Stroke – Subdivided

Stroke

STROKE, STROOK, for struck.

STROKE, noun [from strike.]

1. A blow; the striking of one body against another; applicable to a club or to any heavy body, or to a rod, whip or lash. A piece of timber falling may kill a man by its stroke; a man when whipped, can hardly fail to flinch or wince at every stroke

Th oars were silver, which to the time of flutes kept stroke--

2. A hostile blow or attack.

He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke

3. A sudden attack of disease or affliction; calamity.

At this one stroke the man lookd dead in law.

4. Fatal attack; as the stroke of death.

5. The sound of the clock.

What is t oclock? Upon the stroke of four.

6. The touch of a pencil.

Oh, lasting as those colors may they shine, free as thy stroke yet faultless as thy line.

Some parts of my work have been brightened by the strokes of your lordshipss pencil.

7. A touch; a masterly effort; as the boldest strokes of poetry.

He will give one of the finishing strokes to it.

8. An effort suddenly or unexpectedly produced.

9. Power; efficacy.

He has a great stroke with the reader, when he condemns any of my poems, to make the world have a better opinion of them.

[I believe this sense is obsolete.]

10. A dash in writing or printing; a line; a touch of the pen; as a hair stroke

STROKE, verb transitive [See Strike and Strict.]

1. To rub gently with the hand by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to soothe.

He dried the falling drops, and yet more kind, he strokd her cheeks--

2. To rub gently in one direction.

3. To make smooth.

Stroked

STROKED, participle passive Rubbed gently with the hand.

Stroker

STROKER, noun One who strokes; one who pretends to cure by stroking.

Strokesman

STROKESMAN, noun In rowing, the man who rows the aftmost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.

Stroking

STROKING, participle present tense Rubbing gently with the hand.

Stroll

STROLL, verb intransitive [formed probably on troll, roll.] To rove; to wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely.

These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.

STROLL, noun A wandering on foot; a walking idly and leisurely.

Stroller

STROLLER, noun One who strolls; a vagabond; a vagrant.

Strolling

STROLLING, participle present tense Roving idly; rambling on foot.

Strombite

STROMBITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Strombus.

Strond

STROND, noun The beach. [Not much used. See Strand.]

Strong

STRONG, adjective [G., Latin The sense of the radical word is to stretch, strain, draw, and probably from the root of stretch and reach.]

1. Having physical active power, or great physical power; having the power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous. A patient is recovering from sickness, but is not yet strong enough to walk. A strong man will lift twice his own weight.

That our oxen may be strong to labor. Psalms 144:14.

Orses the strong to greater strength must yield.

2. Having physical passive power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; solid; as a constitution strong enough to bear the fatigues of a campaign.

3. Well fortified; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as a strong fortress or town.

4. Having great military or naval force; powerful; as a strong army or fleet; a strong nation; a nation strong at sea.

5. Having great wealth, means or resources; as a strong house or company of merchants.

6. Moving with rapidity; violent; forcible; impetuous; as a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; we had a strong tide against us.

7. Hale; sound; robust; as a strong constitution.

8. Powerful; forcible; cogent; adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; as a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example or instance. He used strong language.

9. Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as a strong partisan; a strong whig or tory.

Her mother, ever strong against that match--

10. Having virtues of great efficacy; or having a particular quality in a great degree; as a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea; strong coffee.

11. Full of spirit; intoxicating; as strong liquors.

12. Affecting the sight forcibly; as strong colors.

13. Affecting the taste forcibly; as the strong flavor of onions.

14. Affecting the smell powerfully; as a strong scent.

15. Not of easy digestion; solid; as strong meat. Hebrews 5:7.

16. Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as a custom grown strong by time.

17. Violent; vehement; earnest.

Who in the day of his flesh, when he offered up prayers with strong crying and tears-- Hebrews 5:7.

18. Able; furnished with abilities.

I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism.

19. Having great force of mind, of intellect or of any faculty; as a man of strong powers of mind; a man of a strong mind or intellect; a man of strong memory, judgment or imagination.

20. Having great force; comprising much in few words.

Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song, as high, as sweet, as easy and as strong

21. Bright; glaring; vivid; as a strong light.

22. Powerful to the extent of force named; as an army ten thousand strong

Strong-Fisted

STRONG-FISTED, adjective [strong and fist.] Having a strong hand; muscular.

Strong-Hand

STRONG-HAND, noun [strong and hand.] Violence; force; power.

It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong-hand [Not properly a compound word.]

Strong-Hold

STRONG-HOLD, noun [strong and hold.] A fastness; a fort; a fortified place; a place of security.

