Sative \Sa"tive\, a. [L. sativus, fr. serere, satum, to sow.]
      Sown; propagated by seed. [Obs.] --Evelyn.

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Rotche \Rotche\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       A very small arctic sea bird ({Mergulus alle}, or {Alle       alle}) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; --       called also {little auk}, {dovekie}, {rotch}, {rotchie}, and       {sea dove}.
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Sea dove \Sea" dove`\ (Zo[94]l.)       The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of {Rotche}.
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Dove \Dove\, n. [OE. dove, duve, douve, AS. d[?]fe; akin to OS.       d[?]ba, D. duif, OHG. t[?]ba, G. taube, Icel. d[?]fa, Sw.       dufva, Dan. due, Goth. d[?]b[?]; perh. from the root of E.       dive.]       1. (Zo[94]l.) A pigeon of the genus {Columba} and various             related genera. The species are numerous.          Note: The domestic dove, including the varieties called                {fantails}, {tumblers}, {carrier pigeons}, etc., was                derived from the {rock pigeon} ({Columba livia}) of                Europe and Asia; the {turtledove} of Europe, celebrated                for its sweet, plaintive note, is {C. turtur} or                {Turtur vulgaris}; the {ringdove}, the largest of                European species, is {C. palumbus}; the {Carolina                dove}, or {Mourning dove}, is {Zenaidura macroura}; the                {sea dove} is the little auk ({Mergulus alle} or {Alle                alle}). See {Turtledove}, {Ground dove}, and {Rock                pigeon}. The dove is a symbol of innocence, gentleness,                and affection; also, in art and in the Scriptures, the                typical symbol of the Holy Ghost.
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Rotche \Rotche\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       A very small arctic sea bird ({Mergulus alle}, or {Alle       alle}) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; --       called also {little auk}, {dovekie}, {rotch}, {rotchie}, and       {sea dove}.
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Sea dove \Sea" dove`\ (Zo[94]l.)       The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of {Rotche}.
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Dove \Dove\, n. [OE. dove, duve, douve, AS. d[?]fe; akin to OS.       d[?]ba, D. duif, OHG. t[?]ba, G. taube, Icel. d[?]fa, Sw.       dufva, Dan. due, Goth. d[?]b[?]; perh. from the root of E.       dive.]       1. (Zo[94]l.) A pigeon of the genus {Columba} and various             related genera. The species are numerous.          Note: The domestic dove, including the varieties called                {fantails}, {tumblers}, {carrier pigeons}, etc., was                derived from the {rock pigeon} ({Columba livia}) of                Europe and Asia; the {turtledove} of Europe, celebrated                for its sweet, plaintive note, is {C. turtur} or                {Turtur vulgaris}; the {ringdove}, the largest of                European species, is {C. palumbus}; the {Carolina                dove}, or {Mourning dove}, is {Zenaidura macroura}; the                {sea dove} is the little auk ({Mergulus alle} or {Alle                alle}). See {Turtledove}, {Ground dove}, and {Rock                pigeon}. The dove is a symbol of innocence, gentleness,                and affection; also, in art and in the Scriptures, the                typical symbol of the Holy Ghost.
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Rotche \Rotche\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       A very small arctic sea bird ({Mergulus alle}, or {Alle       alle}) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; --       called also {little auk}, {dovekie}, {rotch}, {rotchie}, and       {sea dove}.
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Sea dove \Sea" dove`\ (Zo[94]l.)       The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of {Rotche}.
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Dove \Dove\, n. [OE. dove, duve, douve, AS. d[?]fe; akin to OS.       d[?]ba, D. duif, OHG. t[?]ba, G. taube, Icel. d[?]fa, Sw.       dufva, Dan. due, Goth. d[?]b[?]; perh. from the root of E.       dive.]       1. (Zo[94]l.) A pigeon of the genus {Columba} and various             related genera. The species are numerous.          Note: The domestic dove, including the varieties called                {fantails}, {tumblers}, {carrier pigeons}, etc., was                derived from the {rock pigeon} ({Columba livia}) of                Europe and Asia; the {turtledove} of Europe, celebrated                for its sweet, plaintive note, is {C. turtur} or                {Turtur vulgaris}; the {ringdove}, the largest of                European species, is {C. palumbus}; the {Carolina                dove}, or {Mourning dove}, is {Zenaidura macroura}; the                {sea dove} is the little auk ({Mergulus alle} or {Alle                alle}). See {Turtledove}, {Ground dove}, and {Rock                pigeon}. The dove is a symbol of innocence, gentleness,                and affection; also, in art and in the Scriptures, the                typical symbol of the Holy Ghost.
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Sea thief \Sea" thief`\       A pirate. --Drayton.
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Set-off \Set"-off`\, n. [Set + off.]       1. That which is set off against another thing; an offset.                         I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to                      the many sins imputed to me as committed against                      woman.                                                --D. Jerrold.          2. That which is used to improve the appearance of anything;             a decoration; an ornament.          3. (Law) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct             claim filed or set up by the defendant against the             plaintiff's demand.          Note: Set-off differs from recoupment, as the latter                generally grows out of the same matter or contract with                the plaintiff's claim, while the former grows out of                distinct matter, and does not of itself deny the                justice of the plaintiff's demand. Offset is sometimes                improperly used for the legal term set-off. See                {Recoupment}.          4. (Arch.) Same as {Offset}, n., 4.          5. (Print.) See {Offset}, 7.          Syn: {Set-off}, {Offset}.          Usage: Offset originally denoted that which branches off or                   projects, as a shoot from a tree, but the term has                   long been used in America in the sense of set-off.                   This use is beginning to obtain in England; though                   Macaulay uses set-off, and so, perhaps, do a majority                   of English writers.
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Offset \Off"set`\, n. [Off + set. Cf. {Set-off}.]       In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against,       something; as:          1. (Bot.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and             produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of             {Houseleek}.          2. A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or             account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given             in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.          3. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.          4. (Arch.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed             by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or             upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also             {set-off}.          5. (Surv.) A short distance measured at right angles from a             line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary,             or to some object.          6. (Mech.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which             one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel,             with the rest; the part thus bent aside.          7. (Print.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed             page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are             pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.          {Offset staff} (Surv.), a rod, usually ten links long, used             in measuring offsets.
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Set-off \Set"-off`\, n. [Set + off.]       1. That which is set off against another thing; an offset.                         I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to                      the many sins imputed to me as committed against                      woman.                                                --D. Jerrold.          2. That which is used to improve the appearance of anything;             a decoration; an ornament.          3. (Law) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct             claim filed or set up by the defendant against the             plaintiff's demand.          Note: Set-off differs from recoupment, as the latter                generally grows out of the same matter or contract with                the plaintiff's claim, while the former grows out of                distinct matter, and does not of itself deny the                justice of the plaintiff's demand. Offset is sometimes                improperly used for the legal term set-off. See                {Recoupment}.          4. (Arch.) Same as {Offset}, n., 4.          5. (Print.) See {Offset}, 7.          Syn: {Set-off}, {Offset}.          Usage: Offset originally denoted that which branches off or                   projects, as a shoot from a tree, but the term has                   long been used in America in the sense of set-off.                   This use is beginning to obtain in England; though                   Macaulay uses set-off, and so, perhaps, do a majority                   of English writers.
