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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.

Styx

The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

Suability

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

Suable

Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.

Suant

Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even.

Suasible

Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.

Suasion

The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.

Suasive

Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.

Suasory

Tending to persuade; suasive.

Suave

Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.

Sub

A subordinate; a subaltern.

Sub-base

The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

Sub-bass

The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.

Subacetate

An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

Subacid

Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices. A substance moderately acid.

Subacromial

Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.

Subaction

The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.

Subaerial

Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.

Subagent

A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.

Subah

A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.

Subahdar

A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.

Subaid

To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.

Subalpine

Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.

Subaltern

A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.

Subalternate

A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2.

Subalternation

The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

Subapennine

Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.

Subapical

Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.

Subaqueous Subaquatic

Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

Subarctic

Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.

Subarration

The ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.

Subarytenoid

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

Subastral

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.

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