Strong-Set

STRONG-SET, adjective [strong and set.] Firmly set or compacted.

Strong-Water

STRONG-WATER, noun [strong and water.] Distilled or ardent spirit. [Not in use.]

Stronger

STRONGER, adjective comparative of strong. Having more strength.

Strongest

STRONGEST, adjective superlative of strong. Having most strength.

Strongly

STRONGLY, adverb

1. With strength; with great force or power; forcibly; a word of extensive application.

2. Firmly; in a manner to resist attack; as a town strongly fortified.

3. Vehemently; forcibly; eagerly. The evils of this measure were strongly represented to the government.

Strontian

STRONTIAN, noun [from strontian in Argyleshire, where it was first found.] An earth which, when pure and dry, is perfectly white, and resembles baryte in many of its properties. It is a compound of oxygen and a base to which is given the name strontium, in the proportion of 16 per cent. of the former, to 84 per cent. of the latter.

Strontianite

STRONTIANITE, noun Carbonate of strontian, a mineral that occurs massive, fibrous, stellated, and crystalized in the form of a hexahedral prism, modified on the edges, or terminated by a pyramid.

Prismatic baryte, a species of heavy spar.

Strontitic

STRONTIAN, STRONTITIC adjective Pertaining to strontian.

Strontium

STRONTIUM, noun The base of strontian.

Strook

STROOK, for struck. [Not in use.]

Strop

STROP, noun

1. A strap. [See Strap.] This orthography is particularly used for a strip of lether used for sharpening razors and giving them a fine smooth edge; a razor-strop. But strap is preferable.

2. A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Strophe

STROPHE, STROPHY, noun [Gr., a turn; to turn.] In Greek poetry, a stanza; the first member of a poem. This is succeeded by a similar stanza called antistrophy.

Strophy

STROPHE, STROPHY noun [Gr., a turn; to turn.] In Greek poetry, a stanza; the first member of a poem. This is succeeded by a similar stanza called antistrophy.

Strout

STROUT, verb intransitive [for strut.] To swell; to puff out. [Not in use.]

Strove

STROVE, preterit tense of strive.

Strow

STROW, is only a different orthography of strew. [Not in use.]

Strowl

STROWL, for stroll, is not in use. [See Stroll.]

Stroy

STROY, for destroy, is not in use. [See Stroll.]

Struck

STRUCK, preterit tense and participle passive of strike. [See Strike.]

Strucken

STRUCKEN, the old participle passive of strike, is obsolete.

Structure

STRUCTURE, noun [Latin , to set or lay.]

1. Act of building; practice of erecting buildings.

His son builds on and never is content, till the last farthing is in structure spent.

2. Manner of building; form; make; construction; as the want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.

3. Manner of organization of animals and vegetables, etc.

4. A building of any kind, but chiefly a building of some size or of magnificence; an edifice. The iron bridge over the Seine in Paris, is a beautiful structure

There stands a structure of majestic frame.

5. In mineralogy, the particular arrangement of the integrant particles or molecules of a mineral.

Strude

STRUDE, STRODE, noun A stock of breeding mares.

Struggle

STRUGGLE, verb intransitive [This word may be formed on the root of stretch, right, etc. which signifies to strain; or more directly on the same elements in Latin , to wrinkle.]

1. Properly, to strive, or to make efforts with a twisting or with contortions of the body. Hence,

2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend; as, to struggle to save life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle against the stream; to struggle with adversity.

3. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

Tis wisdom to beware, and better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

STRUGGLE, noun

1. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.

2. Contest; contention; strife.

An honest man might look upon the struggle with indifference.

3. Agony; contortions of extreme distress.

Struggler

STRUGGLER, noun One who struggles, strives or contends.

Struggling

STRUGGLING, participle present tense Making great efforts; using violent exertions; affected with contortions.

STRUGGLING, noun The act of striving; vehement or earnest effort.

Struma

STRUMA, noun [Latin] A glandular swelling; scrofula; the kings evil; a wen.

Strumous

STRUMOUS, adjective Having swelling sin the glands; scrofulous.

Strumpet

STRUMPET, noun A prostitute.

STRUMPET, adjective Like a strumpet; false; inconstant.

STRUMPET, verb transitive To debauch.

Strung

STRUNG, preterit tense of string.

Strut

STRUT, verb intransitive

1. To walk with a lofty proud gait and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.

Does he not hold up his head and strut in his gait?

2. To swell; to protuberate.

The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. [Not used.]

STRUT, noun A lofty proud step or walk with the head erect; affectation of dignity in walking.

Struthious

STRUTHIOUS, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to or like the ostrich.

Strutter

STRUTTER, noun One who struts.