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Offset \Off"set`\, n. [Off + set. Cf. {Set-off}.]       In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against,       something; as:          1. (Bot.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and             produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of             {Houseleek}.          2. A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or             account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given             in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.          3. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.          4. (Arch.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed             by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or             upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also             {set-off}.          5. (Surv.) A short distance measured at right angles from a             line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary,             or to some object.          6. (Mech.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which             one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel,             with the rest; the part thus bent aside.          7. (Print.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed             page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are             pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.          {Offset staff} (Surv.), a rod, usually ten links long, used             in measuring offsets.
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Southpaw \South"paw`\, a. (Baseball)       Using the left hand in pitching; said of a pitcher. [Cant]
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Southpaw \South"paw`\, n.       A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. [Cant]
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Stab \Stab\, n.       1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.          2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the             stab an assassin. --Shak.          3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab             given to character.
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Stab \Stab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stabbing}.] [Cf. OD. staven to fix, fasten, fr. stave,       staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E.       staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a stub. Cf.       {Staff}.]       1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the             thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a             dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a             person.          2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or             slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
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Stab \Stab\, v. i.       1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to             thrust with a pointed weapon.                         None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in                      closer war.                                       --Dryden.          2. To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.                         She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. --Shak.          {To stab at}, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a             pointed weapon at.
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Staff \Staff\, n. [G. staffiren to fill or fit out, adorn, fr.       D. stoffeeren, OF. estoffer, F. [82]toffer, fr. OF. estoffe       stuff, F. [82]toffe. See {Stuff}, n.] (Arch.)       Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be       suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for       forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can       be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger       structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and       concealed with fresh plaster.
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Staff \Staff\, n.; pl. {Staves} ([?] [or] [?]; 277) or       {Staffs}in senses 1-9, {Staffs} in senses 10, 11. [AS.       st[91]f a staff; akin to LG. & D. staf, OFries stef, G. stab,       Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element,       rudiment, Skr. sth[be]pay to cause to stand, to place. See       {Stand}, and cf. {Stab}, {Stave}, n.]       1. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an             instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many             purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or             pike.                         And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of                      the altar to bear it withal.               --Ex. xxxviii.                                                                               7.                         With forks and staves the felon to pursue. --Dryden.          2. A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a             person walking; hence, a support; that which props or             upholds. [bd]Hooked staves.[b8] --Piers Plowman.                         The boy was the very staff of my age. --Shak.                         He spoke of it [beer] in [bd]The Earnest Cry,[b8]                      and likewise in the [bd]Scotch Drink,[b8] as one of                      the staffs of life which had been struck from the                      poor man's hand.                                 --Prof.                                                                               Wilson.          3. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a             badge of office; as, a constable's staff.                         Methought this staff, mine office badge in court,                      Was broke in twain.                           --Shak.                         All his officers brake their staves; but at their                      return new staves were delivered unto them.                                                                               --Hayward.          4. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.          5. The round of a ladder. [R.]                         I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and                      thirty-nine staves.                           --Dr. J.                                                                               Campbell (E.                                                                               Brown's                                                                               Travels).          6. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded,             the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.                         Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for                      an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical. --Dryden.          7. (Mus.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is             written; -- formerly called stave.          8. (Mech.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.          9. (Surg.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife,             used in cutting for stone in the bladder.          10. [From {Staff}, 3, a badge of office.] (Mil.) An             establishment of officers in various departments attached             to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander             of an army. The general's staff consists of those             officers about his person who are employed in carrying             his commands into execution. See {[90]tat Major}.          11. Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect             the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff             of a newspaper.          {Jacob's staff} (Surv.), a single straight rod or staff,             pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the             ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used,             instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass.          {Staff angle} (Arch.), a square rod of wood standing flush             with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles             of plastering, to prevent their being damaged.          {The staff of life}, bread. [bd]Bread is the staff of             life.[b8] --Swift.          {Staff tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Celastrus},             mostly climbing shrubs of the northern hemisphere. The             American species ({C. scandens}) is commonly called             {bittersweet}. See 2d {Bittersweet}, 3             (b) .          {To set}, [or] {To put}, {up, [or] down}, {one's staff}, to             take up one's residence; to lodge. [Obs.]
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Stave \Stave\, n. [From {Staff}, and corresponding to the pl.       staves. See {Staff}.]       1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron             plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering,             or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the             strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.          2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the             bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.          3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.                         Let us chant a passing stave In honor of that hero                      brave.                                                --Wordsworth.          4. (Mus.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and             between which musical notes are written or pointed; the             staff. [Obs.]          {Stave jointer}, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.
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Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {Stove}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Staving}.] [From {Stave}, n., or {Staff}, n.]       1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;             to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave             in a boat.          2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.                         The condition of a servant staves him off to a                      distance.                                          --South.          3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with             off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.                         And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or                      guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon                      them perilously.                                 --Tennyson.          4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.                         All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.          5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.          6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking             iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which             lead has been run.          {To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose             with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to             hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
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Stave \Stave\, v. i.       To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash       into fragments.                   Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank.                                                                               --Longfellow.
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brasilein \bra*sil"e*in\, {C16H12O5}, to which brazilwood owes       its dyeing properties. Brasque \Brasque\, n. [F.] (Metal.)       A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with       clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used       for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also {steep}.
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Steep \Steep\ (st[emac]p), a.       Bright; glittering; fiery. [Obs.]                   His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. --Chaucer.
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Steep \Steep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Steeped} (st[emac]pt); p.       pr. & vb. n. {Steeping}.] [OE. stepen, probably fr. Icel.       steypa to cause to stoop, cast down, pour out, to cast       metals, causative of st[umac]pa to stoop; cf. Sw. st[94]pa to       cast, to steep, Dan. st[94]be, D. & G. stippen to steep, to       dip. Cf. {Stoop}, v. t.]       To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of       by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often       used figuratively.                   Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak.                   In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling                flowers.                                                --Wordsworth.                   The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.                                                                               --Earle.
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Steep \Steep\, v. i.       To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is       steeping. [Colloq.]
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Steep \Steep\, n.       1. Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing             liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.          2. A rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]
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Steep \Steep\, a. [Comper. {Steeper}; superl. {Steepest}.] [OE.       steep, step, AS. ste[a0]p; akin to Icel. steyp[?]r steep, and       st[umac]pa to stoop, Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt; cf. OFries.       stap high. Cf. {Stoop}, v. i., {Steep}, v. t., {Steeple}.]       1. Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon;             ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a             horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill             or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep             declivity; a steep barometric gradient.          2. Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated;             high. [Obs.] --Chapman.          3. Excessive; as, a steep price. [Slang]
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Steep \Steep\, n.       A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any       elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of       the horizon; a precipice. --Dryden.                   We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken                into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices.                                                                               --Addison.                   Bare steeps, where desolation stalks.      --Wordsworth.
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brasilein \bra*sil"e*in\, {C16H12O5}, to which brazilwood owes       its dyeing properties. Brasque \Brasque\, n. [F.] (Metal.)       A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with       clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used       for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also {steep}.
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Steep \Steep\ (st[emac]p), a.       Bright; glittering; fiery. [Obs.]                   His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. --Chaucer.
