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

The act of stabling or housing beasts.

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

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

A covering or protection, as of canvas, for a stack.

Hay, grain, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.

A stockade.

a. n. from Stack.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a staddle{2}; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.

One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.

A landing place or wharf.

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

A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.

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

The office or position of a stadtholder.

The legislature of Switzerland. See Legislature, above.

An estafet.

Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.

An attendant bearing a staff.

Stiff; harsh.

A workman employed in silk throwing.

To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.

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

To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.

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

One who drives a stagecoach.

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

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.

A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.

An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

A player.

Exhibition on the stage.

The male red deer when four years old.

An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.

In a staggering manner.

A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea).

A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.

A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

A native of, or resident in, Stagira, in ancient Macedonia; especially, Aristotle.

State of being stagnant.

That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

In a stagnant manner.

Stagnant.

The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.

The larva of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, such as Oestrus actaeon, or Hypoderma actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

Having an air or manner characteristic of the stage; theatrical; artificial; as, a stagy tone or bearing; -- chiefly used depreciatively.

A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.

The Stahlian theory, that every vital action is a function or operation of the soul.

Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful.

In a staid manner, sedately.

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

A handle, as of a mop; a stale.

A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.

One who stains or tarnishes.

Free from stain; immaculate.

One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.

The head or top of a staircase.

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

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

A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.

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

The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.

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

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

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

Stole.

Stalactitic.

Like a stalactite; resembling a stalactite.

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

A stalactite.

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

Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.

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

Having the form or structure of stalagmites.

A wooden frame to set casks on.

Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.

In a stale manner.

To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

The quality or state of being stale.

A high, proud, stately step or walk.

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

Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.

One who stalks.

A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

Having no stalk.

Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.

To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.

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

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

Installation.

Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.

A standard bearer.

Stabling.

A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.

A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.

In a stalwart manner.

The quality of being stalwart.

Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring.

A thread; especially, a warp thread.

Furnished with stamens.

A kind of woolen cloth.

The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.

Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.

To indue with stamina.

Consisting of stamens or threads.

Bearing or having stamens.

A staminodium.

An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.

Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.

Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.

One who stammers.

A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is prevented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.