Stunsail (n.) A contraction of Studding sail.
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.
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.
Stunted (a.) Dwarfed.
Stuntness (n.) Stuntedness; brevity.
Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Stupa (n.) See 1st Stupe.
Stupe (v. t.) 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.
Stupe (n.) A stupid person.
Stupefacient (a.) Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.
Stupefacient (n.) Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.
Stupefaction (n.) The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied.
Stupefactive (a. & n.) Same as Stupefacient.
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.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
Stupefy (v. t.) To deprive of material mobility.
Stupendous (a.) Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.
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.
Stupid (a.) Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
Stupidity (n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
Stupidity (n.) Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.
Stupify (v. t.) See Stupefy.
Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Stupor (n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Stupose (a.) Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.
Stuprate (v. t.) To ravish; to debauch.
Stupration (n.) Violation of chastity by force; rape.
Stuprum (n.) Stupration.
Sturb (v. t.) To disturb.
Sturdily (adv.) In a sturdy manner.
Sturdiness (n.) Quality of being sturdy.
Sturdy (superl.) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.
Sturdy (superl.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.
Sturdy (superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.
Sturdy (superl.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
Sturdy (n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
Sturgeon (n.) 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.
Sturiones (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the sturgeons.
Sturionian (n.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
Sturk (n.) See Stirk.
Sturnoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the starlings.
Sturt (v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
Sturt (n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.
Sturt (n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Sturtion (n.) A corruption of Nasturtion.
Stut (v. i.) To stutter.
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.
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.
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.
Sties (pl. ) of Sty
Sty (v. i.) A pen or inclosure for swine.
Sty (v. i.) A place of bestial debauchery.
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.
Sty (v. i.) To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.
Sty (v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
Styan (n.) See Sty, a boil.
Styca (n.) An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.
Stycerin (n.) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
Stye (n.) See Sty, a boil.
Stygial (a.) Stygian.
Stygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
Stylagalmaic (a.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images.
Stylar (a.) See Stilar.
Stylaster (n.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
Style (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
Style (v. t.) A pen; an author's pen.
Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
Style (v. t.) 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.
Style (v. t.) 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.
Style (v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
Style (v. t.) 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.
Style (v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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.
Stylet (n.) A small poniard; a stiletto.
Stylet (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.