STABBED, participle passive Pierced with a pointed weapon; killed with a spear or other pointed instrument.

STABBER, noun One that stabs; a privy murderer.

STABBING, participle present tense Piercing with a pointed weapon; killing with a pointed instrument by piercing the body.

STABBING, noun The act of piercing with a pointed weapon; the act of wounding or killing with a pointed instrument.

This statute was made on account of the frequent quarrels and stabbings with short daggers.

STABILIMENT, noun [Latin , to make firm. See Stab.] Act of making firm; firm support.

They serve for stabiliment propagation and shade.

STABILITATE, verb transitive To make stable; to establish.

STABILITY, noun [Latin See Stab.]

1. Steadiness; stableness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as the stability of a throne; the stability of a constitution of government.

2. Steadiness or firmness of character; firmness of resolution or purpose; the qualities opposite to fickleness, irresolution or inconstancy. We say, a man of little stability or of unusual stability

3. Fixedness; as opposed to fluidity. [I believe not now used.]

Since fluidness and stability are contrary qualities--

STABLE, adjective [Latin The primary sense is set, fixed. See Stab.]

1. Fixed; firmly established; not to be easily moved, shaken or overthrown; as a stable government.

2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as a stable man; a stable character.

3. Fixed; steady; firm; not easily surrendered or abandoned; as a man of stable principles.

4. Durable; not subject to be overthrown or changed.

In this region of chance and vanity, where nothing is stable--

STABLE, verb transitive To fix; to establish. [Not used.]

STABLE, noun [Latin , a stand, a fixed place, like stall. See the latter. These words do not primarily imply a covering for horses or cattle.] A house or shed for beasts to lodge and feed in. In large towns, a stable is usually a building for horses only, or horses and cows, and often connected with a coach house. In the country towns in the northern states of America, a stable is usually an apartment in a barn in which hay and grain are deposited.

STABLE, verb transitive To put or keep in a stable Our farmers generally stable not only horses, but oxen and cows in winter, and sometimes young cattle.

STABLE, verb intransitive To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.

STABLED, participle passive Put or kept in a stable.

STABLENESS, noun

1. Fixedness; firmness of position or establishment; strength to stand; stability; as the stableness of a throne or of a system of laws.

2. Steadiness; constancy; firmness of purpose; stability; as stableness of character, of mind, of principles or opinions.

STABLESTAND, noun [stable and stand.] In law, when man is found at his standing in the forest with a cross bow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or with a long bow; or standing close by a tree with grayhounds in a leash ready to slip. This is one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the kings deer.

STABLING, participle present tense Putting or keeping in a stable.

STABLING, noun

1. The act or practice of keeping cattle in a stable.

2. A house, shed or room for keeping horses and cattle.

STABLISH, verb transitive [Latin See Stab.] To fix; to settle in a state for permanence; to make firm. [In lieu of this, establish is now always used.]

STABLY, adverb Firmly; fixedly; steadily; as a government stably settled.

STACK, noun

1. A large conical pile of hay, grain or straw, sometimes covered with thatch. In America, the stack differs from the cock only in size, both being conical. A long pile of hay or grain is called a rick. In England, this distinction is not always observed. This word in Great Britain is sometimes applied to a pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet, and also to a pile of poles; but I believe never in America.

Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a mans highth.

2. A number of funnels or chimneys standing together. We say, a stack of chimneys; which is correct, as a chimney is a passage. But we also call the whole stack a chimney. Thus we say, the chimney rises ten feet above the roof.

STACK, verb transitive

1. To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay or grain.

2. In England, to pile wood, poles, etc.

STACKED, participle passive Piled in a large conical heap.

STACKING, participle present tense Laying in a large conical heap.

STACTE, noun [Latin , Gr.] A fatty resinous liquid matter, of the nature of liquid myrrh, very odoriferous and highly valued. But it is said we have none but what is adulterated, and what is so called is liquid storax.

STADDLE, noun [G. It belongs to the root of stead, steady.]

1. Any thing which serves for support; a staff; a crutch; the frame or support of a stack of hay or grain. [In this sense not used in New England.]

2. In New England, a small tree of any kind, particularly a forest tree. In America, trees are called staddles from three or four years old till they are six or eight inches in diameter or more, but in this respect the word is indefinite. This is also the sense in which it is used by Bacon and Tusser.

STADDLE, verb transitive To leave staddles when a wood is cut.

STADIUM, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. A Greek measure of 125 geometrical paces; a furlong.

2. The course or career of a race.

STADTHOLDER, noun Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; or the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

STADTHOLDERATE, noun The office of a stadtholder.

STAFF, noun plural [G., a bar, a rod. The primary sense is to thrust, to shoot. See Stab.]

1. A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. Bread is the proverbially called the staff of life.

The boy was the very staff of my age.

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalms 23:4.

2. A stick or club used as a weapon.

With forks and staves the felon they pursue.

3. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument; a pole or stick, used for many purposes.

4. The five lines and the spaces on which music is written.

5. An ensign of authority; a badge of office; as a constables staff

6. The round of a ladder.

7. A pole erected in a ship to hoist and display a flag; called a flag-staff. There is also a jack-staff, and an ensign-staff.

8. In military affairs, an establishment of officers in various departments, attached to an army. The staff includes officers not of the line, as adjutants, quarter-masters, chaplain, surgeon, etc. The staff is the medium of communication from the commander in chief to every department of an army.

9. A stanza; a series of verses so disposed that when it is concluded, the same order begins again.

Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for a heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.

10. Stave and staves, plural of staff [See Stave.]

STAFFISH, adjective Stiff; harsh. [Not in use.]

STAG, noun [This word belongs to the root of stick, stage, stock. The primary sense is to thrust, hence to fix, to stay, etc.]

1. The male red deer; the male of the hind.

2. A colt or filly; also, a romping girl. [Local.]

3. In New England, the male of the common ox castrated.

STAGE, noun [G.] Properly, one step or degree of elevation, and what the French call etage, we call a story. Hence,

1. A floor or platform of any kind elevated above the ground or common surface, as for an exhibition of something to pubic view; as a stage for a mountebank; a stage for speakers in public; a stage for mechanics. Seamen use floating stages, and stages suspended by the side of a ship, for calking and repairing.

2. The floor on which theatrical performances are exhibited, as distinct from the pit, etc. Hence,

3. The theater; the place of scenic entertainments.

Knights, squires and steeds must enter on the stage

4. Theatrical representations. It is contended that the stage is a school or morality. Let it be inquired, where is the person whom the stage has reformed?

5. A place where any thing is publicly exhibited.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

6. Place of action or performance; as the stage of life.

7. A place of rest on a journey, or where a relay of horses is taken. When we arrive at the next stage we will take some refreshment. Hence,

8. The distance between two places of rest on a road; as a stage of fifteen miles.

9. A single step; degree of advance; degree of progression, either in increase or decrease, in rising or falling, or in any change of state; as the several stages of a war; the stages of civilization or improvement; stages of growth in an animal or plant; stages of a disease, of decline or recovery; the several stages of human life.

10. [instead of stage-coach, or stage-wagon.] A coach or other carriage running regularly from one place to another for the conveyance of passengers.

I went in the six-penny stage

A parcel sent by the stage American usage.

STAGE, verb transitive To exhibit publicly. [Not in use.]

STAGELY, adjective Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater. [Little used.]

STAGER, noun

1. A player. [Little used.]

2. One that has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of cunning; as an old cunning stager; an experienced stager; a stager of the wiser sort.

[I do not recollect to have ever heard this word used in America.]

STAGERY, noun Exhibition on the stage. [Not in use.]

STAGGARD, noun [from stag.] A stag of four years of age.

STAGGER, verb transitive

1. To reel; to vacillate; to move to one side and the other in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness.

Deep was the wound; he staggerd with the blow.

2. To fail; to cease to stand firm; to begin to give way.

The enemy staggers.

3. To hesitate; to begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined.

Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Romans 4:20.

STAGGER, verb transitive

1. To cause to reel.

2. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

Whoever will read the story of this war, will find himself much staggered.

When a prince fails in honor and justice, it is enough to stagger his people in their allegiance.

STAGGERED, participle passive Made to reel; made to doubt and waver.

STAGGERING, participle present tense Causing to reel, to waver or to doubt.

STAGGERING, noun

1. The act of reeling.

2. The cause of staggering

STAGGERINGLY, adverb

1. In a reeling manner.

2. With hesitation or doubt.

STAGGERS, noun plural

1. A disease of horses and cattle, attended with reeling or giddiness; also, a disease of sheep, which inclines them to turn about suddenly.

2. Madness; wild irregular conduct. [Not in use.]

STAGNANCY, noun [See Stagnant.] The state of being without motion, flow or circulation, as in a fluid.

STAGNANT, adjective [Latin , to be without, a flowing motion.]

1. Not flowing; not running in a current or stream; as a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

2. Motionless; still; not agitated; as water quiet and stagnant

The gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul.

3. Not active; dull; not brisk; as, business is stagnant

STAGNATE, verb intransitive [Latin]

1. To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; air stagnates in a close room.

2. To cease to move; not to be agitated. Water that stagnates in a pond or reservoir, soon becomes foul.

3. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.

STAGNATION, noun

1. The cessation of flowing or circulation of a fluid; or the state of being without flow or circulation; the state of being motionless; as the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.

2. The cessation of action or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as the stagnation of business.

STAGYRITE, noun An appellation given to Aristotle from the place of his birth.

STAID, pret, and participle passive of stay; so written for stayed.

1. adjective [from stay, to stop.] Sober; grave; steady; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty or fanciful; as staid wisdom.

To ride out with staid guides.

STAIDNESS, noun Sobriety; gravity; steadiness; regularity; the opposite of wildness.

If he sometimes appears too gay, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age be wanting.

STAIN, verb transitive [Latin , a sprinkle, a spread, a layer; to spread, expand, sprinkle, or be scattered. Gr.]

1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; to stain clothes with vegetable juice; to stain paper; armor stained with blood.

2. To dye; to tinge with a different color; as, to stain cloth.

3. To impress with figures, in colors different from the ground; as, to stain paper for hangings.

4. To blot; to soil; to spot with guilt or infamy; to tarnish; to bring reproach on; as, to stain the character.

Of honor void, of innocence, of faith, of purity, our wonted ornaments now soild and staind.

STAIN, noun

1. A spot; discoloration from foreign matter; as a stain on a garment or cloth.

2. A natural spot of a color different from the ground.

Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains.

3. Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach; as the stain of sin.

Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains.

Our opinion is, I hope, without any blemish or stain of heresy.

4. Cause of reproach; shame.

Hereby I will lead her that is the praise and yet the stain of all womankind.

STAINED, participle passive Discolored; spotted; dyed; blotted; tarnished.

STAINER, noun

1. One who stains, blots or tarnishes.

2. A dyer.

STAINING, participle present tense Discoloring; spotting; tarnishing; dyeing.

STAINLESS, adjective

1. Free from stains or spots.

2. Free from the reproach of guilt; free from sin.

STAIR, noun

1. A step; a stone or a frame of boards or planks by which a person rises one step. A stair to make the ascent easy, should not exceed six or seven inches in elevation. When the riser is eight, nine or ten inches in breadth, the ascent by stairs is laborious.

2. Stairs, in the plural, a series of steps by which persons ascend to a higher room in a building. [Stair, in this sense, is not in use.]

Flight of stairs, may signify the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story; or in winding stairs, the phrase may signify the stairs from the floor to a turn, or from one turn to another.

STAIRCASE, noun [stair and case.] The part of a building which contains the stairs. Staircases are straight or winding. The straight are called fliers, or direct fliers. Winding stairs, called spiral or cockle, are square, circular or elliptical.

To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture.

STAKE, noun [The primary sense is to shoot, to thrust, hence to set or fix.]

1. A small piece of wood or timber, sharpened at one end and set in the ground, or prepared for setting, as a support to something. Thus stakes are used to support vines, to support fences, hedges and the like. A stake is not to be confounded with a post, which is a larger piece of timber.

2. A piece of long rough wood.

A sharpend stake strong Dryas found.

3. A palisade, or something resembling it.

4. The piece of timber to which a martyr is fastened when he is to be burnt. Hence, to perish at the stake is to die a martyr, or to die in torment. Hence,

5. Figuratively, martyrdom. The stake was prepared for those who were convicted of heresy.

6. That which is pledged and wagered; that which is set, thrown down or laid, to abide the issue of a contest, to be gained by victory or lost by defeat.

7. The state of being laid or pledged as a wager. His honor is at stake

8. A small anvil to straighten cold word, or to cut and punch upon.

STAKE, verb transitive

1. To fasten, support or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.

2. To mark the limits by stakes; with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road, or the ground for a canal.

3. To wager; to pledge; to put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency.

Ill stake yon lamb that near the fountain plays.

4. To point or sharpen stakes. [Not used in America.]

5. To pierce with a stake

STAKED, participle passive Fastened or supported by stakes; set or marked with stakes; wagered; put at hazard.

STAKING, participle present tense

1. Supporting with stakes; marking with stakes; wagering; putting at hazard.

2. Sharpening; pointing.

STALACTIC, STALACTICAL, adjective [from stalactite.] Pertaining to stalactite; resembling an icicle.

STALACTIC, STALACTICAL adjective [from stalactite.] Pertaining to stalactite; resembling an icicle.

STALACTIFORM, STALACTITIFORM, adjective Like stalactite; resembling an icicle.

STALACTITE, noun [Gr., to drop. Latin ] A subvariety of carbonate lime, usually in a conical or cylindrical form, pendent from the roofs and sides of caverns like an icicle; produced by the filtration of water containing calcarious particles, through fissures and pores of rocks.

STALACTITIC, adjective In the form of stalactite, or pendent substances like icicles.

STALACTIFORM, STALACTITIFORM adjective Like stalactite; resembling an icicle.

STALAGMITE, noun [Latin , a drop. Gr.] A deposit of earthy or calcarious matter, formed by drops on the floors of caverns.

STALAGMITIC, adjective Having the form of stalagmite.

STALAGMITICALLY, adverb In the form or manner of stalagmite.

STALDER, noun A wooden frame to set casks on. [Not used in the United States.]

STALE, adjective [I do not find this word in the other Teutonic dialects. It is probably from the root of still, G., to set, and equivalent to stagnant.]

1. Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit and flavor from being long kept; as stale beer.

2. Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed; as a stale virgin.

3. Worn out by use; trite; common; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; as a stale remark.

STALE, noun [G. See Stall.]

1. Something set or offered to view as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool-fowl.

Still as he went, he crafty stales did lay.

A pretense of kindness is the universal stale to all base projects. [In this sense obsolete.]

2. A prostitute.

3. Old vapid beer.

4. A long handle; as the state of a rake.

5. A word applied to the king in chess when stalled or set; that is, when so situated that he cannot be moved without going into check, by which the game is ended.

STALE, verb transitive To make void or useless; to destroy the life, beauty or use of; to wear out.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.

STALE, verb intransitive [G.] To make water; to discharge urine; as horses and cattle.

STALE, noun Urine; used of horses and cattle.

STALELY, adverb Of old; of a long time.

STALENESS, noun

1. The state of being stale; vapidness; the state of having lost the life or flavor; oldness; as the staleness of beer or other liquors; the staleness of provisions.

2. The state of being worn out; triteness; commonness; as the staleness of an observation.

STALK, noun [G., a handle, and a stalk or stem. Gr. from the root of stall; to set.]

1. The stem, culm or main body of an herbaceous plant. Thus we speak of a stalk of wheat, rye or oats, the stalks of maiz or hemp. The stalk of herbaceous plants, answers to the stem of shrubs and tress, and denotes that which is set, the fixed part of a plant, its support; or it is a shoot.

2. The pedicle of a flower, or the peduncle that supports the fructification of a plant.

3. The stem of a quill.

STALK, verb intransitive

1. To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and hence the word usually expresses dislike. The poets however use the word to express dignity of step.

With manly mein he stalkd along the ground.

Then stalking through the deep he fords the ocean.

2. It is used with some insinuation of contempt or abhorrence.

STALKs close behind her, like a witchs fiend, pressing to be employd.

Tis not to stalk about and draw fresh air from time to time.

3. To walk behind a stalking horse or behind a cover.

The king crept under the shoulder of his led horse, and said, I must stalk

STALK, noun A high, proud, stately step or walk.

STALKED, adjective Having a stalk.

STALKER, noun One who walks with a proud step; also, a kind of fishing net.

STALKING, participle present tense Walking with proud or lofty steps.

STALKY, adjective Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.

STALL, noun [G., to set, that is, to throw down, to thrust down. See Still.]

1. Primarily, a stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the apartment for one horse or ox. The stable contains eight or ten stalls.

