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.

In a stainless manner.

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.

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.

The act of stamping, as with the foot.

To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

One who stamps.

a. n. from Stamp, v.

A stanza.

To prop; to make stanch, or strong.

A stanchion.

One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.

Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.

In a stanch manner.

The quality or state of being stanch.

The act of standing.

One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

Shy or distant in manner; cold; aloof; reserved; not friendly.

A reservoir in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.

Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.

A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.

To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

One who stands.

One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.

A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.

See Stannel.

The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.

A stand, or case, for pen and ink.

Serving to keep two objects or parts of a machine separated; as, a standoff insulator.

A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.

A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.

a structure (often made of wood and sometimes temporary) with seats or benches where people can sit to watch an event (such as a game or parade).

A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state of rest.

A stone.

To shoot with pain.

A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

See Stannel.

Hawking with staniels, or stannels, -- a base kind of falconry.

Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.

A tin mine; tin works.

A salt of stannic acid.

The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.

Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.

Containing or affording tin.

A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to stannous compounds, or connection with stannous compounds.

A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.

Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.

The technical name of tin. See Tin.

See Stannel.

A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike, in measure.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

Of or pertaining to the stapes.

An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion.

The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.