Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 144
Squirter (n.) One who, or that which, squirts.
Squirter (n.) Plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water [syn: water pistol, water gun, squirt gun, squirter].
Squiry (n.) The body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy. [Obs.]
The flower of chivalry and squiry. -- Ld. Berners.
Squitch grass () (Bot.) Quitch grass.
Compare: Squeteague
Squeteague (n.) [From the North American Indian name.] (Zool.) An American sciaenoid fish ({Cynoscion regalis), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and much valued as a food fish. It is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. Called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. The spotted squeteague ({Cynoscion nebulosus) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called also spotted weakfish and squit, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon. See also under squitee.
Squitee (n.) (Zool.) The squeteague; -- called also squit.
Sridevi Kapoor (n.) 詩麗黛瑋 全名叫詩麗黛瑋·阿雅潘，1963年8月13日－2018年2月24日)，她是活躍於二十世紀末期的印度演員，著名的印度影后。她曾經4度得到《印度電影觀眾──最佳女演員獎》。(born Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan; 13 August 1963 – 24 February 2018) was an Indian film actress and producer who starred in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada films. Regarded as Bollywood's first female "superstar", she was the recipient of five Filmfare Awards. Sridevi ranked amongst the highest paid actors in the 1980s and 1990s and is considered to be the most popular actress of the era.
Sridevi started her career as a child artist in M. A. Thirumugam’s 1969 devotional film Thunaivan at the age of four, and continued to act as a child artist in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her Bollywood debut as a child artist in the hit Julie (1975) and played her first adult role at age 13 with the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu (1976). Subsequently, Sridevi established herself as one of the leading actresses of Tamil and Telugu cinema, with roles such as 16 Vayathinile (1977), Sigappu Rojakkal (1978), Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980), Meendum Kokila (1981), Premabhishekam (1981), Moondram Pirai (1982), Aakhari Poratam (1988), Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari (1990) and Kshana Kshanam (1991).
Sridevi made her Bollywood debut in 1979 with the starring role in the drama film Solva Sawan, but gained wider attention with the 1983 production Himmatwala. She went on appear in a string of commercially successful films such as Mawaali (1983), Tohfa (1984), Naya Kadam (1984), Maqsad (1984), Masterji (1985), Nazrana (1987), Mr. India (1987), Waqt Ki Awaz (1988) and Chandni (1989). She also received critical acclaim for commercially successful movies such as Sadma (1983), Nagina (1986), ChaalBaaz (1989), Lamhe (1991), Khuda Gawah (1992), Gumrah (1993), Laadla (1994) and Judaai (1997). She returned to the film industry in 2012 with the ₹780 million grossing comedy drama English Vinglish, after a gap of 15 years. She then starred in her 300th film role in the 2017 thriller Mom. Sridevi earned critical acclaim for her performances in both films.
In 2013, the Government of India awarded Sridevi the Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian honor. She was also voted 'India's Greatest Actress in 100 Years' in a CNN-IBN national poll conducted in 2013 on the occasion of the centenary of Indian cinema. She was married to the film producer Boney Kapoor, with whom she had two children. Sridevi died of a cardiac arrest in February 2018.
Ceylonese (a.) 錫蘭的 Of or pertaining to Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan. -- n. sing. & pl. 錫蘭人 A native or natives of Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan.
Compare: Ceylon
Ceylon (n.) 錫蘭（現稱斯里蘭卡） The former name of an island republic in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of India, now called Sri Lanka. It is an independent nation with an area of 25,332 sq. mi. and a population of about 14 million people.
Syn: Sri Lanka.
Ceylon (n.) An island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India.
Ceylon (n.) A republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon].
Sri Lanka (n.) 斯里蘭卡（國名） A republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon].
Sri Lanka (Proper noun) An island country off the southeastern coast of India; population 20,700,000 (estimated 2015); languages, Sinhalese (official), Tamil; capital, Colombo.
Former name (until 1972) Ceylon
The island was ruled by a strong native dynasty from the 12th century but was successively dominated by the Portuguese, Dutch, and British from the 16th century; it was finally annexed by the British in 1815. A Commonwealth of Nations state from 1948, the country became an independent republic in 1972. Civil war between the government and Tamil separatists began in the 1980s and ended with a government victory in 2009.