Strutting

STRUTTING, participle present tense Walking with a lofty gait and erect head.

STRUTTING, noun The act of walking with a proud gait.

Struttingly

STRUTTINGLY, adverb With a proud lofty step; boastingly.

Strychnia

STRYCHNIA, noun An alkaline substance obtained from the fruit of the Strychnos nux vomica, and Strychnos ignatia. It is a white substance, crystalized in very small four sided prisms, and intolerably bitter. It acts upon the stomach with violent energy, inducing locked jaw and destroying life.

Stub

STUB, noun [Latin , setting, fixing. See Stop.]

1. The stump of a tree; that part of the stem of a tree which remains fixed int he earth when the tree is cut down. [Stub, in the United States, I believe is never used for the stump of an herbaceous plant.]

2. A log; a block. [Not in use.]

STUB, verb transitive

1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.

2. To strike the toes against a stump, stone or other fixed object.

Stub-Nail

STUB-NAIL, noun [stub and nail.] A nail broken off; a short thick nail.

Stubbed

STUBBED, adjective

1. Short and thick like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

2. Hardy; not nice or delicate.

Stubbedness

STUBBEDNESS, noun Bluntness; obtuseness.

Stubble

STUBBLE, noun [Latin] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the sythe or sickle.

After the first crop is off, they plow in the stubble

Stubble-Goose

STUBBLE-GOOSE, noun [stubble and goose.] A goose fed among stubble.

Stubble-Rake

STUBBLE-RAKE, noun A rake with long teeth for raking together stubble.

Stubborn

STUBBORN, adjective [This word is doubtless formed on the root of stub or stiff, and denotes fixed, firm. But the origin of the latter syllable is not obvious.

1. Unreasonably obstinate; inflexibly fixed in opinion; not to be moved or persuaded by reasons; inflexible; as a stubborn son; a stubborn mind or soul.

The queen is obstinate--stubborn to justice.

2. Persevering; persisting; steady; constant; as stubborn attention.

3. Stiff; not flexible; as a stubborn bow.

Take a plant of stubborn oak.

4. Hardy; firm; enduring without complaint; as stubborn Stoics.

5. Harsh; rough; rugged. [Little used.]

6. Refractory; not easily melted or worked; as a stubborn ore or metal.

7. Refractory; obstinately resisting command, the goad or the whip; as a stubborn ass or horse.

Stubbornly

STUBBORNLY, adverb Obstinately; inflexibly; contumaciously.

Stubbornness

STUBBORNNESS, noun

1. Perverse and unreasonable obstinacy; inflexibility; contumacy.

STUBBORNNESS and obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.

2. Stiffness; want of pliancy.

3. Refractoriness, as of ores.

Stubby

STUBBY, adjective [from stub.]

1. Abounding with stubs.

2. Short and thick; short and strong; as stubby bristles.

Stucco

STUCCO, noun

1. A fine plaster composed of lime, sand, whiting and pounded marble; used for covering walls, etc.

2. Work made of stucco

STUCCO, verb transitive To plaster; to overlay with fine plaster.

Stuccoed

STUCCOED, participle passive Overlaid with stucco.

Stuccoing

STUCCOING, participle present tense Plastering with stucco.

Stuck

STUCK, preterit tense and participle passive of stick.

STUCK oer with titles, and hung round with strings.

STUCK, noun A thrust. [Not in use.]

Stuckle

STUCKLE, noun [from stook.] A number of sheaves set together in the field. [Not in use in the United States.]

Stud

STUD, noun [G., a stay or prop; to butt at, to gore. The sense of the root is to set, to thrust. G. It coincides with stead, place.]

1. In building, a small piece of timber or joist inserted in the sills and beams, between the posts, to support he beams or other main timbers. The boards on the outside and the laths on the inside of a building, are also nailed to the studs.

2. A nail with a large head, inserted in work chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob.

A belt of straw, and ivy buds, with coral clasps and amber studs.

Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossd with gems and studs of pearl.

3. A collection of breeding horses and mares; or the place where they are kept.

In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor and fire.

4. A button for a shirt sleeve.

STUD, verb transitive

1. To adorn with shining studs or knobs.

Their horses shall be trappd, their harness studded all with gold and pearl.

2. To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects.

Stud-Horse

STUD-HORSE, noun [Latin] A breeding horse; a horse kept for propagating his kind.

Studded

STUDDED, participle passive

1. Adorned with studs.

2. Set with detached ornaments.

The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat and commodious dwelling of freemen.

Studding

STUDDING, participle present tense Setting or adorning with studs or shining knobs.

