Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 177
Stunsail (n.) (Naut.) A contraction of Studding sail.
With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. -- Lowell.
Stunted (imp. & p. p.) of Stunt.
Stunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stunt.
Stunt (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. -- Burke.
Stunted (a.) Dwarfed. -- Stunt"ed*ness, n.
Stunted (a.) Inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted].
Stunt (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
Stunt (n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Stunt (n.) A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat. [Colloq.]
An extraordinary man does three or four different "stunts" with remarkable dexterity. -- The Bookman.
He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming. -- L. Hutton.
Stunt (n.) An unusual action performed to gain public attention; as, a publicity stunt.
Stunt (n.) A difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention.
Stunt (n.) A creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth.
Stunt (v.) Check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles."
Stunt (v.) Perform a stunt or stunts.
Stunted (a.) Dwarfed. -- Stunt"ed*ness, n.
Stunted (a.) Inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted].
Stuntness (n.) Stuntedness; brevity. [R.] -- Earle.
Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Stupa (n.) [L.] (Med.) See 1st Stupe.
Stupa (n.) A dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists [syn: stupa, tope].
Stupe (n.) (Med.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.
Stuped (imp. & p. p.) of Stupe.
Stuping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stupe.
Stupe (v. t.) To foment with a stupe. -- Wiseman.
Stupe (n.) A stupid person. [Obs.]
Stupe (n.) A person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock].
Stupefacient (a.) Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.
Stupefacient (n.) (Med.) Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.
Stupefaction (n.) The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. [Written also stupifaction.]
Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. -- South.
Stupefaction (n.) A feeling of stupefied astonishment.
Stupefaction (n.) Marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor" [syn: grogginess, stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness].
Stupefaction (n.) The action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic; "the professor was noted for his stupefaction of the students."
Stupefactive (a. & n.) Same as Stupefacient. [Written also stupifactive.]
Stupefied (a.) Having been made stupid.
Stupefiedness (n.) Quality of being stupid.
Stupefier (n.) One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.
Stupefied (imp. & p. p.) of Stupefy.
Stupefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stupefy.
Stupefy (v. t.) [H] 使麻木；使昏昏沉沉；使驚呆 To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. -- South.
Stupefy (v. t.) To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. -- Bacon.
Stupefy (v.) Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation [syn: {besot}, {stupefy}].
Stupefy (v.) Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick}, {get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {pose}, {bewilder}, {flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}].
Stupefy (v.) Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: {stun}, {stupefy}].
Stupendous (a.) Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous sum." -- Macaulay.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole. -- Pope. -- Stu*pen"dous*ly, adv. -- Stu*pen"dous*ness, n.
Stupendous (a.) So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal, prodigious, stupendous].
Stupeous (a.) Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.
Stupid (a.) Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.
O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! -- Milton.
With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. -- Thomson.
Stupid (a.) Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. -- Swift.
Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu"pid*ly, adv. -- Stu"pid*ness, n.
Stupid (a.) Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity [ant: smart].
Stupid (a.) In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue" [syn: dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid(p)].
Stupid (a.) Lacking intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers" [syn: unintelligent, stupid] [ant: intelligent].
Stupid (n.) A person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock].
Stupidity (n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
Stupidity (n.) Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.]
A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. -- Chapman.
Stupidity (n.) A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience [ant: intelligence].
Stupidity (n.) A stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility].
Stupidity, () med. jur. That state of the mind which cannot perceive and embrace the data presented to it by the senses; and therefore the stupid person can, in general, form no correct judgment. It is a want of the perceptive powers. Ray, Med. Jur. c. 3, Sec. 40. Vide Imbecility.
Compare: Stupefy
Stupefy (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Stupefied; p. pr. & vb. n. Stupefying.] [Written also stupify, especially in England.] To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. -- South.
Stupefy (v. t.) To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.]
It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. -- Bacon.
Stupify (v. t.) See Stupefy.
Stupor (n.) [C] [U] 不省人事；恍惚；麻木，僵呆 Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Compare: Lethargy
Lethargy (n.) [Mass noun] 昏睡；瞌睡；不活潑；無生氣 A lack of energy and enthusiasm.
