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.

The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean. An eyestalk.

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.

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.

A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.

A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.

Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.

Wet.

See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc.

an inexpensive cigar; same as stogy.

A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.

A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

Of or pertaining to stoichiology.

That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.

Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.

The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.

The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

Stoicism.

To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.

The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.

The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.

One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.

Close; sultry.

A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.

A long, loose garment reaching to the feet.

Having or wearing a stole.

p. p. of Steal.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Same as Stolidity.

A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.

To be angry.

A stomachic.

One who stomachs.

Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.

A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.

Resentment.

Being without a stomach.

Stout; sullen; obstinate.