2. A stable; a place for cattle.

At last he found a stall where oxen stood.

3. In 1 Kings 4:26 stall is used for horse. Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots. In 2 Chronicles 9:25, stall means stable. Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots. These passages are reconciled by the definition given above; Solomon had four thousand stables, each containing ten stalls; forty thousand stalls.

4. A bench, form or frame of shelves in the open air, where any thing is exposed to sale. It is curious to observe the stalls of books in the boulevards and other public places in Paris.

5. A small house or shed in which an occupation is carried on; as a butchers stall

6. The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.

The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the name of stalls. [probably a mistake of the reason.]

STALL, verb transitive

1. To put into a stable; or to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox.

Where king Latinus then his oxen stalld.

2. To install; to place in an office with the customary formalities. [For this, install is now used.]

3. To set; to fix; to plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed; as, to stall horses or a carriage. [This phrase I have heard in Virginia. In New England, set is used in a like sense.]

STALL, verb intransitive

1. To dwell; to inhabit.

We could not stall together in the world. [Not in use.]

2. To kennel.

3. To be set, as in mire.

4. To be tired of eating, as cattle.

STALLAGE, noun

1. The right of erecting stalls in fairs; or rent paid for a stall.

2. In old books, laystall; dung; compost.

STALLATION, noun Installation. [Not used.]

STALLION, noun [G.] A stone horse; a seed horse; or any male horse not castrated, whether kept for mares or not. According to the Welsh, the word signifies a stock horse, a horse intended for raising stock.

STAMEN, noun plural stamens or stamina. [Latin This word belong to the root of sto, stabilis, or of stage.]

1. In a general sense, usually in the plural, the fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it its strength and solidity. Thus we say, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength. Hence,

2. Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of any thing; as the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a stage.

3. In botany, an organ of flowers for the preparation of the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the filament and the anther. It is considered as the male organ of fructification.

STAMENED, adjective Furnished with stamens.

STAMIN, noun A slight woolen stuff.

STAMINAL, adjective Pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens or stamina.

STAMINATE, adjective Consisting of stamens.

STAMINATE, verb transitive To endue with stamina.

STAMINEOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Consisting of stamens or filaments. stamineous flowers have no corol; they want the colored leaves called petals, and consist only of the style and stamina. Linne calls them apetalous; others imperfect or incomplete.

2. Pertaining to the stamen, or attached to it; as a stamineous nectary.

STAMINIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , to bear.] A staminiferous flower is one which has stamens without a pistil. A staminiferous nectary is one that has stamens growing on it.

STAMMEL, noun

1. A species of red color.

2. A kind of woolen cloth. [See Stamin.]

STAMMER, verb intransitive Literally, to stop in uttering syllables or words; to stutter; to hesitate or falter in speaking; and hence, to speak with stops and difficulty. Demosthenes is said to have stammered in speaking, and to have overcome the difficulty by persevering efforts.

STAMMER, verb transitive To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly.

STAMMERER, noun One that stutters or hesitates in speaking.

STAMMERING, participle present tense

1. Stopping or hesitating in the uttering of syllables and words; stuttering.

2. adjective Apt to stammer.

STAMMERING, noun The act of stopping or hesitating in speaking; impediment in speech.

STAMMERINGLY, adverb With stops or hesitation in speaking.

STAMP, verb transitive [G.] In a general sense, to strike; to beat; to press. Hence,

1. To strike or beat forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downwards; as, to stamp the ground.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. [In this sense, the popular pronunciation is stomp, with a broad.]

2. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.

3. To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart. [See Enstamp.]

4. To fix a mark by impressing it; as a notion of the Deity stamped on the mind.

God has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being.

5. To make by impressing a mark; as, to stamp pieces of silver.

6. To coin; to mint; to form.

STAMP, verb intransitive To strike the foot forcibly downwards.

But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies.

STAMP, noun

1. Any instrument for making impressions on other bodies.

Tis gold so pure, it cannot bear the stamp without alloy.

2. A mark imprinted; an impression.

That sacred name gives ornament and grace, and , like his stamp makes basest metals pass.

3. That which is marked; a thing stamped.

Hanging a golden stamp about their necks.

4. A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.

At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence.

5. A mark set upon things chargeable with duty to government, as evidence that the duty is paid. We see such stamps on English newspapers.

6. A character of reputation, good or bad, fixed on any thing. These persons have the stamp of impiety. The Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.

7. Authority; current value derived from suffrage or attestation.

Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone.

8. Make; cast; form; character; as a man of the same stamp or of a different stamp

9. In metallurgy, a kind of pestle raised by a water wheel, for beating ores to powder; any thing like a pestle used for pounding or beating.

STAMPED, participle passive Impressed with a mark or figure; coined; imprinted; deeply fixed.

STAMPER, noun An instrument for pounding or stamping.

STAMPING, participle present tense Impressing with a mark or figure; coining; imprinting.

STAN, as a termination, is said to have expressed the superlative degree; as in Athelstan, most noble; Dunstan, the highest. But qu. stan in Saxon, is stone.

STANCH, verb transitive In a general sense, to stop; to set or fix; but applied only to the blood; to stop the flowing of blood. Cold applications to the neck will often stanch the bleeding of the nose.

STANCH, verb intransitive To stop, as blood; to cease to flow.

Immediately the issue of her blood stanched. Luke 8:44.

STANCH, adjective [This is the same word as the foregoing, the primary sense of which is to set; hence the sense of firmness.]

1. Sound; firm; strong and tight; as a stanch ship.

2. Firm in principle; steady; constant and zealous; hearty; as a stanch churchman; a stanch republican; a stanch friend or adherent.

In politics I hear youre stanch

3. Strong; not to be broken.

4. Firm; close.

This is to be kept stanch

A stanch hound, is one that follows the scent closely without error or remissness.

STANCHED, participle passive Stopped or restrained from flowing.

STANCHER, noun He or that which stops the flowing of blood.

STANCHING, participle present tense Stopping the flowing of blood.

STANCHION, noun [See Stanch.] A prop or support; a piece of timber int he form of a stake or post, used for a support. In ship-building, stanchions of wood or iron are of different forms, and are used to support the deck, the quarter rails, the nettings, awnings and the like.

STANCHLESS, adjective That cannot be stanched or stopped.

STANCHNESS, noun Soundness; firmness in principle; closeness of adherence.

STAND, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive stood. [This verb, if from the root of G., is a derivative from the noun, which is formed from the participle of the original verb. In this case, the noun should properly precede the verb. It may be here remarked that if stan is the radical word, stand and Latin Sto cannot be from the same stock. But stand in the preterit tense is stood, and sto forms steti. This induces a suspicion that stan is not the root of stand but that n is casual. I am inclined however to believe these words to be from different roots. The Russ. Stoyu, to stand is the Latin sto, but it signifies also to be, to exist, being the substantive verb.]

1. To be upon the feet, as an animal; not to sit, kneel or lie.

The absolution to be pronounced by the priest alone, standing.

And the king turned his face about and blessed all the congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel stood. 1 Kings 8:11.

2. To be erect, supported by the roots, as a tree or other plant. Notwithstanding the violence of the wind, the tree yet stands.

3. To be on its foundation; not to be overthrown or demolished; as, an old castle is yet standing.

4. To be placed or situated; to have a certain position or location. Paris stands on the Seine. London stands on the Thames.

5. To remain upright, in a moral sense; not to fall.

To stand or fall, free in thy own arbitrement it lies.

6. To become erect.

Mute and amazd, my hair with horror stood.

7. To stop; to halt; not to proceed.

I charge thee, stand and tell thy name.

8. To stop; to be at a stationary point.

Say, at what part of nature will they stand?

9. To be in a state of fixedness; hence, to continue; to endure. Our constitution has stood nearly forty years. It is hoped it will stand for ages.

Commonwealth by virtue ever stood.

10. To be fixed or steady; not to vacillate. His mind stands unmoved.

11. To be in or to maintain a posture of resistance or defense. Approach with charged bayonets; the enemy will not stand

The king granted the Jews to stand for their life. Esther 8:11.

12. To be placed with regard to order or rank. Note the letter that stands first in order. Gen. Washington stood highest in public estimation. Christian charity stands first in the rank of gracious affections.

13. To be in particular state; to be, emphatically expressed, that is, to be fixed or set; the primary sense of the substantive verb. How does the value of wheat stand? God stands in no need of our services, but we always stand in need of his aid and his mercy.

Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resignd.

14. To continue unchanged or valid; not to fail or become void.

No condition of our peace can stand

My mercy will I keep for him, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. Psalms 89:28.

15. To consist; to have its being and essence.

Sacrifices--which stood only in meats and drinks. Hebrews 9:1.

16. To have a place.

This excellent man, who stood not on the advantage-ground before, provoked men of all qualities.

17. To be in any state. Let us see how our matters stand

As things now stand with us--

18. To be in particular respect or relation; as, to stand godfather to one. We ought to act according to the relation we stand in towards each other.

19. To be, with regard to state of mind.

STAND in awe, and sin not. Psalms 4:4.

20. To succeed; to maintain ones ground; not to fail; to be acquitted; to be safe.

Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall--

21. To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.

From the same parts of heavn his navy stands.

22. To have a direction.

The wand did not really stand to the metal, when placed under it.

23. To offer ones self as a candidate.

He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.

24. To place ones self; to be placed.

I stood between the Lord and you at that time-- Deuteronomy 5:31.

25. To stagnate; not to flow.

--Or the black water of Pomptina stands.

26. To be satisfied or convinced.

Though Page be a secure fool, and stand so firmly on his wifes frailty--

27. To make delay. I cannot stand to examine every particular.

28. To persist; to persevere.

Never stand in a lie when thou art accused.

29. To adhere; to abide.

Despair would stand to the sword.

30. To be permanent; to endure; not to vanish or fade ; as, the color will stand

To stand by,

1. To be near; to be a spectator; to be present. I stood by when the operation was performed. This phrase generally implies that the person is inactive, or takes no part in what is done. In seamens language, to stand by is to attend and be ready. stand by the haliards.

2. To be aside; to be placed aside with disregard.

In the mean time, we let the commands stand by neglected.

3. To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert. I will stand by my friend to the last. Let us stand by our country. To stand by the Arundelian marbles, in Pope, is to defend or support their genuineness.

4. To rest on for support; to be supported.

This reply standeth by conjecture.

To stand for,

1. To offer ones self as a candidate.

How many stand for consulships?--Three.

2. To side with; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain. We all stand for freedom, for our rights or claims.

3. To be in the place of; to be the substitute or representative of. A cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing.

I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another.

4. In seamens language, to direct the course towards.

To stand from, to direct the course from.

To stand one in, to cost. The coat stands him in twenty dollars.

To stand in, or stand in for, in seamens language, is to direct a course towards land or a harbor.

To stand off,

1. To keep at a distance.

2. Not to comply.

3. To keep at a distance in friendship or social intercourse; to forbear intimacy.

We stand off from an acquaintance with God.

4. To appear prominent; to have relief.

Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved.

To stand off, or off from, in seamens language, is to direct the course from land.

To stand off and on, is to sail towards land and then from it.

To stand out,

1. To project; to be prominent.

Their eyes stand out with fatness. Psa 73.

2. To persist in opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede.

His spirit is come in, that so stood out against the holy church.

3. With seamen, to direct the course from land or a harbor.

To stand to,

1. To ply; to urge efforts; to persevere.

STAND to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars.

2. To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion.

I still stand to it, that this is his sense.

3. To abide by; to adhere; as to a contract, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to ones word.

4. Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain the ground.

Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.

To stand to sea, to direct the course from land.

To stand under, to undergo; to sustain.

To stand up,

1. To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.

2. To arise in order to gain notice.

Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of such things as I supposed. Acts 25:10.

3. To make a party.

When we stood up about the corn--

To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration.

To stand upon,

1. To concern; to interest. Does it not stand upon them to examine the grounds of their opinion? This phrase is, I believe, obsolete; but we say, it stands us in hand, that is, it is our concern, it is for our interest.

2. To value; to pride.

We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.

3. To insist; as, to stand upon security.

To stand with, to be consistent. The faithful servants of God will receive what they pray for, so far as stands with his purposes and glory.

It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.

To stand together, is used, but the last two phrases are not in very general use, and are perhaps growing obsolete.

To stand against, to oppose; to resist.

To stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable.

To stand in hand, to be important to ones interest; to be necessary or advantageous. It stands us in hand to be on good terms with our neighbors.

STAND, verb transitive

1. To endure; to sustain; to bear. I cannot stand the cold or the heat.

2. To endure; to resist without yielding or receding.

So had I stood the shock of angry fat.

He stood the furious foe.

3. To await; to suffer; to abide by.

Bid him disband the legions--and stand the judgment of a Roman senate.

To stand ones ground, to deep the ground or station one has taken; to maintain ones position; in a literal or figurative sense; as, an army stands its ground, when it is not compelled to retreat. A man stands his ground in an argument, when he is able to maintain it, or is not refuted.

To stand it, to bear; to be able to endure; or to maintain ones ground or state; a popular phrase.

To stand trial, is to sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.

STAND, noun

1. A stop; a halt; as, to make a stand; to come to a stand either in walking or in any progressive business.

The horse made a stand when he charged them and routed them.

2. A station; a place or post where one stands; or a place convenient for persons to remain for any purpose. The sellers of fruit have their several stands in the market.

I took my stand upon an eminence.

3. Rank; post; station.

Father, since your fortune did attain so high a stand I mean not to descend.

[In lieu of this, standing is now used. He is a man of high standing in his own country.]

4. The act of opposing.

We have come off like Romans; neither foolish in our stands, nor cowardly in retire.

5. The highest point; or the ultimate point of progression, where a stop is made, and regressive motion commences. The population of the world will not come to a stand while the means of subsistence can be obtained. The prosperity of the Roman empire came to a stand in the reign of Augustus; after which it declined.

Vice is at stand and at the highest flow.

6. A young tree, usually reserved when the other trees are cut. [English.]

7. A small table; as a candle-stand; or any frame on which vessels and utensils may be laid.

8. In commerce, a weight of from two hundred and a half to three hundred of pitch.

9. Something on which a thing rests or is laid; as a hay-stand.

STAND of arms, in military affairs, a musket with its usual appendages, as a bayonet, cartridge box, etc.

To be at a stand to stop on account of some doubt or difficulty; hence, to be perplexed; to be embarrassed; to hesitate what to determine, or what to do.

STANDARD, noun [G., sort, kind.]

1. An ensign of war; a staff with a flag or colors. The troops repair to their standard The royal standard of Great Britain is a flag, in which the imperial ensigns of England, Scotland and Ireland are quartered with the armorial bearings of Hanover.

His armies, in the following day, on those fair plains their standards proud display.

2. That which is established by sovereign power as a rule or measure by which others are to be adjusted. Thus the Winchester bushel is the standard of measures in Great Britain, and is adopted in the United States as their standard So of weights and of long measure.

3. That which is established as a rule or model, by the authority of public opinion, or by respectable opinions, or by custom or general consent; as writings which are admitted to be the standard of style and taste. Homers Iliad is the standard of heroic poetry. Demosthenes and Cicero are the standards of oratory. Of modern eloquence, we have an excellent standard in the speeches of lord Chatham. Addisons writings furnish a good standard of pure, chaste and elegant English stayle. It is not an easy thing to erect a standard of taste.

4. In coinage, the proportion of weight of fine metal and alloy established by authority. The coins of England and of the United States are of nearly the same standard

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.

5. A standing tree or stem; a tree not supported or attached to a wall.

Plant fruit of all sorts and standard mural, or shrubs which lose their leaf.

6. In ship-building, an inverted knee placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

7. In botany, the upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corol.

STANDEL, noun A tree of long standing. [Not used.]

STANDER, noun

1. One who stands.

2. A tree that has stood long. [Not used.]

STANDING, participle present tense

1. Being on the feet; being erect. [See Stand.]

2. Moving in a certain direction to or from an object.

3. adjective Settled; established, either by law or by custom, etc.; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as a standing army. Money is the standing measure of the value of all other commodities. Legislative bodies have certain standing rules of proceeding. Courts of law are or ought to be governed by standing rules. There are standing rules of pleading. The gospel furnishes us with standing rules of morality. The Jews by their dispersion and their present condition, are a standing evidence of the truth of revelation and of the prediction of Moses. Many fashionable vices and follies ought to be the standing objects of ridicule.

4. Lasting; not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; as a standing color.

5. Stagnant; not flowing; as standing water.

6. Fixed; not movable; as a standing bed; distinguished from a truckle bed.

7. Remaining erect; not cut down; as standing corn.

STANDING rigging, of a ship. This consists of the cordage or ropes which sustain the masts and remain fixed in their position. Such are the shrouds and stays.

