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Scorpene \Scor"pene\, n. [F. scorp[8a]ne, fr. L. scorpaena a kind of fish, Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) A marine food fish of the genus {Scorp[91]na}, as the European hogfish ({S. scrofa}), and the California species ({S. guttata}). | |
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Sate \Sate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sating}.] [Probably shortened fr. satiate: cf. L. satur full. See {Satiate}.] To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit. Crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities. --Macaulay. | |
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Satiate \Sa"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Satiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Satiating}.] 1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense. These [smells] rather woo the sense than satiate it. --Bacon. I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood. --Eikon Basilike. 2. To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut. 3. To saturate. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton. Syn: To satisfy; sate; suffice; cloy; gorge; overfill; surfeit; glut. Usage: {Satiate}, {Satisfy}, {Content}. These words differ principally in degree. To content is to make contented, even though every desire or appetite is not fully gratified. To satisfy is to appease fully the longings of desire. To satiate is to fill so completely that it is not possible to receive or enjoy more; hence, to overfill; to cause disgust in. Content with science in the vale of peace. --Pope. His whole felicity is endless strife; No peace, no satisfaction, crowns his life. --Beaumont. He may be satiated, but not satisfied. --Norris. | |
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Satiate \Sa"ti*ate\, a. [L. satiatus, p. p. of satiare to satisfy, from sat, satis, enough. See {Sad}, a., and cf. {Sate}.] Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of. [bd]Satiate of applause.[b8] --Pope. | |
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Satiety \Sa*ti"e*ty\, n. [L. satietas, from satis, sat, enough: cf. F. sati[82]t[82].] The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. --Hakewill. But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. --Milton. Syn: Repletion; satiation; surfeit; cloyment. | |
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Sawtooth \Saw"tooth`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An arctic seal ({Lobodon carcinophaga}), having the molars serrated; -- called also {crab-eating seal}. | |
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Scathe \Scathe\ (sk[amac][th]; 277), Scath \Scath\ (sk[acr]th; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scathed} (sk[amac][th]d or sk[acr]tht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scathing} (sk[amac][th]"[icr]ng or sk[acr]th"-).] [Icel. ska[eb]a; akin to AS. scea[eb]an, sce[eb][eb]an, Dan. skade, Sw. skada, D. & G. schaden, OHG. scad[d3]n, Goth. ska[ed]jan.] To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy. As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. --Milton. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. --W. Irving. | |
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Scout \Scout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scouted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouting}.] 1. To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout. Take more men, And scout him round. --Beau. & Fl. 2. To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country. | |
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Scud \Scud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scudded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scudding}.] [Dan. skyde to shoot, shove, push, akin to skud shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, and to E. shoot. [root]159. See {Shoot}.] 1. To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something. The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. --I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. --Beaconsfield. 2. (Naut.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread. | |
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Scutate \Scu"tate\, a. [L. scutatus armed with a shield, from scutum a shield.] 1. Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales. | |
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Scythed \Scythed\, a. Armed scythes, as a chariot. Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled. --Glover. | |
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Scythewhet \Scythe"whet`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.] | |
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'Sdeath \'Sdeath\, interj. [Corrupted fr. God's death.] An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger. --Shak. | |
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Sea toad \Sea" toad`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler. | |
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Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seating}.] 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. --Arbuthnot. 2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. 4. To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. --Milton. 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. | |
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Sedate \Se*date"\, a. [L. sedatus, p. p. of sedare, sedatum, to allay, calm, causative of sedere to sit. See {Sit}.] Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. --I. Watts. Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show. --Wordsworth. Syn: Settled; composed; calm; quiet; tranquil; still; serene; unruffled; undisturbed; contemplative; sober; serious. -- {Se*date"ly}, adv. -- {Se*date"ness}, n. | |
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Seed \Seed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seeded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeding}.] 1. To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field. 2. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes. --B. Jonson. {To seed down}, to sow with grass seed. | |
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Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.] 1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds. 2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy. 3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.] Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith. {Seedy toe}, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the lamin[91] and the wall of the hoof. | |
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Seethe \Seethe\, v. t. [imp. {Seethed}({Sod}, obs.); p. p. {Seethed}, {Sodden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seething}.] [OE. sethen, AS. se[a2][?]an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel. sj[?][?]a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a burnt offering. Cf. {Sod}, n., {Sodden}, {Suds}.] To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also {seeth}.] Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. --2 Kings iv. 38. | |