Studding-Sail

STUDDING-SAIL, noun In navigation, a sail that is set beyond the skirts of the principal sails. The studding-sails are set only when the wind is light. They appear like wings upon the yard-arms.

Student

STUDENT, noun [Latin See Study.]

1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning, either in a seminary or in private; a scholar; as the students of an academy, of a college or university; a medical student; a law student

2. A man devoted to books; a bookish man; as a hard student; a close student

Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student from his books.

3. One who studies or examines; as a student of natures works.

Studied

STUDIED, participle passive [from study.]

1. Read; closely examined; read with diligence and attention; well considered. The book has been studied The subject has been well studied

2. adjective Learned; well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; as a man well studied in geometry, or in law or medical science.

3. Having a particular inclination. [Not in use.]

Studier

STUDIER, noun [from study.] One who studies; a student.

Lipsius was a great studier in the stoical philosophy.

Studious

STUDIOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Given to books or to learning; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as a studious scholar.

2. Contemplative; given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation.

3. Diligent; eager to discover something, or to effect some object; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.

4. Attentive to; careful; with of.

Divines must become studious of pious and venerable antiquity.

5. Planned with study; deliberate.

For the frigid villany of studious lewdness, for the calm malignity of labored impiety, what apology can be invented?

6. Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as the studious shade.

et my due feet never fail, To walk the studious cloister pale. [The latter signification is forced and not much used.]

Studiously

STUDIOUSLY, adverb

1. With study; with close attention to books.

2. With diligent contemplation.

3. Diligently; with zeal and earnestness.

4. Carefully; attentively.

Studiousness

STUDIOUSNESS, noun The habit or practice of study; addictedness to books. Men of sprightly imagination are not generally the most remarkable for studiousness

Study

STUDY, noun [Latin , to study that is, to set the thought or mind. See Assiduous.]

1. Literally, a setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind of books, to arts or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of learning what is not before known.

Hammond generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study

STUDY gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace.

2. Attention; meditation; contrivance.

Just men they seemd, and all their study bent to worship God aright and know his works.

3. Any particular branch of learning that is studied. Let your studies be directed by some learned and judicious friend.

4. Subject of attention.

The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study

5. A building or an apartment devoted to study or to literary employment.

6. Deep cogitation; perplexity. [Little used.]

STUDY, verb intransitive [Latin]

1. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to muse; to dwell upon in thought.

I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.

2. To apply the mind to books. He studies eight hours in the day.

3. To endeavor diligently.

That ye study to be quiet and do your own business. 1 Thessalonians 4:11.

STUDY, verb transitive

1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

2. To consider attentively; to examine closely. study the works of nature.

STUDY, thyself; what rank or what degree thy wise Creator has ordaind for thee.

3. To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over; or to commit to memory; as, to study a speech.

Stuff

STUFF, noun [G., See Stove and Stew.]

1. A mass of matter, indefinitely; or a collection of substances; as a heap of dust, of chips or of dross.

2. The matter of which any thing is formed; materials. The carpenter and joiner speak of the stuff with which they build; mechanics pride themselves on having their wares made of good stuff

Time is the stuff which life is made of.

Degrading prose explains his meaning ill, and shows the stuff and not the workmans skill.

Cesar hath wept; ambition should be made of sterner stuff

3. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels in general.

He took away locks, and gave away the kings stuff [Nearly obsolete.]

4. That which fills any thing.

Cleanse the suffd bosom of that perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

5. Essence; elemental part; as the stuff of the conscience.

6. A medicine. [Vulgar.]

7. Cloth; fabrics of the loom; as silk stuffs; woolen stuffs. In this sense the word has a plural. stuff comprehends all cloths, but it signifies particularly woolen cloth of slight texture for linings.

8. Matter or thing; particularly, that which is trifling or worthless; a very extensive use of the word. Flattery is fulsome stuff; poor poetry is miserable stuff

Anger would indite such woful stuff as I or Shadwell write.

9. Among seamen, a melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc. With which the masts, sides and bottom of a ship are smeared.

STUFF, verb transitive

1. To fill; as, to stuff a bedtick.

2. To fill very full; to crowd.

This crook drew hazel boughs adown, and stuffd her apron wide with nuts so brown.

3. To thrust in; to crowd; to press.

Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together.

4. To fill by being put into nay thing.

With inward arms the dire machine they load, and iron bowels stuff the dark abode.

5. To swell or cause to bulge out by putting something in.

STUFF me out with straw.

6. To fill with something improper.

For thee I dim these eyes, and stuff this head with all such reading as was never read.

7. To obstruct, as any of the organs.

Im stuffd, cousin; I cannot smell.