STANDING, noun

1. Continuance; duration or existence; as a custom of long standing

2. Possession of an office, character or place; as a patron or officer of long standing

3. Station; place to stand in.

I will provide you with a good standing to see his entry.

4. Power to stand.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing Psalms 69:2.

5. Rank; condition in society; as a man of good standing or of high standing among his friends.

STANDISH, noun [stand and dish.] A case for pen and ink.

I bequeath to Dean Swift my large silver standish

STANE, noun A stone. [Local.] [See Stone.]

STANG, noun [G.]

1. A pole, rod or perch; a measure of land. [Not in use.]

2. A long bar; a pole; a shaft.

To ride the stang is to be carried on a pole on mens shoulders, in derision. [Local.]

STANG, verb intransitive To shoot with pain. [Local.]

STANK, adjective Weak; worn out. [Not in use.]

STANK, verb intransitive To sigh. [Not used.]

STANK, old preterit tense of stink. Stunk is now used.

STANK, noun [See Stanch.] A dam or mound to stop water. [Local.]

STANNARY, adjective [Latin See Tin.] Relating to the tin works; as stannary courts.

STANNARY, noun A tin mine.

STANNEL, STANYEL, noun The kestrel, a species of hawk; called also stone-gall and wind-hover.

STANNIC, adjective Pertaining to tin; procured from tin; as the stannic acid.

SLANT, STANTING adjective Sloping; oblique; inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; as a slanting ray of light; a slanting floor.

SLANT, verb transitive To turn form a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to.

SLANT, noun

1. An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark. [In vulgar use.]

2. A copper coin of Sweden, of which 196 pass for one rix-dollar.

STANNEL, STANYEL noun The kestrel, a species of hawk; called also stone-gall and wind-hover.

STANZA, noun In poetry, a number of lines or verses connected with each other, and ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem containing every variation of measure in that poem. A stanza may contain verses of a different length or number of syllables, and a different number of verses; or ti may consist of verses of equal length. Stanzas are said to have been first introduced from the Italian into French poetry about the year 1580, and thence they were introduced into England. The versions of the Psalms present examples of various kinds of stanzas.

Horace confines himself to one sort of verse or stanza in every ode.

STAPAZIN, noun A bird, a species of warbler.

STAPLE, noun [G., a stake, a pile or heap, a staple stocks, a mart. The primary sense of the root is to set, to fix. staple is that which is fixed, or a fixed place, or it is a pile or store.]

1. A settled mart or market; an emporium. In England, formerly, the kings staple was established in certain ports or towns, and certain goods could not be exported, without being first brought to these ports to be rated and charged with the duty payable to the king or public. The principal commodities on which customs were levied, were wool, skins and lether, and these were originally the staple commodities. Hence the words staple commodities, came in time to signify the principal commodities produced by a country for exportation or use. Thus cotton is the staple commodity of South Carolina, Georgia and other southern states of America. Wheat is the staple of Pennsylvania and New York.

2. A city or town where merchants agree to carry certain commodities.

3. The thread or pile of wool, cotton or flax. Thus we say, this is wool of a coarse staple or fine staple In America, cotton is of a short staple long staple fine staple etc. The cotton of short staple is raised on the upland; the sea-island cotton is of a fine long staple

4. 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, etc.

STAPLE of land, the particular nature and quality of land.

STAPLE, adjective

1. Settled; established in commerce; as a staple trade.

2. According to the laws of commerce; marketable; fit to be sold. [Not much used.]

3. Chief; principal; regularly produced or made for market; as staple commodities. [This is now the most general acceptation of the word.]

STAPLER, noun A dealer; as a wool stapler

STAR, noun

1. An apparently small luminous body in the heavens, that appears in the night, or when its light is not obscured by clouds or lost in the brighter effulgence of the sun. Stars are fixed or planetary. The fixed stars are known by their perpetual twinkling, and by their being always in the same position in relation to each other. The planets do not twinkle, and they revolve about the sun. The stars are worlds, and their immense numbers exhibit the astonishing extent of creation and of divine power.

2. The pole-star. [A particular application, not in use.]

3. In astrology, a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune. Hence the expression, You may thank your stars for such and such an event.

A pair of star-crossd lovers.

4. The figure of a star; a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk; thus*; used as a reference to a note in the margin, or to fill a blank in writing or printing where letters are omitted.

5. In Scripture, Christ is called the bright and morning star the star that ushers in the light of an eternal day to his people. Revelations 22. Ministers are also called stars in Christs right hand, as, being supported and directed by Christ, they convey light and knowledge to the followers of Christ. Revelations 1. The twelve stars which form the crown of the church, are the twelve apostles. Revelations 12.

6. The figure of a star; a badge of rank; as stars and garters.

The pole-star, a bright star in the tail of Ursa minor, so called from its being very near the north pole.

STAR of Bethlehem, a flower and plant of the genus Ornithogalum. There is also the star of Alexandria, and of Naples, and of Constantinople, of the same genus.

STAR, verb transitive To set or adorn with stars or bright radiating bodies; to bespangle; as a robe starred with gems.

STARBOARD, noun [G., the rudder or helm. I know not from what particular construction of a vessel the helm should give name to the right hand side, unless from the tillers being held by the right hand, or at the right side of the steersman.] The right hand side of a ship or boat, when a spectator stands with his face towards the head, stem or prow.

STARBOARD, adjective Pertaining to the right hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as the starboard shrouds; star-board quarter; starboard tack. In seamanship, starboard uttered by the master of a ship, is an order to the helmsman to put the helm to the starboard side.

STARCH, noun [G., strength, starch; strong. See Stare and Steer.] A substance used to stiffen linen and other cloth. It is the fecula of flour , or a substance that subsides from water mixed with wheat flour. It is sometimes made from potatoes. starch forms the greatest portion of farinaceous substances, particularly of wheat flour, and it si the chief aliment of bread.

STARCH, adjective Stiff; precise; rigid.

STARCH, verb transitive To stiffen with starch

STARCHED, participle passive

1. Stiffened with starch.

2. adjective Stiff; precise; formal.

STARCHEDNESS, noun Stiffness in manners; formality.

STARCHER, noun One who starches, or whose occupation is to starch.

STARCHING, participle present tense Stiffening with starch.

STARCHLY, adverb With stiffness of manner; preciseness.

STARCHNESS, noun Stiffness of manner; preciseness.

STARCHY, adjective Stiff; precise.

STARE, noun A bird, the starling.

STARE, verb intransitive The sense then is to open or extend, and it seems to be closely allied to G., stiff, and to starch, stern, which imply straining, tension.]

1. To gaze; to look with fixed eyes wide open; to fasten an earnest look on some object. Staring is produced by wonder, surprise, stupidity, horror, fright and sometimes by eagerness to hear or learn something, sometimes by impudence. We say, he stared with astonishment.

Look not big, nor stare nor fret.

2. To stand out; to be prominent.

Take off all the staring straws and jaggs in the hive. [Not used.]

To stare in the face, to be before the eyes or undeniably evident.

The law stares them int he face, while they are breaking it.

STARE, noun A fixed look with eyes wide open.

STARER, noun One who stares or gazes.

STARGAZER, noun [star and gazer.] One who gazes at the stars; a term of contempt for an astrologer, sometimes used ludicrously for an astronomer.

STARGAZING, noun The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; astrology.

STARING, participle present tense Gazing; looking with fixed eyes.

STARK, adjective [G., stark stiff, strong; formed on the root of the G., stiff, rigid. See Starch and Steer.]

1. Stiff; strong; rugged.

Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff, under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.

The north is not so stark and cold.

2. Deep; full; profound; absolute.

He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.

STARK, adverb Wholly; entirely; absolutely; as stark mad; stark blind; stark naked. These are the principal applications of this word now in use. The word is in popular use, but not an elegant word in any of its applications.

STARKLY, adverb Stiffly; strongly.

STARLESS, adjective Having no stars visible or no starlight; as a starless night.

STARLIGHT, noun [star and light.] The light proceeding from the stars.

Nor walk by moon or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.

STARLIGHT, adjective Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as a starlight evening.

STARLIKE, adjective [star and like.]

1. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as starlike flowers.

2. Bright; illustrious.

The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness.

STARLING, noun

1. A bird, the stare, of the genus Sturnus.

2. A defense to the piers of bridges.

STAROST, noun In Poland, a feudatory; one who holds a fief.

STAROSTY, noun A fief; an estate held by feudal service.

STARRED, participle passive or adjective [from star.]

1. Adorned or studded with stars; as the starred queen of Ethiopia.

2. Influenced in fortune by the stars.

My third comfort, starrd most unluckily--

STARRING, participle present tense or adjective

1. Adorning with stars.

2. Shining; bright; sparkling; as starring comets. [Not in use.]

STARRY, adjective [from star.]

1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.

Above the clouds, above the starry sky.

2. Consisting of stars; stellar; stellary; proceeding from the stars; as starry light; starry flame.

3. Shining like stars; resembling stars; as starry eyes.

START, verb transitive

1. To move suddenly, as if by a twitch; as, to start in sleep or by a sudden spasm.

2. To move suddenly, as by an involuntary shrinking from sudden fear or alarm.

I start as from some dreadful dream.

3. To move with sudden quickness, as with a spring or leap.

A spirit fit to start into an empire, and look the world to law.

4. To shrink; to wince.

But if he start it is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

5. To move suddenly aside; to deviate; generally with from, out of, or aside.

Th old drudging sun from his long beaten way shall at thy voice start and misguide the day.

Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.

6. To set out; to commence a race, as from a barrier or goal. The horses started at the word, go.

At once they start advancing in a line.

7. To set out; to commence a journey or enterprise. The public coaches start at six oclock.

When two start into the world together--

To start up, to rise suddenly, as from a seat or couch; or to come suddenly into notice or importance.

START, verb transitive

1. To alarm; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to rouse.

Upon malicious bravery dost thou come, to start my quiet?

2. To rouse suddenly from concealment; to cause to flee or fly; as, to start a hare or a woodcock; to start game.

3. To bring into motion; to produce suddenly to view or notice.

Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cesar.

The present occasion has started the dispute among us.

So we say, to start a question, to start an objection; that is, to suggest or propose anew.

4. To invent or discover; to bring within pursuit.

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start

5. To move suddenly from its place; to dislocate; as, to start a bone.

One started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

6. To empty, as liquor from a cask; to pour out; as, to start wine into another cask.

START, noun

1. A sudden motion of the body, produced by spasm; a sudden twitch or spasmodic affection; as a start in sleep.

2. A sudden motion from alarm.

The fright awakend Arcite with a start

3. A sudden rousing to action; a spring; excitement.

Now fear I this will give it start again.

4. Sally; sudden motion or effusion; a bursting forth; as starts of fancy.

To check the starts and sallies of the soul.

5. Sudden fit; sudden motion followed by intermission.

For she did speak in starts distractedly.

Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.

6. A quick spring; a darting; a shoot; a push; as, to give a start

Both cause the string to give a quicker start

7. First in motion from a place; act of setting out.

The start of first performance is all.

You stand like grayhounds in the slips, straining upon the start

To get the start to begin before another; to gain the advantage in a similar undertaking.

Get the start of the majestic world.

She might have forsaken him, if he had not got the start of her.

START, noun A projection; a push; a horn; a tail. IN the latter sense it occurs int he name of the bird red-start. Hence the start in Devonshire.

STARTED, participle passive Suddenly roused or alarmed; poured out, as a liquid; discovered; proposed; produced to view.

STARTER, noun

1. One that starts; one that shrinks from his purpose.

2. One that suddenly moves or suggests a question or an objection.

3. A dog that rouses game.

STARTFUL, adjective Apt to start; skittish.

STARTFULNESS, noun Aptness to start.

STARTING, participle present tense Moving suddenly; shrinking; rousing; commencing, as a journey, etc.

STARTING, noun The act of moving suddenly.

STARTINGLY, adverb By sudden fits or starts.

STARTISH, adjective Apt to start; skittish; shy.

STARTLE, verb intransitive [dim. of start.] To shrink; to move suddenly or be excited on feeling a sudden alarm.

Why shrinks the soul back on herself, and startles at destruction?

STARTLE, verb transitive

1. To impress with fear; to excite by sudden alarm, surprise or apprehension; to shock; to alarm; to fright. We were startled at the cry of distress. Any great and unexpected event is apt to startle us.

The supposition that angles assume bodies, need not startle us.

2. To deter; to cause to deviate. [Little used.]

STARTLE, noun A sudden motion or shock occasioned by an unexpected alarm, surprise or apprehension of danger; sudden impression of terror.

After having recovered from my first startle I was well pleased with the accident.

STARTLED, participle passive Suddenly moved or shocked by an impression of fear or surprise.

STARTLING, participle present tense Suddenly impressing with fear or surprise.

STARTUP, noun [start and up.]

1. One that comes suddenly into notice. [Not used. We use upstart.]

2. A kind of high shoe.

STARTUP, adjective Suddenly coming into notice. [Not used.]

STARVE, verb intransitive [G., to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound.]

1. To perish; to be destroyed. [In this general sense, obsolete.]

2. To perish or die with cold; as, to starve with cold. [This sense is retained in England, but not in the United States.

3. To perish with hunger. [This sense is retained in England and the United States.]

4. To suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.

STARVE, verb transitive

1. To kill with hunger. Maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

2. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starve a garrison into a surrender.

3. To destroy by want; as, to starve plants by the want of nutriment.

4. To kill with cold. [Not in use in the United States.]

From beds of raging fire to starve in ice their soft ethereal warmth--

5. To deprive of force or vigor.

The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. [Unusual.]

STARVED, participle passive

1. Killed with hunger; subdued by hunger; rendered poor by want.

2. Killed by cold. [Not in use in the United States.]

STARVELING, adjective starvling. Hungry; lean; pining with want.

STARVELING, noun starvling. An animal or plant that is made thin, lean and weak through want of nutriment.

And thy poor starveling bountifully fed.

STARVING, participle present tense

1. Perishing with hunger; killing with hunger; rendering lean and poor by want of nourishment.

2. Perishing with cold; killing with cold. [English.]

STATARY, adjective [from state.] Fixed; settled. [Not in use.]

STATE, noun [Latin , to stand, to be fixed.]

1. Condition; the circumstances of a being or thing at any given time. These circumstances may be internal, constitutional or peculiar to the being, or they may have relation to other beings. We say, the body is in a sound state or it is in a weak state; or it has just recovered from a feeble state The state of his health is good. The state of his mind is favorable for study. So we say, the state of public affairs calls for the exercise of talents and wisdom. In regard to foreign nations, our affairs are in a good state So we say, single state and married state

Declare the past and present state of things.

2. Modification of any thing.

Keep the state of the question in your eye.

3. Crisis; stationary point; highth; point from which the next movement is regression.

Tumors have their several degrees and times, as beginning, augment, state and declination. [Not in use.]

4. Estate; possession. [See Estate.]

5. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government.

Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state

More usually the word signifies a political body governed by representatives; a commonwealth; as the States of Greece; the States of America. In this sense, state has sometimes more immediate reference to the government, sometimes to the people or community. Thus when we say, the state has made provision for the paupers, the word has reference to the government or legislature; but when we say, the state is taxed to support paupers, the word refers to the whole people or community.

6. A body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as the civil and ecclesiastical states in Great Britain. But these are sometimes distinguished by the terms church and state In this case, state signifies the civil community or government only.

7. Rank; condition; quality; as the state of honor.

8. Pomp; appearance of greatness.

In state the monarchs marchd.

Where least of state there most of love is shown.

9. Dignity; grandeur.

She instructed him how he should keep state yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.

10. A seat of dignity.

This chair shall be my state

11. A canopy; a covering of dignity.

His high throne, under state of richest texture spread-- [Unusual.]

12. A person of high rank. [Not in use.]

13. The principal persons in a government.

The bold design pleasd highly those infernal states.

14. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as the states general.

15. Joined with another word, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic; as state affairs; state policy.

STATE, verb transitive

1. To set; to settle. [See Stated.]

2. To express the particulars of any thing verbally; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite. The witnesses stated all the circumstances of the transaction. They are enjoined to state all the particulars. It is the business of the advocate to state the whole case. Let the question be fairly stated.

STATED, participle passive

1. Expressed or represented; told; recited.

2. adjective Settled; established; regular; occurring at regular times; not occasional; as stated hours of business.

3. Fixed; established; as a stated salary.

STATEDLY, adverb Regularly; at certain times; not occasionally. It is one of the distinguishing marks of a good man, that he statedly attends public worship.

STATELESS, adjective Without pomp.

STATELINESS, noun [from stately.]

1. Grandeur; loftiness of mien or manner; majestic appearance; dignity.

For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse?

