Stormy (superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
Stormy (superl.) Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
Storven () p. p. of Starve.
Stories (pl. ) of Story
Story (v. t.) 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.
Story (n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
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.
Story (n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
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.
Storybook (n.) A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
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.
Story-teller (n.) A euphemism or child's word for
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.
Stot (n.) A horse.
Stot (n.) A young bull or ox, especially one three years old.
Stote (n.) See Stoat.
Stound (v. i.) To be in pain or sorrow.
Stound (v. i.) Stunned.
Stound (n.) A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm.
Stound (n.) Astonishment; amazement.
Stound (n.) Hour; time; season.
Stound (n.) A brief space of time; a moment.
Stound (n.) A vessel for holding small beer.
Stoup (n.) A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.
Stoup (n.) 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.
Stour (n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
Stour (a.) Tall; strong; stern.
Stout (superl.) Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.
Stout (superl.) Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
Stout (superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
Stout (superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
Stout (n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
Stout-hearted (a.) Having a brave heart; courageous.
Stoutish (a.) Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.
Stoutly (adv.) In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.
Stoutness (n.) The state or quality of being stout.
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.
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.
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.
Stove (v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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.
Stover (n.) Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Stowed (imp. & p. p.) of Stow
Stowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stow
Stow (v. t.) 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.
Stow (v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
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.
Stowage (n.) The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
Stowage (n.) Room in which things may be stowed.
Stowage (n.) The state of being stowed, or put away.
Stowage (n.) Things stowed or packed.
Stowage (n.) Money paid for stowing goods.
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.
Stowboard (n.) A place into which rubbish is put.
Stowce (n.) A windlass.
Stowce (n.) A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.
Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Stowre (a.) See Stour, a.
Stowre (n.) See Stour, n.
Strabism (n.) Strabismus.
Strabismometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.
Strabismus (n.) 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.
Strabotomy (n.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Straddled (imp. & p. p.) of Straddle
Straddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straddle
Straddle (v. i.) 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.) 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.) 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.
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.
Stradometrical (a.) Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads.
Straggled (imp. & p. p.) of Straggle
Straggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straggle
Straggle (v. t.) 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.
Straggle (v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
Straggle (v. t.) 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.
Straggle (v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
Straggle (n.) The act of straggling.
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.
Straggler (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Straggler (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Straggling () a. & n. from Straggle, v.
Stragglingly (adv.) In a straggling manner.
Stragula (pl. ) of Stragulum
Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a.