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Setout \Set"out`\, n. A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed. [Coloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shading}.] 1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. --Milton. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. --Dryden. 2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. Ere in our own house I do shade my head. --Shak. 3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of. Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. --Milton. 4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken. 5. To mark with gradations of light or color. 6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [Obs.] [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity. --Spenser. | |
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Shadow \Shad"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shadowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shadowing}.] [OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See {adow}, n.] 1. To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground. --Spenser. 2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host. --Shak. 3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. Shadowing their right under your wings of war. --Shak. 4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. 5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas. --Dryden. 6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. --Shak. Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed. --Beau. & Fl. 7. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. | |
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Sheathe \Sheathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sheathed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sheating}.] [Written also sheath.] 1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. --Grew. 'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. --Dryden. 2. To fit or furnish, as with a sheath. --Shak. 3. To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper. 4. To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles. [R.] --Arbuthnot. {To sheathe the sword}, to make peace. | |
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Sheathed \Sheathed\, a. 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath. 2. (Bot.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. | |
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Sheet \Sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sheeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sheeting}.] 1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. [bd]The sheeted dead.[b8] [bd]When snow the pasture sheets.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Shot \Shot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shotting}.] To load with shot, as a gun. --Totten. | |
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Shotted \Shot"ted\, a. 1. Loaded with shot. 2. (Med.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture. | |
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Shout \Shout\ (shout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shouted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shouting}.] [OE. shouten, of unknown origin; perhaps akin to shoot; cf. Icel. sk[umac]ta, sk[umac]ti, a taunt.] To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc. Shouting of the men and women eke. --Chaucer. They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for? --Shak. {To shout at}, to utter shouts at; to deride or revile with shouts. | |
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Side \Side\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sided}; p. pr.& vb. n. {Siding}.] 1. To lean on one side. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. --Pope. | |
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Sided \Sid"ed\, a. Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided. | |
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Sited \Sit"ed\, a. Having a site; situated. [Obs.] [The garden] sited was in fruitful soil. --Chaucer. | |
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Sithed \Sithed\, a. Scythed. [Obs.] --T. Warton. | |
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Situate \Sit"u*ate\, v. t. To place. [R.] --Landor. | |
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Situate \Sit"u*ate\ (?; 135), Situated \Sit"u*a`ted\, a. [LL. situatus, from situare to place, fr. L. situs situation, site. See {Site}.] 1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. --Milton. Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are well authorized. | |
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Skate \Skate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skating}.] To move on skates. | |
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Skid \Skid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skidded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skidding}.] 1. To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids. 2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. --Dickens. | |
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A week or so will probably reconcile us. --Gay. Note: See the Note under {Ill}, adv. {So} . . . {as}. So is now commonly used as a demonstrative correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By Shakespeare and others so . . . as was much used where as . . . as is now common. See the Note under {As}, 1. So do, as thou hast said. --Gen. xviii. 5. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. --Ps. ciii. 15. Had woman been so strong as men. --Shak. No country suffered so much as England. --Macaulay. {So far}, to that point or extent; in that particular. [bd]The song was moral, and so far was right.[b8] --Cowper. {So far forth}, as far; to such a degree. --Shak. --Bacon. {So forth}, further in the same or similar manner; more of the same or a similar kind. See {And so forth}, under {And}. {So, so}, well, well. [bd]So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit you fast.[b8] --Dryden. Also, moderately or tolerably well; passably; as, he succeeded but so so. [bd]His leg is but so so.[b8] --Shak. {So that}, to the end that; in order that; with the effect or result that. {So then}, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is. | |
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Soot \Soot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sooted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sooting}.] To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. --Mortimer. | |
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Soothe \Soothe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soothed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Soothing}.] [Originally, to assent to as true; OE. so[?]ien to verify, AS. ges[?][?]ian to prove the truth of, to bear witness. See {Sooth}, a.] 1. To assent to as true. [Obs.] --Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. --Shak. I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. --Addison. 3. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. --Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. --Byron. Syn: To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate. | |
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Sotted \Sot"ted\, a. & p. p. of {Sot}. Befooled; deluded; besotted. [Obs.] [bd]This sotted priest.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Souded \Soud"ed\, Soudet \Soud"et\, a. [See {Solder}.] United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! --Chaucer. | |
