Stoat – Straitly

Stoat

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

STOCAH, noun An attendant; a wallet boy. [Not English nor used.]

Stoccade

STOCCADE, STOCCADO, n. 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.]

Stoccado

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

STOCHASTIC, adjective [Gr.] Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Not in use.]

Stock

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.

Stock-Dove

STOCK-DOVE, noun [stock and dove.] The ring-dove.

The stock dove is the wild pigeon of Europe, [Columbus oenas, ] long considered as the stock of the domestic pigeon, but now regarded as a distinct species. The ring-dove is the Columba palumbus.

Stock-Fish

STOCK-FISH, noun [stock and fish.] Cod dried hard and without salt.

Stock-Gillyflower

STOCK-GILLYFLOWER, noun A plant, a species of Cheiranthus; sometimes written stock July flower.

Stock-Jobber

STOCK-JOBBER, noun [stock and job.] One who speculates in the public funds for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks.

Stock-Jobbing

STOCK-JOBBING, noun The act of art of dealing in the public funds.

Stock-Lock

STOCK-LOCK, noun [stock and lock.] A lock fixed in wood.

Stock-Still

STOCK-STILL, adjective [stock and still.] Still as a fixed post; perfectly still.

Our preachers stand stock-still in the pulpit.

Stockade

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

STOCKADED, participle passive Fortified with stockades.

Stockading

STOCKADING, participle present tense Fortifying with sharpened posts or stakes.

Stockbroker

STOCKBROKER, noun [stock and broker.] A broker who deals in the purchase and sale of stocks or shares in the public funds.

Stocking

STOCKING, noun [from stock.] A garment made to cover the leg.

STOCKING, verb transitive To dress in stockings.

Stockish

STOCKISH, adjective Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]

Stocks

STOCKS. [See under Stock.]

Stocky

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

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.

Stoical

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

STOICALLY, adverb In the manner of the Stoics; without apparent feeling or sensibility; with indifference to pleasure or pain.

Stoicalness

STOICALNESS, noun The state of being stoical; indifference to pleasure or pain.

Stoicism

STOICISM, noun

1. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

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

Stoke

STOKE, is the same word as stock, differently applied. It is found in many English names of towns.

Stoker

STOKE, STOKER noun One who looks after the fire in a brew-house. [Local or technical.]

Stole

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

STOLEN, participle passive Stoln. The passive participle of steal.

STOLEN waters are sweet. Proverbs 9:17.

Stolid

STOLID, adjective [Latin , from the root of still, stall, to set.] Dull; foolish; stupid. [Not used.]

Stolidity

STOLIDITY, noun [supra.] Dullness of intellect; stupidity. [Little used.]

Stoloniferous

STOLONIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a sucker; to produce.] Producing suckers; putting forth suckers; as a stoloniferous stem.

Stomach

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

STOMACHED, adjective Filled with resentment.

Stomacher

STOMACHER, noun An ornament or support to the breast, worn by females. Isaiah 3:24.

Stomachful

STOMACHFUL, adjective Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse; as a stomachful boy.

Stomachfulness

STOMACHFULNESS, noun Stubbornness; sullenness; perverse obstinacy.

Stomachic

STOMACHIC, STOMACHICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to the stomach; as stomachic vessels.2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach.

Stomachical

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

STOMACHING, noun Resentment. [Not in use.]

Stomachless

STOMACHLESS, adjective Being without appetite.

Stomachous

STOMACHOUS, adjective Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Not in use.]

Stomp

STOMP, for stamp, which see.

Stond

STOND, noun [for stand.] A stop; a post; a station. [See Stand.]

Stone

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.

Stone-Blind

STONE-BLIND, adjective [stone and blind.] Blind as a stone; perfectly blind.

Stone-Bow

STONE-BOW, noun [stone and bow.] A cross bow for shooting stones.

Stone-Break

STONE-BREAK, noun [stone and break. Latin ] A plant.

Stone-Chat

STONE-CHAT, STONE-CHATTER, noun [stone and chatter.] A bird, the Motacilla rubicola.

Stone-Cray

STONE-CRAY, noun A distemper in hawks.

Stone-Crop

STONE-CROP, noun A sort of tree. A plant of the genus Sedum; wall-pepper. The stone-crop tree or shrubby glass-wort is of the genus Chenopodium.