8. To fill meat with seasoning; as, to stuff a leg of veal.

9. To fill the skin of a dead animal for presenting and preserving his form; as, to stuff a bird or a lions skin.

10. To form by filling.

An eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.

STUFF, verb intransitive To feed gluttonously.

Taught harmless man to cram and stuff

Stuffed

STUFFED, participle passive Filled; crowded; crammed.

Stuffing

STUFFING, participle present tense Filling; crowding.

STUFFING, noun

1. That which is used for filling any thing; as the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

2. Seasoning for meat; that which is put into meat to give it a higher relish.

Stuke

STUKE, for stucco, not in use.

Stulm

STULM, noun A shaft to draw water out of a mine.

Stulp

STULP, noun A post. [Local.]

Stultify

STULTIFY, verb transitive [Latin , foolish; to make.]

1. To make foolish; to make one a fool.

2. In law, to alledge or prove to be insane, for avoiding some act.

Stultiloquence

STULTILOQUENCE, noun [Latin , foolish; a talking.] Foolish talk; a babbling.

Stultiloquy

STULTILOQUY, noun [Latin , supra.] Foolish talk; silly discourse; babbling.

Stum

STUM, noun [G.]

1. Must; wine unfermented.

2. New wine used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines.

3. Wine revived by a new fermentation.

STUM, verb transitive

1. To renew wine by mixing must with it, and raising a new fermentation.

We stum our wines to renew their spirits.

2. To fume a cask or liquor with burning brimstone. [Local.]

Stumble

STUMBLE, verb intransitive [This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.]

1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal. A man may stumble as well as a horse.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble Proverbs 4:12.

2. To err; to slide into a crime or an error.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2:1.

3. To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.

Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.

STUMBLE, verb transitive

1. To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.

2. To confound; to puzzle; to put to a nonplus; to perplex.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

STUMBLE, noun

1. A trip in walking or running.

2. A blunder; a failure.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Stumbled

STUMBLED, participle passive Obstructed; puzzled.

Stumbler

STUMBLER, noun One that stumbles or makes a blunder.

Stumbling

STUMBLING, participle present tense Tripping; erring; puzzling.

Stumbling-Block

STUMBLING-BLOCK, STUMBLING-STONE, noun [stumble and block or stone.] Any cause of stumbling; that which causes to err.

Stumbling-Stone

STUMBLING-BLOCK, STUMBLING-STONE noun [stumble and block or stone.] Any cause of stumbling; that which causes to err.

We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. 1 Corinthians 1:1.

This stumbling stone we hope to take away.

Stump

STUMP, noun [G.]

1. The stub of a tree; the part of a tree remaining int he earth after the tree is cut down, or the part of any plant left in the earth by the sythe or sickle.

2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; as the stump of a leg, of a finger or a tooth.

STUMP, verb transitive

1. To strike any thing fixed and hard with the toe. [Vulgar.

2. To challenge. [Vulgar.]

Stumpy

STUMPY, adjective

1. Full of stumps.

2. Hard; strong. [Little used.]

3. Short; stubby. [Little used.]

Stun

STUN, verb transitive [The primary sense is to strike or to stop, to blunt, to stupefy.]

1. To make senseless or dizzy with a blow on the head; as, to be stunned by a fall, or by a falling timber.

One hung a pole-ax at his saddle bow, and one a heavy mace to stun the foe.

2. To overpower the sense of hearing; to blunt or stupefy the organs of hearing. To prevent being stunned, cannoneers sometimes fill their ears with wool.

3. To confound or make dizzy by loud and mingled sound.

--An universal hubbub wild of stunning sounds and voices all confusd.

Stung

STUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of sting.

Stunk

STUNK, preterit tense of stink.

Stunned

STUNNED, participle passive Having the sense of hearing overpowered; confounded with noise.

Stunning

STUNNING, participle present tense Overpowering the organs of hearing; confounding with noise.

Stunt

STUNT, verb transitive [See Stint.] To hinder from growth; applied to animals and plants; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

Stunted

STUNTED, participle passive Hindered from growth or increase.

Stuntedness

STUNTEDNESS, noun The state of being stunted.

Stunting

STUNTING, participle present tense Hindering from growth or increase.

Stupe

STUPE, noun [Latin , tow; probably allied to stuff.] Cloth or flax dipped in warm medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore; fomentation; sweating bath.

STUPE, verb transitive To foment.

STUPE, noun A stupid person. [Not in use.]

Stupefaction

STUPEFACTION, noun [Latin See Stop.]

1. The act of rendering stupid.

2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity.

Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it.

Stupefactive

STUPEFACTIVE, adjective Causing insensibility; deadening or blunting the sense of felling or understanding; narcotic.