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Souded \Soud"ed\, Soudet \Soud"et\, a. [See {Solder}.] United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! --Chaucer. | |
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South \South\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Southed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Southing}.] 1. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. 2. (Astron.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine. | |
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Squat \Squat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squatted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squatting}.] [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir (cf. It. quatto squat, cowering), perhaps fr. L. ex + coactus, p. p. cogere to drive or urge together. See {Cogent}, {Squash}, v. t.] 1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire. 2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit. 3. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands. | |
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Stade \Stade\, n. [Cf. F. stade.] A stadium. --Donne. | |
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Stade \Stade\, n. [Cf. G. gestade shore.] A landing place or wharf. --Knight. | |
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d8Stadium \[d8]Sta"di*um\, n.; pl. {Stadia}. [L., a stadium (in sense 1), from Gr. [?].] 1. A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the {Olympic stadium}, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia. --Dr. W. Smith. 2. Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races. 3. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called {stadia}, and {stadia rod}. | |
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d8Stadium \[d8]Sta"di*um\, n.; pl. {Stadia}. [L., a stadium (in sense 1), from Gr. [?].] 1. A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the {Olympic stadium}, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia. --Dr. W. Smith. 2. Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races. 3. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called {stadia}, and {stadia rod}. | |
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Staid \Staid\, a. [From {Stay} to stop.] Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful. [bd]Sober and staid persons.[b8] --Addison. O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. --Milton. Syn: Sober; grave; steady; steadfast; composed; regular; sedate. | |
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Stay \Stay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stayed}or {Staid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Staying}.] [OF. estayer, F. [82]tayer to prop, fr. OF. estai, F. [82]tai, a prop, probably fr. OD. stade, staeye, a prop, akin to E. stead; or cf. stay a rope to support a mast. Cf. {Staid}, a., {Stay}, v. i.] 1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex. xvii. 12. Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines. --Dryden. 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir W. Scott. 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak. 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands grisly grapplement. --Spenser. All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartly wish were false. --Hooker. 5. To hinde[?]; to delay; to detain; to keep back. Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak. This business staid me in London almost a week. --Evelyn. I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. --Locke. 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. [bd]I stay dinner there.[b8] --Shak. 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. Stay your strife. --Shak. For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. --Emerson. 8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. 9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. {To stay a mast} (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. | |
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Staith \Staith\, n. [AS. st[91][?] a bank, shore, from the root of E. stead.] A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels. | |
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State \State\, n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. [82]tat, fr. L. status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Estate}, {Status}.] 1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. State is a term nearly synonymous with [bd]mode,[b8] but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. --Sir W. Hamilton. Declare the past and present state of things. --Dryden. Keep the state of the question in your eye. --Boyle. 2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor. Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. --Shak. 3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. --Bacon. Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? --Pope. 4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp. Where least og state there most of love is shown. --Dryden. 5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.] His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. --Milton. When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. --Swift. 6. Estate, possession. [Obs.] --Daniel. Your state, my lord, again in yours. --Massinger. 7. A person of high rank. [Obs.] --Latimer. 8. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. {Estate}, n., 6. 9. The principal persons in a government. The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states. --Milton. 10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland. 11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.] Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. --Dryden. 12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation. Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. --Blackstone. The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. --R. Choate. 13. In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States. 14. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme. [Obs.] Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa. {Nascent state}. (Chem.) See under {Nascent}. {Secretary of state}. See {Secretary}, n., 3. {State barge}a royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government. {State bed}, an elaborately carved or decorated bed. {State carriage}, a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions. {State paper}, an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. --Jay. {State prison}, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called also {State's prison}. {State prisoner}, one is confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense. {State rights}, [or] {States' rights}, the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.] {State's evidence}. See {Probator}, 2, and under {Evidence}. {State sword}, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank. {State trial}, a trial of a person for a political offense. {States of the Church}. See under {Ecclesiastical}. Syn: {State}, {Situation}, {Condition}. Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment. I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy. --Milton. We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life. --Cock. And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley. | |