Stone-Dead

STONE-DEAD, adjective [stone and dead.] As lifeless as a stone.

Stone-Fern

STONE-FERN, noun [stone and fern.] A plant.

Stone-Fly

STONE-FLY, noun [stone and fly.] An insect.

Stone-Fruit

STONE-FRUIT, noun [stone and fruit.] Fruit whose seeds are covered with a hard shell enveloped in the pulp, as peaches, cherries, plums, etc.; a drupe.

Stone-Hawk

STONE-HAWK, noun [stone and hawk.] A kind of hawk.

Stone-Hearted

STONE-HEARTED, STONY-HEARTED, adjective [stone and heart.] Hard hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Stone-Horse

STONE-HORSE, noun [stone and horse.] A house built of stone.

Stone-House

STONE-HOUSE, noun [stone and house.] A house built of stone.

Stone-Parsley

STONE-PARSLEY, noun A plant of the genus Bubon.

Stone-Pit

STONE-PIT, noun [stone and pit.] A pit or quarry where stones are dug.

Stone-Pitch

STONE-PITCH, noun [stone and pitch.] Hard inspissated pitch.

Stone-Plover

STONE-PLOVER, noun [stone and plover.] A bird.

Stone-Squarer

STONE-SQUARER, noun [stone and square.] One who forms stones into squares. 1 Kings 5:1.

Stone-Still

STONE-STILL, adjective [stone and still.] Still as a stone; perfectly still or motionless.

Stone-Wall

STONE-WALL, noun [stone and wall.] A wall built of stones.

Stone-Ware

STONE-WARE, noun [stone and ware.] A species of potters ware of a coarse kind, glazed and baked.

Stone-Work

STONE-WORK, noun [stone and work.] Work or wall consisting of stone; masons work of stone.

Stonecutter

STONECUTTER, noun [stone and cut.] One whose occupation is to hew stones.

Stonecutting

STONECUTTING, noun The business of hewing stones for walls, steps, cornices, monuments, etc.

Stoned

STONED, participle passive Pelted or killed with stones; freed from stones; walled with stones.

Stoner

STONER, noun One who beats or kills with stones; one who walls with stones.

Stones-Cast

STONES-CAST, STONES-THROW, noun [stone and cast or throw.] The distance which a stone may be thrown by the hand.

Stones-Mickle

STONES-MICKLE, noun A bird.

Stones-Throw

STONES-CAST, STONES-THROW noun [stone and cast or throw.] The distance which a stone may be thrown by the hand.

Stoniness

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

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.

Stony-Hearted

STONE-HEARTED, STONY-HEARTED adjective [stone and heart.] Hard hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Stood

STOOD, preterit tense of stand.

Stook

STOOK, noun A small collection of sheaves set up in the field. [Local.]

Stool

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.

Stool-Ball

STOOL-BALL, noun [stool and ball.] A play in which balls are driven from stool to stool.

Stoom

STOOM, verb transitive To put bags of herbs or other ingredients into wine, to prevent fermentation. [Local.]

Stoop

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

STOOPED, participle passive Caused to lean.

Stooper

STOOPER, noun One that bends the body forward.

Stooping

STOOPING, participle present tense Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

Stoopingly

STOOPINGLY, adverb With a bending of the body forward.

Stoor

STOOR, verb intransitive To rise in clouds, as dust or smoke; from the Welsh ystwr, a stir. [Local.]

Stooter

STOOTER, noun A small silver coin in Holland, value 2 stivers.

Stop

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.

Stop-Cock

STOP-COCK, noun [stop and cock.] A pipe for letting out a fluid, stopped by a turning cock.

Stop-Gap

STOP-GAP, noun [stop and gap.] A temporary expedient. [Not used.]

Stopless

STOPLESS, adjective Not to be stopped. [Not in use.]

Stoppage

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

STOPPED, participle passive Closed; obstructed; hindered from proceeding; impeded; intercepted.

Stopper

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

STOPPERED, participle passive Closed with a stopper; as a stoppered retort.

Stopping

STOPPING, participle present tense Closing; shutting; obstructing; hindering from proceeding; ceasing to go or move; putting an end to; regulating the sounds of.

Stopple

STOPPLE, noun That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; as a glass stopple; a cork stopple

Storage

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

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

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.

Store-House

STORE-HOUSE, noun [store and house.]

1. A building for keeping grain or goods of any kind; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

Joseph opened all the store-houses and sold to the Egyptians. Genesis 41:1.