2. Appearance of pride; affected dignity.

STATELY, adjective

1. Lofty; dignified; majestic; as stately manners; a stately gait.

2. Magnificent; grand; as a stately edifice; a stately dome; a stately pyramid.

3. Elevated in sentiment.

STATELY, adverb Majestically; loftily.

STATEMENT, noun

1. The act of stating, reciting or presenting verbally or on paper.

2. A series of facts or particulars expressed on paper; as a written statement

3. A series of facts verbally recited; recital of the circumstances of a transaction; as a verbal statement

STATER, noun Another name of the daric, an ancient silver coin weighing about four Attic drachmas, about three shillings sterling, or 61 cents.

STATES, noun plural Nobility.

STATESMAN, noun [state and man.]

1. A man versed in the arts of government; usually, one eminent for political abilities; a politician.

2. A small landholder.

3. One employed in public affairs.

STATESMANSHIP, noun The qualifications or employments of a statesman.

STATESWOMAN, noun A woman who meddles in public affairs; in contempt.

STATIC, STATICAL, adjective [See Statics.] Relating to the science of weighing bodies; as a static balance or engine.

STATIC, STATICAL adjective [See Statics.] Relating to the science of weighing bodies; as a static balance or engine.

STATICS, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. That branch of mechanics which treats of bodies at rest. Dynamics treats of bodies in motion.

2. In medicine, a kind of epileptics, or persons seized with epilepsies.

STATION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of standing.

Their manner was to stand at prayer--on which their meetings for that purpose received the name of stations.

2. A state of rest.

All progression is preformed by drawing on or impelling forward what was before in station or at quiet. [Rare.]

3. The spot or place where one stands, particularly where a person habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as the station of a sentinel. Each detachment of troops had its station

4. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform. The chief magistrate occupies the first political station in a nation. Other officers fill subordinate stations. The office of bishop is an ecclesiastical station of great importance. It is the duty of the executive to fill all civil and military stations with men of worth.

5. Situation; position.

The fig and date, why love they to remain in middle station?

6. Employment; occupation; business.

By sending the sabbath in retirement and religious exercises, we gain new strength and resolution to perform Gods will in our several stations the week following.

7. Character; state.

The greater part have kept their station

8. Rank; condition of life. He can be contented with a humble station

9. In church history, 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.

10. In the church of Rome, a church where indulgences are to be had on certain days.

STATION, verb transitive To place; to set; or to appoint to the occupation of a post, place or office; as, to station troops on the right or left of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa or in the West Indies; to station a man at the head of the department of finance.

STATIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a station.

STATIONARY, adjective

1. Fixed; not moving, progressive or regressive; not appearing to move. The sun becomes stationary in Cancer, in its advance into the northern signs. The court in England which was formerly itinerary, is now stationary

2. Not advancing, in a moral sense; not improving; not growing wiser, greater or better; not becoming greater or more excellent.

3. Respecting place.

The same harmony and stationary constitution---

STATIONARY fever, a fever depending on peculiar seasons.

STATIONER, noun [from station, a state.] A bookseller; one who sells books, paper, quills, inkstands, pencils and other furniture for writing. The business of the bookseller and stationer is usually carried on by the same person.

STATIONERY, noun The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, ink, quills; etc.

STATIONERY, adjective Belonging to a stationer.

STATIST, noun [from state.] A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.

STATISTs indeed, and lovers of their country. [Not now used.]

STATISTIC, STATISTICAL, adjective [from state or statist.] Pertaining to the state of society, the condition of the people, their economy, their property and resources.

STATISTIC, STATISTICAL adjective [from state or statist.] Pertaining to the state of society, the condition of the people, their economy, their property and resources.

STATISTICS, noun A collection of facts respecting the state of society, the condition of the people in a nation or country, their health, longevity, domestic economy, arts, property and political strength, the state of the country, etc.

STATUARY, noun [Latin , a statue; to set.]

1. The art of carving images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.

[In this sense the word has no plural.]

2. One professes or practices the art of carving images or making statues.

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.

STATUE, noun [Latin , to set; that which is set or fixed.] An image; a solid substance formed by carving into the likeness of a whole living being; as a statue of Hercules or of a lion.

STATUE, verb transitive To place, as a statue; to form a statue of.

STATUMINATE, verb transitive [Latin] To prop or support. [Not in use.]

STATURE, noun [Latin , to set.] The natural highth of an animal body. It is more generally used of the human body.

Foreign men of mighty stature came.

STATURED, adjective Arrived at full stature. [Little used.]

STATUTABLE, adjective [from statute.]

1. Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legislature; as a statutable provision or remedy.

2. Made or being in conformity to statute; as statutable measures.

STATUTABLY, adverb In a manner agreeable to statute.

STATUTE, [Latin , to set.]

1. An act of the legislature of a state that extends its binding force to all the citizens or subjects of that state, as distinguished from an act which extends only to an individual or company; an act of the legislature commanding or prohibiting something; a positive law. Statutes are distinguished from common law. The latter owes its binding force to the principles of justice, to long use and the consent of a nation. The former owe their binding force to a positive command or declaration of the supreme power. statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies, the laws of the sovereign are called edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc.

2. A special act of the supreme power, of a private nature, or intended to operate only on an individual or company.

3. The act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as the statutes of a university.

STATUTORY, adjective Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as a statutory provision or remedy.

STAUROLITE, STAUROTIDE, noun [Gr., a cross, a stone.] The granatit of Werner or grenatite of Jameson; a mineral crystalized in prisms, either single or intersecting each other at right angles. Its color is white or gray, reddish or brown. It is often opake, sometimes translucent. Its form and infusibility distinguish it from the garnet. It is called by the French, harmotome.

STAUROLITE, STAUROTIDE noun [Gr., a cross, a stone.] The granatit of Werner or grenatite of Jameson; a mineral crystalized in prisms, either single or intersecting each other at right angles. Its color is white or gray, reddish or brown. It is often opake, sometimes translucent. Its form and infusibility distinguish it from the garnet. It is called by the French, harmotome.

STAVE, noun [from staff. It has the sound of a, as in save.]

1. A thin narrow piece of timber, of which casks are made. Staves make a considerable articles of export from New England to the West Indies.

2. A staff; a metrical portion; a part of a psalm appointed to be sung in churches.

3. In music, the five horizontal and parallel lines on which the notes of tunes are written or printed; the staff, as it is now more generally written.

To stave and tail, to part dogs by interposing a staff and by pulling the tail.

STAVE, verb transitive preterit tense stove or staved; participle passive id.

1. To break a hole in; to break; to burst; primarily, to thrust through with a staff; as, to stave a cask.

2. To push as with a staff; with off.

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

3. To delay; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

4. To pour out; to suffer to be lost by breaking the cask.

All the wine in the city has been staved.

5. To furnish with staves or rundles. [Not in use.]

STAVE, verb intransitive To fight with staves. [Not in use.]

STAVES, plural of staff, when applied to a stick, is pronounced with a as in ask, the Italian sound.

STAW, verb intransitive To be fixed or set. [Not in use or local.]

STAY, verb intransitive preterit tense staid, for stayed. [Latin , to stand.]

1. To remain; to continue in a place; to abide for any indefinite time. Do you stay here, while I go to the next house. stay here a week. We staid at the Hotel Montmorenci.

STAY, I command you; stay and hear me first.

2. To continue in a state.

The flames augment, and stay at their full highth, then languish to decay.

3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

I stay for Turnus.

Would ye stay for them from having husbands? Ruth 1:13.

4. To stop; to stand still.

She would command the hasty sun to stay

5. To dwell.

I must stay a little on one action.

6. To rest; to rely; to confide in; to trust.

Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression, and stay thereon--Isaiah 30:12.

STAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive staid, for stayed.

1. To stop; to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain.

All that may stay the mind from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.

To stay these sudden gusts of passion.

2. To delay; to obstruct; to hinder from proceeding.

Your ships are staid at Venice.

I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me to be new.

3. To keep from departure; as, you might have staid me here.

4. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to hold up; to support.

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands. Exodus 17:12.

Sallows and reeds for vineyards useful found to stay thy vines.

5. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; as, to take a luncheon to stay the stomach.

STAY, noun

1. Continuance in a place; abode for a time indefinite; as, you make a short stay in this city.

Embrace the hero, and his stay implore.

2. Stand; stop; cessation of motion or progression.

Affairs of state seemd rather to stand at a stay

[But in this sense, we now use stand; to be at a stand.]

3. Stop; obstruction; hinderance from progress.

Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay

4. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

With prudent stay he long deferrd the rough contention.

5. A fixed state.

Alas, what stay is there in human state!

6. Prop; support.

Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.

My only strength and stay!

The Lord is my stay Psalms 18:18.

The stay and the staff, the means of supporting and preserving life. Isaiah 3:1.

7. Steadiness of conduct.

8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship. The fore-stay reaches from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end; the main-stay extends to the ships stem; the mizen-stay is stretched to a collar on the main-mast, above the quarter deck, etc.

STAYs, in seamanship, implies the operation of going about or changing the course of a ship, with a shifting of the sails. To be in stays, is to lie with the head to the wind, and the sails so arranged as to check her progress.

To miss stays, to fail in the attempt to go about.

STAYED, participle passive Staid; fixed; settle; sober. It is now written staid, which see.

STAYEDLY, adverb Composedly; gravely; moderately; prudently; soberly. [Little used.]

STAYEDNESS, noun

1. Moderation; gravity; sobriety; prudence. [See Staidness.]

2. Solidity; weight. [Little used.]

STAYER, noun One that stops or restrains; one who upholds or supports; that which props.

STAYLACE, noun A lace for fastening the bodice in female dress.

STAYLESS, adjective Without stop or delay. [Little used.]

STAYMAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make stays.

STAYS, noun plural

1. A bodice; a kind of waistcoat stiffened with whalebone or other thing, worn by females.

2. stays of a ship. [See Stay.]

3. Station; fixed anchorage.

4. Any support; that which keeps another extended.

Weavers, stretch your stays upon the weft.

STEAD, STED, noun [G. See Stay.]

1. Place; in general.

Fly this fearful stead

[In this sense not used.]

2. Place or room which another had or might have, noting substitution, replacing or filling the place of another, as, David died and Solomon reigned in his sted.

God hath appointed me another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 4:1.

3. The frame on which a bed is laid.

Sallow the feet, the borders and the sted.

[But we never use this word by itself in this sense. We always use bedstead.]

To stand in sted, to be of use or great advantage.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead

STEAD, STED, in names of places distant from a river or the sea, signifies place, as above; but in names of places situated on a river or harbor, it is from Sax. Stathe, border, bank, shore, Both words perhaps are from one root.

STEAD, verb transitive sted.

1. To help; to support; to assist; as, it nothing steads us.

2. To fill the place of another.

STEADFAST, STEDFAST, adjective [stead and fast.]

STEADFASTLY, STEDFASTLY, adverb Firmly; with constancy or steadiness of mind.

STEADFASTNESS, STEDFASTNESS, noun

STEADILY, STEDDILY, adverb

STEADINESS, STEDDINESS, n.

STEADY, STEDDY, a.

STEADY, STEDDY, v.t. To hold or keep from shaking, reeling or falling; to support; to make or keep firm. Steddy my hand.

STEAK, noun [G., a piece.] A slice of beef or pork broiled, or cut for broiling. [As far as my observation extends, this word is never applied to any species of meat, except to beef and pork, nor to these dressed in any way except by broiling. Possible it may be used of a piece fried.]

STEAL, verb transitive preterit tense stole; participle passive stolen, stole. [G. L, to take, to lift.]

1. To take and carry away feloniously, as the personal goods of another. To constitute stealing or theft, the taking must be felonious, that is, with an intent to take what belongs to another, and without his consent.

Let him that stole, steal no more. Ephesians 4:28.

2. To Withdraw or convey without notice or clandestinely.

They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by submission.

3. To gain or win by address or gradual and imperceptible means.

Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.

So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 2 Samuel 15:1.

STEAL, verb intransitive

1. To withdraw or pass privily; to slip along or away unperceived.

Fixed of mind to fly all company, one night she stole away.

From whom you now must steal and take no leave.

A soft and solemn breathing sound rose like a steam of rich distilld perfumes, and stole upon the air.

2. To practice theft; to take feloniously. He steals for a livelihood.

Thou shalt not steal Exodus 20:15.

STEALER, noun One that steals; a thief.

STEALING, participle present tense Taking the goods of another feloniously; withdrawing imperceptibly; gaining gradually.

STEALINGLY, adverb Slyly; privately, or by an invisible motion. [Little used.]

STEALTH, noun stelth.

1. The act of stealing; theft.

The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed on him by such an outlaw.

2. The thing stolen; as cabins that are dens to cover stealth [Not in use.]

3. Secret act; clandestine practice; means unperceived employed to gain an object; way or manner not perceived; used in a good or bad sense.

Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.

The monarch blinded with desire of wealth, with steel invades the brothers life by stealth

STEALTHY, adjective Stelthy. Done by stealth; clandestine; unperceived.

Now witherd murder with his stealthy pace moves like a ghost.

STEAM, noun

1. The vapor of water; or the elastic, aeriform fluid generated by heating water to the boiling point. When produced under the common atmospheric pressure, its elasticity is equivalent to the pressure, its elasticity is equivalent to the pressure of the atmosphere, and it is called low steam; but when heated in a confined state, its elastic force is rapidly augmented, and it is then called high steam On the application of cold, steam instantly returns to the state of water, and thus forms a sudden vacuum. From this property, and from the facility with which an elastic force is generated by means of steam this constitutes a mechanical agent at once the most powerful and the most manageable, as is seen in the vast and multiplied uses of the steam engine. steam is invisible, and is to be distinguished from the cloud or mist which it forms in the air, that being water in a minute state of division, resulting from the condensation of steam

2. In popular use, the mist formed by condensed vapor.

STEAM, verb intransitive

1. To rise or pass off in vapor by means of heat; to fume.

Let the crude humors dance in heated brass, steaming with fire intense.

2. To send off visible vapor.

Ye mists that rise from steaming lake.

3. To pass off in visible vapor.

The dissolved amber--steamed away into the air.

STEAM, verb transitive

1. To exhale; to evaporate. [Not much used.]

2. To expose to steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing or preparing; as, to steam cloth; to steam potatoes instead of boiling the; to steam food for cattle.

STEAMED, participle passive Exposed to steam; cooked or dressed by steam.

STEAMING, participle present tense Exposing to steam; cooking or dressing by steam; preparing for cattle by steam, as roots.

STEAN, for stone. [Not in use.]

STEARIN, noun One of the proximate elements of animal fat, as lard, tallow, etc. The various kinds of animal fat consist of two substances, stearin and elain; of which the former is solid, and the latter liquid.

STEATITE, noun [Gr., fat.] Soapstone; so called from its smooth or unctuous feel; a subspecies of rhomboidal mica. It is of two kings, the common, and the pagodite or lard-stone. It is sometimes confounded with talck, to which its is allied. It is a compact stone, white, green of all shades, gray, brown or marbled, and sometimes herborized by black dendrites. It is found in metalliferous veins, with the ores of copper, lead, zink, silver and tin.

STEATITIC, adjective Pertaining to soapstone; of the nature of steatite, or resembling it.

STEATOCELE, noun [Gr., fat, a tumor.] A swelling of the scrotum, containing fat.

STEATOMA, noun [Gr.] A species of tumor containing matter like suet.

STED, STEDFAST. [See Stead.]

STEADILY, STEDDILY adverb

1. With firmness of standing or position; without tottering, shaking or leaning. He kept his arm STEDDILY directed to the object.

2. Without wavering, inconstancy or irregularity; without deviating. He STEDDILY pursues his studies.

STEADINESS, STEDDINESS noun

1. Firmness of standing or position; a state of being not tottering or easily moved or shaken. A man stands with steddiness; he walks with STEDDINESS

2. Firmness of mind or purpose; constancy; resolution. We say, a man has STEDDINESS of mind, STEDDINESS in opinion, STEDDINESS in the pursuit of objects.

3. Consistent uniform conduct.

Steddiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage.

STEADY, STEDDY adjective

1. Firm in standing or position; fixed; not tottering or shaking; applicable to any object.

2. Constant in mind, purpose or pursuit; not fickle, changeable or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; as a man STEDDY in his principles, STEDDY in his purpose, STEDDY in the pursuit of an object, STEDDY in his application to business.

3. Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as the STEDDY course of the sun. Steer the ship a STEDDY course. A large river runs with a STEDDY stream.

4. Regular; not fluctuating; as a STEDDY breeze of wind.

STEADY, STEDDY, verb transitive To hold or keep from shaking, reeling or falling; to support; to make or keep firm. STEDDY my hand.