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Steep \Steep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Steeped} (st[emac]pt); p.       pr. & vb. n. {Steeping}.] [OE. stepen, probably fr. Icel.       steypa to cause to stoop, cast down, pour out, to cast       metals, causative of st[umac]pa to stoop; cf. Sw. st[94]pa to       cast, to steep, Dan. st[94]be, D. & G. stippen to steep, to       dip. Cf. {Stoop}, v. t.]       To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of       by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often       used figuratively.                   Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak.                   In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling                flowers.                                                --Wordsworth.                   The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.                                                                               --Earle.
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Steep \Steep\, v. i.       To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is       steeping. [Colloq.]
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Steep \Steep\, n.       1. Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing             liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.          2. A rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]
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Steep \Steep\, a. [Comper. {Steeper}; superl. {Steepest}.] [OE.       steep, step, AS. ste[a0]p; akin to Icel. steyp[?]r steep, and       st[umac]pa to stoop, Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt; cf. OFries.       stap high. Cf. {Stoop}, v. i., {Steep}, v. t., {Steeple}.]       1. Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon;             ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a             horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill             or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep             declivity; a steep barometric gradient.          2. Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated;             high. [Obs.] --Chapman.          3. Excessive; as, a steep price. [Slang]
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Steep \Steep\, n.       A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any       elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of       the horizon; a precipice. --Dryden.                   We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken                into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices.                                                                               --Addison.                   Bare steeps, where desolation stalks.      --Wordsworth.
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Steepy \Steep"y\, a.       Steep; precipitous. [Poetic]                   No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy                cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme.         --Dryden.
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Steeve \Steeve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Steeved}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Steeving}.] [Cf. OD. steve staff, E. stem, n.]       (Shipbuilding)       To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with       the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
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Steeve \Steeve\, v. t.       1. (Shipbuilding) To elevate or fix at an angle with the             horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.          2. To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a             steeve. See {Steeve}, n.             (b) .
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Steeve \Steeve\, n. (Naut.)             (a) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or                   with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also                   {steeving}.             (b) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing                   cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to                   be packed tightly.
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Step \Step\, n. (Fives)       At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court       into an inner and an outer portion.
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Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stepped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stepping}.] [AS. st[91]ppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D.       stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe       a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr.       [?] to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. {Stamp},       n. & a.]       1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by             raising and moving one of the feet to another resting             place, or by moving both feet in succession.          2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;             as, to step to one of the neighbors.          3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.                         Home the swain retreats, His flock before him                      stepping to the fold.                        --Thomson.          4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.                         They are stepping almost three thousand years back                      into the remotest antiquity.               --Pope.          {To step aside}, to walk a little distance from the rest; to             retire from company.          {To step forth}, to move or come forth.          {To step} {in [or] into}.             (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to                   advance suddenly in.                               Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the                            water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever                            disease he had.                           --John v. 4.             (b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the                   house.             (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon                   easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.          {To step out}.             (a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,                   of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.             (b) To go out for a short distance or a short time.          {To step short} (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of             the step according to the established rules.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step- \Step-\ [AS. ste[a2]p-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D.       & G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stj[?]p-, Sw. styf-, and to       AS. [be]st[c7]pan, [be]ste[a2]pan, to deprive, bereave, as       children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]       A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,       daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus       spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the       marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of       the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother       of X. See {Stepchild}, {Stepdaughter}, {Stepson}, etc.
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Step \Step\, v. t.       1. To set, as the foot.          2. (Naut.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.          {To step off}, to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to             divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by             successive measurements, as with dividers.
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Step \Step\, n. [AS. st[91]pe. See {Step}, v. i.]       1. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a             pace.          2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in             ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a             ladder.                         The breadth of every single step or stair should be                      never less than one foot.                  --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.          3. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in             walking or running; as, one step is generally about three             feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of             any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by             steps.                         To derive two or three general principles of motion                      from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the                      properties and actions of all corporeal things                      follow from those manifest principles, would be a                      very great step in philosophy.            --Sir I.                                                                               Newton.          4. A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.          5. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.          6. Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is             often known by his step.          7. Proceeding; measure; action; an act.                         The reputation of a man depends on the first steps                      he makes in the world.                        --Pope.                         Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live                      till to-morrow, will have passed away. --Cowper.                         I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old                      gentleman's distresses.                     --G. W. Cable.          8. pl. Walk; passage.                         Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. --Dryden.          9. pl. A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in             reaching to a high position.          10. (Naut.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is             intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of             wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting             the heel of the mast.          11. (Mach.)             (a) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the                   steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a                   cone pulley on which the belt runs.             (b) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle                   or a vertical shaft revolves.          12. (Mus.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the             csale.          Note: The word tone is often used as the name of this                interval; but there is evident incongruity in using                tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the                word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder,                the intervals may well be called steps.          13. (Kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of             translation. --W. K. Clifford.          {Back step}, {Half step}, etc. See under {Back}, {Half}, etc.                      {Step grate}, a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the             bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.          {To take steps}, to take action; to move in a matter.
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Hop \Hop\, n.       1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a             jump; a spring.          2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]          {Hop}, {skip} ([or] {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic             sport in which the participants cover as much ground as             possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
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Step \Step\, n. (Fives)       At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court       into an inner and an outer portion.
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Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stepped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stepping}.] [AS. st[91]ppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D.       stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe       a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr.       [?] to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. {Stamp},       n. & a.]       1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by             raising and moving one of the feet to another resting             place, or by moving both feet in succession.          2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;             as, to step to one of the neighbors.          3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.                         Home the swain retreats, His flock before him                      stepping to the fold.                        --Thomson.          4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.                         They are stepping almost three thousand years back                      into the remotest antiquity.               --Pope.          {To step aside}, to walk a little distance from the rest; to             retire from company.          {To step forth}, to move or come forth.          {To step} {in [or] into}.             (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to                   advance suddenly in.                               Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the                            water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever                            disease he had.                           --John v. 4.             (b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the                   house.             (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon                   easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.          {To step out}.             (a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,                   of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.             (b) To go out for a short distance or a short time.          {To step short} (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of             the step according to the established rules.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step- \Step-\ [AS. ste[a2]p-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D.       & G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stj[?]p-, Sw. styf-, and to       AS. [be]st[c7]pan, [be]ste[a2]pan, to deprive, bereave, as       children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]       A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,       daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus       spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the       marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of       the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother       of X. See {Stepchild}, {Stepdaughter}, {Stepson}, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, v. t.       1. To set, as the foot.          2. (Naut.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.          {To step off}, to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to             divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by             successive measurements, as with dividers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, n. [AS. st[91]pe. See {Step}, v. i.]       1. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a             pace.          2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in             ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a             ladder.                         The breadth of every single step or stair should be                      never less than one foot.                  --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.          3. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in             walking or running; as, one step is generally about three             feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of             any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by             steps.                         To derive two or three general principles of motion                      from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the                      properties and actions of all corporeal things                      follow from those manifest principles, would be a                      very great step in philosophy.            --Sir I.                                                                               Newton.          4. A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.          5. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.          6. Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is             often known by his step.          7. Proceeding; measure; action; an act.                         The reputation of a man depends on the first steps                      he makes in the world.                        --Pope.                         Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live                      till to-morrow, will have passed away. --Cowper.                         I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old                      gentleman's distresses.                     --G. W. Cable.          8. pl. Walk; passage.                         Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. --Dryden.          