2. A repository.

The Scripture of God is a store-house abounding with inestimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

3. A great mass reposited. [Not in use.]

Store-Keeper

STORE-KEEPER, noun [store and keeper.] A man who has the care of a store.

Stored

STORED, participle passive

1. Furnished; supplied.

2. Laid up in store; warehoused.

Storer

STORER, noun One who lays op or forms a store.

Storial

STORIAL, adjective [from story.] Historical. [Not in use.]

Storied

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

STORIER, noun A relater of stories; a historian. [Not in use.]

Storify

STORIFY, verb transitive To form or tell stories. [Not in use.]

Stork

STORK, noun A large fowl of the genus Ardea or Heron kind.

Storks-Bill

STORKS-BILL, noun A plant of the genus Geranium.

Storm

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.

Storm-Beat

STORM-BEAT, adjective [storm and beat.] Beaten or impaired by storms.

Stormed

STORMED, participle passive Assaulted by violence.

Storminess

STORMINESS, noun Tempestuousness; the state of being agitated by violent winds.

Storming

STORMING, participle present tense Attacking with violent force; raging.

Stormy

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

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.]

Story-Teller

STORY-TELLER, noun [story and tell.]

1. One who tells stories; a narrator of a series of incidents; as an amusing story-teller

2. A historian; in contempt.

3. One who tells fictitious stories.

Stot

STOT, noun

1. A horse. [Not in use.]

2. A young bullock or steer. [Not in use or local.]

Stote

STOTE. [See Stoat.]

, verb intransitive

1. To be in pain or sorrow. [Not in use.]

2. Stunned. [Not in use. See Astound.]

Stound

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

STOUR, noun A battle or tumult. stour signifies a river, as in Sturbridge.

Stout

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

STOUTLY, adverb Lustily; boldly; obstinately. He stoutly defended himself.

Stoutness

STOUTNESS, noun

1. Strength; bulk.

2. Boldness; fortitude.

3. Obstinacy; stubbornness.

Stove

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

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

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

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

STOWED, participle passive Placed in due position or order; reposited.

Stowing

STOWING, participle present tense Placing in due position; disposing in good order.

Strabism

STRABISM, noun [Latin , a squint-eyed person.] A squinting; the act or habit of looking asquint.

Straddle

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

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

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.

Straggler

STRAGGLER, noun

1. A wanderer; a rover; one that departs from the direct or proper course; one that rambles without any settled direction.

2. A vagabond; a wandering shiftless fellow.

3. Something that shoots beyond the rest or too far.

4. Something that stands by itself.

Straggling

STRAGGLING, participle present tense Wandering; roving; rambling; being in a separate position.

Strahlstein

STRAHLSTEIN, noun [G., a beam or gleam, and stone. Another name of actinolite.

Straight

STRAIGHT, adjective [Latin , formed from the root of reach, stretch, right. It is customary to write straight for direct or right, and strait, for narrow, but this is a practice wholly arbitrary, both being the same word. Strait we use in the sense in which it is used in the south of Europe. Both sense proceed from stretching, straining.]

1. Right, in a mathematical sense; direct; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; not deviating or crooked; as a straight line; a straight course; a straight piece of timber.

2. Narrow; close; tight; as a straight garment. [See strait, as it is generally written.]

3. Upright; according with justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness.

STRAIGHT, adverb Immediately; directly; in the shortest time.

I know thy generous temper well; fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, it straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.

Straighten

STRAIGHTEN, verb transitive

1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

2. To make narrow, tense or close; to tighten.

3. To reduce to difficulties or distress.

Straightened

STRAIGHTENED, participle passive Made straight; made narrow.

Straightener

STRAIGHTENER, noun He or that which straightens.

Straightening

STRAIGHTENING, participle present tense Making straight or narrow.

Straightly

STRAIGHTLY, adverb

1. In a right line; not crookedly.

2. Tightly; closely.

Straightness

STRAIGHTNESS, noun

1. The quality or state of being straight; rectitude.

2. Narrowness; tension; tightness.

Straightway

STRAIGHTWAY, adverb [straight and way.] Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.

He took the damsel by the hand, and said to her, Talitha cumi--and straightway the damsel arose. Mark 5:41-42. [Straightways is obsolete.]