Sri Lankan (a.) 斯里蘭卡的; 斯里蘭卡人的 Of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture; "Sri Lankan beaches"; "Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels" [syn: Sri Lankan, Ceylonese].
Sri Lankan (n.) 斯里蘭卡人 A native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka.
Stabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Stab.
Stabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stab.
Stab (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
Stab (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
Stab (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
Stab (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
Stab (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
Stab (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
Stab (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
Stabat Mater () A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).
Stabber (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.
Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.
Stabbing (n.) Stab的動詞現在分詞、動名詞；持刀傷人事件 An act or instance of wounding or killing someone with a knife.
‘The fatal stabbings of four women.’
Stabbing (a.) 刺痛的；令人傷心的；尖利的；劇烈的 (Of a pain or sensation) Sharp and sudden.
‘I felt a stabbing pain in my chest.’
Stabbingly (adv.) By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.
Stabbingly (adv.) (In British) In a stabbing way.
// Stabbingly painful.
Stabiliment (a.) The act of making firm; firm support; establishment. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade. -- Derham.
Stabilitate (v. t.) To make stable; to establish. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Stability (n.) [U] 穩定，穩定性；安定；堅定；恆心 The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
Stability (n.) Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
Stability (n.) Fixedness; -- as opposed to {fluidity}.
Since fluidness and stability are contrary qualities. -- Boyle.
Syn: Steadiness; stableness; constancy; immovability; firmness.
Stability (n.) The quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast [syn: {stability}, {stableness}] [ant: {instability}, {unstableness}].
Stability (n.) A stable order (especially of society) [ant: {instability}].
Stability (n.) The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds" [syn: {constancy}, {stability}] [ant: {changefulness}, {inconstancy}].
Stability (n.) [ U ] (C1) 穩定；穩固 A situation in which something is not likely to move or change.
// A period of political stability.
Stable (a.) 穩定的，安定的，堅固的，堅定的 Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
Stable (a.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
Stable (a.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
Stable (v. t.) To fix; to establish.
Stable (n.) 馬房，牛棚 A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
Stabled (imp. & p. p.) of Stable.
Stabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stable.
Stable (v. t.) 趕入馬房 To put or keep in a stable.
Stable (v. i.) 被關在馬廄 To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Stableboy (n.) 馬夫；馬童；在馬舍工作的年輕工人 Alt. of Stableman
Stableman (n.) 馬夫A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
Stableness (n.) The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
Stabler (n.) A stable keeper.
Stable stand (n.) The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer.
Stabling (n.) 馬舍設備 The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
Stabling (n.) A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.
Stabling (n.) [ U ] 馬廄 A stable (= building for horses).
Stablish (v. t.) 使穩固；使安定 To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix. [Obs.] -- 2 Sam. vii. 13.
Stablishment (n.) 建立，設立；建立的機構 Establishment. [Obs.]
Stably (adv.) 安定地；穩固地；平穩地 In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.
Stabulation (n.) The act of stabling or housing beasts. [Obs.]
Stabulation (n.) A place for lodging beasts; a stable. [Obs.]
Staccato (a.) (Mus.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
Staccato (a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism]. -- G. Eliot.
Staccato (adv.) Separating the notes; in music; "play this staccato, please" [ant: legato].
Staccato (a.) (Music) Marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato command"; "staccato notes" [syn: staccato, disconnected] [ant: legato, smooth].
Stachel (m.) (Genitive Stachels, plural Stacheln) (德) 牆頭釘；大釘 Spike, sting, barb, prick.
Stack (n.) 堆棧，堆積，堆疊，堆，大量，書庫，槍架，煙囪 A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. -- Cowper.
Stack (n.) Hence: An orderly pile of any type of object, indefinite in quantity; -- used especially of piles of wood. A stack is usually more orderly than a pile.
Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height. -- Bacon.
Stack (n.) Specifically:A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. [Eng.]
Stack (n.) Hence: A large quantity; as, a stack of cash. [Informal]
Stack (n.) (Arch.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
Stack (n.) (Arch.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
Stack (n.) (Computer programming) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
Stack (n.) (Computer programming) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
Stack (n.) pl. The section of a library containing shelves which hold books less frequently requested.
Stack of arms (Mil.), A number of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.
To blow one's stacks, To become very angry and lose one's self-control, and especially to display one's fury by shouting.
Stacked (imp. & p. p.) of Stack.
Stacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stack.