9. pl. A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in             reaching to a high position.          10. (Naut.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is             intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of             wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting             the heel of the mast.          11. (Mach.)             (a) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the                   steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a                   cone pulley on which the belt runs.             (b) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle                   or a vertical shaft revolves.          12. (Mus.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the             csale.          Note: The word tone is often used as the name of this                interval; but there is evident incongruity in using                tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the                word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder,                the intervals may well be called steps.          13. (Kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of             translation. --W. K. Clifford.          {Back step}, {Half step}, etc. See under {Back}, {Half}, etc.                      {Step grate}, a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the             bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.          {To take steps}, to take action; to move in a matter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hop \Hop\, n.       1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a             jump; a spring.          2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]          {Hop}, {skip} ([or] {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic             sport in which the participants cover as much ground as             possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, n. (Fives)       At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court       into an inner and an outer portion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stepped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stepping}.] [AS. st[91]ppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D.       stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe       a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr.       [?] to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. {Stamp},       n. & a.]       1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by             raising and moving one of the feet to another resting             place, or by moving both feet in succession.          2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;             as, to step to one of the neighbors.          3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.                         Home the swain retreats, His flock before him                      stepping to the fold.                        --Thomson.          4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.                         They are stepping almost three thousand years back                      into the remotest antiquity.               --Pope.          {To step aside}, to walk a little distance from the rest; to             retire from company.          {To step forth}, to move or come forth.          {To step} {in [or] into}.             (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to                   advance suddenly in.                               Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the                            water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever                            disease he had.                           --John v. 4.             (b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the                   house.             (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon                   easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.          {To step out}.             (a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,                   of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.             (b) To go out for a short distance or a short time.          {To step short} (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of             the step according to the established rules.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step- \Step-\ [AS. ste[a2]p-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D.       & G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stj[?]p-, Sw. styf-, and to       AS. [be]st[c7]pan, [be]ste[a2]pan, to deprive, bereave, as       children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]       A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,       daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus       spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the       marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of       the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother       of X. See {Stepchild}, {Stepdaughter}, {Stepson}, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, v. t.       1. To set, as the foot.          2. (Naut.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.          {To step off}, to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to             divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by             successive measurements, as with dividers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, n. [AS. st[91]pe. See {Step}, v. i.]       1. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a             pace.          2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in             ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a             ladder.                         The breadth of every single step or stair should be                      never less than one foot.                  --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.          3. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in             walking or running; as, one step is generally about three             feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of             any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by             steps.                         To derive two or three general principles of motion                      from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the                      properties and actions of all corporeal things                      follow from those manifest principles, would be a                      very great step in philosophy.            --Sir I.                                                                               Newton.          4. A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.          5. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.          6. Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is             often known by his step.          7. Proceeding; measure; action; an act.                         The reputation of a man depends on the first steps                      he makes in the world.                        --Pope.                         Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live                      till to-morrow, will have passed away. --Cowper.                         I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old                      gentleman's distresses.                     --G. W. Cable.          8. pl. Walk; passage.                         Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. --Dryden.          9. pl. A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in             reaching to a high position.          10. (Naut.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is             intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of             wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting             the heel of the mast.          11. (Mach.)             (a) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the                   steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a                   cone pulley on which the belt runs.             (b) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle                   or a vertical shaft revolves.          12. (Mus.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the             csale.          Note: The word tone is often used as the name of this                interval; but there is evident incongruity in using                tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the                word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder,                the intervals may well be called steps.          13. (Kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of             translation. --W. K. Clifford.          {Back step}, {Half step}, etc. See under {Back}, {Half}, etc.                      {Step grate}, a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the             bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.          {To take steps}, to take action; to move in a matter.
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Hop \Hop\, n.       1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a             jump; a spring.          2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]          {Hop}, {skip} ([or] {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic             sport in which the participants cover as much ground as             possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
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Step \Step\, n. (Fives)       At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court       into an inner and an outer portion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stepped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stepping}.] [AS. st[91]ppan; akin to OFries. steppa, D.       stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe       a footstep, OHG. stapfo, G. stufe a step to step on; cf. Gr.       [?] to shake about, handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf. {Stamp},       n. & a.]       1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by             raising and moving one of the feet to another resting             place, or by moving both feet in succession.          2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;             as, to step to one of the neighbors.          3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.                         Home the swain retreats, His flock before him                      stepping to the fold.                        --Thomson.          4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.                         They are stepping almost three thousand years back                      into the remotest antiquity.               --Pope.          {To step aside}, to walk a little distance from the rest; to             retire from company.          {To step forth}, to move or come forth.          {To step} {in [or] into}.             (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to                   advance suddenly in.                               Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the                            water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever                            disease he had.                           --John v. 4.             (b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the                   house.             (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon                   easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.          {To step out}.             (a) (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,                   of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.             (b) To go out for a short distance or a short time.          {To step short} (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of             the step according to the established rules.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step- \Step-\ [AS. ste[a2]p-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D.       & G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stj[?]p-, Sw. styf-, and to       AS. [be]st[c7]pan, [be]ste[a2]pan, to deprive, bereave, as       children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]       A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,       daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus       spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the       marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of       the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother       of X. See {Stepchild}, {Stepdaughter}, {Stepson}, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, v. t.       1. To set, as the foot.          2. (Naut.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.          {To step off}, to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to             divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by             successive measurements, as with dividers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, n. [AS. st[91]pe. See {Step}, v. i.]       1. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a             pace.          2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in             ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a             ladder.                         The breadth of every single step or stair should be                      never less than one foot.                  --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.          3. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in             walking or running; as, one step is generally about three             feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of             any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by             steps.                         To derive two or three general principles of motion                      from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the                      properties and actions of all corporeal things                      follow from those manifest principles, would be a                      very great step in philosophy.            --Sir I.                                                                               Newton.          4. A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.          5. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.          6. Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is             often known by his step.          7. Proceeding; measure; action; an act.                         The reputation of a man depends on the first steps                      he makes in the world.                        --Pope.                         Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live                      till to-morrow, will have passed away. --Cowper.                         I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old                      gentleman's distresses.                     --G. W. Cable.          8. pl. Walk; passage.                         Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree. --Dryden.          9. pl. A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in             reaching to a high position.          10. (Naut.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is             intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of             wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting             the heel of the mast.          11. (Mach.)             (a) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the                   steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a                   cone pulley on which the belt runs.             (b) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle                   or a vertical shaft revolves.          12. (Mus.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the             csale.          Note: The word tone is often used as the name of this                interval; but there is evident incongruity in using                tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the                word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder,                the intervals may well be called steps.          13. (Kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of             translation. --W. K. Clifford.          {Back step}, {Half step}, etc. See under {Back}, {Half}, etc.                      {Step grate}, a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the             bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.          {To take steps}, to take action; to move in a matter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hop \Hop\, n.       1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a             jump; a spring.          2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]          {Hop}, {skip} ([or] {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic             sport in which the participants cover as much ground as             possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
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Steppe \Steppe\, n. [From Russ. stepe, through G. or F. steppe.]       One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia,       generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of       the prairies in Western North America. See {Savanna}.          {Steppe murrain}. (Far.) See {Rinderpest}.
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Steve \Steve\, v. t. [See {Stevedore}.]       To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See {Steeve}.
