Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 166
Stormy (a.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
Stormy (a.) Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stormy (a.) (Especially of weather) Affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" [ant: {calm}].
Stormy (a.) Characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" [syn: {stormy}, {tempestuous}].
Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
Storven () obs. p. p. of Starve. -- Chaucer.
Stories (n. pl. ) of Story.
Story (n.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]
Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories.
Story post (Arch.), A vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.
Storied (imp. & p. p.) of Story.
Storying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Story.
Story (v. t.) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. -- Shak.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Story (n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story. -- Barrow.
Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story. -- Ed. Rev.
The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story. -- Sir W. Temple.
Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance. -- Addison.
Story (n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story. [Colloq.]
Story (n.) A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale].
Story (n.) A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines."
Story (n.) A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story].
Story (n.) A record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story].
Story (n.) A short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious" [syn: report, news report, story, account, write up].
Story (n.) A trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle].
Story (n.) A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic.
"Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, _The Biography of a Dead Cow_, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it."
Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist.
"Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?"
"My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it."
Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think."
"I don't hear any band," said Schley.
"Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin."
While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity.
When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral.
"There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well."
The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him."
"O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker."
The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right.
He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon.
"For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells."
"Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't."
In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger.
The boys did not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town.
General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all.
"You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!"
Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful.
progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?"
General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away.
"Pardon
me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of
course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen
minutes."
Story -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 79981
Housing Units (2000): 30630
Land area (2000): 572.860085 sq. miles (1483.700745 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.837251 sq. miles (2.168471 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 573.697336 sq. miles (1485.869216 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.024190 N, 93.528718 W
Headwords:
Story
Story, IA
Story County
Story County, IA
Story, WY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wyoming
Population (2000): 887
Housing Units (2000): 667
Land area (2000): 13.735136 sq. miles (35.573837 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004788 sq. miles (0.012400 sq. km)
Total
area (2000): 13.739924 sq. miles (35.586237 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73615
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 44.576978 N, 106.908109 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82842
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Story, WY
Story
Storybook (n.) A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
Storybook (n.) A book containing a collection of stories (usually for children).
Story-teller (n.) One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.
Story-teller (n.) An historian; -- in contempt. -- Swift.
Story-teller
(n.) A
euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
Story-telling (a.) Being accustomed to tell stories.
Story-telling (n.) The act or practice of telling stories.
Story-writer (n.) One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
Story-writer (n.) An historian; a chronicler. [Obs.] "Rathums, the story-writer." -- 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
Stot (n.) A horse. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Thorold Rogers.
Stot (n.) A young bull or ox, especially one three years old. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stote (n.) (Zool.) See Stoat.
Stound (v. i.) To be in pain or sorrow. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stound (a.) Stunned. [Obs.]
Stound (n.) A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Stound (n.) Astonishment; amazement. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Gay.
Stound (n.) Hour; time; season. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Stound (n.) A brief space of time; a moment. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
In a stound, Suddenly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Stound (n.) A vessel for holding small beer. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Compare: Stoop
Stoop (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also stoup.]
Fetch me a stoop of liquor. -- Shak.
Stoup (n.) A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Stoup (n.) (Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup.
Stoup (n.) An archaic drinking vessel.
Stoup (n.) Basin for holy water [syn: stoup, stoop].
Stour (n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion. [Obs.] -- Fairfax. "That woeful stowre." -- Spenser.
She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts]. -- Chaucer.
Stour
(a.)
Tall; strong; stern. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stout (n.) 過胖的人 [C]；特大號的衣服 [C]；烈性黑啤酒 [U] A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops
than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is {Guinness'
stout}. -- Swift.
Stout (a.) 矮胖的，肥胖的；結實的，牢固的；勇敢的，大膽的 [B] Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.
With hearts stern and stout. -- Chaucer.
A stouter champion never handled sword. -- Shak.
He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. -- Clarendon.
The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. -- Daniel.
Stout (a.) Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic]
Your words have been stout against me. -- Mal. iii. 13.
Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout. -- Latimer.
Stout (a.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
Stout (a.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
Syn: {Stout}, {Corpulent}, {Portly}.