Opium hath a stupefactive part.

Stupefier

STUPEFIER, noun [from stupefy.] That which causes dullness or stupidity.

Stupefy

STUPEFY, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive of sensibility. It is a great sin to attempt to stupefy the conscience.

The fumes of passion intoxicate his discerning faculties, as the fumes of drink stupefy the brain.

2. To deprive of material motion.

It is not malleable nor fluent, but stupefied. [Not in use.]

Stupefying

STUPEFYING, participle present tense Rendering extremely dull or insensible; as the stupefying virtues of opium. [It would be convenient to write stupifaction, stupifactive, and place these words after stupidly.]

Stupendous

STUPENDOUS, adjective [Low Latin , to astonish.] Literally, striking dumb by its magnitude; hence, astonishing; wonderful; amazing; particularly, of astonishing magnitude or elevation; as a stupendous pile; a stupendous edifice; a stupendous mountain; a stupendous bridge.

Stupendously

STUPENDOUSLY, adverb In a manner to excite astonishment.

Stupendousness

STUPENDOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being stupendous or astonishing.

Stupid

STUPID, adjective [Latin , to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop.]

1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish.

O that men should be so stupid grown, as to forsake the living God.

With wild surprise, a moment stupid motionless he stood.

2. Dull; heavy; formed without skill or genius.

Observe what loads of stupid rhymes oppress us in corrupted times.

Stupidity

STUPIDITY, noun [Latin] Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

Stupidly

STUPIDLY, adverb With extreme dullness; with suspension or inactivity of understanding; sottishly; absurdly; without the exercise of reason or judgment.

Stupidness

STUPIDNESS, noun Stupidity.

Stupor

STUPOR, noun [Latin]

1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as the stupor of a limb.

2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to ones interests.

Stuprate

STUPRATE, verb transitive [Latin] To ravish; to debauch.

Stupration

STUPRATION, noun Rape; violation of chastity by force.

Sturdily

STURDILY, adverb [from sturdy.] Hardily; stoutly; lustily.

Sturdiness

STURDINESS, noun [from sturdy.]

1. Stoutness; hardiness; as the sturdiness of a school boy.

2. Brutal strength.

Sturdy

STURDY, adjective [G., connected with; a stub.]

1. Hardy; stout; foolishly obstinate; implying coarseness or rudeness.

This must be done, and I would fain see mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.

A sturdy hardened sinner advances to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first step.

2. Strong; forcible; lusty; as a sturdy lout.

3. Violent; laid on with strength; as sturdy strokes.

4. Stiff; stout; strong; as a sturdy oak.

He was not of a delicate contexture, his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.

STURDY, noun A disease in sheep, marked by dullness and stupor.

Sturgeon

STURGEON, noun [Low Latin , G.] A large fish of the genus Acipenser, caught in large rivers. Its flesh is valued for food.

Sturk

STURK, noun A young ox or heifer.

Stutter

STUTTER, verb intransitive [G., that is, to stop. Stut is not used.] To stammer; to hesitate in uttering words.

Stutterer

STUTTERER, noun A stammerer.

Stuttering

STUTTERING, participle present tense Stammering; speaking with hesitation.

Stutteringly

STUTTERINGLY, adverb With stammering.

Sty

STY, noun

1. A pen or inclosure for swine.

2. A place of bestial debauchery.

To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty

3. An inflamed tumor on the edge of the eyelid.

STY, verb transitive To shut up in a sty

STY, verb intransitive To soar; to ascend. [Not in use.] [See Stirrup.]

Styca

STYCA, noun A Saxon copper coin of the lowest value.

Stygian

STYGIAN, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to Styx, fabled by the ancients to be a river of hell over which the shades of the dead passed, or the region of the dead; hence, hellish; infernal.

At that so sudden blaze, the stygian throng bent their aspect.

Style

STYLE, noun [Latin , Gr., a column, a pen or bodkin; from the root of the Teutonic stellen, to set or place.]

1. Manner of writing with regard to language, or the choice and arrangement of words; as a harsh style; a dry style; a tumid or bombastic style; a loose style; a terse style; a laconic or verbose style; a flowing style; a lofty style; an elegant style; an epistolary style The character of style depends chiefly on a happy selection and arrangement of words.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style

Let some lord but own the happy lines, how the wit brightens and the style refines!

2. Manner of speaking appropriate to particular characters; or in general, the character of the language used.

Not style is held for base, where love well named is.

According to the usual style of dedications.

So we say, a person addresses another in a style of haughtiness, in a style or rebuke.

3. Mode of painting; any manner of painting which is characteristic or peculiar.

The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.