STEADFAST, STEDFAST adjective [stead and fast.]

1. Fast fixed; firm; firmly fixed or established; as the STEDFAST globe of earth.

2. Constant; firm; resolute; not fickle or wavering.

Abide STEDFAST to thy neighbor in the time of his trouble.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith. 1 Peter 5:9.

3. Steady; as STEDFAST sight.

STEADFASTLY, STEDFASTLY adverb Firmly; with constancy or steadiness of mind.

Steadfastly believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true.

STEADFASTNESS, STEDFASTNESS noun

1. Firmness of standing; fixedness in place.

2. Firmness of mind or purpose; fixedness in principle; constancy; resolution; as the STEDFASTNESS of faith. He adhered to his opinions with steadfastness.

STEED, noun A horse, or a horse for state or war. [This word is not much used in common discourse. It is used in poetry and descriptive prose, and is elegant.]

Stout are our men, and warlike are our steeds.

STEEL, noun [G.]

1. Iron combined with a small portion of carbon; iron refined and hardened, used in making instruments, and particularly useful as the material of edged tools. It is called in chemistry, carburet of iron; but this is more usually the denomination of plumbago.

2. Figuratively, weapons; particularly, offensive weapons, swords, spears and the like.

Brave Macbeth with his brandishd steel

-- While doubting thus he stood, receivd the steel bathd in this brothers blood.

3. Medicines composed of steel as steel fillings.

After relaxing, steel strengthens the solids.

4. Extreme hardness; as heads or hearts of steel

STEEL, adjective Made of steel; as a steel plate or buckle.

STEEL, verb transitive

1. To overlay, point or edge with steel; as, to steel the point of a sword; to steel a razor; to steel an ax.

2. To make hard or extremely hard.

O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts.

Lies well steeld with weighty arguments.

3. To make hard; to make insensible or obdurate; as, to steel the heart against pity; to steel the mind or heart against reproof or admonition.

STEELED, participle passive Pointed or edged with steel; hardened; made insensible.

STEELINESS, noun [from steely. ] Great hardness.

STEELING, participle present tense Pointing or edging with steel; hardening; making insensible or unfeeling.

STEELY, adjective

1. Made of steel; consisting of steel.

Broachd with the steely point of Cliffords lance.

Around his shop the steely sparkles flew.

2. Hard; firm.

That she would unarm her noble heart of that steely resistance against the sweet blows of love.

STEELYARD, noun [steel and yard.] The Roman balance; an instrument for weighing bodies, consisting of a rod or bar marked with notches, designating the number of pounds and ounces, and a weight which is movable along this bar, and which is made to balance the weight of the body by being removed at a proper distance from the fulcrum. The principle of the steelyard is that of the lever; where an equilibrium is produced, when the products of the weights on opposite sides into their respective distances from the fulcrum, are equal to one another. Hence a less weight is made to indicate a greater, by being removed to a greater distance from the fulcrum.

STEEN, STEAN, noun A vessel of clay or stone. [Not in use.]

STEENKIRK, noun A cant term for a neck-cloth. [Not now in use.]

STEEP, adjective Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending with a great inclination; precipitous; as a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity.

STEEP, noun A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock or ascent; any elevated object which slopes with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.

We had on each side rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steps and precipices.

STEEP, verb transitive [probably formed on the root of dip.] To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to imbue; to keep any thing in a liquid till it has thoroughly imbibed it, or till the liquor has extracted the essential qualities of the substance. Thus cloth is steeped in lye or other liquid in bleaching or dyeing. But plants and drugs are steeped in water, wine and the like, for the purpose of tincturing the liquid with their qualities.

STEEP, noun A liquid for steeping grain or seeds; also, a runnet bag. [Local.]

STEEPED, participle passive Soaked; macerated; imbued.

STEEPER, noun A vessel, vat or cistern in which things are steeped.

STEEPING, participle present tense Soaking; macerating.

STEEPLE, noun A turret of a church, ending in a point; a spire. It differs from a tower, which usually ends in a square form, thought the name is sometimes given to a tower. The bell of a church is usually hung in the steeple

They, far from steeples and their sacred sound---

STEEPLED, adjective Furnished with a steeple; adorned with steeples or towers.

STEEPLY, adverb With steepness; with precipitous declivity.

STEEPNESS, noun The state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as the steepness of a hill, a bank or a roof.

STEEPY, adjective Having a steep or precipitous declivity; as steepy crags; a poetical word.

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb the steepy cliffs.

STEER, noun A young male of the ox kind or common ox. It is rendered in Dutch, a bull; but in the United States, this name is generally given to a castrated male of the ox kind, from two to four years old.

With solemn pomp then sacrificd a steer

STEER, verb transitive [G., to hinder, restrain, repress, to curb, to steer to pilot, to aid, help, support. The verb si connected with or derived from steuer, a rudder, a helm, aid, help, subsidy, impost, tax, contribution.]

1. To direct; to govern; particularly, to direct and govern the course of a ship by the movements of the helm. Hence,

2. To direct; to guide; to show the way or course to.

That with a staff his feeble steps did steer

STEER, verb intransitive

1. To direct and govern a ship or other vessel in its course. Formerly seamen steered by the stars; they ow steer by the compass.

A ship--where the wind veers oft, as oft so steers and shifts her sail.

2. To be directed and governed; as, a ship steers with ease.

3. To conduct ones self; to take or pursue a course or way.

STEER, noun A rudder or helm. [Not in use.]

STEERAGE, noun

1. The act or practice of directing and governing in a course; as the steerage of a ship.

[In this sense, I believe the word is now little used.]

2. In seamens language, the effort of a helm, or its effect on the ship.

3. In a ship, an apartment forward of the great cabin, from which it is separated by a bulk-head or partition, or an apartment in the fore part of a ship for passengers. In ships of war it serves as a hall or antichamber to the great cabin.

4. The part of a ship where the tiller traverses.

5. Direction; regulation.

He that hath the steerage of my course. [Little used.]

6. Regulation or management.

You raise the honor of the peerage, proud to attend you at the steerage

7. That by which a course is directed.

Here he hung on high the steerage of his wings---

[Steerage, in the general sense of direction or management, is in popular use, but by no means an elegant word. It is said, a young man when he sets out in life, makes bad steerage; but no good writer would introduce the word into elegant writing.]

STEERED, participle passive Directed and governed in a course; guided; conducted.

STEERER, noun One that steers; a pilot. [Little used.]

STEERING, participle present tense Directing and governing in a course, as a ship; guiding; conducting.

STEERING, noun The act or art of directing and governing a ship or other vessel in her course; the act of guiding or managing.

STEERLESS, adjective Having no steer or rudder. [Not in use.]

STEERSMAN, noun [steer and man.] One that steers; the helmsman of a ship.

STEERSMATE, noun [steer and mate.] One who steers; a pilot. [Not in use.]

STEEVING, noun In seamens language, the angle of elevation which a ships bowsprit makes with the horizon.

STEG, noun A gander. [Local.]

STEGANOGRAPHIST, noun [Gr., secret, and to write.] One who practices the art of writing in cipher.

STEGANOGRAPHY, noun [supra.] The art of writing in ciphers or characters which are not intelligible, except to the persons who correspond with each other.

STEGNOTIC, adjective [Gr.] Tending to bind or render costive.

STEGNOTIC, noun A medicine proper to stop the orifices of the vessels or emunctories of the body, when relaxed or lacerated.

STEINHEILITE, noun A mineral, a variety or iolite.

STELE, noun A stale or handle; a stalk.

STELECHITE, noun A fine kind of storax, in larger pieces than the calamite.

STELLAR, STELLARY, adjective [Latin , a star.]

STELLAR, STELLARY adjective [Latin , a star.]

1. Pertaining to stars; astral; as stellar virute; stellar figure.

2. Starry; full of stars; set with stars; as STELLARY regions.

STELLATE, STELLATED, adjective [Latin]

STELLATE, STELLATED adjective [Latin]

1. Resembling a star; radiated.

2. In botany, stellate or verticillate leaves are when more leaves than two surround the stem in a whorl, or when they radiate like the spokes of a wheel, or like a star. A stellate bristle is when a little star of smaller hairs is affixed to the end applied also to the stigma. A stellate flower is a radiate flower.

STELLATION, noun [Latin , a star.] Radiation of light. [Not in use.]

STELLED, adjective Starry. [Not in use.]

STELLIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a star; to produce.] Having or abounding with stars.

STELLIFORM, adjective [Latin , a star; to produce.] Like a star; radiated.

STELLIFY, verb transitive To turn into a star. [Not in use.]

STELLION, noun [Latin] A newt.

STELLIONATE, noun [Low Latin ] In law, the crime of selling a thing deceitfully for what it is not, as to sell that for ones own which belongs to another. [Not in use.]

STELLITE, noun [Latin , a star.] A name given by some writers to a white stone found on Mount Libanus, containing the lineaments of the star-fish.

STELOCHITE, noun A name given to the osteocolla.

STELOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., a pillar; to write.] The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

STEM, noun [G., stock, stem race. The primary sense is to set, to fix.]

1. The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant of any kind; the main stock; the firm part which supports the branches.

After thy are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough or twig on the stem

The lowring spring with lavish rain, beats down the slender stem and bearded grain.

2. The peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicle of a flower; that which supports the flower or the fruit of a planet.

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

Learn well their lineage and their ancient stem

4. Progeny; branch of a family.

Of that victorious stock.

5. In a ship, a circular 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. From stem to stern, is from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.

STEM, verb transitive

1. To oppose or resist, as a current; or to make progress against a current. We say, the ship was not able with all her sails to stem the tide.

They stem the flood with their erected breasts.

2. To stop; to check; as a stream or moving force.

At length Erasmus, that great injurd name, stemmd the wild torrent of a barbrous age, and drove those holy Vandals off the stage.

STEMLESS, adjective Having no stem.

STEMMED, participle passive Opposed, as a current; stopped.

STEMMING, participle present tense Opposing, as a stream; stopping.

STEMPLE, noun In mining, a cross bar of wood in a shaft.

STENCH, noun [See Stink.] An ill smell; offensive odor.

STENCH, verb transitive

1. To cause to emit a hateful smell. [Not in use.]

2. To stanch; to stop. [Not in use.]

STENCHY, adjective Having an offensive smell. [Not in use.]

STENCIL, noun A piece of thin lether or oil cloth, used in painting paper hangings.

STENCIL, verb transitive To paint or color in figures with stencils.

STENOGRAPHER, noun [Gr., close, narrow; to write.] One who is skilled in the art of short hand writing.

STENOGRAPHIC, STENOGRAPHICAL, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the art of writing in short hand; expressing in characters or short hand.

STENOGRAPHIC, STENOGRAPHICAL adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the art of writing in short hand; expressing in characters or short hand.

STENOGRAPHY, noun [supra.] The art of writing in short hand by using abbreviations or characters for whole words.

STENT, for stint. [See Stint.]

STENTORIAN, adjective [from Stentor.]

1. Extremely loud; as a stentorian voice.

2. Able to utter a very loud sound; as stentorian lungs.

STENTOROPHONIC, adjective [from Stentor, a herald in Homer, whose voice was as loud as that of fifty other men, and Gr., voice.] Speaking or sounding very loud.

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

STEP, verb intransitive [Gr., the foot. The sense is to set, as the foot, or move probably to open or part, to stretch or extend.]

1. To move the foot; to advance or recede by a movement of the foot or feet; as, to step forward, or to step backward.

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

3. To walk gravely, slowly or resolutely.

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

To step forth, to move or come forth.

To step aside, to walk to a little distance; to retire from company.

To step in or into,

1. To walk or advance into a place or state; or to advance suddenly in John 5:1.

2. To enter for a short time. I just stepped into the house for a moment.

3. To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon suddenly; as, to step into an estate.

To step back, to move mentally; to carry the mind back.

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

STEP, verb transitive

1. To set, as the foot.

2. To fix the foot of a mast in the keel; to erect.

STEP, noun [G., to form a step or ledge.]

1. A pace; an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot.

2. One remove in ascending or descending; a stair.

The breadth of every single step or stair should be neer less than one foot.

3. The space passed by the foot in walking or running. The step of one foot is generally five feet; it may be more or less.

4. A small space or distance. Let us go to the gardens; it is but a step

5. The distance between the feet in walking or running.

6. Gradation; degree. We advance improvement step by step or by steps.

7. Progression; act of advancing.

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

8. Footstep; print or impression of the foot; track.

9. Gait; manner of walking. The approach of a man is often known by his step

10. Proceeding; measure; action.

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

11. The round of a ladder.

12. Steps in the plural, walk; passage.

Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree in this deep forest.

13. Pieces of timber in which the foot of a mast is fixed.

STEP, STEPP noun In Russ, an uncultivated desert of large extent.

STEP, Sax. Steop, from stepan, to deprive, is prefixed to certain words to express a relation by marriage.

STEPPED, participle passive Set; placed; erected; fixed in the keel, as a mast.

STEPPING, participle present tense Moving, or advancing by a movement of the foot or feet; placing; fixing or erecting, as a mast.

STEPPING, noun The act of walking or running by steps.

STER, in composition, is from the Sax. Steora, a director. See Steer. It seems primarily to have signified chief, principal or director, as in the Latin Minister, chief servant; but in other words, as in spinster, we do not recognize the sense of chief, but merely that of a person who carries on the business of spinning.

STERCORACEOUS, adjective [Latin , dung.] Pertaining to dung, or partaking of its nature.

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST noun [Latin , dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST, noun [Latin , dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

STERCORARY, noun A place properly secured from the weather for containing dung.

STERCORATION, noun [Latin] The act of manuring with dung.

STERE, noun In the new French system of measures, the unit for solid measure, equal to a cubic meter.

STEREOGRAPHIC, STEREOGRAPHICAL, adjective [from stereography.] Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as a stereographic chart of the earth.

STEREOGRAPHIC, STEREOGRAPHICAL adjective [from stereography.] Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as a stereographic chart of the earth.

STEREOGRAPHICALLY, adverb By delineation on plane.

STEREOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., firm; to write.] The act or 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.

STEREOMETRICAL, adjective [See Stereometry.] Pertaining to or performed by stereometry.

STEREOMETRY, noun [Gr., firm, fixed; to measure.] The art of measuring solid bodies, and finding their solid content.

STEREOTOMICAL, adjective Pertaining to or performed by stereotomy.

STEREOTOMY, noun [Gr., fixed; to cut.] The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, etc.

STEREOTYPE, noun [Gr., fixed; type, form.]

1. Literally, a fixed metal type; hence, a plate of fixed or solid metallic types for printing books. Thus we say, a book is printed on stereotype or in stereotype In the latter use, the word seems rather to signify the workmanship or manner of printing, than the plate.

2. The art of making plates of fixed metallic types, or of executing work on such plates.

STEREOTYPE, adjective

1. Pertaining to fixed metallic types.

2. Done on fixed metallic types, or plates of fixed types; as stereotype work; stereotype printing; a stereotype copy of the Bible.

STEREOTYPE, verb transitive To make fixed metallic types or plates of type metal, corresponding with the words and letters of a book; to compose a book in fixed types; as, to stereotype the New Testament; certain societies have stereotyped the Bible.

STEREOTYPER, noun One who makes stereotype.

STEREOTYPING, participle present tense Making stereotype plates for any work; or impressing copies on stereotype plates.

STEREOTYPOGRAPHER, noun A stereo-type printer.

STEREOTYPOGRAPHY, noun The art or practice of printing on stereotype.

STERIL, STERILE, adjective [Latin]

STERIL, STERILE adjective [Latin]

1. Barren; unfruitful; not fertile; producing little or no crop; as STERILE land; a STERILE desert; a STERILE year.

2. Barren; producing no young.

3. Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment, as a STERILE production or author.

Sterile flower, in botany, is a term given by Tournefort to the male flower, or that which bears only stamens.

STERILITY, noun [Latin]

1. Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as the sterility of land or soil.

2. Barrenness; unfruitfulness; the state of not producing young; as of animals.

3. Barrenness of ideas or sentiments, as in writings.

4. Want of fertility or the power of producing sentiment; as the sterility of an author or of his mind.

STERILIZE, verb transitive

1. To make barren; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little used.]

2. To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little used.]

STERLET, noun A fish of the Caspian and of the rivers in Russia, the Acipenser ruthenus of Linne, highly esteemed for its flavor, and from whose roe is made the finest caviare.

STERLING, adjective [probably from Easterling.]

1. An epithet by which English money of account is distinguished; as a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling It is not now applied to the coins of England; but sterling cost, sterling value are used.

2. Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; as a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling wit or good sense.

STERLING, noun

1. English money.

And Roman wealth in English sterling view.

In this use, sterling may signify English coins.