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Stiff \Stiff\, a. [Compar. {Stiffer}; superl. {Stiffest}.] [OE.       stif, AS. st[c6]f; akin to D. stijf, G. steif, Dan. stiv, Sw.       styf, Icel. st[c6]fr, Lith. stipti to be stiff; cf. L. stipes       a post, trunk of a tree, stipare to press, compress. Cf.       {Costive}, {Stifle}, {Stipulate}, {Stive} to stuff.]       1. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or             flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.                         [They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid                      a[89]rial sky.                                    --Milton.          2. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated;             neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.          3. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff             gale or breeze.          4. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate;             pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.                         It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.                                                                               --Jer. Taylor.                         A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to                      defend their hospitable laws.            --Dryden.          5. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected;             starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.                         The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the                      Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.                                                                               --Addison.          6. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. [Obs. or             Colloq.] [bd]This is stiff news.[b8] --Shak.          7. (Naut.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much;             as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to {crank}. --Totten.          8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff             charge; a stiff price. [Slang]          {Stiff neck}, a condition of the neck such that the head can             not be moved without difficulty and pain.          Syn: Rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate;                pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected;                starched; rigorous.
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Bunch grass \Bunch" grass`\ (Bot.)       A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In       California, {Atropis tenuifolia}, {Festuca scabrella}, and       several kinds of {Stipa} are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah,       {Eriocoma cuspidata} is a good bunch grass.
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Stipe \Stipe\, n. [L. stipes a stock, post, branch: cf. F.       stipe.] (Bot.)       (a) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.       (b) The stalk of a pistil.       (c) The trunk of a tree.       (d) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
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Stive \Stive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stived}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stiving}.] [Probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, L.       stipare: cf. It. stivare, Sp. estivar. Cf. {Stevedore},       {Stiff}.]       To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and       close; to render stifling. --Sandys.                   His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors                of one kind or other.                              --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.
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Stive \Stive\, n.       The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or       grinding. --De Colange.
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Stive \Stive\, v. i.       To be stifled or suffocated.
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Stoop \Stoop\, v. t.       1. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop             the body. [bd]Have stooped my neck.[b8] --Shak.          2. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a             cask of liquor.          3. To cause to submit; to prostrate. [Obs.]                         Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are                      stooped by death; and many left alive. --Chapman.          4. To degrade. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Stoop \Stoop\, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. ste[a0]p,       D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.]       A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also {stoup}.]                   Fetch me a stoop of liquor.                     --Shak.
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Stoop \Stoop\, n. [Cf. Icel. staup a knobby lump.]       A post fixed in the earth. [Prov. Eng.]
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Stoop \Stoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stooping}.] [OE. stoupen; akin to AS. st[?]pian, OD.       stuypen, Icel. st[umac]pa, Sw. stupa to fall, to tilt. Cf 5th       {Steep}.]       1. To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward;             to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or             walking; to assume habitually a bent position.          2. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume             a position of humility or subjection.                         Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet                      stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.                                                                               --Dryden.                         These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does                      not stoop to Rome.                              --Addison.          3. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. [bd]She             stoops to conquer.[b8] --Goldsmith.                         Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it                      multiplieth riches exceedingly.         --Bacon.          4. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to             souse; to swoop.                         The bird of Jove, stooped from his a[89]ry tour, Two                      birds of gayest plume before him drove. --Milton.          5. To sink when on the wing; to alight.                         And stoop with closing pinions from above. --Dryden.                         Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on                      his wing.                                          --Milton.          Syn: To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower;                shrink.
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Stoop \Stoop\, n. [D. stoep.] (Arch.)       Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the       Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York.       Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to       fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an       entrance door some distance above the street; the French       perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or       small veranda, at a house door. [U. S.]
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Stoop \Stoop\, n.       1. The act of stooping, or bending the body forward;             inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back             and shoulders.          2. Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an             act or position of humiliation.                         Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop                      from sovereignty?                              --Dryden.          3. The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. --L'Estrange.
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Stop \Stop\, n.       1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped;             hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression;             interruption; check; obstruction.                         It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything                      to the stop of the infection.            --De Foe.                         Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of                      natural philosophy.                           --Sir I.                                                                               Newton.                         It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires                      to give this stop to them.                  --Locke.          2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an             impediment; an obstruction.                         A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.                                                                               --Daniel.                         So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal                      to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. --Rogers.          3. (Mach.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc.,             for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the             position to which another part shall be brought.          4. (Mus.)             (a) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or                   pressure of the finger upon the string, of an                   instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence,                   any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical                   instrument are regulated.                               The organ sound a time survives the stop.                                                                               --Daniel.             (b) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side                   of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off                   any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as,                   the vox humana stop.          5. (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate             piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window             shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a             rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from             sliding too far.          6. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to             distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or             clauses; a mark of punctuation. See {Punctuation}.          7. (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut             off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing             through lenses.          8. (Zo[94]l.) The depression in the face of a dog between the             skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the             bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.          9. (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the             lips, or the tongue and palate, closed             (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice                   through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a                   lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.),                   or             (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the                   passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants                   so formed. --H. Sweet.          {Stop bead} (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of             a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile,             completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.                      {Stop motion} (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the             motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is             completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its             performance or product, or in the material which is             supplied to it, etc.          {Stop plank}, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort             of dam in some hydraulic works.          {Stop valve}, a valve that can be closed or opened at will,             as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a             liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is             operated by the action of the fluid it restrains.          {Stop watch}, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in             order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in             timing a race. See {Independent seconds watch}, under             {Independent}, a.          Syn: Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance;                impediment; interruption.
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Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stopping}.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to       LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan.       stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa       the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. {Estop}, {Stuff},       {Stupe} a fomentation.]       1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;             as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.             --Shak.          2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way,             road, or passage.          3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut             in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a             stream, or a flow of blood.          4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or             efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain;             to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the             execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the             approaches of old age or infirmity.                         Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not                      be rubbed nor stopped.                        --Shak.          5. (Mus.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by             pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or             by shortening in any way the vibrating part.          6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]                         If his sentences were properly stopped. --Landor.          7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.          Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress;                restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.          {To stop off} (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with             sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is             not wanted for the casting.          {To stop the mouth}. See under {Mouth}.
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Stop \Stop\, v. i.       1. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a             stop.                         He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden,                      looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his                      temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then                      stops again.                                       --Shak.          2. To cease from any motion, or course of action.                         Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career!                                                                               --Cowper.          3. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to             tarry; as, to stop with a friend. [Colloq.]                         By stopping at home till the money was gone. --R. D.                                                                               Blackmore.          {To stop over}, to stop at a station beyond the time of the             departure of the train on which one came, with the purpose             of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train; to             break one's journey. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]
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Stope \Stope\, n. [Cf. {Step}, n. & v. i.] (Mining)       A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working       faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
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Stope \Stope\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stoping}.] (Mining)       (a) To excavate in the form of stopes.       (b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore             has been worked out.
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Stope \Stope\, Stopen \Sto"pen\, p. p. of {Step}.       Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.]                   A poor widow, somedeal stope in age.      --Chaucer.
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Stoop \Stoop\, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. ste[a0]p,       D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.]       A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also {stoup}.]                   Fetch me a stoop of liquor.                     --Shak.
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Stoup \Stoup\, n. [See {Stoop} a vessel.]       1. A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.]          2. (Eccl.) 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}.
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Stoop \Stoop\, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. ste[a0]p,       D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.]       A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also {stoup}.]                   Fetch me a stoop of liquor.                     --Shak.
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Stoup \Stoup\, n. [See {Stoop} a vessel.]       1. A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.]          2. (Eccl.) 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}.