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State \State\, n. A statement; also, a document containing a statement. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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State \State\, a. 1. Stately. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public. | |
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State \State\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stating}.] 1. To set; to settle; to establish. [R.] I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated. --Wither. Who calls the council, states the certain day. --Pope. 2. To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc. {To state it}. To assume state or dignity. [Obs.] [bd]Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Argillaceous \Ar`gil*la"ceous\, a. [L. argillaceus, fr. argilla.] Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. {Argillaceous sandstone} (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. {Argillaceous iron ore}, the clay ironstone. {Argillaceous schist} or {state}. See {Argillite}. | |
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Construct \Con"struct\, a. Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. {Construct form} [or] {state} (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it. | |
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State \State\, n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. [82]tat, fr. L. status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Estate}, {Status}.] 1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. State is a term nearly synonymous with [bd]mode,[b8] but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. --Sir W. Hamilton. Declare the past and present state of things. --Dryden. Keep the state of the question in your eye. --Boyle. 2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor. Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. --Shak. 3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. --Bacon. Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? --Pope. 4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp. Where least og state there most of love is shown. --Dryden. 5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.] His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. --Milton. When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. --Swift. 6. Estate, possession. [Obs.] --Daniel. Your state, my lord, again in yours. --Massinger. 7. A person of high rank. [Obs.] --Latimer. 8. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. {Estate}, n., 6. 9. The principal persons in a government. The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states. --Milton. 10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland. 11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.] Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. --Dryden. 12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation. Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. --Blackstone. The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. --R. Choate. 13. In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States. 14. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme. [Obs.] Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa. {Nascent state}. (Chem.) See under {Nascent}. {Secretary of state}. See {Secretary}, n., 3. {State barge}a royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government. {State bed}, an elaborately carved or decorated bed. {State carriage}, a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions. {State paper}, an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. --Jay. {State prison}, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called also {State's prison}. {State prisoner}, one is confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense. {State rights}, [or] {States' rights}, the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.] {State's evidence}. See {Probator}, 2, and under {Evidence}. {State sword}, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank. {State trial}, a trial of a person for a political offense. {States of the Church}. See under {Ecclesiastical}. Syn: {State}, {Situation}, {Condition}. Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment. I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy. --Milton. We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life. --Cock. And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley. | |
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State \State\, n. A statement; also, a document containing a statement. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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State \State\, a. 1. Stately. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public. | |
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State \State\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stating}.] 1. To set; to settle; to establish. [R.] I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated. --Wither. Who calls the council, states the certain day. --Pope. 2. To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc. {To state it}. To assume state or dignity. [Obs.] [bd]Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Argillaceous \Ar`gil*la"ceous\, a. [L. argillaceus, fr. argilla.] Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. {Argillaceous sandstone} (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. {Argillaceous iron ore}, the clay ironstone. {Argillaceous schist} or {state}. See {Argillite}. | |
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Construct \Con"struct\, a. Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. {Construct form} [or] {state} (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it. | |
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Statua \Stat"u*a\, n. [L.] A statue. [Obs.] They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other. --Shak. | |
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Statue \Stat"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Statued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Statuing}.] To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. [bd]The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.[b8] --Feltham. | |
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Statue \Stat"ue\, n. [F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus standing still), fr. stare, statum, to stand. See {Stand}.] 1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. --Shak. 2. A portrait. [Obs.] --Massinger. | |
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Stayed \Stayed\, a. Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See {Staid}. --Bacon. Pope. | |
