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.

Obstinate; sullen; haughty.

An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.

A stoma.

A medicine for diseases of the mouth.

Having or producing stomata.

Inflammation of the mouth.

A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.

Same as Stomodaeum.

Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa. One of the Stomatoda.

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

Scientific study or knowledge of the mouth.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

Plastic surgery of the mouth.

One of the Stomatopoda.

Same as Stomapoda.

Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda.

An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

Having a stoma.

A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.

To stamp with the foot.

Same as stamping ground. See under stamp.

To stand.

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

As blind as a stone; completely blind.

Cold as a stone.

As dead as a stone.

As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.

Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Stallion.

As still as a stone.

The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.

A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

See Steinbock.

A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. The wheatear. The blue titmouse.

A distemper in hawks.

A sort of tree.

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

Hewing or dressing stone.

See Stannel.

The ring plover, or dotterel.

An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.

The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.

The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.

Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

In a stony manner.

The quality or state of being stony.

Stony.

3d pers. sing. present of Stand.

Stands.

Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

imp. p. p. of Stand.

To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.