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Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {Stove}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Staving}.] [From {Stave}, n., or {Staff}, n.]       1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;             to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave             in a boat.          2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.                         The condition of a servant staves him off to a                      distance.                                          --South.          3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with             off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.                         And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or                      guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon                      them perilously.                                 --Tennyson.          4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.                         All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.          5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.          6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking             iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which             lead has been run.          {To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose             with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to             hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
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Stove \Stove\,       imp. of {Stave}.
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Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated       room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a       heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.       stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.       {Estufa}, {Stew}, {Stufa}.]       1. 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.                         When most of the waiters were commanded away to                      their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly                      emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of                                                                               Strafford.                         How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and                      caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,                      or under the pole!                              --Burton.          2. 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.          {Cooking stove}, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,             kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.          {Dry stove}. See under {Dry}.          {Foot stove}. See under {Foot}.          {Franklin stove}. See in the Vocabulary.          {Stove plant} (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat             to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.          {Stove plate}, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
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Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoved}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stoving}.]       1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,             to stove orange trees. --Bacon.          2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.)       A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,       benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.          {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a burner, furnace,             or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
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Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Staved}or {Stove}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Staving}.] [From {Stave}, n., or {Staff}, n.]       1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;             to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave             in a boat.          2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.                         The condition of a servant staves him off to a                      distance.                                          --South.          3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with             off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.                         And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or                      guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon                      them perilously.                                 --Tennyson.          4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.                         All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.          5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.          6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking             iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which             lead has been run.          {To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose             with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to             hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
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Stove \Stove\,       imp. of {Stave}.
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Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated       room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a       heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.       stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.       {Estufa}, {Stew}, {Stufa}.]       1. 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.                         When most of the waiters were commanded away to                      their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly                      emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of                                                                               Strafford.                         How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and                      caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,                      or under the pole!                              --Burton.          2. 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.          {Cooking stove}, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,             kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.          {Dry stove}. See under {Dry}.          {Foot stove}. See under {Foot}.          {Franklin stove}. See in the Vocabulary.          {Stove plant} (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat             to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.          {Stove plate}, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
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Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoved}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stoving}.]       1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,             to stove orange trees. --Bacon.          2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.)       A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,       benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.          {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a burner, furnace,             or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
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Stub \Stub\, n. [OE. stubbe, AS. stub, styb; akin to D. stobbe,       LG. stubbe, Dan. stub, Sw. stubbe, Icel. stubbr, stubbi; cf.       Gr. [?].]       1. The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which             remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; --             applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.                         Stubs sharp and hideous to behold.      --Chaucer.                         And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.                                                                               --Dryden.          2. A log; a block; a blockhead. [Obs.] --Milton.          3. The short blunt part of anything after larger part has             been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and             thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.          4. A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn             out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the             check are usually recorded.          5. A pen with a short, blunt nib.          6. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.          {Stub end} (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to             which the strap is fastened.          {Stub iron}, iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe             nails, -- used in making gun barrels.          {Stub mortise} (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through             the timber in which it is formed.          {Stub nail}, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also,             a short, thick nail.          {Stub short}, [or] {Stub shot} (Lumber Manuf.), the part of             the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place             where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in             connection with the log, until it is split off.          {Stub twist}, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally             welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.
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Stub \Stub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stubbing}.]       1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up             edible roots.                         What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to                      a piece of land.                                 --Berkley.          2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.          3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other             fixed object. [U. S.]
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Stubby \Stub"by\, a.       1. Abounding with stubs.          2. Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.
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Stuff \Stuff\, n. [OF. estoffe, F. [82]toffe; of uncertain       origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t.       Cf. {Stuff}, v. t.]       1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of             manufacture.                         For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the                      work to make it, and too much.            --Ex. xxxvi.                                                                               7.                         Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak.                         The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And                      yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. --Sir J.                                                                               Davies.          2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up;             elemental part; essence.                         Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do                      no contrived murder.                           --Shak.          3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind;             specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or             worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.                         What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?      --Shak.                         It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though,                      superior kinds were of silk exclusively. --F. G.                                                                               Lee.          4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.                         He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.                                                                               --Hayward.          5. A medicine or mixture; a potion. --Shak.          6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or             irrational language; nonsense; trash.                         Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or                      Shadwell write.                                 --Dryden.          7. (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with             which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared             for lubrication.                                          --Ham. Nav.                                                                               Encyc.          8. Paper stock ground ready for use.          Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. --Knight.          {Clear stuff}. See under {Clear}.          {Small stuff} (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. --Ham.             Nav. Encyc.          {Stuff gown}, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister;             hence, a junior barrister himself. See {Silk gown}, under             {Silk}.
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Stuff \Stuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stuffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stuffing}.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. [82]toffer,       to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to       stifle, F. [82]touffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and       akin to E. stop. Cf. {Stop}, v. t., {Stuff}, n.]       1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with             something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.                         Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And                      stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. --Gay.                         Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling                      dropsy stuff thy skin.                        --Dryden.          2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.                         Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing                      them close together . . . and they retain smell and                      color.                                                --Bacon.          3. To fill by being pressed or packed into.                         With inward arms the dire machine they load, And                      iron bowels stuff the dark abode.      --Dryden.          4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread,             meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.          5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some             obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.                         I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. --Shak.          6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a             specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.          7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.                         An Eastern king put a judge to death for an                      iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be                      stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the                      tribunal.                                          --Swift.          8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to             crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.          9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]
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Stuff \Stuff\, v. i.       To feed gluttonously; to cram.                   Taught harmless man to cram and stuff.   --Swift.
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Stuffy \Stuff"y\, a.       1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] --Jamieson.          2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]          3. Ill-ventilated; close.
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Stupe \Stupe\, n. [L. stupa, or better stuppa, tow. Cf. {Stop},       v. t.] (Med.)       Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied       to a hurt or sore.
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Stupe \Stupe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stuped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Stuping}.]       To foment with a stupe. --Wiseman.
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Stupe \Stupe\, n. [See {Stupid}.]       A stupid person. [Obs.]
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Laurel \Lau"rel\, n. [OE. lorel, laurer, lorer, OF. lorier,       laurier, F. laurier, (assumed) LL. Laurarius, fr. L. laurus.]       1. (Bot.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus {Laurus} ({L.             nobilis}), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape,             with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their             axils; -- called also {sweet bay}.          Note: The fruit is a purple berry. It is found about the                Mediterranean, and was early used by the ancient Greeks                to crown the victor in the games of Apollo. At a later                period, academic honors were indicated by a crown of                laurel, with the fruit. The leaves and tree yield an                aromatic oil, used to flavor the bay water of commerce.          Note: The name is extended to other plants which in some                respect resemble the true laurel. See Phrases, below.          2. A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; --             especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.          3. An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because             the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.          {Laurel water}, water distilled from the fresh leaves of the             cherry laurel, and containing prussic acid and other             products carried over in the process.          {American laurel}, [or] {Mountain laurel}, {Kalmia             latifolia}. See under {Mountain}.          {California laurel}, {Umbellularia Californica}.          {Cherry laurel} (in England called {laurel}). See under             {Cherry}.          {Great laurel}, the rosebay ({Rhododendron maximum}).          {Ground laurel}, trailing arbutus.          {New Zealand laurel}, {Laurelia Nov[91] Zelandi[91]}.          {Portugal laurel}, the {Prunus Lusitanica}.          {Rose laurel}, the oleander. See {Oleander}.          {Sheep laurel}, a poisonous shrub, {Kalmia angustifolia},             smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and             redder flowers.          {Spurge laurel}, {Daphne Laureola}.          {West Indian laurel}, {Prunus occidentalis}.