2. Standard; rate. [Little used in either sense.]

STERN, adjective [G., staring; stubborn. See Stare, Starck, Stark, with which this word is probably connected.]

1. Severe; austere; fixed with an aspect of severity and authority; as a stern look; a stern countenance; a stern frown.

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.

2. Severe of manner; rigid; harsh; cruel.

STERN as tutors, and as uncles hard.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

3. Hard; afflictive.

If wolves had at thy gate howld that stern time.

4. Rigidly stedfast; immovable.

STERN virtue is the growth of few soils.

STERN, noun

1. The hind part of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stern or prow. This part of a ship is terminated by the tafferel above, and by the counters below.

2. Post of management; direction.

An sit at chiefest stern of public weal. [Not in use. We now say, to sit at the helm.]

3. The hinder part of any thing. [Not elegant.]

By the stern is a phrase which denotes that a ship is more deeply laden abaft than forward.

STERNAGE, noun Steerage or stern. [Not in use.]

STERNED, adjective In compounds, having a stern of a particular shape; as square-sterned; pink-sterned, etc.

STERNER, noun A director. [Not in use.]

STERNLY, adverb [See Stern.] In a stern manner; with an austere or stern countenance; with an air of authority.

STERNLY he pronouncd the rigid interdiction.

STERNMOST, adjective [stern and most.] Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as the sternmost ship in a convoy.

STERNNESS, noun

1. Severity of look; a look of austerity, rigor or severe authority; as the sternness of ones presence.

2. Severity or harshness of manner; rigor.

I have sternness in my soul enough to hear of soldiers work.

STERNON, noun [Gr.] The breast bone. But sternum is chiefly or wholly used.

STERNUM, noun [Gr., from fixing, setting. See Starch, Stark.] The breast bone; the bone which forms the front of the human chest from the neck to the stomach.

STERNUTATION, noun [Latin] The act of sneezing.

STERNUTATIVE, adjective [Latin , to sneeze.] Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

STERNUTATORY, adjective [Latin , to sneeze.] Having the quality of exciting to sneeze.

STERNUTATORY, noun A substance that provokes sneezing.

STERQUILINOUS, adjective [Latin , a dunghill.] Pertaining to a dunghill; mean; dirty; paltry.

STERVEN, to starve, not in use.

STETHESCOPE, noun [Gr., the breast; to view.] A tubular instrument for distinguishing diseases of the stomach by sounds.

STEVE, verb transitive [from the root of stow.] To stow, as cotton or wool in a ships hold. [Local.]

STEVEDORE, noun One whose occupation is to stow goods, packages, etc. in a ships hold.

STEVEN, noun An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. [Not in use.]

STEW, verb transitive

1. To seethe or gently boil; to boil slowly in a moderate manner, or with a simmering heat; as, to stew meat; to stew applies; to stew prunes.

2. To boil in heat.

STEW, verb intransitive To be seethed in a slow gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

STEW, noun

1. A hot house; a bagnio.

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

2. A brothel; a house of prostitution; but generally or always used int he plural, stews.

3. A prostitute. [Not in use.]

4. [See Stow.] A store pond; a small pond where fish are kept for the table. [Not used.]

5. Meat stewed; as a stew of pigeons.

6. Confusion, as when the air is full of dust. [Not in use or local.]

STEWARD, noun [G., a room. The steward was then originally a chamberlain or a butler.]

1. A man employed in great families to manage the domestic concerns, superintend the other servants, collect the rents or income, keep the accounts, etc. See Genesis 15:2 and 43:19.

2. An officer of state; as lord high steward; steward of the household, etc.

3. In colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the concerns of the kitchen.

4. In a ship of war, an officer who is appointed by the purser to distribute provisions to the officers and crew. In other ships, a man who superintends the provisions and liquors, and supplies the table.

5. In Scripture and theology, a minister of Christ, whose duty is to dispense the provisions of the gospel, to preach its doctrines and administer its ordinances.

It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 1 Corinthians 4:1.

STEWARD, verb transitive To manage as a steward [Not in use.]

STEWARDLY, adverb With the care of a steward. [Little used.]

STEWARDSHIP, noun The office of a steward.

STEWARTRY, noun An overseer or superintendent.

The stewartry of provisions.

STEWED, participle passive Gently boiled; boiled in heat.

STEWING, participle present tense Boiling in a moderate heat.

STEWING, noun The act of seething slowly.

STEWISH, adjective Suiting a brothel.

STIBIAL, adjective [Latin , antimony.] Like or having the qualities of antimony; antimonial.

STIBIARIAN, noun [Latin] A violent man. [An improper word and not in use.]

STIBIATED, adjective Impregnated with anitmony.

STIBIUM, noun [Latin] Antimony.

STICADOS, noun A plant.

STICH, noun [Gr.]

1. In poetry, a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

STICH is used in numbering the books of Scripture.

2. In rural affairs, an order or rank of trees. [In New England, as much land as lies between double furrows, is called a stitch, or a land.]

STICHOMETRY, noun [Gr., a verse; measure.] A catalogue of the books of Scriptures, with the number of verses which each book contains.

STICK, noun [G. This word is connected with the verb to stick with stock, stack, and other words having the like elements. The primary sense of the root is to thrust, to shoot, and to set.]

1. The small shoot or branch of a tree or shrub, cut off; a rod; also, a staff; as, to strike one with a stick

2. Any stem of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. It is applied in America to any long and slender piece of timber, round or square, from the smallest size to the largest, used in the frames of buildings; as a stick of timber for a post, a beam or a rafter.

3. Many instruments, long and slender, are called sticks; as the composing stick of printers.

4. A thrust with a pointed instrument that penetrates a body; a stab.

STICK of eels, the number of twenty five eels. A bind contains ten sticks.

STICK, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive stuck. [G., to sting or prick, to stick to adhere.]

1. To pierce; to stab; to cause to enter, as a pointed instrument; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast in slaughter. [A common use of the word.]

2. To thrust in; to fasten or cause to remain by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.

3. To fasten; to attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a patch or plaster; to stick on a thing with paste or glue.

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

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

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

STICK, verb intransitive

1. To adhere; to hold to by cleaving to the surface, as by tenacity or attraction; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall, and causes paper to stick

I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales. Ezekiel 29:4.

2. To be united; to be inseparable; to cling fast to, as something reproachful.

If on your fame our sex a blot has thrown, twill ever stick through malice of your own.

3. To rest with the memory; to abide.

4. To stop; to be impeded by adhesion or obstruction; as, the carriage sticks in the mire.

5. To stop; to be arrested in a course.

My faltering tongue sticks at the sound.

6. To stop; to hesitate. He sticks at no difficulty; he sticks at the commission of no crime; he sticks at nothing.

7. To adhere; to remain; to resist efforts to remove.

I had most need of blessing, and amen stuck in my throat.

8. To cause difficulties or scruples; to cause to hesitate.

This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable--

9. To be stopped or hindered from proceeding; as, a bill passed the senate, but stuck in the house of representatives.

They never doubted the commons; but heard all stuck in the lords house.

10. To be embarrassed or puzzled.

They will stick long at part of a demonstration, for want of perceiving the connection between two ideals.

11. To adhere closely in friendship and affection.

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24.

To stick to, to adhere closely; to be constant; to be firm; to be persevering; as, to stick to a party or cause.

The advantage will be on our side, if we stick to its essentials.

To stick by,

1. To adhere closely; to be constant; to be firm in supporting.

We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you.

2. To be troublesome by adhering.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

To stick upon, to dwell upon; not to forsake.

If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought. [Not elegant.]

To stick out, to project; to be prominent.

His bones that were not seen, stick out. Job 33:21.

STICKINESS, noun [from stick.] The quality of a thing which makes it adhere to a plane surface; adhesiveness; viscousness; glutinousness; tenacity; as the tenacity of glue or paste.

STICKLE, verb intransitive [from the practice of prize-fighters, who placed seconds with staves or sticks to interpose occasionally.]

1. To take part with one side or other.

Fortune, as she wont, turnd fickle, and for the foe began to stickle

2. To contend; to contest; to altercate. Let the parties stickle each for his favority doctrine.

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

STICKLE, verb transitive To arbitrate. [Not in use.]

STICKLER, noun

1. A sidesman to fencers; a second to a duelist; one who stands to a judge a combat.

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

2. An obstinate contender about any thing; as a stickler for the church of for liberty.

The tory or high church clergy were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of king James.

3. Formerly, an officer who cut wood for the priory of Ederose, within the kings parks of Clarendon.

STICKLING, participle present tense Trimming; contending obstinately or eagerly.

STICKY, adjective Having the quality of adhering to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Gums and resins are sticky substances.

STIDDY, noun An anvil; also, a smiths shop. [Not in use or local.]

STIFF, adjective [Gr.]

1. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not flaccid; rigid; applicable to any substance; as stiff wood; stiff paper; cloth stiff with starch; a limb stiff with frost.

They, rising on stiff pinions, tower the mid aerial sky.

2. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; not soft nor hard. Thus melted metals grow stiff as they cool; they are stiff before they are hard. The paste is too stiff or not stiff enough.

3. Strong; violent; impetuous in motion; as in seamens language, a stiff gale or breeze.

4. Hardy; stubborn; not easily subdued.

How stiff is my vile sense!

5. Obstinate; pertinacious; firm in perseverance or resistance.

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

A war ensues; the Cretans own their cause, stiff to defend their hospitable laws.

6. Harsh; formal; constrained; not natural and easy; as a stiff formal style.

7. Formal in manner; constrained; affected; starched; not easy or natural; as stiff behavior.

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

8. Strongly maintained, or asserted with good evidence.

This is stiff news.

9. In seamens language, a stiff vessel is one that will bear sufficient sail without danger of oversetting.

STIFFEN, verb transitive

1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the Lord God of Israel. 2 Chronicles 36:13.

STIFFEN the sinews; summon up the blood.

2. To make torpid; as stiffening grief.

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

STIFFEN, verb intransitive

1. To become stiff; to become more rigid or less flexible.

--Like bristles rose my stiffning hair.

2. To become more thick, or less soft; to be inspissated; to approach to hardness; as, melted substances stiffen as they cool.

The tender soil then stiffning by degrees--

3. To become less susceptible of impression; to become less susceptible of impression; to become less tender or yielding; to grow more obstinate.

Some souls, we see, grow hard and stiffen with adversity.

STIFFENING, participle present tense Making or becoming less pliable, or more thick, or more obstinate.

STIFFENING, noun Something that is used to make a substance more stiff or less soft.

STIFFLY, adverb

1. Firmly; strongly; as the boughs of a tree stiffly upheld.

2. Rigidly; obstinately; with stubbornness. The doctrine of the infallibility of the church of Rome is stiffly maintained by its adherents.

STIFFNESS, noun

1. Rigidness; want of pliableness or flexibility; the firm texture or state of a substance which renders it difficult to bend it; as the stiffness or iron or wood; the stiffness of a frozen limb.

2. Thickness; spissitude; a state between softness and hardness; as the stiffness of sirup, paste, size or starch.

3. Torpidness; inaptitude to motion.

An icy stiffness benumbs my blood.

4. Tension; as the stiffness of a cord.

5. Obstinacy; stubbornness; contumaciousness.

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

STIFFNESS of mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

6. Formality of manner; constraint; affected precision.

All this religion sat easily upon him, without stiffness and constraint.

7. Rigorousness; harshness.

But speak no word to her of these sad plights, which her too constant stiffness doth constrain.

8. Affected or constrained manner of expression or writing; want of natural simplicity and ease; as stiffness of style.

STIFLE, verb transitive [Latin , stiff and stop. Gr.]

1. To suffocate; to stop the breath or action of the lungs by crowding something into the windpipe, or by infusing a substance into the lungs, or by other means; to choke; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.

2. To stop; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle respiration.

3. To oppress; to stop the breath temporarily; as, to stifle one with kisses; to be stifled in a close room or with bad air.

4. To extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle flame; to stifle a fire by smoke or by ashes.

5. To suppress; to hinder from transpiring or spreading; as, to stifle a report.

6. To extinguish; to check or restrain and destroy; to suppress; as, to stifle a civil war in its birth.

7. To suppress or repress; to conceal; to withhold from escaping or manifestation; as, to stifle passion; to stifle grief; to stifle resentment.

8. To suppress; to destroy; as, to stifle convictions.

STIFLE, noun

1. The joint of a horse next to the buttock, and corresponding to the knee in man; called also the stifle joint.

2. A disease in the knee-pan of a horse or other animal.

STIGMA, noun [Latin , Gr., to prick or stick.]

1. A brand; a mark made with a burning iron.

2. Any mark of infamy; any reproachful conduct which stains the purity or darkens the luster of reputation.

3. In botany, the top of the pistil, which is moist and pubescent to detain and burst the pollen or prolific powder.

STIGMATA, noun plural The apertures in the bodies of insects, communicating with the trachea or air-vessels.

STIGMATIC, STIGMATICAL, a.

STIGMATIC, STIGMATICAL adjective

1. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.

2. Impressing with infamy or reproach.

STIGMATIC, noun

1. A notorious profligate, or criminal who has been branded. [Little used.]

2. One who bears about him the marks of infamy or punishment. [Little used.]

3. One on whom nature has set a mark of deformity. [Little used.]

STIGMATICALLY, adverb With a mark of infamy or deformity.

STIGMATIZE, verb transitive

1. To mark with a brand; in a literal sense; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.

2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to disgrace with some not of reproach or infamy.

To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized--

Sour enthusiasts affect to stigmatize the finest and most elegant authors, ancient and modern, as dangerous to religion.

STIGMATIZED, participle passive Marked with disgrace.

STIGMATIZING, participle present tense Branding with infamy.

STILAR, adjective [from stile.] Pertaining to the stile of a dial.

Draw a line for the stiler line.

STILBITE, noun [Gr., to shine.] A mineral of a shining pearly luster, of a white color, or white shaded with gray, yellow or red. It has been associated with zeolite, and called foliated zeolite, and radiated zeolite. Werner and the French mineralogists divide zeolite into two kinds, mesotype and stilbite; the latter is distinguished by its lamellar structure.

STILE, noun [This is another spelling of style. See Style and Still.] A pin set on the face of a dial to form a shadow.

Erect the stile perpendicularly over the substilar line, so as to make an angle with the dial-plane equal to the elevation of the pole of your place.

STILE, noun [G. See Stair.] A step or set of steps for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.

STILETTO, noun [See Style.] A small dagger with a round pointed blade.

STILL, verb transitive [G., to put, set, place, Gr., to send, and with style, stool, stall.]

1. To stop, as motion or agitation; to check or restrain; to make quiet; as, to still the raging sea.

2. T stop, as noise; to silence.

With his name the mothers still their babes.

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

STILL, adjective

1. Silent; uttering no sound; applicable to animals or to things. The company or the man is still; the air is still; the sea is still

2. Quiet; calm; not disturbed by noise; as a still evening.

3. Motionless; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still

4. Quiet; calm; not agitated; as a still atmosphere.

STILL, noun Calm; silence; freedom from noise; as the still of midnight. [A poetic word.]

STILL, adverb

1. To this time; till now.

It hath been anciently reported, and is still received. [Still here denotes this time; set or fixed.]

2. Nevertheless; notwithstanding.

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

[Still here signifies set, given, and refers to the whole of the first clause of the sentence. The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; that fact being given or set, or notwithstanding, he is afraid, etc.]

3. It precedes or accompanies words denoting increase of degree.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we consider them, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

[This is not correct.]

4. Always; ever; continually.

Trade begets trade, and people go much where many people have already gone; so men run still to a crowd in the streets, though only to see.

The fewer still you name, you wound the more.

5. After that; after what is stated.

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

6. In continuation.

And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, still and anon cheerd up the heavy time.

STILL, noun [Latin , to drop. See Distill.] A vessel, boiler or copper used in the distillation of liquors; as vapor ascending of the still The word is used in a more general sense for the vessel and apparatus. A still house is also called a still

STILL, verb transitive [Latin] To expel spirit from liquor by heat and condense it in a refrigeratory; to distill. [See Distill.]

STILL, verb intransitive To drop. [Not in use. See Distill.]

STILLATITIOUS, adjective [Latin] Falling in drops; drawn by a still.

STILLATORY, noun

1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. [Little used or not at all.]

2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. [Little used.]

STILLED, participle passive [See Still, the verb.] Calmed; appeased; quieted; silenced.

STILLER, noun One who stills or quiets.

STILLICIDE, noun [Latin , a drop, to fall.] A continual falling or succession of drops. [Not much used.]

STILLICIDIOUS, adjective Falling in drops.

STILLING, participle present tense Calming; silencing; quieting.