Straiks

STRAIKS, noun Strong plates of iron on the circumference of a cannon wheel over the joints of the fellies.

Strain

STRAIN, verb transitive [Latin This word retains its original signification, to stretch.]

1. To stretch; to draw with force; to extend with great effort; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the chords of an instrument.

2. To cause to draw with force, or with excess of exertion; to injure by pressing with too much effort. He strained this horses or his oxen by overloading them.

3. To stretch violently or by violent exertion; as, to strain the arm or the muscles.

4. To put to the utmost strength. Men in desperate cases will strain themselves for relief.

5. To press or cause to pass through some porous substance; to purify or separate from extraneous matter by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk. Water may be stained through sand.

6. To sprain; to injure by drawing or stretching.

Prudes decayd about may tack, strain their necks with looking back.

7. To make tighter; to cause to bind closer.

To strain his fetters with a stricter care.

8. To force; to constrain; to make uneasy or unnatural.

His mirth is forced and strained.

STRAIN, verb intransitive

1. To make violent efforts.

To build his fortune I will strain a little.

STRAINing with too weak a wing.

2. To be filtered. Water straining through sand becomes pure.

STRAIN, noun

1. A violent effort; a stretching or exertion of the limbs or muscles, or of any thing else.

2. An injury by excessive exertion, drawing or stretching.

3. Style; continued manner of speaking or writing; as the genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. So we say, poetic strains, lofty strains.

4. Song; note; sound; or a particular part of a tune.

Their heavenly harps a lower strain began.

5. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition.

Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements.

6. Manner of speech or action.

Such take too high a strain at first.

7. Race; generation; descent.

He is of a noble strain [Not in use.]

8. Hereditary disposition.

Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which propagated, spoil the strain of a nation. [Not in use.]

9. Rank; character. [Not in use.]

Strainable

STRAINABLE, adjective Capable of being strained [Not in use.]

Strained

STRAINED, participle passive Stretched; violently exerted; filtered.

Strainer

STRAINER, noun That through which any liquid passes for purification; an instrument for filtration.

The lacteals of animal bodies are the strainers to separate the pure emulsion from its feces. [This doctrine is now questioned.]

Straining

STRAINING, participle present tense Stretching; exerting with violence; making great efforts; filtering.

STRAINING, noun The act of stretching; the act of filtering; filtration.

Straint

STRAINT, noun A violent stretching or tension. [Not in use.]

Strait

STRAIT, adjective [See Straight.]

1. Narrow; close; not broad.

STRAIT is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:13.

2. Close; intimate; as a strait degree of favor.

3. Strict; rigorous.

He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform some certain edicts, and some strait decrees.

4. Difficult; distressful.

5. Straight; not crooked.

STRAIT, noun [See Straight.]

1. A narrow pass or passage, either in a mountain or in the ocean, between continents or other portions of land; as the straits of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the straits of Dover. [In this sense, the plural is more generally used than the singular, and often without any apparent reason or propriety.]

2. Distress; difficulty; distressing necessity; formerly written streight. [Used either in the singular or plural.]

Let no man who owns a providence, become desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.

STRAIT, verb transitive To put to difficulties. [Not in use.]

Strait-Handed

STRAIT-HANDED, adjective [strait and hand.] Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. [Not much used.]

Strait-Handedness

STRAIT-HANDEDNESS, noun Niggardliness; parsimony.

Strait-Jacket

STRAIT-WAISTCOAT, STRAIT-JACKET noun An apparatus to confine the limbs of a distracted person.

Strait-Laced

STRAIT-LACED, adjective [strait and lace.]

1. Griped with stays.

We have few well-shaped that are strait-laced

2. Stiff; constrained. Hence,

3. Rigid in opinion; strict.

Strait-Waistcoat

STRAIT-WAISTCOAT, STRAIT-JACKET, noun An apparatus to confine the limbs of a distracted person.

Straiten

STRAITEN, verb transitive

1. To make narrow.

In narrow circuit, straitend by a foe.

2. To contract; to confine; as, to straiten the British commerce.

3. To make tense or tight; as, to straiten a cord.

4. To distress; to perplex; to press with poverty or other necessity; as, a man straitened in his circumstances.

5. To press by want of sufficient room.

Waters when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.

Straitly

STRAITLY, adverb

1. Narrowly; closely.

2. Strictly; rigorously. [For this, strictly is now used.]

3. Closely; intimately.