Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 159
Sticktail (n.) The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]
Stick-tight (n.) (Bot.) Any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes. -- RHUD
Stick-tight (n.) A seed from a sticktight [1].
Sticky (a.) 黏的；塗有黏膠物質的；泥濘的；【口】濕熱的；【口】棘手的，麻煩的 Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk. -- Bacon.
Sticky (a.) Having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: {gluey}, {glutinous}, {gummy}, {mucilaginous}, {pasty}, {sticky}, {viscid}, {viscous}].
Sticky (a.) Moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time."
Sticky (a.) Hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: {muggy}, {steamy}, {sticky}].
Sticky (a.) Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" [syn: {awkward}, {embarrassing}, {sticky}, {unenviable}].
Sticky (a.) Covered with an adhesive material.
Stiction (n.) The force required to cause one body in contact with another to begin to move.
Stiddy (n.) An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Stiff (a.) 硬的；挺的；（手足等）僵直的，僵硬的[（+with）]；不易移動的，不靈活的 Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky. -- Milton.
Stiff (a.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Stiff (a.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Stiff (a.) Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument. -- Jer. Taylor.
A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws. -- Dryden.
Stiff (a.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved. -- Addison.
Stiff (a.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. [Obs. or Colloq.] "This is stiff news." -- Shak.
Stiff (a.) (Naut.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to {crank}. -- Totten.
Stiff (a.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. [Slang]
{Stiff neck}, A condition of the neck such that the head can not be moved without difficulty and pain.
Syn: Rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected; starched; rigorous.
Stiff (adv.) 僵硬地；堅硬地；【口】完全地，極其 Extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff."
Stiff (adv.) In a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" [syn: {stiffly}, {stiff}].
Stiff (a.) Not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge."
Stiff (a.) Powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze."
Stiff (a.) Rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: {starchy}, {stiff}, {buckram}].
Stiff (a.) Having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink" [syn: {potent}, {strong}, {stiff}] [ant: {impotent}].
Stiff (a.) Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: {firm}, {steadfast}, {steady}, {stiff}, {unbendable}, {unfaltering}, {unshakable}, {unwavering}].
Stiff (a.) Incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck" [syn: {rigid}, {stiff}].
Stiff (a.) Very drunk [syn: {besotted}, {blind drunk}, {blotto}, {crocked}, {cockeyed}, {fuddled}, {loaded}, {pie-eyed}, {pissed}, {pixilated}, {plastered}, {slopped}, {sloshed}, {smashed}, {soaked}, {soused}, {sozzled}, {squiffy}, {stiff}, {tight}, {wet}].
Stiff (n.) An ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff."
Stiff (n.) The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: {cadaver}, {corpse}, {stiff}, {clay}, {remains}].
Stiff-backed (a.) Obstinate. -- J. H. Newman.
Stiff-backed (a.) Having a stiff back; "the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling."
Stiffened (imp. & p. p.) of Stiffen.
Stiffening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiffen.
Stiffen (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -- Shak.
Stiffen (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.
Stiffen (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. -- Dryden.
The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. -- Dryden.
Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. -- Dryden.
Stiffen (v.) Become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room" [ant: loose, loosen, relax].
Stiffen (v.) Make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine" [ant: loose, loosen].
Stiffen (v.) Restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations" [syn: stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrain].
Stiffener (n.) One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Stiffener (n.) Material used for stiffening something.
Stiffening (n.) Act or process of making stiff.
Stiffening (n.) Something used to make anything stiff.
Stiffening order (Com.), A permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
Stiffening (n.) The act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance."
Stiffening (n.) The process of becoming stiff or rigid [syn: stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification].
Stiff-hearted (a.) Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. -- Ezek. ii. 4.
Stiffish (a.) Somewhat stiff.
Stiffly (adv.) In a stiff manner.
Stiffly (adv.) In a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" [syn: stiffly, stiff].
Stiffly (adv.) In a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: rigidly, stiffly, bolt].
Stiff-necked (a.) Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. -- Ex. xxxii. 9.
Stiff-necked (a.) Haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin."
Stiff-neckedness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
Stiffness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. -- South.
Stiffness (n.) The physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend.
Stiffness (n.) The property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck."
Stiffness (n.) Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity."
Stiffness (n.) The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness].
Stiffness (n.) Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness].
Compare: Ruddy
Ruddy (a.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. -- Milton.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies. -- Lam. iv. 7.
Ruddy (a.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. -- Dryden.
Ruddy duck (Zool.), An American duck ({Erismatura+rubida"> Ruddy duck (Zool.), An American duck ({Erismatura rubida) having a broad bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks. The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the back; grayish below. Called also dunbird, dundiver, ruddy diver, stifftail, spinetail, hardhead, sleepy duck, fool duck, spoonbill, etc.
Ruddy plover (Zool.) The sanderling.
Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]
Stiff-tailed (a.) (Zool.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
Stiff-tailed (a.) Having a stiff tail.
Stifle (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
Stifle bone, A small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.
Stifled (imp. & p. p.) of Stifle.
Stifling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stifle.
Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. -- Dryden.
I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. -- Swift.
Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. -- Sir I. Newton.
Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. -- Waterland.
Stifle (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
You shall stifle in your own report. -- Shak.
Stifle (n.) Joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee [syn: stifle, knee].
Stifle (v.) Conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" [syn: smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress].
Stifle (v.) Smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity" [syn: stifle, dampen] [ant: excite, stimulate].
Stifle (v.) Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke].
Stifle (v.) Be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate].