Usage: Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: "The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size." In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.
Stout (a.) Dependable; "the stalwart citizens at Lexington"; "a stalwart supporter of the UN"; "stout hearts" [syn: {stalwart}, {stout}].
Stout (a.) Euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout" [syn: {portly}, {stout}].
Stout (a.) Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: {hardy}, {stalwart}, {stout}, {sturdy}].
Stout (n.) A strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops.
Stout (n.) A garment size for a large or heavy person.
Stout, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 217
Housing Units (2000): 77
Land area (2000): 0.311199 sq. miles (0.806001 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.311199 sq. miles (0.806001 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75720
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.527131 N, 92.711383 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stout, IA
Stout
Stout-hearted (a.) Having a brave heart; courageous. -- Stout"-heart`ed*ness, n.
Stoutish (a.) Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.
Stoutly (adv.) In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.
Stoutly (adv.) In a resolute manner; "he was stoutly replying to his critics."
Stoutness (n.) The state or quality of being stout.
Syn: Strength; bulk; courage; force; valor; lustiness; brawniness; boldness; fortitude; stubbornness. Stovain
Stoutness (n.) The property of being strong and resolute [syn: stoutness, stalwartness].
Stoutness (n.) The property of excessive fatness [syn: corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposis].
Compare: Hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbon (n.) (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Hydrocarbon burner, Furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
Stave (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Staved or Stove; p. pr. & vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave, n., or Staff, n.] To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
Stave (v. t.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. -- South.
Stave (v. t.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. -- Tennyson.
Stave (v. t.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
All the wine in the city has been staved. -- Sandys.
Stave (v. t.) To furnish with staves or rundles. -- Knolles.
Stave (v. t.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
To stave and tail, In bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. -- Nares.
Stove, imp. of Stave.
Stove (n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers. -- Earl of Strafford.
How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! -- Burton.
Stove (n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
Stove (n.) Hence, in modern dwellings: An appliance having a top surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.
Cooking stove, A stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.
Dry stove. See under Dry.
Foot stove. See under Foot.
Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary.
Stove plant (Bot.), A plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.
Stove plate, Thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
Stoved (imp. & p. p.) of Stove.
Stoving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stove.
Stove (v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. -- Bacon.
Stove (v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Stove (n.) A kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove" [syn: stove, kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stove].
Stove (n.) Any heating apparatus.
Stovehouse (n.) A hothouse.
Stovepipe (n.) Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
Stovepipe hat, A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's. [Slang, U.S.]
Stovepipe (n.) Chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue.
Stovepipe (n.) A man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur [syn: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper, beaver].
Stover (n.) Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. -- Shak.
Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. -- Tusser.
Stover (n.) The dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested.
Stover, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 968
Housing Units (2000): 498
Land area (2000): 0.874377 sq. miles (2.264626 sq. km)
Water
area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.874377 sq. miles (2.264626 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71044
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.442199 N, 92.989936 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65078
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stover, MO
Stover
Stowed (imp. & p. p.) of Stow.
Stowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stow.
Stow (v. t.) 堆裝；裝載；貯藏，收藏 [（+away/ in/ into）]；使暫留，使暫宿；（地點或容器）能容納；【俚】（常用祈使語氣）停止 To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. -- Dryden.
Stow (v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter? -- Shak.
Stow (v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.
Stow (v.) Fill by packing tightly; "stow the cart."
Stow, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 32139
Housing Units (2000): 12852
Land area (2000): 17.112144 sq. miles (44.320248 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.230406 sq. miles (0.596748 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.342550 sq. miles (44.916996 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74944
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.176623 N, 81.436231 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44224
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stow, OH
Stow
Stowage (n.) 裝貨；裝載方法；堆積處；裝載的貨物；裝載費 The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
Stowage (n.) Room in which things may be stowed. -- Cook.
In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures. -- Addison.
Stowage (n.) The state of being stowed, or put away. "To have them in safe stowage." -- Shak.
Stowage (n.) Things stowed or packed. -- Beau. & Fl.
Stowage (n.) Money paid for stowing goods.
Stowage (n.) The charge for stowing goods.