STILLING, noun

1. The act of calming, silencing or quieting.

2. A stand for casks. [Not used in America.]

STILLNESS, noun

1. Freedom from noise or motion; calmness; quiet; silence; as the stillness of the night, the air or the sea.

2. Freedom from agitation or excitement; as the stillness of the passions.

3. Habitual silence; taciturnity.

The gravity and stillness of your youth, the world hath noted.

STILLY, adverb

1. Silently; without noise.

2. Calmly; quietly; without tumult.

STILPNOSIDERITE, noun [Gr., shining, and siderite.] A mineral of a brownish black color, massive, in curving concretions, splendent and resinous.

STILT, noun [G.] A stilt is a piece of wood with a shoulder, to support the foot in walking. Boys sometimes use stilts for raising their feet above the mud in walking, but they are rarely seen.

Men must not walk upon stilts.

STILT, verb transitive

1. To raise on stilts; to elevate.

2. To raise by unnatural means.

STIMULANT, adjective [Latin] Increasing or exciting action, particularly the action of the organs of an animal body; stimulating.

STIMULANT, noun A medicine that excites and increases the action of the moving fibers or organs of an animal body.

STIMULATE, verb transitive [Latin , to prick, to goad, to excite; a goad.] Literally, to prick or goad. Hence,

1. 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.

2. In medicine, to excite or increase the action of the moving fibers or organs of an animal body; as, to stimulate a torpid limb; or to stimulate the stomach and bowels.

STIMULATED, participle passive Goaded; roused or excited to action or more vigorous exertion.

STIMULATING, participle present tense Goading; exciting to action or more vigorous exertion.

STIMULATION, noun

1. The act of goading or exciting.

2. Excitement; the increased action of the moving fibers or organs in animal bodies.

STIMULATIVE, adjective Having the quality of exciting action in the animal system.

STIMULATIVE, noun That which stimulates; that which rouses into more vigorous action; that which excites.

STIMULATOR, noun One that stimulates.

STIMULUS, noun [Latin This word may be formed on the root of stem, a shoot.] Literally, a goad; hence, something that rouses from languor; that which excites or increases action in the animal system, as a stimulus in medicine; or that which rouses the mind or spirits; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

STING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive stung. Stang is obsolete. [G., to stick, to sting We see that sting is stick altered in orthography and pronunciation.]

1. To pierce with the sharp pointed instrument with which certain animals are furnished, such as bees, wasps, scorpions and the like. Bees will seldom sting persons, unless they are first provoked.

2. To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse.

Slander stings the brave.

STING, noun

1. A sharp pointed weapon or instrument which certain animals are armed by nature for their defense, and which they thrust from the hinder part of the body to pierce any animal that annoys or provokes them. In most instances, this instrument is a tube, through which a poisonous matter is discharged, which inflames the flesh, and in some instances proves fatal to life.

2. The thrust of a sting into the flesh. The sting of most insects produces acute pain.

3. Any thing that gives acute pain. Thus we speak of the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.

4. The point in the last verse; as the sting of an epigram.

5. That which gives the principal pain, or constitutes the principal terror.

The sting of death is sin. 1 Corinthians 15:55.

STINGER, noun That which stings, vexes or gives acute pain.

STINGILY, adverb [from stingy.] With mean covetousness; in a niggardly manner.

STINGINESS, noun [from stingy.] Extreme avarice; mean covetousness; niggardliness.

STINGLESS, adjective [from sting.] Having no sting.

STINGO, noun [from the sharpness of the taste.] Old beer. [A cant word.]

STINGY, adjective [from straitness.]

1. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; narrow hearted; as a stingy churl. [A word in popular use, but low and not admissible into elegant writing.]

STINK, verb intransitive preterit tense stand or stunk. To emit a strong offensive smell.

STINK, noun A strong offensive smell.

STINKARD, noun A mean paltry fellow.

STINKER, noun Something intended to offend by the smell.

STINKING, participle present tense Emitting a strong offensive smell.

STINKINGLY, adverb With an offensive smell.

STINKPOT, noun An artificial composition offensive to the smell.

STINKSTONE, noun Swinestone, a variety of compact lucullite; a subspecies of limestone.

STINT, verb transitive [Gr., narrow.]

1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals.

Nature wisely stints our appetite.

2. To assign a certain task in labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word in America.

STINT, noun A small bird, the Tringa cinctus.

STINT, noun

1. Limit; bound; restraint.

2. Quantity assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint

Our stint of woe is common.

STINTANCE, noun Restraint; stoppage. [Not used or local.]

STINTED, participle passive Restrained to a certain limit or quantity; limited.

STINTER, noun He or that which stints.

STINTING, participle present tense Restraining within certain limits; assigning a certain quantity to; limiting.

STIPE, noun [Latin ; Gr., a stake.] In botany, the base of a frond; or a species of stem passing into leaves, or not distinct from the leaf. The stem of a fungus is also called stipe The word is also used for the filament or slender stalk which supports the pappus or down, and connects it with the seed.

STIPEL, noun [See Stipula.] In botany, a little appendix situated at the base of the follicles.

STIPEND, noun [Latin , a piece of money; to pay.] Settled pay or compensation for services, whether daily or monthly wages; or an annual salary.

STIPEND, verb transitive To pay by settled wages.

STIPENDIARY, adjective [Latin] Receiving wages or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation.

His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil appointed horsemen not half full.

STIPENDIARY, noun [supra.] One who performs services for a settled compensation, either by the day, month or year.

If thou art become a tyrants vile stipendiary--

STIPITATE, adjective [See Stipe.] In botany, supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe; as pappus or down.

STIPPLE, verb transitive To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

STIPPLED, participle passive Engraved with dots.

STIPPLING, participle present tense Engraving with dots.

STIPPLING, noun A mode of engraving on copper by means of dots.

STIPTIC. [See Styptic.]

STIPULA, STIPULE, noun [Latin , a straw or stubble.] In botany, a scale at the base of nascent petioles or peduncles. Stipules are in pairs or solitary; they are lateral, extrafoliaceous, intrafoliaceous, etc. A leafy appendage to the proper leaves or to their footstalks; commonly situated at the base of the latter, in pairs.

STIPULACEOUS, STIPULAR, adjective [Latin See Stipula.]

STIPULACEOUS, STIPULAR adjective [Latin See Stipula.]

1. Formed of stipules or scales; as a STIPULAR bud.

2. Growing on stipules, or close to them; as STIPULAR glands.

STIPULATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to crowd; whence the sense of agreement, binding, making fast.]

1. To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear any thing; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France. Great Britain and the United States stipulate to oppose and restrain the African slave trade. A has stipulated to build a bridge within a given time. B has stipulated not to annoy or interdict our trade.

2. To bargain. A has stipulated to deliver me his horse for fifty guineas.

STIPULATE, adjective [from stipual.] Having stipules on it; as a stipulate stalk.

STIPULATED, participle passive Agreed; contracted; covenanted. It was stipulated that Great Britain should retain Gibraltar.

STIPULATING, participle present tense Agreeing; contracting; bargaining.

STIPULATION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of agreeing and covenanting; a contracting or bargaining.

2. An agreement or covenant made by one person with another for the performance or forbearance of some act; a contract or bargain; as the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.

3. In botany, the situation and structure of the stipules.

STIPULATOR, noun One who stipulates, contracts or covenants.

STIPULE. [See Stipula.]

STIR, verb transitive stur. [G., to stir to disturb.]

1. To move; to change place in any manner.

My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir

2. To agitate; to bring into debate.

STIR on the questions of jurisdiction.

3. To incite to action; to instigate; to prompt.

An Ate stirring him to blood and strife.

4. To excite; to raise; to put into motion.

And for her sake some mutiny will stir

To stir up,

1. To incite; to animate; to instigate by inflaming passions; as, to stir up a nation to rebellion.

The words of Judas were good and able to stir them up to valor. 2 Maccabees.

2. To excite; to put into action; to begin; as, to stir up a mutiny or insurrection; to stir up strife.

3. To quicken; to enliven; to make more lively or vigorous; as, to stir up the mind.

4. To disturb; as, to stir up the sediment of liquor.

STIR, verb intransitive stur.

1. To move ones self. He is not able to stir

2. To go or be carried in any manner. He is not able to stir from home, or to stir abroad.

3. To be in motion; not to be still. He is continually stirring.

4. To become the object of notice or conversation.

They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon every thing that stirs or appears.

5. To rise in the morning. [Colloquial.]

STIR, noun

1. Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

Why all these words, this clamor and this stir?

Consider, after so much stir about the genus and species, how few words ave yet settled definitions.

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

Being advertised of some stir raised by his unnatural sons in England, he departed from Ireland without a blow.

3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

STIRIATED, adjective [Latin , an icicle.] Adorned with pendants like icicles.

STIRIOUS, adjective [supra.] Resembling icicles. [Not much used.]

STIRK, noun A young ox or heifer. [Local.]

STIRP, noun sturp. [Latin] Stock; race; family. [Not English.]

STIRRED, participle passive Moved; agitated; put in action.

STIRRER, noun

1. One who is in motion.

2. One who puts in motion.

3. A riser in the morning.

4. An inciter or exciter; an instigator.

5. A stirrer up, an exciter; an instigator.

STIRRING, participle present tense Moving; agitating; putting in motion.

STIRRING, noun [supra.] The act of moving or putting in motion.

STIRRUP, noun sturup. [G., step-bow or mounting-bow. The first stirrups appear to have been ropes.] A kind of ring or bending piece of metal, horizontal on one side for receiving the foot of the rider, and attached to a strap which is fastened to the saddle; used to assist persons in mounting a horse, and to enable them to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve them by supporting a part of the weight of the body.

STITCH, verb transitive [G. This is another form of stick.]

1. To sew in a particular manner; to sew slightly or loosely; as, to stitch a collar or wristband; to stitch the leaves of a book and form a pamphlet.

2. To form land into ridges. [N. England.]

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

STITCH, verb intransitive To practice stitching.

STITCH, noun

1. A single pass of a needle in sewing.

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

3. A land; the space between two double furrows in plowed ground.

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

STITCHED, participle passive Sewed slightly.

STITCHEL, noun A kind of hairy wool. [Local.]

STITCHER, noun One that stitches.

STITCHERY, noun Needlework; in contempt.

STITCHFALLEN, adjective Fallen, as a stitch in knitting. [Not in use.]

STITCHING, participle present tense Sewing in a particular manner; uniting with a needle and thread.

STITCHING, noun

1. The act of stitching

2. Work done by sewing in a particular manner.

3. The forming of land into ridges or divisions.

STITH, adjective Strong; rigid. [Not in use.]

STITHY, noun [supra.]

1. An anvil. [Local.]

2. A disease in oxen.

STIVE, verb transitive [See Stuff and Stew.]

1. To stuff up close. [Not in use.]

2. To make hot, sultry and close. [Not in use.]

STIVER, noun A Dutch coin of about the value of a half-penny sterling, or the cent of the United States. It is also a money of account in Holland and Flanders.

STOAK, verb transitive To stop; to choke; in seamens language.

STOAT, noun An animal of the weasel king; the ermine. This animal is called stoat when of a reddish color, and ermine when white, as in winter.

STOCAH, noun An attendant; a wallet boy. [Not English nor used.]

STOCCADE, STOCCADO, n.

STOCCADE, STOCCADO noun

1. A stab; a thrust with a rapier.

2. A fence or barrier made with stakes or posts planted in the earth; a slight fortification. [See Stockade.]

STOCHASTIC, adjective [Gr.] Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Not in use.]

STOCK, noun [G., a stem, a staff, a stick, a block. This word coincides with stake, stick, stack; that which is set or fixed.]

1. The stem or main body of a tree or other plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the origin and support of the branches. Job 14:8.

2. The stem in which a graft is inserted, and which is its support.

The cion overruleth the stock quite.

3. A post; something fixed, solid and senseless.

When all our fathers worshipd stocks and stones.

4. A person very stupid, dull and senseless.

Lets be no stoics, nor no stocks.

5. The handle of any thing.

6. The wood in which the barrel of a musket or other fire-arm is fixed.

7. A thrust with a rapier. [Not in use.]

8. A cravat or band for the neck.

9. A cover for the leg. [Now stocking.]

10. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitors of a family and their direct descendants; lineage; family. From what stock did he spring?

Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock from Dardanus--

Men and brothern, children of the stock of Abraham--Acts 13:26.

11. A fund; capital; the money or goods employed in trade, manufactures, insurance, banking, etc.; as the stock of a banking company; the stock employed in the manufacture of cotton, in making insurance and the like. stock may be individual or joint.

12. Money lent to government, or property in a public debt; a share or shares of a national or other public debt, or in a company debt. The United States borrow of the bank or of individuals, and sell stock bearing an interest of five, six or seven per cent. British stocks are the objects of perpetual speculation.

13. Supply provided; store. Every one may be charitable out of his own stock So we say, a stock of honor, a stock of fame.

Add to that stock which justly we bestow.

14. In agriculture, the domestic animals or beasts belonging to the owner of a farm; as a stock of cattle or of sheep. It is also used for the crop or other property belonging to the farm.

15. Living beasts shipped to a foreign country; as, a brig sailed yesterday with stock on deck. The cattle are called also live stock

16. In the West Indies, the slaves of a plantation.

17. Stocks, plural A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, in which the legs of criminals are confined by way of punishment.

18. The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

19. The stock of an anchor is the piece of timber into which the shank is inserted.

20. In book-keeping, the owner or owners of the books.

STOCK, verb transitive

1. To store; to supply; to fill; as, to stock the mind with ideas. Asia and Europe are well stocked with inhabitants.

2. To lay up in store; as, he stocks what he cannot use.

3. To put in the stocks. [Little used.]

4. To pack; to put into a pack; as, to stock cards.

5. To supply with domestic animals; as, to stock a farm.

6. To supply with seed; as, to stock land with clover or herdsgrass.

7. To suffer cows to retain their milk for 24 hours or more, previous to sale.

To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

STOCKADE, noun [See Stoccade.]

1. In fortification, a sharpened post or stake set in the earth.

2. A line of posts or stakes set in the earth as a fence or barrier.

STOCKADE, verb transitive TO surround or fortify with sharpened posts fixed in the ground.

STOCKADED, participle passive Fortified with stockades.

STOCKADING, participle present tense Fortifying with sharpened posts or stakes.

STOCKBROKER, noun [stock and broker.] A broker who deals in the purchase and sale of stocks or shares in the public funds.

STOCKING, noun [from stock.] A garment made to cover the leg.

STOCKING, verb transitive To dress in stockings.

STOCKISH, adjective Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]

STOCKS. [See under Stock.]

STOCKY, adjective [from stock.] Thick and firm; stout. A stocky person is one rather thick than tall or corpulent; one whose bones are covered well with flesh, but without a prominent belly.

STOIC, noun [Gr., a porch in Athens where the philosopher Zeno taught.] A disciple of the philosopher Zeno, who founded a sect. He taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to the unavoidable necessity by which all things are governed.

STOIC, STOICAL adjective

1. Pertaining to the Stoics or to their doctrines.

2. Not affected by passion; unfeeling; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.

STOICALLY, adverb In the manner of the Stoics; without apparent feeling or sensibility; with indifference to pleasure or pain.

STOICALNESS, noun The state of being stoical; indifference to pleasure or pain.

STOICISM, noun

1. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

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

STOKE, is the same word as stock, differently applied. It is found in many English names of towns.

STOKE, STOKER noun One who looks after the fire in a brew-house. [Local or technical.]

STOLE, preterit tense of steal.

STOLE, noun

1. A long vest or robe; a garment worn by the priests of some denominations when they officiate. It is a broad strip of cloth reaching from the neck to the feet.

2. [Latin] A sucker; a shoot from the root of a plant, by which some plants may be propagated; written also stool.

STOLEN, participle passive Stoln. The passive participle of steal.

STOLEN waters are sweet. Proverbs 9:17.

STOLID, adjective [Latin , from the root of still, stall, to set.] Dull; foolish; stupid. [Not used.]

STOLIDITY, noun [supra.] Dullness of intellect; stupidity. [Little used.]

STOLONIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a sucker; to produce.] Producing suckers; putting forth suckers; as a stoloniferous stem.

STOMACH, noun [Latin]

1. In animal bodies, a membranous receptacle, the organ of digestion, in which food is prepared for entering into the several parts of the body for its nourishment.

2. Appetite; the desire of food caused by hunger; as a good stomach for roast beef. [A popular use of the word.]

3. Inclination; liking.

He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart--

4. Anger; violence of temper.

Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.

5. Sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy and stomach the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

6. Pride; haughtiness.

He was a man of an unbounded stomach ever ranking himself with princes.

[Note. This word in all the foregoing senses, except the first, is nearly obsolete or inelegant.]

STOMACH, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To resent; to remember with anger.

