Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 163
Stockwork (n.) (Geol.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.
Stocky (a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. -- Addison.
Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. -- Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
Stocky (a.) Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] -- G. Eliot.
Stocky (a.) Having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset].
Stodgy (a.) Wet. [Prov. Eng.] -- G. Eliot. Stoechiology
Stodgy (a.) Heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full."
Stodgy (a.) (Used pejoratively) Out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" [syn: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy].
Stodgy (a.) Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" [syn: stodgy, stuffy].
Stoechiology (n.) Alt. of Stoechiometry.
Stoechiometry (n.) See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc.
Stoichiometry (n.) The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.
Stoichiometry (n.) (Chemistry) The relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers).
Stoic (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
Stoic (n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. -- Campbell.
School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch. Stoic
Stoic, Stoical, (a.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
Stoic, Stoical, (a.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint. -- Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sto"ic*al*ness, n.
Stoic (a.) Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer" [syn: stoic, stoical].
Stoic (a.) Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers.
Stoic (n.) A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny."
Stoic (n.) Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions [syn: stoic, unemotional person] [ant: emotional person].
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Stoic (n.) Alt. of Stoical.
Stoical (n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
Stoical (n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain ; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or
bad fortune without complaint. -- Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sto"ic*al*ness, n.
Stoical (a.) Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer" [syn: stoic, stoical].
Stoichiological (a.) Of or pertaining to stoichiology.
Stoichiology (n.) That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.
Stoichiology (n.) (Logic) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Stoichiology (n.) The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art. Stoichiometric
Stoichiometric (a.) Alt. of Stoichiometrical.
Stoichiometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.
Stoichiometrical (a.) (Chem.) of, pertaining to, using, or consuming, reagents in the exact proportions required for a given reaction; as, a stoichiometric reaction, i. e., a reaction which goes to completion, rather than stopping partway at an equilibrium point.
Stoichiometry (n.) The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.
Stoichiometry (n.) (Chemistry) The relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers).
Stoicism (n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Stoicism (n.) An indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: stoicism, stolidity, stolidness].
Stoicism (n.) (Philosophy) The philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno.
Stoicity (n.) Stoicism. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Stoke (v. t.) To stick; to thrust; to stab. [Obs.]
Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting. -- Chaucer.
Stoke (v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
Stoke (v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
Stoke (v.) Stir up or tend; of a fire.
Stokehole (n.) The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.
Stokehole (n.) (Nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired [syn: stokehold, stokehole, fireroom].
Stoker (n.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
Stoker (n.) A fire poker. [R.] -- C. Richardson (Dict.).
Stoker (n.) Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) [syn: Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker]
Stoker (n.) A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman].
Stoker (n.) A mechanical device for stoking a furnace.
Stokey (a.) Close; sultry. [Prov. Eng.]
Stolae (n. pl. ) of Stola.
Stola (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.
The stola was not allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands. -- Fairholt.
Stole () imp. of Steal.
Stole (n.) (Bot.) A stolon.
Stole (n.) A long, loose garment reaching to the feet. -- Spenser.
But when mild morn, in saffron stole, First issues from her eastern goal. -- T. Warton.
Stole (n.) (Eccl.) A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions.
Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal household. [Eng.] -- Brande & C.
Stole (n.) A wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women.
Stoled (a.) Having or wearing a stole.
After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn. -- G. Fletcher.
Steal (v. t.) [imp. Stole (st[=o]l); p. p. Stolen (st[=o]"l'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow, thy dispense. -- Chaucer.
The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in alms. -- G. Eliot.
Steal (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission. -- Spenser.
He will steal himself into a man's favor. -- Shak.
Steal (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. -- 2 Sam. xv. 6.
Steal (v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject. -- I. Watts.
Steal (v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it. -- Bacon.
To steal a march, To march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals.
She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy. -- Smollett.
Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea. -- Walpole.
Syn: To filch; pilfer; purloin; thieve.
Stolen () p. p. of Steal.
Stolid (a.) [L. stolidus.] Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Stolid (a.) Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid].
Stolidity (n.) The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.
Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. -- Bentley.
Stolidity (n.) Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality].
Stolidity (n.) An indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: stoicism, stolidity, stolidness].
Stolidness (n.) Same as Stolidity.
Stolidness (n.) An indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: stoicism, stolidity, stolidness].
Stolon (n.) (Bot.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
Stolon (n.) (Zool.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma.
Stolon (n.) A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, runner, offset].
Stoloniferous (a.) Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.
Stoloniferous (a.) Producing stolons.
Stomata (n. pl. ) of Stoma.
Stoma (n.) (Anat.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.
