Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
Stirt (v. i.) Started; leaped.
Stirte () imp. of Start, v. i. & t.
Stitch (v. i.) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
Stitch (v. i.) 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 (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
Stitch (v. i.) A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
Stitch (v. i.) A contortion, or twist.
Stitch (v. i.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
Stitch (v. i.) A furrow.
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.) To form land into ridges.
Stitch (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework.
Stitchel (n.) A kind of hairy wool.
Stitcher (n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.
Stitchery (n.) Needlework; -- in contempt.
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.
Stitchwort (n.) See Stichwort.
Stith (a.) Strong; stiff; rigid.
Stith (n.) An anvil; a stithy.
Stithy (n.) An anvil.
Stithy (n.) A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge.
Stithy (v. t.) To forge on an anvil.
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.
Stive (v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
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.
Stoak (v. t.) To stop; to choke.
Stoat (n.) 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.
Stocah (n.) A menial attendant.
Stoccade (n. & v.) See Stockade.
Stoccado (n.) A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
Stochastic (a.) Conjectural; able to conjecture.
Stock (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
Stock (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
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.) 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.) 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.
Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
Stock (n.) 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.) 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.
Stock (n.) 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.) 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.
Stock (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
Stock (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
Stock (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
Stock (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
Stock (n.) 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.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
Stock (n.) 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.
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.
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.
Stockade (v. t.) 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.
Stockade (v. t.) 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.
Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
Stockbroker (n.) A broker who deals in stocks.
Stockdove (n.) 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.
Stocker (n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
Stockfish (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
Stockfish (n.) Young fresh cod.
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.
Stockinet (n.) An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
Stocking (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
Stocking (v. t.) To dress in GBs.
Stockinger (n.) A stocking weaver.
Stockish (a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
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.
Stockjobbing (n.) The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockman
Stockman (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.
Stock-still (a.) Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
Stockwork (n.) 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.