Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 161
Stinkball (n.) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
Stinker (n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
Stinker (n.) (Zool.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
Stinker (n.) A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git].
Stinker (n.) Anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar).
Stinker (n.) An artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: lemon, stinker].
Stinkhorn (n.) (Bot.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.
Stinkhorn (n.) Any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet" [syn: stinkhorn, carrion fungus].
Stinking () a. & n. from Stink, v.
Stinking badger (Zool.), The teledu.
Stinking cedar (Bot.), The California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida ({Torreya taxifolia).
Stinking (a.) Very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky].
Stinking (a.) Offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented].
Stinkingly (adv.) In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.
Stinkpot (n.) An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.
Stinkpot (n.) A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.
Stinkpot (n.) (Zool.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.
Stinkpot (n.) A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git].
Stinkpot (n.) Small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor [syn: musk turtle, stinkpot].
Stinkstone (n.) (Min.) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.
Compare: Anthraconite
Anthraconite (n.) [See Anthracite.] (Min.) A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.
Stinkweed (n.) (Bot.) Stramonium.
See
Stinkweed (n.) Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America [syn: field pennycress, French weed, fanweed, penny grass, stinkweed, mithridate mustard, Thlaspi arvense].
Stinkwood (n.) (Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Compare: Sanderling
Sanderling (n.) (Zool.) A small gray and brown sandpiper ({Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
Stint
(n.)
(Zool.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of
Europe and
Stint (n.) A phalarope.
Stinted (imp. & p. p.) of Stint.
Stinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stint.
Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. -- Woodward.
She stints them in their meals. -- Law.
Stint (v. t.) To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Stint (v. t.) To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
Stint (v. t.) To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. -- J. H. Walsh.
Stint (v. i.) To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
They can not stint till no thing be left. -- Chaucer.
And stint thou too, I pray thee. -- Shak.
The damsel stinted in her song. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stint (n.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. -- South.
Stint (n.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. -- Cowper.
Stint (n.) An unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary" [syn: stretch, stint].
Stint (n.) Smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper, stint, Erolia minutilla].
Stint (n.) An individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her".
Stint (v.) Subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: scrimp, stint, skimp].
Stint (v.) Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant].
Stint, () Eng. law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may keep upon the common.
Stint, () To use a thing without stint, is to use it without limit.
Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage. [Obs.]
Stintedness (n.) The state of being stinted.
Stinter (n.) One who, or that which, stints.
Stinter (n.) An economizer who stints someone with something
Stintless (a.) Without stint or restraint.
The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. -- Marston.
Stipe (n.) (Bot.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
Stipe (n.) (Bot.) The stalk of a pistil.
Stipe (n.) (Bot.) The trunk of a tree.
Stipe (n.) (Bot.) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
Stipe (n.) Supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap.
Stipel (n.) (Bot.) The stipule of a leaflet. -- Gray.
Stipellate (a.) (Bot.) Having stipels.
Stipend (n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
Stipend (v. t.) To pay by settled wages. [R.]
Stipend (n.) A sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose.
Stipendiarian (a.) Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. -- A. Seward.
Stipendiary (a.) Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation.
His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. -- Knolles.
Stipendiaries (n. pl. ) of Stipendiary.
Stipendiary (n.) One who receives a stipend.
If thou art become A tyrant's vile stipendiary. -- Glover.
Stipendiary (a.) Pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance; "stipendiary funds".
Stipendiary (a.) Receiving or eligible for compensation; "salaried workers"; "a stipendiary magistrate" [syn: compensated, remunerated, salaried, stipendiary].
Stipendiary (a.) For which money is paid; "a paying job"; "remunerative work"; "salaried employment"; "stipendiary services" [syn: compensable, paying(a), remunerative, salaried, stipendiary].
Stipendiary (n.) (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases [syn: stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate].
Stipendiate
(v. t.)
To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. -- Evelyn.
It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. -- I.
Taylor.
Stipendless (a.) Having no stipend.
Stipites (n. pl. ) of Stipes.
Stipes (n.) (Zool.) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
Stipes (n.) (Zool.) An eyestalk.
Stipitate (a.) (Bot.) Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.
Stipitiform (a.) (Bot.) Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.
Stippled (imp. & p. p.) of Stipple.
Stippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stipple.
Stipple (v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. -- Milman.
Stipple (v. t.) To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface. Stipple
Stipple (n.) Alt. of Stippling.
Stippling (n.) (Engraving) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
Stippling (n.) (Paint.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
Stipple (v.) Engrave by means of dots and flicks.
Stipple (v.) Make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink.
Stipple (v.) Apply (paint) in small dots or strokes.
Stipple (v.) Produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees" [syn: stipple, speckle].
Stiptic (a. & n.) (Med.) See Styptic.
Compare: Styptic
Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.]
Styptic weed (Bot.), An American leguminous herb ({Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.
Stipulas (n. pl. ) of Stipula.
Stipulae (n. pl. ) of Stipula.
Stipula (n.) (Bot.) A stipule.
Stipula (n.) (Zool.) A newly sprouted feather. Stipulaceous
Stipulaceous (a.) Alt. of Stipular.
Stipular (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.
Stipulary (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.
Stipulate (a.) (Bot.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
Stipulated (imp. & p. p.) of Stipulate.
Stipulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stipulate.
Stipulate (v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.
Stipulate (v.) Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify].
Stipulate (v.) Give a guarantee or promise of; "They stipulated to release all the prisoners".
Stipulate (v.) Make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force.
Stipulation (n.) (Bot.) 契約；規定；條文 The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
Stipulation (n.) The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
Stipulation (n.) That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.