4. A particular character of music; as a grave style

5. Title; appellation; as the style of majesty.

Propitious hear our prayr, whether the style of Titan please thee more--

6. Course of writing. [Not in use.]

7. style of court, is properly the practice observed by any court in its way of proceeding.

8. In popular use, manner; form; as, the entertainment was prepared in excellent style

9. A pointed instrument formerly used in writing on tables of wax; an instrument of surgery.

10. Something with a sharp point; a graver; the pin of a dial; written also stile.

11. In botany, the middle portion of the pistil, connecting the stigma with the germ; sometimes called the shaft. The styles of plants are capillary, filiform, cylindric, subulate, or clavate.

12. In chronology, a mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendar. style is Old or New. The Old style follows the Julian manner of computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius Cesar, in which the year consists of 365 days and 6 hours. This is something more than 11 minutes too much, and in the course of time, between Cesar and pope Gregory XIII, this surplus amounted to 11 days. Gregory reformed the calendar by retrenching 11 days; this reformation was adopted by act of parliament in Great Britain in 1751, by which act eleven days in September, 1752 were retrenched, and the 3rd day was reckoned the 14th. This mode of reckoning is called New style

STYLE, verb transitive To call; to name; to denominate; to give a title to in addressing. The emperor of Russia is styled autocrat; the king of Great Britain is styled defender of the faith.

Styled

STYLED, participle passive Named; denominated; called.

Stylet

STYLET, noun [from style.] A small poniard or dagger.

Styliform

STYLIFORM, adjective [style and form.] Like a style, pin or pen.

Styling

STYLING, participle present tense Calling; denominating.

Stylite

STYLITE, noun [Gr., a column.] In ecclesiastical history, the Stylites were a sect of solitaries, who stood motionless on columns or pillars for the exercise of their patience.

Stylobation

STYLOBATION, noun The pedestal of a column.

Styloid

STYLOID, adjective [Latin , Gr.] Having some resemblance to a style or pen; as the styloid process of the temporal bone.

Styptic

STYPTIC, STYPTICAL, adjective [Latin , Gr.] That stops bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage.

Styptical

STYPTIC, STYPTICAL adjective [Latin , Gr.] That stops bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage.

STYPTIC, noun A medicine which has the quality of stopping hemorrhage or discharges of blood. Styptics have the quality of astringents, but the word styptic is used in a sense different from that of astringent, and much more limited. Styptics are usually external applications for restraining discharges of blood; astringents are usually internal applications for stopping bleeding , or for strengthening the solids. Astringent is the general term; styptic a subdivision of it.

Stypticity

STYPTICITY, noun The quality of stanching blood, or stopping hemorrhage.

Stythy

STYTHY, verb transitive To forge on an anvil. [See Stithy.]

Suability

SUABILITY, noun Liability to be sued; the state of being subject by law to civil process. [Not much used.]

Suable

SUABLE, adjective [from sue.] That may be sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.

Suade

SUADE, for persuade, is not in use.

Suage

SUAGE, for assuage, is not in use.

Suant

SUANT, adjective Even; uniform; spread equally over the surface. [New England, but local.]

Suasible

SUASIBLE, adjective [Latin] That may be persuaded or easily persuaded.

Suasion

SUASION, noun The act of persuading. [See Persuade.]

Suasive

SUASIVE, adjective [Latin] Having power to persuade.

Suasory

SUASORY, adjective [Latin] Tending to persuade; having the quality of convincing and drawing by argument or reason.

Suavity

SUAVITY, noun [Latin]

1. Sweetness, in a literal sense. [Not in use.]

2. Sweetness, in a figurative sense; that which is to the mind what sweetness is to the tongue; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; as suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation or address.

Sub

SUB, a Latin preposition, denoting under or below, used in English as a prefix, to express a subordinate degree. Before f and p it is changed into those letters, as in suffer, and suppose; and before m, into that letter, as in summon.

Sub-Beadle

SUB-BEADLE, noun [sub and beadle.] An inferior or under beadle.

Sub-Brigadier

SUB-BRIGADIER, noun An officer in the horse guards, who ranks as cornet.

Sub-Celestial

SUB-CELESTIAL, adjective [sub and celestial.] Being beneath the heavens; as sub-celestial glories.

Sub-Central

SUB-CENTRAL, adjective Being under the center.

Sub-Chanter

SUB-CHANTER, noun [sub and chanter.] An under chanter; a deputy of the precentor of a cathedral.

Sub-Committee

SUB-COMMITTEE, noun [sub and committee.] An under committee; a part or division of a committee.

Sub-Constellation

SUB-CONSTELLATION, noun A subordinate constellation.

