Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.
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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.
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.
Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
Any rove beetle.
A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.
Of or pertaining to staphyloma; affected with staphyloma.
The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost.
The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.
The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.
Pertaining to, or being a market or staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
A device used to drive a heavy staple{8} through multiple objects, so as to fasten them together; it has a spring mechanism which stores force as a lever is pulled by the operator's hand, and the force is released all at once to drive the staple fully into the object to be fastened.
A dealer in staple goods.
To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.
Half blind.
The men in the starboard watch.
An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641.
Not favored by the stars; ill-fated.
Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy.
Spangled or studded with stars.
To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.
To stiffen with starch.
Stiffened with starch.
The quality or state of being starched or starchy{5}; stiffness in manners; formality.
One who starches.
The quality or state of being starchy; stiffness in manners; formality.
In a starched or starch manner.
The quality or state of being starched or starchy{5}; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.
Of or pertaining to starch.
Astrology.
The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
One who stares, or gazes.
Starved.
The European redstart.
Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.
With a staring look.
To stiffen.
In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.
The quality or state of being stark.
Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.
Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
Lighted by the stars; starlight.
A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt.
The European starling.
A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.
A nobleman who possessed a starosty.
A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.
Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm.
Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.
Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
The light of the stars.
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