‘There was an air of lethargy about him.’
Lethargy (n.) [Mass noun] [Medicine] A pathological state of sleepiness or deep unresponsiveness and inactivity.
‘A history of weight loss, lethargy, and fluid retention.’
Lethargy (n.) [U] The feeling of having little energy or of being unable or unwilling to do anything.
// Symptoms include loss of appetite, lethargy, and vomiting.
Stupor (n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Stupor (n.) The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's death left him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock" [syn: {daze}, {shock}, {stupor}].
Stupor (n.) Marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor" [syn: {grogginess}, {stupor}, {stupefaction}, {semiconsciousness}].
Stupor (n.) [ C] [Usually singular ] 昏迷；神智不清，恍惚 A state in which a person is almost unconscious and their thoughts are not clear.
// He was lying under the table in a drunken stupor.
Stupose (a.) (Bot.) Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.
Stuprate (v. t.) To ravish; to debauch. [R.] -- Heywood.
Stupration (n.) Violation of chastity by force; rape. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Stuprum (n.) [L.] Stupration.
Stuprum, () civ. law. The criminal sexual intercourse which took place between a man and a single woman, maid or widow, who before lived honestly. Inst. 4, 18, 4; Dig. 48, 5, 6; Id. 50, 16, 101; 1 Bouv. Inst. Theolo. ps. 3, quaest. 2, art. 2, p. 252.
Sturb (v. t.) To disturb. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sturdily (adv.) In a sturdy manner.
Sturdily (adv.) In a sturdy manner; "feet sturdily apart."
Sturdiness (n.) Quality of being sturdy.
Sturdiness (n.) The state of being vigorous and robust.
Sturdiness (n.) The property of something that is strongly built.
Sturdiness (n.) Resoluteness evidenced by strength of character; "sturdiness of moral principle."
Sturdy (n.) (Vet.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
Sturdy (a.) 健壯的，結實的；健康的；堅固的，經久耐用的 Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.
This sturdy marquis gan his hearte dress To rue upon her wifely steadfastness. -- Chaucer.
This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. -- Hudibras.
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. -- Atterbury.
Sturdy (a.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.
Sturdy (a.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! -- Gray.
Sturdy (a.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Syn: Hardy; stout; strong; firm; robust; stiff.
Sturdy (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}].
Sturdy (a.) Not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty" [syn: {uncompromising}, {sturdy}, {inflexible}] [ant: {compromising}, {conciliatory}, {flexible}].
Sturdy (a.) Substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" [syn: {sturdy}, {tough}].
Sturgeon (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.
Note: The common North American species are Acipenser sturio of the Atlantic coast region, Acipenser transmontanus of the Pacific coast, and Acipenser rubicundus of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In Europe, the common species is Acipenser sturio, and other well-known species are the sterlet and the huso. The sturgeons are included in the order Chondrostei. Their body is partially covered by five rows of large, carinated, bony plates, of which one row runs along the back. The tail is heterocercal. The toothless and protrusile mouth is beneath the head, and has four barbels in front.
Shovel-nosed sturgeon. (Zool.) See Shovelnose (d).
Sturgeon (n.) Large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone.
Sturgeon, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 944
Housing Units (2000): 407
Land area (2000): 0.631496 sq. miles (1.635567 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.631496 sq. miles (1.635567 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71224
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.233166 N, 92.280300 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65284
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sturgeon, MO
Sturgeon
Sturgeon - Noblestown, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1764
Housing Units (2000): 715
Land area (2000): 2.866061 sq. miles (7.423064 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.866061 sq. miles (7.423064 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74948
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.383875 N, 80.209191 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sturgeon-Noblestown, PA
Sturgeon-Noblestown
Sturgeon, PA
Sturgeon
Sturiones (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fishes including the sturgeons.
Sturionian (n.) (Zool.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
Sturk (n.) See Stirk. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sturnoid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the starlings.
Sturt (v. t.) To vex; to annoy; to startle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sturt (n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Sturt and care." -- J. Rolland.