Stack (v. t.) 堆積，堆滿，做牌 To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
Stack (v. t.) Specifically: To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item; as, to stack the papers neatly on the desk; to stack the bricks.
Stack (v. t.) To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage; as, to stack a deck of cards; to stack a jury with persons prejudiced against the defendant.
To stack arms (Mil.), To set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.
Stack (n.) An orderly pile.
Stack (n.) (Often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Stack (n.) A list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down list, push-down stack, stack].
Stack (n.) A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated [syn: smokestack, stack].
Stack (n.) A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down storage, push-down store, stack].
Stack (v.) Load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes."
Stack (v.) Arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: stack, pile, heap].
Stack (v.) Arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards."
Stack (n.) The set of things a person has to do in the future. One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack. ?I'm afraid I've got real work to do, so this'll have to be pushed way down on my stack.? ?I haven't done it yet because every time I pop my stack something new gets pushed.? If you are interrupted several times in the middle of a conversation, ?My stack overflowed? means ?I forget what we were talking about.? The implication is that more items were pushed onto the stack than could be remembered, so the least recent items were lost. The usual physical example of a stack is to be found in a cafeteria: a pile of plates or trays sitting on a spring in a well, so that when you put one on the top they all sink down, and when you take one off the top the rest spring up a bit. See also push and pop.
(The Art of Computer Programming, second edition, vol. 1, p. 236) says:
Many people who realized the importance of stacks and queues independently have given other names to these structures: stacks have been called push-down lists, reversion storages, cellars, nesting stores, piles, last-in-first-out (?LIFO?) lists, and even yo-yo lists!
The term ?stack? was originally coined by Edsger Dijkstra, who was quite proud of it.
Stack
FILO
last-in first-out
LIFO
(See below for synonyms) A data structure for storing items which are to be accessed in last-in first-out order.
The operations on a stack are to create a new stack, to "push" a new item onto the top of a stack and to "pop" the top item off. Error conditions are raised by attempts to pop an empty stack or to push an item onto a stack which has no room for further items (because of its implementation).
Most processors include support for stacks in their instruction set architectures. Perhaps the most common use of stacks is to store subroutine arguments and return addresses. This is usually supported at the machine code level either directly by "jump to subroutine" and "return from subroutine" instructions or by auto-increment and auto-decrement addressing modes, or both. These allow a contiguous area of memory to be set aside for use as a stack and use either a special-purpose register or a general purpose register, chosen by the user, as a stack pointer.
The use of a stack allows subroutines to be recursive since each call can have its own calling context, represented by a stack frame or activation record. There are many other uses. The programming language Forth uses a data stack in place of variables when possible.
Although a stack may be considered an object by users, implementations of the object and its access details differ. For example, a stack may be either ascending (top of stack is at highest address) or descending. It may also be "full" (the stack pointer points at the top of stack) or "empty" (the stack pointer points just past the top of stack, where the next element would be pushed). The full/empty terminology is used in the Acorn Risc Machine and possibly elsewhere.
In a list-based or functional language, a stack might be implemented as a linked list where a new stack is an empty list, push adds a new element to the head of the list and pop splits the list into its head (the popped element) and tail (the stack in its modified form).
At MIT, pdl used to be a more common synonym for stack, and this may still be true. Knuth ("The Art of Computer Programming", second edition, vol. 1, p. 236) says:
Many people who realised the importance of stacks and queues independently have given other names to these structures: stacks have been called push-down lists, reversion storages, cellars, dumps, nesting stores, piles, last-in first-out ("LIFO") lists, and even yo-yo lists!
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Stackage (n.) Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. [R.]
Stackage (n.) A tax on things stacked. [R.] -- Holinshed.
Stacket (n.) (Mil.) A stockade. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Stack-guard (n.) A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
Stacking () a. & n. from Stack.
Stacking band, Stacking belt, A band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack.
Stacking stage, A stage used in building stacks.
Stackstand (n.) A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a staddle[2]; a rickstand.
Stackyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. -- A. Smith.
Stacte (n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax. -- Ex. xxx. 34.
Stacte (n.) (Old Testament) One of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense.
Stacte, () (Heb. nataph), One of the components of the perfume which was offered on the golden altar (Ex. 30:34; R.V. marg., "opobalsamum"). The Hebrew word is from a root meaning "to distil," and it has been by some interpreted as distilled myrrh.
