A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.

To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.

A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.

A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.

Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

A body of students.

The state of being a student.

Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as Fundulus catenatus.

Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

In a studied manner.

A student.

The working room of an artist.

Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

To feed gluttonously; to cram.

One who, or that which, stuffs.

The quality of being stuffy.

That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

Stucco.

A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.

A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.

The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.

One who stultifies.

To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.

Silly talk; babbling.

Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling.

Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling.

Foolish; silly.

To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

A trip in walking or running.

One who stumbles.

Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.

A stumbling-block.

In a stumbling manner.

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Having a short, thick tail.

Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.

One who stumps.

The state of being stumpy.

Full of stumps; hard; strong.

The condition of being stunned.

One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship.

imp. p. p. of Sting.

imp. p. p. of Stink.

One who, or that which, stuns.

Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

A contraction of Studding sail.

A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.

Dwarfed.

Stuntedness; brevity.

See 1st Stupe.

A stupid person.

Producing stupefaction; stupefactive. Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.

The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied.

Same as Stupefacient.

Quality of being stupid.

One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

See Stupefy.

Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

To ravish; to debauch.

Violation of chastity by force; rape.

Stupration.

To disturb.

In a sturdy manner.

Quality of being sturdy.

A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviar is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

An order of fishes including the sturgeons.

One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.

See Stirk.

Like or pertaining to the starlings.

Disturbance; annoyance; care.

A corruption of Nasturtion.

To stutter.

The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.

One who stutters; a stammerer.

Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering.

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

See Sty, a boil.

An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.

A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.

See Sty, a boil.

Stygian.

Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.

Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images.

See Stilar.

Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.

To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.

A small poniard; a stiletto.

Bearing one or more styles.

Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.

Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.

Of or pertaining to style in language.

One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.

A stylographic pen.

Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.

Same as Stylographic, 1.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.

Styliform; as, the styloid process.

Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.

An instrument for measuring columns.

Same as Stylommatophora.

A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.