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Stufa

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

Stuff

To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Stuffer

One who, or that which, stuffs.

Stuffing

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

Stuffy

Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

Stull

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

Stulm

A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

Stulp

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

Stultification

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

Stultify

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

Stultiloquent

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

Stum

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

Stumble

A trip in walking or running.

Stump

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Stumpage

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.

Stumpy

Full of stumps; hard; strong.

Stun

The condition of being stunned.

Stundist

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.

Stung

imp. p. p. of Sting.

Stunk

imp. p. p. of Stink.

Stunner

One who, or that which, stuns.

Stunning

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

Stunt

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

Stupefacient

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

Stupefaction

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

Stupefier

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

Stupefy

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

Stupendous

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

Stupeous

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

Stupid

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

Stupidity

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

Stupor

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

Stupose

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

Sturdy

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

Sturgeon

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.

Sturiones

An order of fishes including the sturgeons.

Sturionian

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

Sturnoid

Like or pertaining to the starlings.

Sturt

Disturbance; annoyance; care.

Stutter

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

Sty

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

Styca

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

Stycerin

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

Stye

See Sty, a boil.

Stygian

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

Stylagalmaic

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

Stylaster

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

Style

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

Stylet

A small poniard; a stiletto.

Styliform

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

Stylish

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

Stylist

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

Stylistic

Of or pertaining to style in language.

Stylite

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.

Stylobate

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

Styloglossal

Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.

Stylographic

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

Stylography

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

Stylohyal

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

Stylohyoid

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

Styloid

Styliform; as, the styloid process.

Stylomastoid

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

Stylomaxillary

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.

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.

Stylopodium

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

Stylops

A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

Stylus

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

Styphnic

Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

Stypticity

The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.

Styracin

A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.

Styrax

A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and Styrax Benzoin yields benzoin.

Styrolene

An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.

Styrone

A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic alcohol or styryl alcohol.

Styryl

A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.

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