Stowage (n.) A room in which things are stored [syn: {storeroom}, {storage room}, {stowage}].
Stowage (n.) The act of packing or storing away [syn: {stowage}, {stowing}].
Stowage, () mar. law. The proper arrangement in a ship, of the different articles of which a cargo consists, so that they may not injure each other by friction, or be damaged by the leakage of the ship.
Stowage, () The master of the ship is bound to attend to the stowage, unless, by custom or agreement, this business is to be performed by persons employed by the merchant. Abbott on Ship. 228; Pardes. Dr. Com. n. 721.
Stowaway (n.) One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
Stowaway (n.) A person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage.
Stowboard (n.) A place into which rubbish is put. [Written also stowbord.]
Stowce (n.) (Mining) A windlass.
Stowce (n.) (Mining) A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.
Stowing (n.) (Mining) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Stowing (n.) The act of packing or storing away [syn: stowage, stowing].
Stowre (a.) See Stour, a. [Obs.]
Stowre (n.) See Stour, n. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Strabism (n.) (Med.) Strabismus.
Strabismometer (n.) (Med.) An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.
Strabismus (n.) (Med.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
Strabismus (n.) Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus, squint].
Strabotomy (n.) (Surg.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Strabotomy (n.) The surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus.
Straddled (imp. & p. p.) of Straddle.
Straddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straddle.
Straddle (v. i.) 跨坐，兩腿叉開坐，觀望 To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
Straddle (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Straddle (v. t.) 跨坐，兩腿叉開坐，觀望 To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
Straddle (n.) 跨坐，觀望 The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
Straddle (n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
Straddle (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [Broker's Cant]
Straddle (n.) A noncommittal or equivocal position.
Straddle (n.) A gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars.
Straddle (n.) The act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle, span].
Straddle (n.) The option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options.
Straddle (v.) Sit or stand astride of.
Straddle (v.) Range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state" [syn: range, straddle].
Straddle (v.) Be noncommittal.
Straddling (a.) Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. -- Knight.
Stradometrical (a.) Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]
Strafe (n.) 猛烈砲轟 An attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane; "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields."
Strafe (v.) 猛烈砲轟；從（低空）掃射；猛擊；痛打 Attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender."
Strafe (n.) An attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane; "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields."
Strafe (v.) Attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender."
Strafe (v.) [ T ] （飛機）低空掃射 To attack an enemy by shooting from aircraft that are flying low in the sky.
Straggle (n.) [C] 奮鬥；鬥爭 [（+for/ against/ with）]；努力；使勁；掙扎 [（+for）]；難事 The act of straggling. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Straggled (imp. & p. p.) of Straggle.
Straggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straggle.
Straggle (v. i.) 奮鬥；鬥爭 [（+for/ against/ with）] [+to-v]；努力；使勁；掙扎 [（+for）] [+to-v]；艱難地行進 [Q]；競爭；對抗 To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. -- Dryden.
Straggle (v. i.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
The wolf spied out a straggling kid. -- L'Estrange.
Straggle (v. i.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. -- Mortimer.
Straggle (v. i.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. "Straggling pistol shots." -- Sir W. Scott.
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Straggle (n.) A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers."
Straggle (v.) Wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle].
Straggle (v.) Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl, straggle].
Straggler (n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
Straggler (n.) A roving vagabond. -- Shak.
Straggler (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Let thy hand supply the pruning knife, And crop luxuriant stragglers. -- Dryden.
Straggler (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Straggler (n.) Someone who strays or falls behind [syn: straggler, strayer].
Straggling () a. & n. from Straggle, v.
Straggling (a.) Spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly].
Stragglingly (adv.) In a straggling manner.
Stragglingly (adv.) In a ragged irregular manner; "a stone wall trails raggedly through the woods" [syn: raggedly, stragglingly].
Stragula (n. pl. ) of Stragulum.
Stragulum (n.) (Zool.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
Straight (a.) 筆直的；挺直的；平直的；平的；整齊的；端正的；有條理的 [F] A variant of {Strait}, a. [Obs. or R.]
Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. -- Sir J. Mandeville.