Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 162
Stirrup (n.) (Naut.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope. -- Totten.
Stirrup bone (Anat.), The stapes.
Stirrup cup, A parting cup taken after mounting.
Stirrup iron, An iron stirrup.
Stirrup leather, or Stirrup strap, The strap which attaches a stirrup to the saddle. See Stirrup, 1.
Compare: Bridle iron
Bridle iron, () (Arch.) A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.
Stirrup (n.) Support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go [syn: stirrup, stirrup iron].
Stirrup (n.) The stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea [syn: stapes, stirrup].
Stirt (obs. p. p. of Start, v. i.) Started; leaped.
They privily be stirt into a well. -- Chaucer.
Stirte () imp. of Start, v. i. & t. -- Chaucer.
Stitch (n.) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
Stitch (n.) A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
Stitch (n.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
You have gone a good stitch. -- Bunyan.
In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows. -- Holland.
Stitch (n.) A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy. -- Bp. Burnet.
Stitch (n.) A contortion, or twist. [Obs.]
If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry. -- Marston.
Stitch (n.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.]
Stitch (n.) A furrow. -- Chapman.
Stitch (n.) An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc.
Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary.
Pearl stitch, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2.
Stitched (imp. & p. p.) of Stitch.
Stitching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stitch.
Stitch (v. t.) To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
Stitch (v. t.) To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
Stitch (v. t.) (Agric.) To form land into ridges.
To stitch up, To mend or unite with a needle and thread; as, to stitch up a rent; to stitch up an artery.
Stitch (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework.
Stitch (n.) A link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing.
Stitch (n.) A sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running
Stitch (v.) Fasten by sewing; do needlework [syn: sew, run up, sew together, stitch].
Stitchel (n.) A kind of hairy wool. [Prov.]
Stitcher (n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.
Stitcher (n.) A garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps.
Stitchery (n.) Needlework; -- in contempt. -- Shak.
Stitchery (n.) Needlework on which you are working with needle and thread; "she put her sewing back in the basket" [syn: sewing, stitchery].
Stitching (n.) The act of one who stitches.
Stitching (n.) Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.
Stitching (n.) Joining or attaching by stitches [syn: sewing, stitching].
Stichwort (n.) (Bot.) A kind of chickweed ({Stellaria Holostea). [Written also stitchwort.]
Stitchwort (n.) (Bot.) See Stichwort.
Stitchwort (n.) Low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side [syn: stitchwort, greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea].
Stith (a.) Strong; stiff; rigid. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Stith (n.) An anvil; a stithy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. -- Holland.
Stithy (n.) An anvil. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stithy (n.) A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge. "As foul as Vulcan's stithy." -- Shak.
Stithy (v. t.) To forge on an anvil.
The forge that stithied Mars his helm. -- Shak.
Stived (imp. & p. p.) of Stive.
Stiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stive.
Stive (v. t.) To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. --Sandys.
His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Stive (v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. -- De Colange.
Stiver (n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.
Stives (n. pl.) Stews; a brothel. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Stoak (v. t.) (Naut.) To stop; to choke.
Stoat (n.) (Zool.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
Stoat (n.) The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
Stocah (n.) A menial attendant. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Stoccade (n. & v.) See Stockade.
Stockade (n.) (Mil.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also stoccade.]
Stockade (n.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
Stoccado (n.) A stab; a thrust with a rapier. -- Shak.
Stochastic (a.) Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] -- Whitefoot.
Stochastic (a.) . random; chance; involving probability; opposite of deterministic.
Stochastic (a.) (Statistics) of or pertaining to a process in which a series of calculations, selections, or observations are made, each one being randomly determined as a sample from a probability distribution.
Note: Where physical phenomena are modelled as a stochastic process, each subsequent calculation of a series may depend on the result of the previous calculation, as in the modelling of the process of diffusion of molecules.
Many series may be calculated, and the results averaged, to estimate the most likely result. See also Markov chain. -- sto*chas"tic*al*ly, adv.
Stochastic (a.) Being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes."
Probabilistic
Stochastic, () Relating to, or governed by, probability. The behaviour of a probabilistic system cannot be predicted exactly but the probability of certain behaviours is known.
Such systems may be simulated using pseudorandom numbers.
Evolutionary computation uses probabilistic processes to generate new (potential) solutions to a problem.
See also deterministic, non-probabilistic.
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Stock (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. -- Job xiv. 8,9.
Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
The scion overruleth the stock quite. -- Bacon.
Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. -- Milton.
Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. -- Fuller.
Stock (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. -- Shak.
Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically:
Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
Stock (n.) (Joinery) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
Stock (n.) (Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil. [Eng.]
Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock. -- Chapman.
Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus. -- Denham.
Stock (n.) (Finance) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
Stock (n.) (Bookkeeping) Same as Stock account, below.
Stock (n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
Add to that stock which justly we bestow. -- Dryden.
Stock (n.) (Agric.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
Stock (n.) (Card Playing) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. -- Beau. & Fl.
Stock (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. [Obs.]
Stock (n.) [Cf. Stocking.] A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.]
With a linen stock on one leg. -- Shak.
Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
Stock (n.) pl. A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
He shall rest in my stocks. -- Piers Plowman.
Stock (n.) pl. (Shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
Stock (n.) pl. Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. [Eng.]
Stock (n.) (Bot.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock ({Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower);+ten-weeks+stock+({Matthiola+annua">Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock ({Matthiola annua).
Stock (n.) (Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species.
Stock (n.) (Biol.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill. -- Knight.
Stock (n.) (Cookery) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
Stock (n.) Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock.
Stock (n.) (Soap Making) A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc.
Bit stock. See Bitstock.
Dead stock (Agric.), The implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above.
Head stock. See Headstock.
Paper stock, Rags and other material of which paper is made.
Stock account (Bookkeeping), An account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn.
Stock car, A railway car for carrying cattle.
Stock company (Com.), An incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.
Stock duck (Zool.), The mallard.
Stock exchange. (a) The building or place where stocks are bought and sold; stock market; hence, transactions of all kinds in stocks.
Stock exchange. (b) An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. --Wharton. Brande & C.
Stock farmer, A farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock.
Stock gillyflower (Bot.), The common stock. See Stock, n., 18.
Stock gold, Gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard.
Stock in trade, The goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. -- Simmonds.
Stock list, A list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices.
Stock lock, A lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.
Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange.
Stock market. (b) A market for live stock.
Stock pigeon. (Zool.) Same as Stockdove.
Stockpile (n.) Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose [syn: reserve, backlog, stockpile].
Stockpile (n.) A storage pile accumulated for future use.
Stockpile (v.) Have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?" [syn: stock, carry, stockpile].
Stock purse. (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse.
Stock purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest. [Eng.]
Stock shave, A tool used by blockmakers.
Stock station, A place or district for rearing stock. [Australia] -- W. Howitt.
Stock tackle (Naut.), A tackle used when the anchor is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. -- Totten.
Stock taking, An examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically.
Tail stock. See Tailstock.
To have something on the stock, to be at work at something.
To take stock, To take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. -- Dickens.
To take stock in. (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company.
To take stock in. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity. [Slang]
To take stock of, To take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). [Eng.]
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. -- Leslie Stephen.
Syn: Fund; capital; store; supply; accumulation; hoard; provision.
Stocked (imp. & p. p.) of Stock.
Stocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stock.
Stock (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
Stock (v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
Stock (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
Stock (v. t.) To put in the stocks. [R.] -- Shak.
To stock an anchor (Naut.), To fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
To stock cards (Card Playing), To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called to stack the deck. [Cant]
To stock down (Agric.), To sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass.
To stock up, To extirpate; to dig up.
Stock (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. "A stock charge against Raleigh." -- C. Kingsley.
Stock company (Theater), A company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management.
Stock (a.) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn].
Stock (a.) Routine; "a stock answer."
Stock (a.) Regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item" [syn: standard, stock].
Stock (n.) The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);
"he owns a controlling share of the company's stock."
Stock (n.) The merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" [syn: stock, inventory].
Stock (n.) The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock" [syn: stock, gunstock].
Stock (n.) A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation; "the value of his stocks doubled during the past year" [syn: stock certificate, stock].
Stock (n.) A supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: store, stock, fund].
Stock (n.) The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock].
Stock (n.) A special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" [syn: breed, strain, stock].
Stock (n.) Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces; "she made gravy with a base of beef stock" [syn: broth, stock].
Stock
(n.) The
reputation and popularity a person has; "his stock was so high he
could have been elected mayor".
Stock (n.) Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial
plant [syn:
stock, caudex].
Stock (n.) A plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants.
Stock (n.) Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers [syn: stock, gillyflower].
Stock (n.) Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia [syn: Malcolm stock, stock].
Stock (n.) Lumber used in the construction of something; "they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter".