Sturt (n.) (Mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits. -- Raymond.
Sturtion (n.) A corruption of Nasturtion.
Stut (v. i.) To stutter. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Stuttered (imp. & p. p.) of Stutter.
Stuttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stutter.
Stutter (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. -- Macaulay.
Stutter (n.) The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
Stutter (n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.
Stutterer (n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.
Stutterer (n.) Someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions [syn: stammerer, stutterer].
Stuttering (n.) The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.
Stuttering (a.) Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- Stut"ter*ing*ly, adv.
Sties (n. pl. ) of Sty.
Sty (n.) A pen or inclosure for swine.
Sty (n.) A place of bestial debauchery.
To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. -- Milton.
Stied (imp. & p. p.) of Sty.
Stying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sty.
Sty (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a sty. -- Shak.
Sty (v. i.) To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup. [Obs.]
With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene. -- Spenser.
Sty (n.) (Med.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]
Sty (n.) An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid [syn: sty, stye, hordeolum, eye infection].
Sty (n.) A pen for swine [syn: sty, pigsty, pigpen].
Styan (n.) See Sty, a boil. [R.] -- De quincey.
Styca (n.) An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing. -- S. M. Leake.
Stycerin (n.) (Chem.) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
Compare: Sty
Sty (n.) [For older styan, styanye, understood as sty on eye, AS. st[imac]gend (sc. e['a]ge eye), properly, rising, or swelling (eye), p. p. of st[imac]gan to rise. See Sty, v. i.] (Med.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid. [Written also stye.]
Stye (n.) See Sty, a boil.
Stye (n.) An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid [syn: sty, stye, hordeolum, eye infection].
Stygial (a.) Stygian. [R.] -- Skelton.
Stygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect. -- Milton.
Stygian (a.) Hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../ In Stygian cave forlorn" -- Milton.
Stygian (a.) Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth [syn: Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian].
Stylagalmaic (a.) (Arch.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]
Compare: Stilar
Stilar (a.) [From Stile a style.] Of or pertaining to the style of a dial. [Written also stylar.]
Stylar (a.) See Stilar.
Stylaster (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
Style (n.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
Style (n.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. Specifically:
Style (n.) A pen; an author's pen. -- Dryden.
Style (n.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
Style (n.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Style (n.) (Zool.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
Style (n.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
Style (n.) (Bot.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
Style (n.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
High style, as when that men to kinges write. -- Chaucer.
Style is the dress of thoughts. -- Chesterfield.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. -- Swift.
It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. -- I. Disraeli.
Style (n.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit. -- Sir J. Reynolds.
Style (n.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
According to the usual style of dedications. -- C. Middleton.
Style (n.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. -- Burke.
Style (n.) (Chron.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Note: Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian manner of computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius Caesar, in which every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched, and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days, and any other year 365 days.
Style of court, The practice or manner observed by a court in its proceedings. -- Ayliffe.
Syn: Diction; phraseology; manner; course; title. See Diction.
Styled (imp. & p. p.) of Style.
Styling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Style.
Style (v. t.) To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate. "Styled great conquerors." -- Milton.
How well his worth and brave adventures styled. -- Dryden.
Syn: To call; name; denominate; designate; term; characterize.
Style (n.) How something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion].
Style (n.) A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" [syn: expressive style, style].
Style (n.) A particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand."
Style (n.) The popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own" [syn: vogue, trend, style].
Style (n.) (Botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma.
Style (n.) Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display.
Style (n.) Distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style].
Style (n.) A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus" [syn: stylus, style].
Style (n.) A slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style."
Style (v.) Designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'" [syn: style, title].
Style (v.) Make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress."
Style (v.) Make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript."
Style, () The visual presentation or formatting of web content, chiefly either HTML content with style controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or XML content controlled by XSL. Style is distinguished from meaning, which is encoded with semantic markup. The latter deals with logical divisions of content such as headings, lists and paragraphs. (2008-02-25)
Stylet (n.) A small poniard; a stiletto.
Stylet (n.) (Surg.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.