Stifled (a.) Stifling.
The close and stifled study. -- Hawthorne.
Stifled (a.) Held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed].
Stifler (n.) One who, or that which, stifles.
Stifler (n.) (Mil.) See Camouflet.
Stifler (n.) A person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop" [syn: stifler, smotherer].
Stigmas (n. pl. ) of Stigma.
Stigmata (n. pl. ) of Stigma.
Stigma (n.) [C] 恥辱，汙名；【植】柱頭；眼點；【動】氣門；點斑；眼點 A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
Stigma (n.) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
The blackest stigma that can be fastened upon him. -- Bp. Hall.
All such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery. -- Sir G. Buck.
Stigma (n.) (Bot.) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of {Stamen} and of {Flower}.
Stigma (n.) (Anat.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
Stigma (n.) (Pathol.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
Stigma (n.) (Zool.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
Stigma (n.) (Zool.) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of {Scorpion}.
Stigma (n.) (Zool.) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
Stigma (n.) (Geom.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
Stigma (n. pl.) (R. C. Ch.) Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
Stigma (n.) The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil.
Stigma (n.) A symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"-- Genesis [syn: {mark}, {stigma}, {brand}, {stain}].
Stigma (n.) An external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod.
Stigma (n.) A skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease.
Stigmaria (n.) (Paleon.) The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Stigmata (n.) pl. of Stigma.
Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] -- Bullokar.
Stigmatic (n.) A person who is marked or deformed by nature. -- Shak. Stigmatic
Stigmatic (n.) 【宗】有聖痕的人 A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
Stigmatic (a.) Alt. of Stigmatical.
Stigmatical (a.) 不名譽的；有烙印的 Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
Stigmatical (a.) Impressing with infamy or reproach. [R.]
Stigmatical (a.) (Bot., Anat., etc) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, That science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.
Stigmatic (a.) Pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata.
Stigmatic (a.) Pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) [syn: anastigmatic, stigmatic].
Stigmatic (a.) Not astigmatic [syn: anastigmatic, stigmatic] [ant: astigmatic].
Stigmatic (n.) A person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) [syn: stigmatic, stigmatist].
Stigmatically (adv.) With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.
Stigmatist (n.) One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See {Stigma}, 8.
Stigmatist (n.) A person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) [syn: {stigmatic}, {stigmatist}].
Stigmatization (n.) 使人蒙上汙名；【古】加烙印；【宗】聖痕顯現 The act of stigmatizing.
Stigmatization (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The production of stigmata upon the body. See {Stigma}, 8.
Stigmatization (n.) The act of stigmatizing [syn: {stigmatization}, {stigmatisation}, {branding}].
Stigmatized (imp. & p. p.) of Stigmatize.
Stigmatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stigmatize.
Stigmatize (v. t.) 給……帶來恥辱；汙辱；指責；指稱；【宗】使產生聖傷痕 To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness. -- Milton.
Stigmatize (v. t.) To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. -- Addison.
Stigmatize (v.) To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: {stigmatize}, {stigmatise}, {brand}, {denounce}, {mark}].
Stigmatize (v.) Mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress" [syn: {stigmatize}, {stigmatise}].
Stigmatose (a.) (Bot.) Same as Stigmatic.
Stigonomancy (n.) Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.
Stike (n.) Stanza. [Obs.] -- Sackville.
Stilar (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of a dial. [Written also stylar.]
Stilbene (n.) (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.
Stilbite (n.) (Min.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.
Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style. -- Moxon.
Stile (n.) Mode of composition. See Style. [Obs.]
May I not write in such a stile as this? -- Bunyan.
Stile (n.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way. -- Shak.
Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle. -- Bunyan.
Stile (n.) (Arch.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
Note: In an ordinary door the principal upright pieces are called stiles, the subordinate upright pieces mullions, and the crosspieces rails. In wainscoting the principal pieces are sometimes called stiles, even when horizontal.
Hanging stile, Pulley stile. See under Hanging, and Pulley.
Stile (n.) An upright that is a member in a door or window frame.
Stilet (n.) A stiletto. [R.]
Stilet (n.) (Surg.) See Stylet, 2.
Stilettos (n. pl. ) of Stiletto.
Stiletto (n.) A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
Stiletto (n.) A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
Stiletto (n.) A beard trimmed into a pointed form. [Obs.]
The very quack of fashions, the very he that Wears a stiletto on his chin. -- Ford.
Stilettoed (imp. & p. p.) of Stiletto.
Stilettoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiletto.
Stiletto (v. t.) To stab or kill with a stiletto. -- Bacon.
Still (a.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. "Still as any stone." -- Chaucer.
Still (a.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still. -- Addison.
Still (a.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere. "When all the woods are still." -- Milton.
Still (a.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. "A still small voice." -- 1 Kings xix. 12.
Still (a.) Constant; continual. [Obs.]
By still practice learn to know thy meaning. -- Shak.
Still (a.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
Still life. (Fine Arts) (a) Inanimate objects.
Still life. (Fine Arts) (b) (Painting) The class or style of painting which represents inanimate objects, as fruit, flowers, dead game, etc.
Syn: Quiet; calm; noiseless; serene; motionless; inert; stagnant.
Still (n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight. [Poetic]
Still (n.) A steep hill or ascent. [Obs.] -- W. Browne.
Still (adv.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
It hath been anciently reported, and is still received. -- Bacon.
Still (adv.) In the future as now and before.
Hourly joys be still upon you! -- Shak.
Still (a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private. -- Addison.
Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little. -- Boyle.
Still (a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. -- Shak.