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.

One of the Stomapoda.

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.

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.

To stum.

The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

One who stoops.

a. n. from Stoop.

To rise in clouds, as dust.

The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

the act or privilege of stopping over; stopping at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; the temporary interruption of one's journey.

A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

To excavate in the form of stopes. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

Stepped; gone; advanced.

The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

Not to be stopped.

The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).

To close or secure with a stopper.

Material for filling a cavity.

A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.