Others regard it as the gum of the storax tree, or rather shrub, the Styrax officinale. "The Syrians value this gum highly, and use it medicinally as an emulcent in pectoral complaints, and also in perfumery."
Staddle (n.) 乾草堆之底部；乾草墊架；支架，承架；保殘的下木 Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout. -- Spenser.
Staddle (n.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain. [Eng.]
Staddle (n.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc. [Eng.]
Staddle (n.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
Note: In America, trees are called staddles from the time that they are three or four years old till they are six or eight inches in diameter, or more. This is also the sense in which the word is used by Bacon and Tusser.
Staddle (v. t.) To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut. [R.] -- Tusser.
Staddle (v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay. [Eng.]
Staddle (n.) A base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked.
Stade (n.) A stadium. -- Donne.
Stade (n.) A landing place or wharf. -- Knight.
Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances. Stadia hairs
Stadia (n. pl. ) of Stadium.
Stadium (n.) [C] 斯塔德（古希臘的長度單位，相當於607-738呎）；體育場，運動場；球場；競技場；【生】期；病期 A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia. -- Dr. W. Smith.
Stadium (n.) Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
Stadium (n.) Hence: A modern structure, with its inclosure, resembling the ancient stadium[2], used for athletic games which are typically played out-of-doors; such stadiums are usually large structures without roofs, though some modern stadiums may have a protective dome overhead. It may be contrasted with the arena, the term commonly used for smaller structures at which indoor games are played.
Stadium (n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
Stadium (n.) A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments [syn: stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium].
Stadtholder (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province. Stadtholderate
Stadtholderate (n.) Alt. of Stadtholdership.
Stadtholdership (n.) The office or position of a stadtholder.
Stafette (n.) An estafet. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Staves (n. pl. ) of Staff
Staffs (n. pl. ) of Staff.
Staffs (n. pl. ) of Staff.
Staff (n.) （全體）職員，（全體）工作人員 [C] [G]；幕僚；參謀人員；參謀機構 [C] [G]；柺杖；棍；棒 [C] A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal. -- Ex. xxxviii. 7.
With forks and staves the felon to pursue. -- Dryden.
Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." -- Piers Plowman.
The boy was the very staff of my age. -- Shak.
He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand. -- Prof. Wilson.
Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, Was broke in twain. -- Shak.
All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them. -- Hayward.
Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Staff (n.) The round of a ladder. [R.]
I ascended at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves. -- Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels).
Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical. -- Dryden.
Staff (n.) (Mus.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
Staff (n.) (Mech.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
Staff (n.) (Sugr.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
Staff (n.) (Mil.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendent or manager; sometimes used for the entire group of employees of an enterprise, excluding the top management; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Jacob's staff (Surv.), A single straight rod or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass.
Staff angle (Arch.), A square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged.
The staff of life, Bread. "Bread is the staff of life." -- Swift.
Staff tree (Bot.), Any plant of the genus Celastrus, mostly climbing shrubs of the northern hemisphere. The American species ({Celastrus scandens) is commonly called bittersweet. See 2d Bittersweet, 3 (b) .
To set up one's staff, To put up one's staff, To set down one's staff or To put down one's staff, To take up one's residence; to lodge. [Obs.]
Staff (n.) (Arch.) Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.
Staff (n.) Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task; "the hospital has an excellent nursing staff"; "the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions."
Staff (n.) A strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose; "he walked with the help of a wooden staff."
Staff (n.) The body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university" [syn: staff, faculty].
Staff (n.) Building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration.
Staff (n.) A rod carried as a symbol.
Staff (n.) (Music) The system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written [syn: staff, stave].
Staff (v.) Provide with staff; "This position is not always staffed."
Staff (v.) Serve on the staff of; "The two men staff the reception desk."
Staves (n.; pl. of Staff.) "Banners, scarves and staves." -- R. Browning. Also, pl. of Stave.
Staffier (n.) An attendant bearing a staff. [Obs.] "Staffiers on foot." -- Hudibras.
Staffish (a.) Stiff; harsh. [Obs.] -- Ascham.
Staffmen (n. pl. ) of Staffman.
Staffman (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.
Stag (n.) (Zool.) The adult male of the red deer ({Cervus elaphus}), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
Stag (n.) (Zool.) The male of certain other species of large deer.