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cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made.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.

A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.

See Stymie.

That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.

The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

Having the quality of stimulating. That which stimulates.

One who stimulates.

A woman who stimulates.

The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation. The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.

A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.

To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.

Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.

The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.

One who, or that which, stings.

The weever.

In a stingy manner.

The quality or state of being stingy.

Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.

Having no sting.

Old beer; sharp or strong liquor.

Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidae, syn. Trygonidae, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American Pacific coast, are very destructive to oysters.

A sting ray.

Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

A mean, stinking, paltry fellow.

A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

One who, or that which, stinks.

A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.

a. n. from Stink, v.

In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.

Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.

A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.

Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Restraint; stoppage.

The state of being stinted.

One who, or that which, stints.

Without stint or restraint.

The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern. The stalk of a pistil. The trunk of a tree. The stem of a fungus or mushroom.

The stipule of a leaflet.

Having stipels.

To pay by settled wages.

Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary.

One who receives a stipend.

To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay.

Having no stipend.

Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.

Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.

To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

See Styptic.

A stipule.

Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.

To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.

The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.

One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.

An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Adorned with pendants like icicles.

Resembling icicles.

A young bullock or heifer.

Without stirring; very quiet; motionless.

Stock; race; family.

The breeding of special stocks or races.

Stock; race; family.

The act of stirring; stir; commotion.

One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.

Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.

Started; leaped.

imp. of Start, v. i. t.

To practice stitching, or needlework.

A kind of hairy wool.

One who stitches; a seamstress.

Needlework; -- in contempt.

The act of one who stitches.

See Stichwort.

An anvil; a stithy.

To forge on an anvil.

The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.

Stews; a brothel.

To stop; to choke.

The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.

A menial attendant.

See Stockade.

A stab; a thrust with a rapier.

Conjectural; able to conjecture.

Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock phrase; a stock response; a stock sermon.

Blind as a stock; wholly blind.

Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.

To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

A broker who deals in stocks.

A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.

One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.

Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.

An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.

To dress in GBs.

A stocking weaver.

Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.