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Stereographical

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

STEREOGRAPHICALLY, adverb By delineation on plane.

Stereography

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

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

Stereometry

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

Stereotomical

STEREOTOMICAL, adjective Pertaining to or performed by stereotomy.

Stereotomy

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

Stereotype

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

STEREOTYPER, noun One who makes stereotype.

Stereotyping

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

Stereotypographer

STEREOTYPOGRAPHER, noun A stereo-type printer.

Stereotypography

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

Steril

STERIL, STERILE, adjective [Latin]

Sterile

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Stern-Board

STERN-BOARD, noun [stern and board.] In seamens language, a loss of way in making a tack. To make a stern-board is when by a current or other cause, a vessel has fallen back from the point she had gained in the last tack.

Stern-Chase

STERN-CHASE, noun [stern and chase.] A cannon placed in a ships stern, pointing backward and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit of her.

Stern-Fast

STERN-FAST, noun [stern and fast.] A rope used to confine the stern of a ship or other vessel.

Stern-Frame

STERN-FRAME, noun [stern and frame.] The several pieces of timber which form the stern of a ship.

Stern-Port

STERN-PORT, noun [stern and port.] A port or opening in the stern of a ship.

Stern-Post

STERN-POST, noun [stern and post.] A straight piece of timber, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder and terminate the ship behind.

Stern-Sheets

STERN-SHEETS, noun [stern and sheet.] That part of a boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers; usually furnished with seats for passengers.

Stern-Way

STERN-WAY, noun [stern and way.] The movement of a ship backwards, or with her stern foremost.

Sternage

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

Sterned

STERNED, adjective In compounds, having a stern of a particular shape; as square-sterned; pink-sterned, etc.

Sterner

STERNER, noun A director. [Not in use.]

Sternly

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

STERNMOST, adjective [stern and most.] Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as the sternmost ship in a convoy.

Sternness

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

STERNON, noun [Gr.] The breast bone. But sternum is chiefly or wholly used.

Sternum

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

STERNUTATION, noun [Latin] The act of sneezing.

Sternutative

STERNUTATIVE, adjective [Latin , to sneeze.] Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

Sternutatory

STERNUTATORY, adjective [Latin , to sneeze.] Having the quality of exciting to sneeze.

STERNUTATORY, noun A substance that provokes sneezing.

Sterquilinous

STERQUILINOUS, adjective [Latin , a dunghill.] Pertaining to a dunghill; mean; dirty; paltry.

Sterven

STERVEN, to starve, not in use.

Stethescope

STETHESCOPE, noun [Gr., the breast; to view.] A tubular instrument for distinguishing diseases of the stomach by sounds.

Steve

STEVE, verb transitive [from the root of stow.] To stow, as cotton or wool in a ships hold. [Local.]

Stevedore

STEVEDORE, noun One whose occupation is to stow goods, packages, etc. in a ships hold.

Steven

STEVEN, noun An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. [Not in use.]

Stew

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.]

Stew-Pan

STEW-PAN, noun A pan in which things are stewed.

Steward

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

STEWARDLY, adverb With the care of a steward. [Little used.]

Stewardship

STEWARDSHIP, noun The office of a steward.

Stewartry

STEWARTRY, noun An overseer or superintendent.

The stewartry of provisions.

Stewed

STEWED, participle passive Gently boiled; boiled in heat.

Stewing

STEWING, participle present tense Boiling in a moderate heat.

STEWING, noun The act of seething slowly.

Stewish

STEWISH, adjective Suiting a brothel.

Stibial

STIBIAL, adjective [Latin , antimony.] Like or having the qualities of antimony; antimonial.

Stibiarian

STIBIARIAN, noun [Latin] A violent man. [An improper word and not in use.]

Stibiated

STIBIATED, adjective Impregnated with anitmony.

Stibium

STIBIUM, noun [Latin] Antimony.

Sticados

STICADOS, noun A plant.

Stich

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.]

Stich-Wort

STICH-WORT, STITCH-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Stellaria.

Stichometry

STICHOMETRY, noun [Gr., a verse; measure.] A catalogue of the books of Scriptures, with the number of verses which each book contains.

Stick

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

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

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.]

Stickle-Back

STICKLE-BACK, noun A small fish of the genus Gasterosteus, of several species. The common species seldom grows to the length of two inches.

Stickler

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

STICKLING, participle present tense Trimming; contending obstinately or eagerly.

Sticky

STICKY, adjective Having the quality of adhering to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Gums and resins are sticky substances.

Stiddy

STIDDY, noun An anvil; also, a smiths shop. [Not in use or local.]

Stiff

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.

Stiff-Hearted

STIFF-HEARTED, adjective [stiff and heart.] Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.

They are impudent children and stiff-hearted Ezekiel 2:1.

Stiff-Necked

STIFF-NECKED, adjective [stiff and neck.] Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as a stiff-necked people; stiff-necked pride.

Stiffen

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

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

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

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

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

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

STIGMATA, noun plural The apertures in the bodies of insects, communicating with the trachea or air-vessels.

Stigmatic

STIGMATIC, STIGMATICAL, a. 1. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.2. Impressing with infamy or reproach.

Stigmatical

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

STIGMATICALLY, adverb With a mark of infamy or deformity.

Stigmatize

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

STIGMATIZED, participle passive Marked with disgrace.

Stigmatizing

STIGMATIZING, participle present tense Branding with infamy.

Stilar

STILAR, adjective [from stile.] Pertaining to the stile of a dial.

Draw a line for the stiler line.