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Stay \Stay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stayed}or {Staid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Staying}.] [OF. estayer, F. [82]tayer to prop, fr. OF. estai, F. [82]tai, a prop, probably fr. OD. stade, staeye, a prop, akin to E. stead; or cf. stay a rope to support a mast. Cf. {Staid}, a., {Stay}, v. i.] 1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex. xvii. 12. Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines. --Dryden. 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir W. Scott. 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak. 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands grisly grapplement. --Spenser. All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartly wish were false. --Hooker. 5. To hinde[?]; to delay; to detain; to keep back. Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak. This business staid me in London almost a week. --Evelyn. I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. --Locke. 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. [bd]I stay dinner there.[b8] --Shak. 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. Stay your strife. --Shak. For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. --Emerson. 8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. 9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. {To stay a mast} (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. | |
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Stead \Stead\, v. t. 1. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue. --Spenser. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. --Shak. 2. To fill place of. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Stead \Stead\, n. [OE. stede place, AS. stede; akin to LG. & D. stede, OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, st[84]tte, Icel. sta[edh]r, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta[?]s, and E. stand. [fb]163. See {Stand}, and cf. {Staith}, {Stithy}.] 1. Place, or spot, in general. [Obs., except in composition.] --Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. --Spenser. 2. Place or room which another had, has, or might have. [bd]Stewards of your steads.[b8] --Piers Plowman. In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. --Chaucer. 3. A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [R.] The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead. --Dryden. 4. A farmhouse and offices. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Note: The word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, readstead, etc. {In stead of}, in place of. See {Instead}. {To stand in stead}, [or] {To do stead}, to be of use or great advantage. The smallest act . . . shall stand us in great stead. --Atterbury. Here thy sword can do thee little stead. --Milton. | |
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Steady \Stead"y\, v. i. To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily. Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel. --Coleridge. | |
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Steady \Stead"y\, a. [Compar. {Steadier}; superl. {Steadiest}.] [Cf. AS. stedig sterile, barren, st[91][?][?]ig, steady (in gest[91][?][?]ig), D. stedig, stadig, steeg, G. st[84]tig, stetig. See {Stead}, n.] 1. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. [bd]The softest, steadiest plume.[b8] --Keble. Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object. 3. Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind. Syn: Fixed; regular; uniform; undeviating; invariable; unremitted; stable. {Steady rest} (Mach), a rest in a turning lathe, to keep a long piece of work from trembling. | |
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Steady \Stead"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Steadied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Steadying}.] To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute. | |
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Sted \Sted\, n., Stedfast \Sted"fast\, a., Stedfastly \Sted"fast*ly\, adv., etc. See {Stead}, {Steadfast}, etc. | |
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Steed \Steed\, n. [OE. stede, AS. st[c7]da a stud-horse, war horse, fr. st[d3]d a stud of breeding steeds; akin to G. stute a mare, Icel. stedda, st[d3][?], a stud. [fb]163. See {Stud} of horses.] A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose. [bd]A knight upon a steed.[b8] --Chaucer. Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed. --Shak. | |
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Stet \Stet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stetting}.] (Print.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote. | |
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Stet \Stet\, L., subj. 3d pers. sing. of stare to stand, remain. [See {Stand}.] (Print.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain. | |
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Stew \Stew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stewing}.] [OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. [82]tuver, fr. OF. estuve, F. [82]tuve, a sweating house, a room heated for a bath; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stove. See {Stove}, and cf. {Stive} to stew.] To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples. | |
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Stiddy \Stid"dy\, n. [See {Stithy}.] An anvil; also, a smith shop. See {Stithy}. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Sty \Sty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stying}.] To shut up in, or as in, a sty. --Shak. | |
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Stith \Stith\, a. [AS. st[c6][edh].] Strong; stiff; rigid. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] | |
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Stith \Stith\, n. [Icel. ste[edh]i an anvil, akin to sta[edh]r place. See {Stead}.] An anvil; a stithy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. --Holland. | |
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Stithy \Stith"y\, v. t. To forge on an anvil. The forge that stithied Mars his helm. --Shak. | |
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Stithy \Stith"y\, n. [See {Stith}, and cf. {Stiddy}.] 1. An anvil. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge. [bd]As foul as Vulcan's stithy.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Stoat \Stoat\, n. [OE. stot a stoat, horse, bullock; perhaps originally only of male animals, and akin to D. stooten to push, E. stutter; cf. Icel. st[?]tr a bull, Sw. stut a bullock. Cf. {Stot}.] (Zo[94]l.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels. | |
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Stand \Stand\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stood}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Standing}.] [OE. standen; AS. standan; akin to OFries. stonda, st[be]n, D. staan, OS. standan, st[be]n, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. st[86], Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. [?] to cause to stand, [?] to stand, Skr. sth[be]. [fb]163. Cf. {Assist}, {Constant}, {Contrast}, {Desist}, {Destine}, {Ecstasy}, {Exist}, {Interstice}, {Obstacle}, {Obstinate}, {Prest}, n., {Rest} remainder, {Soltice}, {Stable}, a. & n., {State}, n., {Statute}, {Stead}, {Steed}, {Stool}, {Stud} of horses, {Substance}, {System}.] 1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as: (a) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to {lie}, {sit}, {kneel}, etc. [bd]I pray you all, stand up![b8] --Shak. (b) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation. It stands as it were to the ground yglued. --Chaucer. The ruined wall Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone. --Byron. 2. To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine. Wite ye not where there stands a little town? --Chaucer. 