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Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.       zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv[94]ppr, Dan. &       Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]       Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but       not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the       seashore.                   Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.                                                                               --Tennyson.                   A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing                trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only                herbage, plants, and mosses.                  --Farming                                                                               Encyc. (E.                                                                               Edwards,                                                                               Words).          {Swamp blackbird}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Redwing}       (b) .          {Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage.          {Swamp deer} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus             Duvaucelli}) of India.          {Swamp hen}. (Zo[94]l.)       (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus});             -- called also {goollema}.       (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis});             -- called also {little swamp hen}.       (c) The European purple gallinule.          {Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea, [or]             Rhododendron, viscosa}) growing in swampy places, with             fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with             rose; -- called also {swamp pink}.          {Swamp hook}, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling             logs. Cf. {Cant hook}.          {Swamp itch}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}.          {Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small             leaves with the lower surface glaucous.          {Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}.          {Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak             which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak             ({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}),             swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}).          {Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite.          {Swamp partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several Australian             game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria},             allied to the European partridges.          {Swamp robin} (Zo[94]l.), the chewink.          {Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the             genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and             fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet             bay}.          {Swamp sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American sparrow             ({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely             resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy             places.          {Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}.
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Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE.       swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te,       OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr,       s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for       suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to       sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.]       1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;             saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet             beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.          2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a             sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.                         The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.                                                                               --Longfellow.          3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the             sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet             voice; a sweet singer.                         To make his English sweet upon his tongue.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.          4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;             as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.                         Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,                      and plains.                                       --Milton.          5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.          6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:             (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.             (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,                   sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.          7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;             winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.                         Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?                                                                               --Job xxxviii.                                                                               31.                         Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one                      established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.          Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining                compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,                sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.          {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}.          {Sweet apple}. (Bot.)             (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.             (b) See {Sweet-top}.          {Sweet bay}. (Bot.)             (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}).             (b) Swamp sassafras.          {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora}             ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and             producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.                      {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.)             (a) Either of the North American plants of the                   umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots                   and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.             (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing                   in England.          {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet             flag}, below.          {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum})             from which the gum ladanum is obtained.          {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}.          {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites             sagittata}) found in Western North America.          {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.             See the Note under {Corn}.          {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub             ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having             sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.                      {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus})             having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent             aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and             America. See {Calamus}, 2.          {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter             fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch             myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}.          {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.          {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar             styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}.          {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary             purposes.          {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.          {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}.          {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}.          {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten.          {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea             Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.          {Sweet oil}, olive oil.          {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}.          {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}.          {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag.          {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous             ether}, under {Spirit}.          {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea             moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); --             called also {sultan flower}.          {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for             sweetmeats. [Colloq.]          {Sweet William}.             (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many                   varieties.             (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler.             (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also                   {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]          {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale.          {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}.          {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or             special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.             [Colloq.] --Thackeray.          Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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Laurel \Lau"rel\, n. [OE. lorel, laurer, lorer, OF. lorier,       laurier, F. laurier, (assumed) LL. Laurarius, fr. L. laurus.]       1. (Bot.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus {Laurus} ({L.             nobilis}), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape,             with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their             axils; -- called also {sweet bay}.          Note: The fruit is a purple berry. It is found about the                Mediterranean, and was early used by the ancient Greeks                to crown the victor in the games of Apollo. At a later                period, academic honors were indicated by a crown of                laurel, with the fruit. The leaves and tree yield an                aromatic oil, used to flavor the bay water of commerce.          Note: The name is extended to other plants which in some                respect resemble the true laurel. See Phrases, below.          2. A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; --             especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.          3. An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because             the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.          {Laurel water}, water distilled from the fresh leaves of the             cherry laurel, and containing prussic acid and other             products carried over in the process.          {American laurel}, [or] {Mountain laurel}, {Kalmia             latifolia}. See under {Mountain}.          {California laurel}, {Umbellularia Californica}.          {Cherry laurel} (in England called {laurel}). See under             {Cherry}.          {Great laurel}, the rosebay ({Rhododendron maximum}).          {Ground laurel}, trailing arbutus.          {New Zealand laurel}, {Laurelia Nov[91] Zelandi[91]}.          {Portugal laurel}, the {Prunus Lusitanica}.          {Rose laurel}, the oleander. See {Oleander}.          {Sheep laurel}, a poisonous shrub, {Kalmia angustifolia},             smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and             redder flowers.          {Spurge laurel}, {Daphne Laureola}.          {West Indian laurel}, {Prunus occidentalis}.
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Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.       zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv[94]ppr, Dan. &       Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]       Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but       not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the       seashore.                   Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.                                                                               --Tennyson.                   A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing                trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only                herbage, plants, and mosses.                  --Farming                                                                               Encyc. (E.                                                                               Edwards,                                                                               Words).          {Swamp blackbird}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Redwing}       (b) .          {Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage.          {Swamp deer} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus             Duvaucelli}) of India.          {Swamp hen}. (Zo[94]l.)       (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus});             -- called also {goollema}.       (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis});             -- called also {little swamp hen}.       (c) The European purple gallinule.          {Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea, [or]             Rhododendron, viscosa}) growing in swampy places, with             fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with             rose; -- called also {swamp pink}.          {Swamp hook}, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling             logs. Cf. {Cant hook}.          {Swamp itch}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}.          {Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small             leaves with the lower surface glaucous.          {Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}.          {Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak             which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak             ({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}),             swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}).          {Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite.          {Swamp partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several Australian             game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria},             allied to the European partridges.          {Swamp robin} (Zo[94]l.), the chewink.          {Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the             genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and             fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet             bay}.          {Swamp sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American sparrow             ({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely             resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy             places.          {Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}.
