Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
- Entries
- 95,912
- Pages
- 1,538
- Illustrations
- 2,133
Look up a word as the writers of the time used it.
Stew'ard-ess, n. p. 1296A female waiter on shipboard.Stew'ard-ly, adv. p. 1296In the manner, or with the care, of a steward. [Rare.] Tooker.Stew'ard-shĭp, n. p. 1296The office of a steward.Stew'art-ry, n. p. 1296An overseer or superintendent. [Rare.] “The stewartry of provisions.” Tooke.Stew'ish, a. p. 1296Suiting a stew, or brothel. Bp. Hall.Stew'-păn, n. p. 1296A pan in which things are stewed.Stew'-pŏt, n. p. 1296A pot in which things are stewed.Stey, n. p. 1296See STEE.Sthĕn'ic, a. p. 1296(Med.) Attended with preternatural excitement, or excessive action of the heart and arteries; phlogistic.Stiacciato, n. p. 1296(Sculp.) A very low relief, adopted by sculptors for works which could be allowed little projection from the surface, or base line chosen. Fairholt.Stīb'i-al, a. p. 1296Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.Stīb/i-ā'rī-an, n. p. 1296A violent man. [Cant.] [Obs. and very rare.] White.Stĭb'i-ā'ted, a. p. 1296Impregnated with antimony.Stĭb'ic, a. p. 1296(Chem.) The same as ANTIMONIAC.Stĭb'i-oŭs, a. p. 1296(Chem.) The same as ANTIMONIOUS.Stĭb'i-ŭm, n. p. 1296(Min.) (a.) Antimony. (b.) Antimony glance; stibnite.Stīb’nite, n. p. 1296(Min.) A mineral of a lead gray color, and metallic luster, consisting chiefly of sulphur and antimony; antimony glance.Stīe'a-dōs, n. p. 1296A certain plant. [Obs.] Ainsworth.Stīe-cä'dō, n. p. 1296(Mus.) An instrument consisting of small lengths of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing…Stīch, n. p. 1296A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet. 2. A line in the Scriptures. 3. A row or rank of trees. 4. As much land as lies between double furrows; a stitch. [Local U. S.]Stīch'ic, a. p. 1296Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, sticks or lines. [Rare.]Stīch'o-măn'cy, n. p. 1296Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.Stĭch'o-mĕt'rĭe-al, a. p. 1296Of, or pertaining to, stichometry; characterized by stichs or lines.Stĭch-ŏm'e-try, n. p. 1296Measurement, or length, of books, as ascertained by the number of lines which they contain. 2. A division of the text of a book into lines.Stĭch'wŏrt, n. p. 1296(Bot.) A plant of the genus Stellaria, allied to the chickweed. London.Stĭck, n. p. 1296The small shoot, or branch, of a tree or shrub, cut off; a rod; also, a staff; as, to strike one with a stick. Withered sticks, to gather which might serve Against a winter’s day. Milton. 2. Any stem…Stĭck, v. t. p. 1296To cause to enter, as a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast in slaughter. It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm, while…Stĭck, v. i. p. 1296To hold to by cleaving to the surface, as by tenacity or attraction; to adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall, and causes paper to stick. I am a kind of bur; I shall stick.…Stĭck'-chĭm'ney, n. p. 1296A chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log-houses. Bartlett.Stĭck'er, n. p. 1296One who, or that which, sticks. 2. A sharp remark, very pointedly made, and calculated to silence a person or put completely down. [Colloq.] Thackeray. 3. An article of merchandise which sticks by…Stĭck'i-ness, n. p. 1296The quality of being sticky; adhesiveness; viscousness; glutinousness; tenacity; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.Stĭck'ing-plȧs'ter, n. p. 1296An adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.Stĭck'it, a. p. 1296Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.] Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.Stick'-lăc, n. p. 1297Lac in its natural state, incrusting small twigs.Stick'le, v. i. p. 1297To interpose between combatants and separate them. [Obs.] The same angel [in Tasso], when half of the Christians are already killed, and all the rest are in a fair way of being routed, stickles…Stick'le, v. t. p. 1297To intervene in; to arbitrate. [Obs.] They ran to him, and pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. Sidney.Stick'le, n. p. 1297A shallow in a river, where the water, being confined, runs with violence; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle…Stick'le-băck, n. p. 1297(Ichth.) A small fish of the genus Gasterosteus;—so called from the spines which arm their back, ventral fins, and other parts. [Written also stickle-bag.]Stick'ler, n. p. 1297One who stickles; as, (a.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basil[i]us, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sidney. (b.)…Stick'y, a. p. 1297Inclined to stick; having the quality of adhering to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.Stid'dy, n. p. 1297An anvil; also, a smith's shop. See STITHY. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.Stiff, a. p. 1297Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not flaccid; rigid; as, stiff wood; stiff paper. They, rising on stiff pinions, tower The mid aerial sky. Milton. 2. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious…Stĭff'en, v. t. p. 1297To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak. 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.…Stĭff'en, v. i. p. 1297To become stiff; to become more rigid or less flexible. Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. Dryden. 2. To become more thick, or less soft; to be inspissated; to approach to hardness; as, melted…Stĭff'en-ing, n. p. 1297Something that is used to make a substance more stiff or less soft.Stĭff'en-ing-ôr'der, n. p. 1297(Com.) A permission, granted by the customs department, to take on board heavy goods as ballast, to steady the ship. Simmonds.Stĭff'-heärt'ed, a. p. 1297Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.Stĭff'ly, adv. p. 1297In a stiff manner; firmly; strongly; rigidly; obstinately. “If any man shall say, swear, and stiffly maintain.” Burton.Stĭff'-nĕcked, a. p. 1297Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, a stiff-necked people; stiff-necked pride.Stĭff'ness, n. p. 1297The state of being stiff; want of pliableness or flexibility; the firm texture or state of a substance which renders it difficult to bend it; rigidness; as, the stiffness of iron or wood; the…Stī'fle, v. t. p. 1297To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. 2. To stop; to extinguish; to…Stī'fle, n. p. 1297(Far.) The joint on the hind leg of a horse next to the flank, and corresponding to the knee in man;—called also the stifle-joint. 2. A disease in the knee-pan of a horse or other animal.…Stīgh, n. p. 1297See STY.Stĭg'mȧ, n. p. 1297A mark made with a burning iron; a brand. 2. Any mark of infamy; any reproachful conduct which stains the purity or darkens the luster of reputation. 3. (Bot.) That vascular part of the pistil which…Stig-mā'ri-a, n. p. 1297(Paleon.) The root-stem of a fossil coal-plant of the genus Sigillaria.Stĭg'mȧ-tȧ, n. pl. p. 1297(Physiol.) The external openings of the tracheæ of insects; the spiracles. 2. (Rom. Cath. Church.) Marks said to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons, in imitation of…Stig-măt'ic, n. p. 1297A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears about him the marks of infamy or punishment. Bullokar. 2. One on whom nature has set a mark of deformity. Shak.Stig-măt'ic or Stig-măt'ic-al, a. p. 1297Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character. 2. Impressing with infamy or reproach. 3. (Bot.) Belonging or relating to the stigma.Stig-măt′ic-al-ly, adv. p. 1297With a mark of infamy or deformity.Stig'ma-tist, n. p. 1297One supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ’s wounds. See STIGMATA.