Squirter (n.) One who, or that which, squirts.
Squiry (n.) The body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy.
Squitch grass () Quitch grass.
Squitee (n.) The squeteague; -- called also squit.
Stabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Stab
Stabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stab
Stab (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
Stab (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
Stab (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
Stab (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
Stab (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
Stab (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
Stab (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
Stabat Mater () A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).
Stabber (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.
Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.
Stabbingly (adv.) By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.
Stabiliment (a.) The act of making firm; firm support; establishment.
Stabilitate (v. t.) To make stable; to establish.
Stability (a.) The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
Stability (a.) Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
Stability (a.) Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.
Stable (v. i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
Stable (v. i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
Stable (v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
Stable (v. t.) To fix; to establish.
Stable (v. i.) A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
Stabled (imp. & p. p.) of Stable
Stabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stable
Stable (v. t.) To put or keep in a stable.
Stable (v. i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Stableboy (n.) Alt. of Stableman
Stableman (n.) A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
Stableness (n.) The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
Stabler (n.) A stable keeper.
Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer.
Stabling (n.) The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
Stabling (n.) A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.
Stablish (v. t.) To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.
Stablishment (n.) Establishment.
Stably (adv.) In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.
Stabulation (n.) The act of stabling or housing beasts.
Stabulation (n.) A place for lodging beasts; a stable.
Staccato (a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
Staccato (a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Stack (a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
Stack (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
Stack (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
Stack (a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
Stack (a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
Stack (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
Stack (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
Stacked (imp. & p. p.) of Stack
Stacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stack
Stack (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
Stackage (n.) Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.
Stackage (n.) A tax on things stacked.
Stacket (n.) A stockade.
Stack-guard (n.) A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
Stacking () a. & n. from Stack.
Stackstand (n.) A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.
Stackyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.
Stacte (n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
Staddle (v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
Staddle (v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
Staddle (v. i.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
Staddle (v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
Staddle (v. t.) To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
Staddle (v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay.
Stade (n.) A stadium.
Stade (n.) A landing place or wharf.
Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
Stadia (pl. ) of Stadium
Stadium (n.) A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
Stadium (n.) Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
Stadium (n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
Stadtholder (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
Stadtholderate (n.) Alt. of Stadtholdership
Stadtholdership (n.) The office or position of a stadtholder.
Stafette (n.) An estafet.
Staves (pl. ) of Staff
Staffs (pl. ) of Staff
Staffs (pl. ) of Staff
Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Staff (n.) The round of a ladder.
Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Staffier (n.) An attendant bearing a staff.
Staffish (a.) Stiff; harsh.
Staffmen (pl. ) of Staffman
Staffman (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.
Stag (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
Stag (n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.