The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.

This sense is not used in America, as far as my observation extends. In America, at least in New England, the sense is,

2. To brook; to bear without open resentment or without opposition. [Not elegant.]

STOMACH, verb intransitive To be angry. [Not in use.]

STOMACHED, adjective Filled with resentment.

STOMACHER, noun An ornament or support to the breast, worn by females. Isaiah 3:24.

STOMACHFUL, adjective Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse; as a stomachful boy.

STOMACHFULNESS, noun Stubbornness; sullenness; perverse obstinacy.

STOMACHIC, STOMACHICAL, a.

STOMACHIC, STOMACHICAL adjective

1. Pertaining to the stomach; as stomachic vessels.

2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach.

STOMACHIC, noun A medicine that excites the action and strengthens the tone of the stomach.

STOMACHING, noun Resentment. [Not in use.]

STOMACHLESS, adjective Being without appetite.

STOMACHOUS, adjective Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Not in use.]

STOMP, for stamp, which see.

STOND, noun [for stand.] A stop; a post; a station. [See Stand.]

STONE, noun [Gr.]

1. A concretion of some species of earth, as lime, silex, clay and the like, usually in combination with some species of air or gas, with sulphur or with a metallic substance; a hard compact body, of any form and size. In popular language, very large masses of concretions are called rocks; and very small concretions are universally called gravel or sand, or grains of sand. Stones are of various degrees of hardness and weight; they are brittle and fusible, but not malleable, ductile, or soluble in water. Stones are of great and extensive use int he construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture and the like. When we speak of the substance generally, we use stone in the singular; as a house or wall of stone But when we speak of particular separate masses, we say, a stone or the stones.

2. A gem; a precious stone

Inestimable stones, unvalud jewels.

3. Any thing made of stone; a mirror.

4. A calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

5. A testicle.

6. The nut of a drupe or stone fruit; or the hard covering inclosing the kernel, and itself inclosed by the pulpy pericarp.

7. In Great Britain, the weight of fourteen pounds. [8, 12, 14, or 16.] [Not used in the United States, except in reference to the riders of horses in races.]

8. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.

Should some relentless eye glance on the stone where our cold relics lie--

9. It is used to express torpidness and insensibility; as a heart of stone

I have not yet forgot myself to stone

10. stone is prefixed to some words to qualify their signification. Thus stone-dead, is perfectly dead, as lifeless as a stone; stone-still, still as a stone perfectly still; stone-blind, blind as a stone perfectly blind.

To leave no stone unturned, a proverbial expression which signifies to do every thing that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the displosion of a meteor.

Philosophers stone a pretended substance that was formerly supposed to have the property of turning any other substance into gold.

STONE, adjective Made of stone or like stone; as a stone jug.

STONE, verb transitive

1. To pelt, beat or kill with stones.

And they stoned Stephen calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts 7:58.

2. To harden.

O perjurd woman, thou dost stone my heart. [Little used.]

3. To free from stones; as, to stone raisins.

4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

STONECUTTER, noun [stone and cut.] One whose occupation is to hew stones.

STONECUTTING, noun The business of hewing stones for walls, steps, cornices, monuments, etc.

STONED, participle passive Pelted or killed with stones; freed from stones; walled with stones.

STONER, noun One who beats or kills with stones; one who walls with stones.

STONINESS, noun [from stony.]

1. The quality of abounding with stones; as, the stoniness of ground renders it difficult to till.

2. Hardness of heart.

STONY, adjective [G.]

1. Made of stone; as a stony tower.

2. Consisting of stone; as a stony cave.

3. Full of stones; abounding with stones; as stony ground.

4. Petrifying; as the stony dart of senseless cold.

5. Hard; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; as a stony heart.

6. Insensible; obdurate; perverse; morally hard.

STOOD, preterit tense of stand.

STOOK, noun A small collection of sheaves set up in the field. [Local.]

STOOL, noun [G., a stool a stock, a pew, a chair, the see of a bishop. This coincides with stall and still. A stool is that which is set, or a seat.

1. A seat without a back; a little form consisting of a board with three or four legs, intended as a set for one person.

2. The seat used in evacuating the contents of the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

3. [Latin] A sucker; a shoot from the bottom of the stem or the root of a plant.

STOOL of repentance, in Scotland, an elevated seat in the church, on which persons sit as a punishment for fornication and adultery.

STOOL, verb intransitive In agriculture, to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

STOOM, verb transitive To put bags of herbs or other ingredients into wine, to prevent fermentation. [Local.]

STOOP, verb intransitive

1. To bend the body downward and forward; as, to stoop to pick up a book.

2. To bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking. We often see men stoop in standing or walking, either from habit or from age.

3. To yield; to submit; to bend by compulsion; as, Carthage at length stooped to Rome.

4. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. IN modern days, attention to agriculture is not called stooping in men of property.

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

5. To yield; to be inferior.

These are arts, my prince, in which our Zama does not stoop to Rome.

6. To come down on prey, as a hawk.

The bird of Jove stoopd from his airy tour, two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

7. To alight from the wing.

And stoop with closing pinions from above.

8. To sink to a lower place.

Cowering low with blandishments, each bird stoopd on his wing.

STOOP, verb transitive

1. To cause to incline downward; to sink; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

2. To cause to submit. [Little used.]

STOOP, noun

1. The act of bending the body forward; inclination forward.

2. Descent from dignity or superiority; condescension.

Can any loyal subject see with patience such a stoop from sovereignty?

3. Fall of a bird on his prey.

4. In America, a kind of shed, generally open, but attached to a house; also, an open place for seats at a door.

STOOP, noun

1. A vessel of liquor; as a stoop of wine or ale.

2. A post fixed in the earth. [Local.]

STOOPED, participle passive Caused to lean.

STOOPER, noun One that bends the body forward.

STOOPING, participle present tense Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

STOOPINGLY, adverb With a bending of the body forward.

STOOR, verb intransitive To rise in clouds, as dust or smoke; from the Welsh ystwr, a stir. [Local.]

STOOTER, noun A small silver coin in Holland, value 2 stivers.

STOP, verb transitive [G., to stop to check, to pose, to fill, to cram, to stuff, to quilt, to darn, to mend. See Stifle. Latin , tow; to stuff, to crowd; to be stupefied, whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop or a stop ] The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]

1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop a vent; to stop the ears; to stop wells of water. 2 Kings 3:19.

2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road or passage.

3. To hinder; to impede; to arrest progress; as, to stop a passenger in the road; to stop the course of a stream.

4. To restrain; to hinder; to suspend; as to stop the execution of a decree.

5. To repress; to suppress; to restrain; as, to stop the progress of vice.

6. To hinder; to check; as, to stop the approaches of old age or infirmity.

7. To hinder from action or practice.

Whose disposition, all the world well knows, will not be rubbd nor stoppd.

8. To put an end to any motion or action; to intercept; as, to stop the breath; to stop proceedings.

9. To regulate the sounds of musical strings; as, to stop a string.

10. In seamanship, to make fast.

11. To point; as a written composition. [Not in use.]

STOP, verb intransitive

1. To cease to go forward.

Some strange commotion is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts; stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground---

2. To cease from any motion or course of action. When you are accustomed to a course of vice, it is very difficult to stop

The best time to stop is at the beginning.

STOP, noun

1. Cessation of progressive motion; as, to make a stop

2. Hindrance of progress; obstruction; act of stopping.

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy--

3. Repression; hindrance of operation or action.

It is a great step towards the mastery of our desires, to give this stop to them.

4. Interruption.

These stops of thine fright me the more.

5. Prohibition of sale; as the stop of wine and salt.

6. That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment.

A fatal stop travesd their headlong course.

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.

7. The instrument by which the sounds of wind music are regulated; as the stops of a flute or an organ.

8. Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.

In the stops of lutes, the higher they go, the less distance is between the frets.

9. The act of applying the stops in music.

Th organ-sound a time survives the stop

10. A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading. The stops generally used, are the comma, semi-colon, colon and period. To these may be added the marks of interrogation and exclamation.

STOPLESS, adjective Not to be stopped. [Not in use.]

STOPPAGE, noun The act of stopping or arresting progress or motion; or the state of being stopped; as the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

STOPPED, participle passive Closed; obstructed; hindered from proceeding; impeded; intercepted.

STOPPER, noun

1. One who stops, closes, shuts or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

2. In seamens language, a short piece of rope used for making something fast, as the anchor or cables. Stoppers are also used to prevent the running rigging from coming up, whilst the men are belaying it.

STOPPER, verb transitive To close with a stopper

STOPPERED, participle passive Closed with a stopper; as a stoppered retort.

STOPPING, participle present tense Closing; shutting; obstructing; hindering from proceeding; ceasing to go or move; putting an end to; regulating the sounds of.

STOPPLE, noun That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; as a glass stopple; a cork stopple

STORAGE, noun [from store.]

1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; or the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

2. The price charge or paid for keeping goods in a store.

STORAX, noun [Latin] A plant or tree; also, a resinous and odoriferous drug brought from Turkey, but generally adulterated. It imparts to water a yellow color, and has been deemed a resolvent.

STORAX is a solid balsam, either in red tears, or in large cakes, brittle, but soft to the touch, and of a reddish brown color. It is obtained from the Styrax officinalis, a tree which grows in the Levant. Liquid storax or styrax, is a liquid or semifluid balsam, said to be obtained from the Liquidamber styraciflua, a tree which grows in Virginia. It is greenish, of an aromatic taste, and agreeable smell.

STORE, noun

1. A large number; as a store of years.

2. A large quantity; great plenty; abundance; as a store of wheat or provisions.

3. A stock provided; a large quantity for supply; ample abundance. The troops have great stores of provisions and ammunition. The ships have stores for a long voyage. [This the present usual acceptation of the word, and in this sense the plural, stores, is commonly used. When applied to a single article of supply, it is still sometimes used in the singular; as a good store of wine or of bread.]

4. Quantity accumulated; fund; abundance; as stores of knowledge.

5. A storehouse; a magazine; a warehouse. Nothing can be more convenient than the stores on Central wharf in Boston.

6. In the United States, shops for the sale of goods of any kind, by wholesale or retail, are often called stores.

In store in a state of accumulation, in a literal sense; hence, in a state of preparation for supply; in a state of readiness. Happiness is laid up in store for the righteous; misery is in store for the wicked.

STORE, adjective Hoarded; laid up; as store treasure. [Not in use.]

STORE, verb transitive

1. To furnish; to supply; to replenish.

Wise Plato said the world with men was stord.

Her mind with thousand virtues stord.

2. To stock against a future time; as a garrison well stored with provisions.

One having stored a pond of four acres with carp, tench and other fish--

3. To reposit in a store or warehouse for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

STORED, participle passive

1. Furnished; supplied.

2. Laid up in store; warehoused.

STORER, noun One who lays op or forms a store.

STORIAL, adjective [from story.] Historical. [Not in use.]

STORIED, adjective [from story.]

1. Furnished with stories; adorned with historical paintings.

Some greedy minion or imperious wife, the trophied arches, storied halls, invade.

2. Related in story; told or recited in history.

STORIER, noun A relater of stories; a historian. [Not in use.]

STORIFY, verb transitive To form or tell stories. [Not in use.]

STORK, noun A large fowl of the genus Ardea or Heron kind.

STORM, noun [G., to disturb. Latin The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.[

1. A violent wind; a tempest. Thus a storm of wind, is correct language, as the proper sense of the word is rushing, violence. It has primarily no reference to a fall of rain or snow. But as a violent wind is often attended with rain or snow, the word storm has come to be used, most improperly, for a fall of rain or snow without wind.

O beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain.

2. A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.

3. Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.

I will stir up in England some black storms.

Her sister began to scold and raise up such a storm--

4. Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.

5. Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.

STORM, verb transitive To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

STORM, verb intransitive

1. To raise a tempest.

2. To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.

3. To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume. The master storms.

STORMED, participle passive Assaulted by violence.

STORMINESS, noun Tempestuousness; the state of being agitated by violent winds.

STORMING, participle present tense Attacking with violent force; raging.

STORMY, adjective

1. Tempestuous; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; as a stormy season; a stormy day or week.

2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

3. Violent; passionate. [Unusual.]

STORY, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. A verbal narration or recital of a series of facts or incidents. WE observe in children a strong passion for hearing stories.

2. A written narrative of a series of facts or events. There is probably on record no story more interesting than that of Joseph in Genesis.

3. History; a written narrative or account of past transactions, whether relating to nations or individuals.

The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story

4. Petty tale; relation of a single incident or of trifling incidents.

5. A trifling tale; a fiction; a fable; as the story of a fairy. In popular usage, story is sometimes a softer term for a lie.

6. A loft; a floor; or a set of rooms on the same floor or level. A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as a story of nine or ten feet elevation. Hence each floor terminating the space is called a story; as a house of one story of two stories, of five stories. The farm houses in New England have usually two stories; the houses in Paris have usually five stories; a few have more; those in London four. But in the United States the floor next the ground is the first story; in France and England, the first floor or story is the second from the ground.

STORY, verb transitive

1. To tell in historical relation; to narrate.

How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.

It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

[This verb is chiefly used in the passive participle.]

2. To range one under another. [Little used.]

STOT, noun

1. A horse. [Not in use.]

2. A young bullock or steer. [Not in use or local.]

STOTE. [See Stoat.]

, verb intransitive

1. To be in pain or sorrow. [Not in use.]

2. Stunned. [Not in use. See Astound.]

STOUND, noun

1. Sorrow; grief. [Not in use.]

2. A shooting pain. [Not in use.]

3. Noise. [Not in use.]

4. Astonishment; amazement. [Not in use.]

5. Hour; time; season. [Not in use.]

6. A vessel to put small beer in.

STOUR, noun A battle or tumult. stour signifies a river, as in Sturbridge.

STOUT, adjective

1. Strong; lusty.

A stouter champion never handled sword.

2. Bold; intrepid; valiant; brave.

He lost the character of a bold, stout magnanimous man.

3. Large; bulky. [A popular use of the word.]

4. Proud; resolute; obstinate.

The lords all stand to clear their cause, most resolutely stout

5. Strong; firm; as a stout vessel.

STOUT, noun A cant name for strong beer.

STOUTLY, adverb Lustily; boldly; obstinately. He stoutly defended himself.

STOUTNESS, noun

1. Strength; bulk.

2. Boldness; fortitude.

3. Obstinacy; stubbornness.

STOVE, noun [G., a bagnio or hot house; a room; a stove This primarily is merely a room, a place. See Stow.]

1. A hot house; a house or room artificially warmed.

2. A small box with an iron pan, used for holding coals to warm the feet. It is a bad practice for young persons to accustom themselves to sit with a warm stove under the feet.

3. An iron box, with various apartments in it for cooking; a culinary utensil of various forms.

STOVE, verb transitive To keep warm in a house or room by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees and myrtles.

STOVE, preterit tense of stave.

STOVER, noun [a contraction of estover.] Fodder for cattle; primarily, fodder from threshed grain; but in New England, any kind of fodder from the barn or stack.

STOW, verb transitive [G. Latin , to crowd, to stuff; the handle of a plow. The sense is to set or throw down, from the more general sense of throwing, driving.]

1. To place; to put in a suitable place or position; as, to stow bags, bales or casks in a ships hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. The word has reference to the placing of many thing, or of one thing among many, or of a mass of things.

2. To lay up; to reposit.

STOW in names, signifies place, as in Barstow.

STOWAGE, noun

1. The act or operation of placing in a suitable position; or the suitable disposition of several things together. The stowage of a ships cargo to advantage requires no little skill. It is of great consequence to make good stowage [This is the principal use of the word.]

2. Room for the reception of things to be reposited.

In every vessel there is stowage for immense treasures.

3, The state of being laid up. I am curious to have the plate and jewels in safe stowage

4. Money paid for stowing goods. [Little used.]

STOWED, participle passive Placed in due position or order; reposited.

STOWING, participle present tense Placing in due position; disposing in good order.

STRABISM, noun [Latin , a squint-eyed person.] A squinting; the act or habit of looking asquint.

STRADDLE, verb intransitive To part the legs wide; to stand or walk with the legs far apart.

STRADDLE, verb transitive To place one leg on one side and the other on the other of any thing; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

STRADDLING, participle present tense Standing or walking with the legs far apart; placing one leg on one side and the other on the other.

STRAGGLE, verb intransitive stragl. [This word seems to be formed on the root of stray. G., to pass, to migrate.]

1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove. When troops are on the march, let not the men straggle

2. To wander at large without an certain direction or object; to ramble.

The wolf spied a straggling kid.

3. To exuberate; to shoot too far in growth. Prune the straggling branches of the hedge.

4. To be dispersed; to be apart from any main body.

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.