Stilbite

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

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

STILETTO, noun [See Style.] A small dagger with a round pointed blade.

Still

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.]

Still-Born

STILL-BORN, adjective [still and born.]

1. Dead at the birth; as a still-born child.

2. Abortive; as a still-born poem.

Still-Burn

STILL-BURN, verb transitive [still and burn.] To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.

Still-Life

STILL-LIFE, noun [still and life.]

1. Things that have only vegetable life.

2. Dead animals, or paintings representing the dead.

Still-Stand

STILL-STAND, noun Absence of motion. [Little used.]

Stillatitious

STILLATITIOUS, adjective [Latin] Falling in drops; drawn by a still.

Stillatory

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

STILLED, participle passive [See Still, the verb.] Calmed; appeased; quieted; silenced.

Stiller

STILLER, noun One who stills or quiets.

Stillicide

STILLICIDE, noun [Latin , a drop, to fall.] A continual falling or succession of drops. [Not much used.]

Stillicidious

STILLICIDIOUS, adjective Falling in drops.

Stilling

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

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

STILLY, adverb

1. Silently; without noise.

2. Calmly; quietly; without tumult.

Stilpnosiderite

STILPNOSIDERITE, noun [Gr., shining, and siderite.] A mineral of a brownish black color, massive, in curving concretions, splendent and resinous.

Stilt

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

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

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

STIMULATED, participle passive Goaded; roused or excited to action or more vigorous exertion.

Stimulating

STIMULATING, participle present tense Goading; exciting to action or more vigorous exertion.

Stimulation

STIMULATION, noun

1. The act of goading or exciting.

2. Excitement; the increased action of the moving fibers or organs in animal bodies.

Stimulative

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

STIMULATOR, noun One that stimulates.

Stimulus

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

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

STINGER, noun That which stings, vexes or gives acute pain.

Stingily

STINGILY, adverb [from stingy.] With mean covetousness; in a niggardly manner.

Stinginess

STINGINESS, noun [from stingy.] Extreme avarice; mean covetousness; niggardliness.

Stingless

STINGLESS, adjective [from sting.] Having no sting.

Stingo

STINGO, noun [from the sharpness of the taste.] Old beer. [A cant word.]

Stingy

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

STINK, verb intransitive preterit tense stand or stunk. To emit a strong offensive smell.

STINK, noun A strong offensive smell.

Stinkard

STINKARD, noun A mean paltry fellow.

Stinker

STINKER, noun Something intended to offend by the smell.

Stinking

STINKING, participle present tense Emitting a strong offensive smell.

Stinkingly

STINKINGLY, adverb With an offensive smell.

Stinkpot

STINKPOT, noun An artificial composition offensive to the smell.

Stinkstone

STINKSTONE, noun Swinestone, a variety of compact lucullite; a subspecies of limestone.

Stint

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

STINTANCE, noun Restraint; stoppage. [Not used or local.]

Stinted

STINTED, participle passive Restrained to a certain limit or quantity; limited.

Stinter

STINTER, noun He or that which stints.

Stinting

STINTING, participle present tense Restraining within certain limits; assigning a certain quantity to; limiting.

Stipe

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

STIPEL, noun [See Stipula.] In botany, a little appendix situated at the base of the follicles.

Stipend

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

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

STIPITATE, adjective [See Stipe.] In botany, supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe; as pappus or down.

Stipple

STIPPLE, verb transitive To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

Stippled

STIPPLED, participle passive Engraved with dots.

Stippling

STIPPLING, participle present tense Engraving with dots.

STIPPLING, noun A mode of engraving on copper by means of dots.

Stiptic

STIPTIC. [See Styptic.]

Stipula

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

STIPULACEOUS, STIPULAR, adjective [Latin See Stipula.]

Stipular

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

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

STIPULATED, participle passive Agreed; contracted; covenanted. It was stipulated that Great Britain should retain Gibraltar.

Stipulating

STIPULATING, participle present tense Agreeing; contracting; bargaining.

Stipulation

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

STIPULATOR, noun One who stipulates, contracts or covenants.

Stipule

STIPULE. [See Stipula.]

Stir

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

STIRIATED, adjective [Latin , an icicle.] Adorned with pendants like icicles.

Stirious

STIRIOUS, adjective [supra.] Resembling icicles. [Not much used.]

Stirk

STIRK, noun A young ox or heifer. [Local.]

Stirp

STIRP, noun sturp. [Latin] Stock; race; family. [Not English.]

Stirred

STIRRED, participle passive Moved; agitated; put in action.

Stirrer

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

STIRRING, participle present tense Moving; agitating; putting in motion.

STIRRING, noun [supra.] The act of moving or putting in motion.

Stirrup

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.

Stirrup-Lether

STIRRUP-LETHER, noun A strap that supports a stirrup.

Stitch

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.

Stitch-Wort

STITCH-WORT, noun A plant, camomile. [Latin] A plant of the genus Stellaria.

Stitched

STITCHED, participle passive Sewed slightly.

Stitchel

STITCHEL, noun A kind of hairy wool. [Local.]

Stitcher

STITCHER, noun One that stitches.

Stitchery

STITCHERY, noun Needlework; in contempt.

Stitchfallen

STITCHFALLEN, adjective Fallen, as a stitch in knitting. [Not in use.]

Stitching

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

STITH, adjective Strong; rigid. [Not in use.]

Stithy

STITHY, noun [supra.]

1. An anvil. [Local.]

2. A disease in oxen.

Stive

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

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

STOAK, verb transitive To stop; to choke; in seamens language.