Stock (n.) The handle end of some implements or tools; "he grabbed the cue by the stock".
Stock (n.) An ornamental white cravat [syn: neckcloth, stock].
Stock (n.) Any animals kept for use or profit [syn: livestock, stock, farm animal].
Stock (v.) Have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?" [syn: stock, carry, stockpile].
Stock (v.) Equip with a stock; "stock a rifle."
Stock (v.) Supply with fish; "stock a lake."
Stock (v.) Supply with livestock; "stock a farm."
Stock (v.) Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low" [syn: stock, buy in, stock up].
Stock (v.) Provide or furnish with a stock of something; "stock the larder with meat".
Stock (v.) Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year" [syn: sprout, stock].
Stock, () Descents. This is a metaphorical expression which designates, in the genealogy of a family, the person from whom others are descended: those persons who have so descended are called branches. Vide 1 Roper on Leg. 103; 2 Suppl. to Ves. 307 and Branch; Descent Line; Stirpes.
Stock,, () mer. law. The capital of a merchant tradesman, or other person including his merchandise, money and credits. In a narrower sense it signifies only the goods and wares he has for sale and traffic. The capital of corporations is also called stock; this is usually divided into shares of a definite value, as one hundred dollars, fifty dollars per share.
Stock,, () The stock held by individuals in corporations is generally considered as personal property. 4 Dane's Ab. 670; Sull. on Land. Titl. 71; Walk. Introd. 211; 1 Hill, Ab. 1 8.
Stockade (n.) (Mil.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also stoccade.].
Stockade (n.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
Stockaded (imp. & p. p.) of Stockade.
Stockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stockade.
Stockade (v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
Stockade (n.) Fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense.
Stockade (n.) A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) [syn: concentration camp, stockade].
Stockade (v.) Surround with a stockade in order to fortify.
Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
Stockbroker (n.) A broker who deals in stocks.
Stockbroker (n.) An agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds stock car.
Stockbroker (n.) A car kept in dealers' stock for regular sales.
Stockbroker (n.) A racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car.
Stock car (n.) [ C ] （以普通汽車改裝加固的）改裝賽車 An ordinary car that has been made stronger and faster so that it can be driven in special races.
Stockdove (n.) (Zool.) A common European wild pigeon ({Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.
Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species, as the Indian stockdove ({Palumbaena Eversmanni).
Stocker (n.) 槍托制造者 One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
Stocker (n.) (為屠宰而養肥之) 小公牛 A domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment.
Stocker (n.) A person whose job is to fill the shelves of a shop or supermarket with merchandise.
Stock exchange (n.) An exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers [syn: stock exchange, stock market, securities market].
Stock exchange (n.) 證券交易所A market in which securities are bought and sold.
‘The company was floated on the stock exchange.’
‘The chief executive of the London Stock Exchange.’
{The stock exchange}, The level of prices in a particular stock exchange.
‘The biggest rise in the stock exchange in American history.’
Stockfish (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
Stockfish (n.) (Zool.) Young fresh cod.
Stockfish (n.) Fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt.
Stockholder (n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
Stockholder (n.) Someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation [syn: stockholder, shareholder, shareowner].
Stockinet (n.) An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
Stockinet (n.) Knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments [syn: stockinet, stockinette].
Stocking (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
Stocking (n.) Any of various
things resembling, or likened to, a stocking[1]; as:
Stocking (n.) (a) A broad ring of color, differing from the
general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white
ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse.
Stocking (n.) (b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
Stocking frame, A machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.
Stocking (v. t.) To dress in GBs. -- Dryden.
Stocking (n.) Close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural).
Stocking (n.) The activity of supplying a stock of something; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout."
Stockinger (n.) A stocking weaver.
Stockish (a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. -- Shak.
Stockjobber (n.) One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
Stockjobber (n.) One who deals only with brokers or other jobbers.
Stockjobbing (n.) The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
Stockmen (n. pl. ) Of Stockman.
Stockman (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock. [Australia & U.S.] -- W. Howitt.
Stockman (n.) Farmer who breed or raises livestock [syn: stockman, stock raiser, stock farmer].
Stock-still (a.) Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
His whole work stands stock-still. -- Sterne.
Stock-still (adv.) Without moving or making a sound; "he sat still as a statue"; "time stood still"; "they waited stock-still outside the door"; "he couldn't hold still any longer" [syn: still, stock-still].
Stock-still (a.) Absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" [syn: frozen(p), rooted(p), stock-still].
Stockwork (n.) (Mining) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.