Sub-Contracted

SUB-CONTRACTED, adjective [sub and contracted.] Contracted after a former contract.

Sub-Contrary

SUB-CONTRARY, adjective [sub and contrary.] Contrary in an inferior degree. In geometry, when two similar triangles are so placed as to have a common angle at their vertex, and yet their bases not parallel.

Subacid

SUBACID, adjective [sub and acid.] Moderately acid or sour; as a subacid juice.

SUBACID, noun A substance moderately acid.

Subacrid

SUBACRID, adjective [sub and acrid.] Moderately sharp, pungent or acrid.

Subact

SUBACT, verb transitive [Latin] To reduce; to subdue. [Not in use.]

Subaction

SUBACTION, noun The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies completely, or of beating them to a powder.

Subagitation

SUBAGITATION, noun [Latin] Carnal knowledge.

Subah

SUBAH, noun In India, a province or viceroy ship.

Subahdar

SUBAHDAR, noun In India, a viceroy, or the governor of a province; also, a native of India, who ranks as captain in the European companies.

Subahship

SUBAHSHIP, noun The jurisdiction of a subahdar.

Subaltern

SUBALTERN, adjective [Latin] Inferior; subordinate; that in different respects is both superior and inferior; as a subaltern officer. It is used chiefly of military officers.

SUBALTERN, noun A subordinate officer in an army or military body. It is applied to officers below the rank of captain.

Subalternate

SUBALTERNATE, adjective [supra.] Successive, succeeding by turns.

Subalternation

SUBALTERNATION, noun

1. State of inferiority or subjection.

2. Act of succeeding by course.

Subaquatic

SUBAQUATIC, SUBAQUEOUS, adjective [Latin , water.] Being under water, or beneath the surface of water.

Subaqueous

SUBAQUATIC, SUBAQUEOUS adjective [Latin , water.] Being under water, or beneath the surface of water.

Subastral

SUBASTRAL, adjective [sub and astral.] Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.

Subastringent

SUBASTRINGENT, adjective Astringent in a small degree.

Subaxillary

SUBAXILLARY, adjective [Latin , the arm-pit.] Placed under the axil or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or by a leaf with the branch.

Subcarbureted

SUBCARBURETED, adjective Carbureted in an inferior degree; or consisting of one prime of carbon and two of hydrogen.

Subclavian

SUBCLAVIAN, adjective [Latin , a key.] Situated under the clavicle or collar bone; as the subclavian arteries.

Subcordate

SUBCORDATE, adjective [Latin , the heart.] In shape somewhat like a heart.

Subcostal

SUBCOSTAL, adjective [Latin , a rib.] The subcostal muscles are the internal intercostal muscles.

Subcutaneous

SUBCUTANEOUS, adjective [sub and cutaneous; Latin , skin.] Situated under the skin.

Subcuticular

SUBCUTICULAR, adjective [Latin , cuticle.] Being under the cuticle or scarf-skin.

Subdeacon

SUBDEACON, noun [sub and deacon.] An under deacon; a deacons servant, in the Romish church.

Subdeaconry

SUBDEACONRY, SUBDEACONSHIP, noun The order and office of subdeacon in the catholic church.

Subdeaconship

SUBDEACONRY, SUBDEACONSHIP noun The order and office of subdeacon in the catholic church.

Subdean

SUBDEAN, noun [sub and dean.] An under dean; a deans substitute or vicegerent.

Subdeanery

SUBDEANERY, noun The office and rank of subdean.

Subdecuple

SUBDECUPLE, adjective [Latin Sub and decuplus.] Containing one part of ten.

Subdented

SUBDENTED, adjective [sub and dent.] Indented beneath.

Subdeposit

SUBDEPOSIT, noun That which is deposited beneath something else.

Subderisorious

SUBDERISORIOUS, adjective [Latin Sub and derisor.] Ridiculing with moderation or delicacy. [Not in use.]

Subdititious

SUBDITITIOUS, adjective [Latin , to substitute.] Put secretly in the place of something else. [Little used.]

Subdiversify

SUBDIVERSIFY, verb transitive [sub and diversify.] To diversify again what is already diversified. [Little used.]

Subdivide

SUBDIVIDE, verb transitive [sub and divide.] To divide a part of a thing into more parts; to part into smaller divisions.

In the rise of eight in tones, are two half tones; so as if you divide the tones equally, the eight is but seven whole and equal notes; and if you subdivide that into half notes, as in the stops of a lute, it makes the number thirteen.

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others--

SUBDIVIDE, verb intransitive To be subdivided.

Subdivided

SUBDIVIDED, participle passive Divided again or into smaller parts.