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Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE.       swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te,       OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr,       s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for       suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to       sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.]       1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;             saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet             beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.          2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a             sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.                         The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.                                                                               --Longfellow.          3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the             sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet             voice; a sweet singer.                         To make his English sweet upon his tongue.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.          4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;             as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.                         Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,                      and plains.                                       --Milton.          5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.          6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:             (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.             (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,                   sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.          7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;             winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.                         Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?                                                                               --Job xxxviii.                                                                               31.                         Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one                      established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.          Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining                compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,                sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.          {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}.          {Sweet apple}. (Bot.)             (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.             (b) See {Sweet-top}.          {Sweet bay}. (Bot.)             (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}).             (b) Swamp sassafras.          {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora}             ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and             producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.                      {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.)             (a) Either of the North American plants of the                   umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots                   and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.             (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing                   in England.          {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet             flag}, below.          {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum})             from which the gum ladanum is obtained.          {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}.          {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites             sagittata}) found in Western North America.          {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.             See the Note under {Corn}.          {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub             ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having             sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.                      {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus})             having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent             aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and             America. See {Calamus}, 2.          {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter             fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch             myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}.          {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.          {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar             styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}.          {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary             purposes.          {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.          {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}.          {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}.          {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten.          {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea             Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.          {Sweet oil}, olive oil.          {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}.          {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}.          {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag.          {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous             ether}, under {Spirit}.          {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea             moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); --             called also {sultan flower}.          {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for             sweetmeats. [Colloq.]          {Sweet William}.             (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many                   varieties.             (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler.             (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also                   {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]          {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale.          {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}.          {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or             special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.             [Colloq.] --Thackeray.          Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pea \Pea\, n.; pl. {Peas}or {Pease}. [OE. pese, fr. AS. pisa, or       OF. peis, F. pois; both fr. L. pisum; cf. Gr. [?], [?]. The       final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Cf.       {Pease}.]       1. (Bot.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus {Pisum}, of             many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a             papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume,             popularly called a pod.          Note: When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of,                the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained                nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease                is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at                dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the                form peas being used in both senses.          2. A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the             seed of several leguminous plants (species of {Dolichos},             {Cicer}, {Abrus}, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum)             of a different color from the rest of the seed.          Note: The name pea is given to many leguminous plants more or                less closely related to the common pea. See the                Phrases, below.          {Beach pea} (Bot.), a seashore plant, {Lathyrus maritimus}.                      {Black-eyed pea}, a West Indian name for {Dolichos             sph[91]rospermus} and its seed.          {Butterfly pea}, the American plant {Clitoria Mariana},             having showy blossoms.          {Chick pea}. See {Chick-pea}.          {Egyptian pea}. Same as {Chick-pea}.          {Everlasting pea}. See under {Everlasting}.          {Glory pea}. See under {Glory}, n.          {Hoary pea}, any plant of the genus {Tephrosia}; goat's rue.                      {Issue pea}, {Orris pea}. (Med.) See under {Issue}, and             {Orris}.          {Milk pea}. (Bot.) See under {Milk}.          {Pea berry}, a kind of a coffee bean or grain which grows             single, and is round or pea-shaped; often used             adjectively; as, pea-berry coffee.          {Pea bug}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pea weevil}.          {Pea coal}, a size of coal smaller than nut coal.          {Pea crab} (Zo[94]l.), any small crab of the genus             {Pinnotheres}, living as a commensal in bivalves; esp.,             the European species ({P. pisum}) which lives in the             common mussel and the cockle.          {Pea dove} (Zo[94]l.), the American ground dove.          {Pea-flower tribe} (Bot.), a suborder ({Papilionace[91]}) of             leguminous plants having blossoms essentially like that of             the pea. --G. Bentham.          {Pea maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a European moth             ({Tortrix pisi}), which is very destructive to peas.          {Pea ore} (Min.), argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in             round grains of a size of a pea; pisolitic ore.          {Pea starch}, the starch or flour of the common pea, which is             sometimes used in adulterating wheat flour, pepper, etc.                      {Pea tree} (Bot.), the name of several leguminous shrubs of             the genus {Caragana}, natives of Siberia and China.          {Pea vine}. (Bot.)             (a) Any plant which bears peas.             (b) A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States                   ({Lathyrus Americana}, and other similar species).          {Pea weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small weevil ({Bruchus pisi})             which destroys peas by eating out the interior.          {Pigeon pea}. (Bot.) See {Pigeon pea}.          {Sweet pea} (Bot.), the annual plant {Lathyrus odoratus};             also, its many-colored, sweet-scented blossoms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE.       swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te,       OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr,       s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for       suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to       sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.]       1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;             saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet             beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.          2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a             sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.                         The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.                                                                               --Longfellow.          3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the             sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet             voice; a sweet singer.                         To make his English sweet upon his tongue.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.          4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;             as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.                         Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,                      and plains.                                       --Milton.          5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.          6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:             (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.             (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,                   sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.          7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;             winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.                         Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?                                                                               --Job xxxviii.                                                                               31.                         Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one                      established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.          Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining                compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,                sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.          {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}.          {Sweet apple}. (Bot.)             (a) Any apple of sweet flavor.             (b) See {Sweet-top}.          {Sweet bay}. (Bot.)             (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}).             (b) Swamp sassafras.          {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora}             ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and             producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.                      {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.)             (a) Either of the North American plants of the                   umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots                   and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.             (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing                   in England.          {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet             flag}, below.          {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum})             from which the gum ladanum is obtained.          {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}.          {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites             sagittata}) found in Western North America.          {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.             See the Note under {Corn}.          {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub             ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having             sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.                      {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus})             having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent             aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and             America. See {Calamus}, 2.          {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter             fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch             myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}.          {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.          {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar             styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}.          {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary             purposes.          {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.          {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}.          {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}.          {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten.          {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea             Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.          {Sweet oil}, olive oil.          {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}.          {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}.          {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag.          {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous             ether}, under {Spirit}.          {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea             moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); --             called also {sultan flower}.          {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for             sweetmeats. [Colloq.]          {Sweet William}.             (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many                   varieties.             (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler.             (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also                   {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]          {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale.          {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}.          {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or             special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.             [Colloq.] --Thackeray.          Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Scott A F B, IL       Zip code(s): 62225
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Scott AFB, IL (CDP, FIPS 68328)       Location: 38.54425 N, 89.85044 W       Population (1990): 7245 (1877 housing units)       Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
South Bay, FL (city, FIPS 67175)       Location: 26.66735 N, 80.71654 W       Population (1990): 3558 (1213 housing units)       Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 33493
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
STFW imp. /S-T-F-W/   [Usenet] Commmon abbreviation for "Search    The Fucking Web", a suggestion that what you're asking for is a    query better handled by a search engine than a human being.   Usage    is common and exactly parallel to both senses of {RTFM}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
stiffy n.   3.5-inch {microfloppies}, so called because their    jackets are more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the (now    totally obsolete) 8-inch floppy.   Elsewhere this might be called a    `firmy'.   For some odd reason, several sources have taken the    trouble to inform us that this term is widespread in South Africa.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SDF          Syntax Definition Formalism.   A language for lexical and       syntactic specification.          ["The Syntax Definition Formalism SDF - Reference Manual",       J. Heering et al, Centre for Math & CS, Amsterdam].          ["Algebraic Specification", J.A. Bergstra et al eds, ACM Press       1989, Chap 6.   To appear].          (1994-10-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SDP          {Service Discovery Protocol}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SE-ODP          Support Environment for Open Distributed Processing.   An       {ECMA} {standard}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SHTF          {shit hit the fan}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STAB          A descendent of {BCPL}.          (1996-08-25)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STAB-11          ["The Translation and Interpretation of STAB-11", A.J.T. Colin       et al, Soft Prac & Exp 5(2):123-138, Apr 1975].          (1996-08-25)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STB          {set-top box}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STEP          {Standard for the exchange of product model data}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STFW          {Search The Fucking Web}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
stiffy          ({University of Lowell}, Massachusetts) A       3.5-inch {microfloppy}, so called because their jackets are       more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the (obsolete)       8-inch {floppy disk}.   Elsewhere this might be called a       "firmy".          [{Jargon File}]          (1994-11-03)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
StP          {Software through Pictures}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STP          {shielded twisted pair}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
StP          {Software through Pictures}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STP          {shielded twisted pair}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
STP4          A statistical language.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
stub          1. A dummy procedure used when linking a program       with a {run-time library}.   The stub routine need not contain       any code and is only present to prevent "undefined label"       errors at link time.          2. A local procedure in a {remote       procedure call}.   The {client} calls the stub to perform some       task and need not necessarily be aware that RPC is involved.       The stub transmits parameters over the network to the {server}       and returns the results to the caller.          (1995-11-09)