3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary. I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name. --Dryden. The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. --Matt. ii. 9. 4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources. My mind on its own center stands unmoved. --Dryden. 5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall. --Spectator. 6. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. [bd]The standing pattern of their imitation.[b8] --South. The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life. --Esther viii. 11. 7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice. We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment. --Latimer. 8. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts. 9. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. [bd]Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks.[b8] --Heb. ix. 10. Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go. --Dryden. Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry. --Sir W. Scott. 10. To be consistent; to agree; to accord. Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor. --Massinger. 11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor. From the same parts of heaven his navy stands. --Dryden. 12. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate. He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university. --Walton. 13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless. Or the black water of Pomptina stands. --Dryden. 14. To measure when erect on the feet. Six feet two, as I think, he stands. --Tennyson. 15. (Law) (a) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. --Bouvier. (b) To appear in court. --Burrill. {Stand by} (Naut.), a preparatory order, equivalent to {Be ready}. {To stand against}, to opposite; to resist. {To stand by}. (a) To be near; to be a spectator; to be present. (b) To be aside; to be aside with disregard. [bd]In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected.[b8] --Dr. H. More. (c) To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand by one's principles or party. (d) To rest on for support; to be supported by. --Whitgift. {To stand corrected}, to be set right, as after an error in a statement of fact. --Wycherley. {To stand fast}, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable. {To stand firmly on}, to be satisfied or convinced of. [bd]Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty.[b8] --Shak. {To stand for}. (a) To side with; to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain; to defend. [bd]I stand wholly for you.[b8] --Shak. (b) To be in the place of; to be the substitute or to represent; as, a cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing. [bd]I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another.[b8] --Locke. {To stand in}, to cost. [bd]The same standeth them in much less cost.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. --Burke. {To stand in hand}, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. {To stand off}. (a) To keep at a distance. (b) Not to comply. (c) To keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or acquaintance. (d) To appear prominent; to have relief. [bd]Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved.[b8] --Sir H. Wotton. {To stand off and on} (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and then from it. {To stand on} (Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course. {To stand out}. (a) To project; to be prominent. [bd]Their eyes stand out with fatness.[b8] --Psalm lxxiii. 7. (b) To persist in opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede. His spirit is come in, That so stood out against the holy church. --Shak. {To stand to}. (a) To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. [bd]Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars.[b8] --Dryden. (b) To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. [bd]I will stand to it, that this is his sense.[b8] --Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contrast, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. [bd]Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.[b8] --Bacon. (e) To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so. (f) To support; to uphold. [bd]Stand to me in this cause.[b8] --Shak. {To stand together}, to be consistent; to agree. {To stand to sea} (Naut.), to direct the course from land. {To stand under}, to undergo; to withstand. --Shak. {To stand up}. (a) To rise from sitting; to be on the feet. (b) To arise in order to speak or act. [bd]Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed.[b8] --Acts xxv. 18. (c) To rise and stand on end, as the hair. (d) To put one's self in opposition; to contend. [bd]Once we stood up about the corn.[b8] --Shak. {To stand up for}, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration. {To stand upon}. (a) To concern; to interest. (b) To value; to esteem. [bd]We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.[b8] --Ray. (c) To insist on; to attach much importance to; as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony. (d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] [bd]So I stood upon him, and slew him.[b8] --2 Sam. i. 10. {To stand with}, to be consistent with. [bd]It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.[b8] --Sir J. Davies. | |
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Stood \Stood\, imp. & p. p. of {Stand}. | |
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Stot \Stot\, n. [AS. stotte a hack, jade, or worthless horse; cf. Sw. stut a bull, Dan. stud an ox. Cf. {Stoat}.] 1. A horse. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Thorold Rogers. 2. A young bull or ox, especially one three years old. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Stote \Stote\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Stoat}. | |
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Stout \Stout\, a. [Compar. {Stouter}; superl. {Stoutest}.] [D. stout bold (or OF. estout bold, proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and perh. to E. stilt.] 1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. --Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. --Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. --Clarendon. The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. --Daniel. 2. Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic] Your words have been stout against me. --Mal. iii. 13. Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout. --Latimer. 3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth. 4. Large; bulky; corpulent. Syn: {Stout}, {Corpulent}, {Portly}. Usage: Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: [bd]The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size.[b8] In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole. | |
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Stout \Stout\, n. A strong malt liquor; strong porter. | |
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Stow \Stow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stowing}.] [OE. stowen, fr. stowe a place, AS. stow; cf. Icel. eldst[d3]a fireplace, hearth, OFries. st[d3], and E. stand. [fb]163.] 1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. --Dryden. 2. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge. Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter? --Shak. 3. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship. | |
