See Pneumatograph.

An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Voice; speech; language.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

To manage as a steward.

A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.

The office of a steward.

An overseer or superintendent.

Suiting a stew, or brothel.

A pan used for stewing.

A pot used for stewing.

See Stee.

Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.

The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.

A sty on the eye. See Styan.

Stubborn.

Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.

Antimonial intoxication or poisoning.

Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).

Antimonic; -- used with reference to certain compounds of antimony.

A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.

Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.

Antimonious.

The technical name of antimony.

A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.

The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.

An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.

A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.

A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.

Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.

Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.

Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea).

To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.

See the Note under Lac.

A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.

any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes.

Stuck.

One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

As much set type as fills a composing stick.

The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.

a. n. from Stick, v.

Stuck; spoiled in making.

A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

One who stickles.

The ruddy duck.

Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.

Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

Obstinate.

Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.

The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.

To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

Act or process of making stiff.

Somewhat stiff.

In a stiff manner.

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

The ruddy duck.

To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

Stifling.

One who, or that which, stifles.

A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.

pl. of Stigma.

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.

With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8.

The act of stigmatizing.

To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.

Same as Stigmatic.

Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

Stanza.

Of or pertaining to the style of a dial.

A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.

A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.

A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.

A stiletto.

To stab or kill with a stiletto.

To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.

a type of painting in which inanimate objects such as flowers or fruit are represented.

a section of a stream that is flat and moves slowly.

a table wine which is not effervescent; a non-sparkling wine.

To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.

Ever closing.

A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously.

A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.

Falling in drops; drawn by a still.

An alembic; a vessel for distillation.

The birth of a dead fetus.

Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.

One who stills, or quiets.

A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.

A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.

Falling in drops.

Having the form of a drop.

A stillion.

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

A room for distilling.

A standstill.

In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly.

A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.

To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

See Stilt, n., 3.

Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.

To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.

Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.