Stoma (n.) (Bot.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
Stoma (n.) (Bot.) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.
Stoma (n.) (Zool.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).
Stoma (n.) A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass [syn: stoma, stomate, pore].
Stoma (n.) A mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ).
Stomach (n.) (Anat.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
Stomach (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. -- Shak.
Stomach (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. -- Shak.
Stomach (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.]
Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. -- Spenser.
This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. -- Locke.
Stomach (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]
He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -- Shak.
Stomach pump (Med.), A small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
Stomach tube (Med.), A long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
Stomach worm (Zool.), The common roundworm ({Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
Stomached (imp. & p. p.) of Stomach.
Stomaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stomach.
Stomach (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. -- Shak.
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. -- L'Estrange.
The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. -- Milton.
Stomach (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
Stomach (v. i.) To be angry. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
Stomach (n.) An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket].
Stomach (n.) The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly].
Stomach (n.) An inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness; "he had no stomach for a fight."
Stomach (n.) An appetite for food; "exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner."
Stomach (v.) Bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish."
Stomach (v.) Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up].
Stomachal (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.
Stomachal (a.) Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
Stomachal (n.) A stomachic. -- Dunglison.
Stomachal (a.) Relating to or involving the stomach; "gastric ulcer" [syn: gastric, stomachic, stomachal].
Stomacher (n.) One who stomachs.
Stomacher (n.) An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated.
A stately lady in a diamond stomacher. -- Johnson.
Stomacher (n.) Garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century.
Stomacher, () (Isa. 3:24), an article of female attire, probably some sort ofgirdle around the breast.
Stomachful (a.) Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n. [Obs.] Stomachic
Stomachic (a.) Alt. of Stomachical.
Stomachical (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.
Stomachical (a.) Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
Stomachic, Stomachical (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.
Stomachic, Stomachical (a.) Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
Stomachic (n.) (Med.) A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
Stomachic (a.) Relating to or involving the stomach; "gastric ulcer" [syn: gastric, stomachic, stomachal].
Stomach (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Stomached; p. pr. & vb. n. Stomaching.] To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. -- Shak.
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. -- L'Estrange.
The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. -- Milton.
Stomach (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
Stomaching (n.) Resentment. [Obs.]
Stomachless (a.) Being without a stomach.
Stomachless (a.) Having no appetite. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Stomachous (a.) Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Obs.]
With stern looks and stomachous disdain. -- Spenser.
Stomachy (a.) Obstinate; sullen; haughty.
A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor
of piety. -- R. L. Stevenson.
Stomapod (n.) (Zool.) One of the Stomapoda.
Stomapoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.
Stomate (n.) (Bot.) A stoma.
Stomate (n.) A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass [syn: stoma, stomate, pore].
Stomatic (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.
Stomatic (n.) (Med.) A medicine for diseases of the mouth. -- Dunglison.
Stomatiferous (a.) Having or producing stomata.
Stomatitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the mouth.
Stomatitis (n.) Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth
Stomatoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.
Stomatodaeum (n.) (Anat.) Same as Stomodaeum.
Stomatode (a.) Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa.
Stomatode (n.) One of the Stomatoda.
Stomatogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.
Stomatoplastic (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
Stomatopod (n.) (Zool.) One of the Stomatopoda.
Stomatopod (n.) A kind of crustacean [syn: stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean].
Stomapoda, (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.
Stomatopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Stomapoda.
Stomatopoda (n.) Mantis shrimps [syn: Stomatopoda, order Stomatopoda].
Stomatopodous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda.
Stomatoscope (n.) (Med.) An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.
Stomatous (a.) Having a stoma.
Stomatous (a.) Relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening [syn: stomatal, stomatous].
Stomatous (a.) Relating to or constituting plant stomata; "stomatal openings" [syn: stomatal, stomatous].
Stomatous (a.) Having a mouth or mouthlike opening [ant: astomatous, mouthless].
Stomodaeum (n.) (Anat.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.
Stomodaeum (n.) (Zool.) The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.
Stomp (v. i.) To stamp with the foot. [Colloq.] "In gallant procession, the priests mean to stomp." -- R. Browning.
Stomp (n.) A dance involving a rhythmical stamping step.
Stomp (v.) Walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" [syn: stomp, stamp, stump].
Stond (n.) Stop; halt; hindrance. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Stond (n.) A stand; a post; a station. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Stond (v. i.) To stand. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Stone (n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." -- Chaucer.
They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. -- Gen. xi. 3.
Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.
Stone (n.) A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." -- Chaucer. "Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." -- Shak.
Stone (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically:
Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. -- Shak.