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Stomatoscope

An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

Stomodaeum

A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.

Stomp

To stamp with the foot.

Stone

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

Stonebird

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

Stonebow

A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

Stonebrash

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

Stonechat

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

Stonecutter

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

Stonehenge

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.

Stoner

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

Stoneroot

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

Stonerunner

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

Stoneware

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

Stoneweed

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

Stonework

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

Stonewort

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

Stoniness

The quality or state of being stony.

Stont

3d pers. sing. present of Stand.

Stony

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.

Stood

imp. p. p. of Stand.

Stook

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

Stool

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

Stoolball

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

Stoop

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

Stoor

To rise in clouds, as dust.

Stop

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

Stop-gap

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

Stop-over Stopover

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.

Stopcock

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.

Stope

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

Stoping

The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

Stoppage

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.

Stopped

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

Stopper

To close or secure with a stopper.

Stopping-out

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.

Stopple

To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.

Stopship

A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

Stor Stoor

Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.

Storage

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

Storax

Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

Store

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

Stored

Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.

Storehouse

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.

Storekeeper

A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.

Storer

One who lays up or forms a store.

Storeroom

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

Storeship

A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.

Storge

Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.

Storier

A relater of stories; an historian.

Storify

To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.

Stork

Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (Ciconia nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Stormcock

The missel thrush. The fieldfare. The green woodpecker.

Stormglass

A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

Storminess

The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.

Stormwind

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.

Stormy

Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.

Storthing

The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

Story

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

Story-teller

One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.

Story-telling

Being accustomed to tell stories. The act or practice of telling stories.

Storybook

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

Stound

A vessel for holding small beer.

Stoup

A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.

Stour

Tall; strong; stern.

Stout

Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.

stout

A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is Guinness' stout.

Stoutish

Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

Stoutly

In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

Stoutness

The state or quality of being stout.

Stove

To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.

Stovepipe

Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.

Stover

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

Stovine Stovain

A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction. Called also amylocaine hydrochloride. Chemically it is the hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol.

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