Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Stalked, a. p. 1285Having a stalk.Stalk'er, n. p. 1285One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing-net.Stalk'ing-hōrse, n. p. 1285A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a fowler conceals himself from the sight of the game which he is aiming to kill. 2. Hence, something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a…Stalk'less, a. p. 1285Having no stalk.Stalk'y, a. p. 1285Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. Mortimer.Stall, n. p. 1285A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the apartment for one horse or ox. 2. A stable; a place for cattle. At…Stall, v. t. p. 1285To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox. “Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled.” Dryden. 2. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. [Obs.]…Stall, v. i. p. 1285To dwell; to inhabit. [Obs.] We could not stall together in the world. Shak. 2. To kennel, as dogs. Johnson. 3. To be set, as in mire. 4. To be tired of eating, as cattle.Stall'age, n. p. 1285The right of erecting stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall. 2. Laystall; dung; compost. [Obs.]Stal-lā'tion, n. p. 1285Installation. [Obs.] Cavendish.Stalled, a. p. 1285Put or kept in a stable; hence, fatted.Stall'er, n. p. 1285A standard-bearer. [Obs.] Fuller.Stall'-feed, v. t. p. 1285To feed and fatten in a stable, or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox.Stall'ion, n. p. 1285A horse not castrated; a stock-horse.Stāl'lon, n. p. 1285A slip from a plant; a cion; a cutting. Holinshed.Stall'-rēad'er, n. p. 1285One who reads or looks over books at a stall where they are exposed for sale. Cries the stall-reader, “Bless us, what a word on A title-page is this!” Milton.Stal'wart or Stal'worth (-wŏrth), a. p. 1285Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. “A stalwart tiller of the soil.” Prof. Wilson. Fair man he was and wise, stalworth and bold. R. Brunne. ☞ Stalworth is now disused, or but…Stal’worth-hōod or Stal’worth-ness, n. p. 1285The state or quality of being stalworth; strength; boldness; daring; stoutness. [Obs.]Stā'men, n. p. 1285A thread; especially, a warp thread. 2. The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it its strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of…Stā'mened, a. p. 1285Furnished with stamens.Sta'min, n. p. 1285A slight kind of woolen cloth; linsey-woolsey. Chaucer.Stăm'i-nal, a. p. 1285Pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens or stamina.Stăm′ĭ-nate, a. p. 1285(Bot.) Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.Stăm'-i-nāte, v. t. p. 1285To indue with stamina.Sta-mīn'e-al or Sta-mīn'e-ous, a. p. 1285Consisting of stamens or threads. 2. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or attached to, the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.Stām'i-nif'er-ōūs, a. p. 1285Bearing or having stamens.Stām'i-nōde or Stām'i-nō'di-ūm, n. p. 1285(Bot.) An abortive stamen, or an organ resembling an abortive stamen. Henslow.Stām'mel, n. p. 1285[O. Fr. estamet, estamette, a coarse woolen cloth, Sp. estameta, It. stametto, L. Lat. stameta, a kind of cloth, the same as stamine; O. Fr. estame, a woolen stuff, Pr. estam, Sp. estambre, It.…Stăm'mel, a. p. 1285Of the color of stammel; having a red color paler than scarlet.Stăm'mer, v. i. p. 1285To stop in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; and hence, to speak with stops and difficulty; to stutter.Stăm'mer, v. t. p. 1285To utter, or pronounce, with hesitation, or imperfectly.Stăm'mer, n. p. 1285Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; inability to pronounce certain words or syllables; a stutter.Stăm'mer-er, n. p. 1285One who stutters, or hesitates, in speaking.Stăm'mer-ing, p. a. p. 1285Apt to stammer.Stăm'mer-ing-ly, adv. p. 1285In a stammering manner.Stămp, v. t. p. 1285To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward; as, to stamp the ground. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. 2. To impress…Stămp, v. i. p. 1285To strike the foot forcibly downward. “But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies.” Dennis.Stămp, n. p. 1285The act of stamping; as, a stamp of the foot. 2. That which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies. ’Tis gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy. Dryden. 3. The…Stămp'-ăct, n. p. 1286An act of the British Parliament, imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the British American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null and void.Stämp'-col-lēct'or, n. p. 1286An officer who receives, or collects, stamp-duties; one who collects postage or other stamps. Simmonds.Stämp'-dū'ty, n. p. 1286A duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment, the evidence of the payment of which is a stamp.Stam-pēde', n. p. 1286A sudden fright seizing upon large bodies of cattle or horses, in droves or encampments on the prairies, and leading them to run for many miles, until they often sink down or die under their terrors…Stam-pēde', v. t. p. 1286To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd, troop, or teams of animals.Stăm'p'er, n. p. 1286An instrument for pounding or stamping.Stämp'-hēad, n. p. 1286A heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamping-mill.Stämp'ing-ma-chīne', n. p. 1286A machine for forming metallic articles, or impressions, by stamping.Stămp'ing-mill, n. p. 1286An engine consisting of hammers, or pestles, moved by water or steam power, for breaking or bruising ore.Stämp'-nōte, n. p. 1286A stamped certificate from a custom-house officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.]Stamp'-ōf'fice, n. p. 1286An office for the issue of stamps, and the reception of stamp-duties.Stănce, n. p. 1286Station; position. [Scot.] The boy ... danced down from his stance with a galliard sort of step. W. Scott.Stănch, v. t. p. 1286To stop the flowing of, as blood; to dry up. 2. To extinguish, as a fire; to put out. [Obs.]Stănch, v. i. p. 1286To stop, as blood; to cease to flow. Immediately the issue of her blood stanched. Luke viii. 44.Stănch, a. p. 1286Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship. One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty. Evelyn. 2. Firm in principle; constant and zealous…Stānch, n. p. 1286That which stanches, or extinguishes. [Obs.]Stănch'el, n. p. 1286The same as STANCHION.Stănch'er, n. p. 1286One who, or that which, stanches or stops the flowing, as of blood.Stän'chion, n. p. 1286(Arch.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support. 2. (Ship-building.) An upright post, or beam, of different forms, used to support the deck, the…Stānch'less, a. p. 1286Incapable of being stanched or stopped. Shak.Stānch'ness, n. p. 1286The state of being stanch; soundness; firmness in principle; closeness of adherence.Stănd, v. i. p. 1286To remain at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as, (a.) To rest on the feet, neither lying nor sitting;—said of an animal, of a human being, and the like. “I pray…