In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.

A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.

Becoming a statesman.

The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

A woman concerned in public affairs.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.

In a statical manner.

That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.

The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.

To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa.

Of or pertaining to a station.

The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.

One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.

Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.

Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge; statistical tabulation.

In the way of statistics.

One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.

The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. The science dealing with collection, tabulation, and analysis of facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.

See Statistics, 2.

Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.

Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.

A stationary part in or about which another part (the rotor) revolves, esp. when both are large; The stationary member of an electrical machine, as of an induction motor. The case inclosing a turbine wheel; the body of stationary blades or nozzles.

Shortened form of statistics{2} (b).

A statue.

One who practices the art of making statues.

To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

Adorned with statues.

Without a statue.

Like a statue; motionless.

Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.

To prop or support.

The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.

Arrived at full stature.

State; condition; position of affairs.

Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.

Conformably to statute.

An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction from common law. See Common law, under Common, a.

Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.

A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of alumina and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

Staurolite.

To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

pl. of Staff. pl. of Stave.

A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.

A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

A casing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

To be fixed or set; to stay.

That which serves as a prop; a support.

Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.

Staidly. See Staidly.

Staidness.

A lace for fastening stays.

Without stop or delay.

One whose occupation is to make stays.

The European starling.

Any sail extended on a stay.

A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm.

In a steadfast manner; firmly.

The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.

In a steady manner.

The quality or state of being steady.

The barns, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.

To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.

A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.

To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

One who steals; a thief.

The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion.

The act of stealing; theft.

Given to stealth; stealthy.

In a stealthy manner.

The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.

Stealthy; sly.

Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.

To exhale.

To cause to be covered by a translucent layer of condensed water in fine droplets, such as by breathing on a cold window; to fog; as, to steam up one's eyeglasses.

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.

The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.

The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistiness.

A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

Consisting of, or resembling, steam; vaporous; misty.

See Steen.

See Steening.

An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.

A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.

One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearic acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.

The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elaeoptene.

Seborrhea.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.

A cyst containing matter like suet.

Of the nature of a steatoma.

A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot (Khoikhoi) women.

Having fat buttocks.

See Stead, Steadfast, etc.

A ladder.

A horse, especially a spirited horse for state or war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.

Having no steed; without a horse.

To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.

Same as Stealer.

A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preestl.

The quality of being steely.

The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.

Made of steel; consisting of steel.