Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 149
Stannyel (n.) Alt. of Stanyel.
Stanyel (n.) See Stannel.
Stant (3d pers. sing. pres.) Alt. of Stont.
Stont (3d pers. sing. pres.) Stands.
Stanzas (n. pl. ) of Stanza.
Stanza (n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
Stanza (n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Stanzaic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.
Stapedial (a.) Of or pertaining to stapes.
Stapelia (n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion.
Stapes (n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
Staphyline (a.) Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
Staphylinid (n.) Any rove beetle.
Staphyloma (n.) A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.
Staphylomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to staphyloma; affected with staphyloma.
Staphyloplasty (n.) The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost.
Staphyloraphy (n.) Alt. of Staphylorrhaphy
Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.
Staphylotomy (n.) The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.
Staple (n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
Staple (n.) The principal
commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a
country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the
Staple (n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
Staple (n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
Staple (n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
Staple (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
Staple (n.) A small pit.
Staple (n.) A district granted to an abbey.
Staple (a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
Staple (a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
Staple (a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
Staple (a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
stapled (imp. & p. p.) of Staple.
stapling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Staple.
Staple (v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
Stapler (n.) A dealer in staple goods.
Stapler (n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
Star (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
Star (n.) The polestar; the north star.
Star (n.) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.
Star (n.) That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.
Star (n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
Star (n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
Star (n.) A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.
Starred (imp. & p. p.) of Star.
Starring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Star.
Star (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.
Star (v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.
Star-blind (a.) Half blind.
Starboard (v. t.) That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port.
Starboard (a.) Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard quarter; starboard tack.
Starboard (v. t.) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.
Starblowlines (n. pl.) The men in the starboard watch.
Starch (a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
Starch (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
Starch (n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Starched (imp. & p. p.) of Starch.
Starching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starch.
Starch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641.
Starched (a.) Stiffened with starch.
Starched (a.) Stiff; precise; formal.
Starchedness (n.) The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.
Starcher (n.) One who starches.
Starchly (adv.) In a starched or starch manner.
Starchness (n.) Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
Starchwort (n.) The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.
Starchy (a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
Starcraft (n.) Astrology.
Star-crossed (a.) Not favored by the stars; ill-fated.
Stare (n.) The starling.
Stared (imp. & p. p.) of Stare.
Staring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stare.
Stare (v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
Stare (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
Stare (v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
Stare (n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
Starer (n.) One who stares, or gazes.
Starf (imp.) Starved.
Starfinch (n.) The European redstart.
Starfish (n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
Starfish (n.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.
Stargaser (n.) One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
Stargaser (n.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and A. guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward.
Stargasing (n.) The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.
Stargasing (n.) Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction.
Stargazer (n.) 看星星的人；占星師；天文學家；夢想家；空論家 [Informal] An astronomer or astrologer.
Stargazer (n.) [Australian informal] A horse that turns its head when galloping.
‘The small sail at the top of a mast was called a stargazer, and so is a Mediterranean fish with eyes set at the top of its head, and a horse that holds its head back.’
Stargazer (n.) A fish of warm seas that normally lies buried in the sand with only its eyes, which are on top of the head, protruding.
A widely distributed fish that has electric organs (family Uranoscopidae: several genera). and ('sand stargazer') a western Atlantic fish (family Dactyloscopidae: several genera).
Stargazer (n.) A person who stargazes, as an astronomer or astrologer.
Stargazer (n.) A daydreamer.
Stargazer (n.) An impractical idealist.
Stargazer (n.) Any of several marine fishes of the family Uranoscopidae, having the eyes at the top of the head.
Stargazer (n.) Sand stargazer.
Word related to Stargazer: Astronomer, astrologer, daydreamer.
Staringly (adv.) With a staring look.
Stark (a.) Stiff; rigid. -- Chaucer.
Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. -- Spenser.
His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. -- Spenser.
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. -- Shak.
The north is not so stark and cold. -- B. Jonson.
Stark (a.) Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.]
Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. -- B. Jonson.
Stark (a.) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
A stark, moss-trooping Scot. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. -- Beau. & Fl.
Stark (a.) Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours" [i. e., in fierce combats]. -- Chaucer.
Stark (a.) Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. -- Collier.
Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. -- Selden.
Stark (adv.) Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. -- Shak.
Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. -- Fuller.
Stark naked, Wholly naked; quite bare.
Strip your sword stark naked. -- Shak.
Note: According to Professor Skeat, "stark-naked" is derived from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
Stark (v. t.) To stiffen. [R.]
If horror have not starked your limbs. -- H. Taylor.
Stark (adv.) Completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
Stark (a.) Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)].
Stark (a.) Severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere, severe, stark, stern].
Stark (a.) Complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
Stark (a.) Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated].
Stark (a.) Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark].
Stark -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 6332
Housing Units (2000): 2725
Land area (2000): 287.937834 sq. miles (745.755535 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.275745 sq. miles (0.714176 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 288.213579 sq. miles (746.469711 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.097764 N, 89.802300 W
Headwords:
Stark
Stark, IL
Stark County
Stark County, IL
Stark -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 378098
Housing Units (2000): 157024
Land area (2000): 576.136229 sq. miles (1492.185919 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.773125 sq. miles (12.362336 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 580.909354 sq. miles (1504.548255 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.819408 N, 81.383599 W
Headwords:
Stark
Stark, OH
Stark County
Stark County, OH
Stark -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 22636
Housing Units (2000): 9722
Land area (2000): 1338.162493 sq. miles (3465.824800 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.300379 sq. miles (5.957955 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1340.462872 sq. miles (3471.782755 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.852248 N, 102.712489 W
Headwords:
Stark
Stark, ND
Stark County
Stark County, ND
Stark, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 106
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.174053 sq. miles (0.450794 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.174053 sq. miles (0.450794 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68025
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.689592 N, 95.143573 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66775
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stark, KS
Stark
Starkly (adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.
Its onward force too starkly pent In figure, bone, and lineament. -- Emerson.
Starkly (adv.) In a stark manner; "He was starkly unable to achieve coherence".
Starkly (adv.) In sharp outline or contrast; "the black walls rose starkly from the snow".
Starkly (adv.) In a blunt manner; "in starkly realistic terms".
Starkness (n.) The quality or state of being stark.
Starkness (n.) The quality of being complete or utter or extreme; "the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections" [syn: starkness, absoluteness, utterness].
Starkness (n.) An extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room" [syn: bareness, starkness].
Starless (a.) Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night. -- Milton.
Starless (a.) Not starry; having no stars or starlike objects; "dark starless nights" [ant: starry].
Starlight (n.) The light given by the stars.
Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. -- Milton.