Stipulation (n.) (Law) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. -- Bouvier. Wharton.
Syn: Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant.
Stipulation (n.) (Law) An agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record; "a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay" [syn: stipulation, judicial admission].
Stipulation (n.) An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation].
Stipulation (n.) A restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement [syn: stipulation, specification].
Stipulation (n.), Contracts. In the Roman law, the contract of stipulation was made in the following manner, namely; the person to whom the promise was to be made, proposed a question to him from whom it was to proceed, fully expressing tho nature and extent of the engagement and, the question so proposed being answered in the affirmative, the obligation was complete.
Stipulation (n.) It was essentially necessary that both parties should speak, (so that a dumb man could not enter into a stipulation) that the person making the promise should answer conformably to the specific question, proposed, without any material interval of time, and with the intention of contracting an obligation.
Stipulation (n.) From the general use of this mode of contracting, the term stipulation has been introduced into common parlance, and, in modern language, frequently refer's to any thing which forms a material article of an agreement; though it is applied more correctly and more conformably to its original meaning to denote the insisting upon and requiring any particular engagement. 2 Evans' Poth. on Oblig. 19.
Stipulation (n.) In this contract the Roman law dispensed with an actual consideration. See, generally, Pothier, Oblig. P. 1, c. 1, s. 1, art. 5.
Stipulation (n.) In the admiralty courts, the first process is frequently to arrest the defendant, and then they take the recognizances or stipulation of certain fide jussors in the nature of bail. 3 Bl. Comm. 108; vide Dunlap's Adm. Practice, Index, h.t.
Stipulation (n.) These stipulations are of three sorts, namely: l. Judicatum solvi, by which the party is absolutely bound to pay such sum as may be adjudged by the court. 2 De judico sisti, by which he is bound to appear from time to time, during the pendency of the suit, and to abide the sentence. 3. De ratio, or De rato, by which he engages to ratify the acts of his proctor: this stipulation is not usual in the admiralty courts of the United States.
Stipulation (n.) The securities are taken in the following manner, namely: 1. Cautio fide jussoria, by sureties. 2. Pignoratitia; by deposit. 3. Juratoria, by oath: this security is given when the party is too poor to find sureties, at the discretion of the court. 4. Aude promissoria, by bare promise: this security is unknown in the admiralty courts of the United States. Hall's Adm. Pr. 12; Dunl. Adm. Pr. 150, 151. See 17 Am. Jur. 51.
Stipulator (n.) [L.] One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.
Stipule (n.) (Bot.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.
Stipule (n.) A small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed.
Stipuled (a.) (Bot.) Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.
Compare: Agitated
Agitated (a.) Troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents.
Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ; wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady.
Agitated (a.) Throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn: Tossing.
Agitated (a.) Physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand.
Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; stirred.]
Stirred (imp. & p. p.) of Stir.
Stirring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stir.
Stir (v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. -- Sir W. Temple.
Stir (v. t.) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. -- Shak.
Stir (v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
Stir not questions of jurisdiction. -- Bacon.
Stir (v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. "To stir men to devotion". -- Chaucer.
An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. -- Shak.
And for her sake some mutiny will stir. -- Dryden.
Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.
Stir (v. i.) To move; to change one's position.
I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. -- Byron.
Stir (v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
All are not fit with them to stir and toil. -- Byron.
The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. -- Merivale.
Stir (v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. -- I. Watts.
Stir (v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] -- Shak.
Stir (n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? -- Denham.
Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. -- Locke.
Stir (n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. -- Sir J. Davies.
Stir (n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Stir (n.) A prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared" [syn: stir, splash].
Stir (n.) Emotional agitation and excitement.
Stir (n.) A rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir].
Stir (v.) Move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil".
Stir (v.) Move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate].
Stir (v.) Stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: stimulate, excite, stir].
Stir (v.) Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir].
Stir (v.) Affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" [syn: touch, stir].
Stir (v.) Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth].
Stir (v.) To begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" [syn: arouse, stir].
Stir (v.) Mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough".
Stirabout (n.) A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
Stiriated (a.) Adorned with pendants like icicles.
Stirious (a.) Resembling icicles. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Stirk (n.) A young bullock or heifer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Stirk (n.) Yearling heifer or bullock.
Stirless (a.) Without stirring; very quiet; motionless. "Lying helpless and stirless." -- Hare.
Stirp (n.) Stock; race; family. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.
Stirpes (n. pl. ) of Stirps.
Stirps (n.) (Law) Stock; race; family. -- Blackstone.
Stirps (n.) (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
STIRPES, () descents. The root, stem, or stock of a tree. Figuratively, it signifies, in law, that person from whom a family is descended, and also the kindred or family.
STIRPES, () It is chiefly used in estimating the several interests of the different kindred, in the distribution of an intestate's estate. 2 Bl. Com. 517 and vide Descent; Line.
Stirrage (n.) The act of stirring; stir; commotion. [Obs.] -- T. Granger.
Stirrer (n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. -- Shak.
Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. -- Atterbury.
Stirrer (n.) A person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble [syn: scaremonger, stirrer].
Stirrer (n.) An implement used for stirring.
Stirring (a.) Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.
A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. -- Southey.
Syn: Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.
Stirring (a.) Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues" [syn: rousing, stirring].
Stirring (a.) Exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech" [syn: stirring, soul-stirring].
Stirring (n.) Agitating a liquid with an implement; "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan".
Stirring (n.) Arousing to a particular emotion or action [syn: inspiration, stirring].
Stirrup (n.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.
Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon. -- Chaucer.
Stirrup (n.) (Carp. & Mach.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.