of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

stomatopod
-one of the stomatopoda.

stomatopoda
-same as stomapoda.

stomatopodous
-of or pertaining to the stomatopoda.

stomatoscope
-an apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

stomatous
-having a stoma.

stomodaeum
-a part of the alimentary canal. see under mesenteron.
-the primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.

stomp
-to stamp with the foot.

stond
-stop; halt; hindrance.
-a stand; a post; a station.
-to stand.

stone
-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.
-a precious stone; a gem.
-something made of stone. specifically:
--the glass of a mirror; a mirror.
-a monument to the dead; a gravestone.
-a calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
-one of the testes; a testicle.
-the hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. see illust. of endocarp.
-a weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
-fig.: symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
-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.
-to pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
-to make like stone; to harden.
-to free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
-to wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
-to rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

stone
-blind
-as blind as a stone; completely blind.

stone
-cold
-cold as a stone.

stone
-dead
-as dead as a stone.

stone
-deaf
-as deaf as a stone; completely deaf.

stone
-hearted
-hard
-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

stone
-horse
-stallion.

stone
-still
-as still as a stone.

stonebird
-the yellowlegs;
-- called also stone snipe. see tattler, 2.

stonebow
-a kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

stonebrash
-a subsoil made up of small stones or finely
-broken rock; brash.

stonebrearer
-a machine for crushing or hammering stone.

stonebuck
-see steinbock.

stonechat
-a small, active, and very common european singing bird (pratincola rubicola);
-- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
-the wheatear.
-the blue titmouse.

stonecray
-a distemper in hawks.

stonecrop
-a sort of tree.
-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.

stonecutter
-one whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

stonecutting
-hewing or dressing stone.

stoned
-of stone

stonegall
-see stannel.

stonehatch
-the ring plover, or dotterel.

stonehenge
-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.

stoner
-one who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
-one who walls with stones.

stoneroot
-a north american plant (collinsonia canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. see horse balm, under horse.

stonerunner
-the ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.
-the dotterel.

stonesmickle
-the stonechat;
-- called also stonesmitch.

stoneware
-a species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

stoneweed
-any plant of the genus lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

stonework
-work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.

stonewort
-any plant of the genus chara;
-- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. see chara.

stonily
-in a stony manner.

stoniness
-the quality or state of being stony.

stoning
-of stone

stonish
-stony.

stont
-stands.
-3d pers. sing. present of stand.

stony
-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.
-converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
-inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.

stood
-of stand
-imp. & p. p. of stand.

stook
-a small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in england, twelve sheaves.
-to set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

stooked
-of stook

stooking
-of stook

stool
-a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
-to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
-a single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
-a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
-a stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
-a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead
-eyes of the backstays.
-a bishop's seat or see; a bishop
-stool.
-a bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
-material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

stoolball
-a kind of game with balls, formerly common in england, esp. with young women.

stoom
-to stum.

stoop
-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.
-a vessel of liquor; a flagon.
-a post fixed in the earth.
-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.
-to yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
-to descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
-to come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
-to sink when on the wing; to alight.
-to bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
-to cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
-to cause to submit; to prostrate.
-to degrade.
-the act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
-descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
-the fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

stooped
-of stoop

stooper
-one who stoops.

stooping
-of stoop
-a. & n. from stoop.

stoor
-to rise in clouds, as dust.
-alt. of stor

stop
-to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
-to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-to point, as a composition; to punctuate.
-to make fast; to stopper.
-to cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
-to cease from any motion, or course of action.
-to spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
-the act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
-that which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
-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.
-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.
-in the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
-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.
-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.
-the diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
-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.
-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.