See Story.

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

Historical.

Told in a story.

A relater of stories; an historian.

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

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.

Having a bill like that of the stork.

To raise a tempest.

Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms.

The missel thrush. The fieldfare. The green woodpecker.

The storm petrel.

Abounding with storms.

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.

In a stormy manner.

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

a. n. from Storm, v.

Without storms.

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

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.

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

p. p. of Starve.

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

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

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

One who writes short stories, as for magazines.

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

A horse.

See Stoat.

A vessel for holding small beer.

A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.

Tall; strong; stern.

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

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.

Having a brave heart; courageous.

Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

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

The state or quality of being stout.

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

A hothouse.

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

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

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.

To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.

The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

A place into which rubbish is put.

A windlass. A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.

A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

See Stour, n.

Strabismus.

An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.

An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.

Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.

Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads.

The act of straggling.

One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.

a. n. from Straggle, v.

The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.

To straighten.

Having straight joints. Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

Having straight lines.

Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.

Straight in form or upright in position; erect.

Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.

A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.

A variant of Straiten.

One who, or that which, straightens.

Straightway.

Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. In a straightforward manner.

An orthoceras.

A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

A variant of Straitness.

Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.

Straightway.

A strake.

The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

Capable of being strained.

Violently.

Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

One who strains.

a. n. from Strain.

Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.

To put to difficulties.

Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.

Bound with stays.

Same as Strait-jacket.

To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.

A streak.

Pupil of the eye.

To dash down; to beat.

A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.

A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.

Strawy; consisting of straw.

A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.

Stramonium.

To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

Strong.

To be estranged or alienated.

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

To estrange; to alienate.

To be strangled, or suffocated.

Capable of being strangled.

One who, or that which, strangles.

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

Strangulated.

Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

Of or pertaining to strangury.

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

The guillemot.

To beat or chastise with a strap.

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.

To punish or torture by the strappado.