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Stud \Stud\, n. [AS. studu a post; akin to Sw. st[94]d a prop, Icel. sto[?] a post, sty[?]ja to prop, and probably ultimately to E. stand; cf. D. stut a prop, G. st[81]tze. See {Stand}.] 1. A stem; a trunk. [Obs.] Seest not this same hawthorn stud? --Spenser. 2. (Arch.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed. 3. A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss. A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs. --Marlowe. Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems And studs of pearl. --Milton. 4. An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable. 5. (Mach.) (a) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal. (b) A stud bolt. 6. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable. {Stud bolt}, a bolt with threads on both ends, to be screwed permanently into a fixed part at one end and receive a nut upon the other; -- called also {standing bolt}. | |
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Stud \Stud\, n. [OE. stod, stood, AS. st[d3]d; akin to OHG. stuota, G. stute a mare, Icel. st[d3][?] stud, Lith. stodas a herd, Russ. stado, and to E. stand. The sense is properly, a stand, an establishment. [fb]163. See {Stand}, and cf. {Steed}.] A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc. In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor, and size. --Sir W. Temple. He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories. --Macaulay. | |
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Stud \Stud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Studded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Studding}.] 1. To adorn with shining studs, or knobs. Thy horses shall be trapped, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. --Shak. 2. To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs. The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. --Bp. Hobart. | |
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Quarter \Quar"ter\, n. [F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See {Quart}.] 1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically: (a) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. (b) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. --Hutton. (c) (Astron.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. (d) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. (e) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. (f) (Far.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. (g) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. (i) (Naut.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. (j) (Her.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. Note: When two coats of arms are united upon one escutcheon, as in case of marriage, the first and fourth quarters display one shield, the second and third the other. See {Quarter}, v. t., 5. (k) One of the four parts into which the horizon is regarded as divided; a cardinal point; a direction' principal division; a region; a territory. Scouts each coast light-armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. --Milton. (l) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. (m) (Arch.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called {stud}. (n) (Naut.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11[f8] 15[b7], that is, about 2[f8] 49[b7]; -- called also {quarter point}. | |
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Stud \Stud\, n. [AS. studu a post; akin to Sw. st[94]d a prop, Icel. sto[?] a post, sty[?]ja to prop, and probably ultimately to E. stand; cf. D. stut a prop, G. st[81]tze. See {Stand}.] 1. A stem; a trunk. [Obs.] Seest not this same hawthorn stud? --Spenser. 2. (Arch.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed. 3. A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss. A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs. --Marlowe. Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems And studs of pearl. --Milton. 4. An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable. 5. (Mach.) (a) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal. (b) A stud bolt. 6. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable. {Stud bolt}, a bolt with threads on both ends, to be screwed permanently into a fixed part at one end and receive a nut upon the other; -- called also {standing bolt}. | |
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Stud \Stud\, n. [OE. stod, stood, AS. st[d3]d; akin to OHG. stuota, G. stute a mare, Icel. st[d3][?] stud, Lith. stodas a herd, Russ. stado, and to E. stand. The sense is properly, a stand, an establishment. [fb]163. See {Stand}, and cf. {Steed}.] A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc. In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor, and size. --Sir W. Temple. He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories. --Macaulay. | |
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Stud \Stud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Studded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Studding}.] 1. To adorn with shining studs, or knobs. Thy horses shall be trapped, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. --Shak. 2. To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs. The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. --Bp. Hobart. | |
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Quarter \Quar"ter\, n. [F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See {Quart}.] 1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically: (a) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. (b) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. --Hutton. (c) (Astron.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. (d) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters. (e) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. (f) (Far.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. (g) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. (i) (Naut.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. (j) (Her.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. Note: When two coats of arms are united upon one escutcheon, as in case of marriage, the first and fourth quarters display one shield, the second and third the other. See {Quarter}, v. t., 5. (k) One of the four parts into which the horizon is regarded as divided; a cardinal point; a direction' principal division; a region; a territory. Scouts each coast light-armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. --Milton. (l) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. (m) (Arch.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called {stud}. (n) (Naut.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11[f8] 15[b7], that is, about 2[f8] 49[b7]; -- called also {quarter point}. | |
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Studio \Stu"di*o\, n.; pl. {Studios}. [It. studio, properly, study. See {Study}.] The working room of an artist. | |
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Study \Stud"y\, v. t. 1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank or what degree The wise Creator has ordained for thee. --Dryden. 3. To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech. 4. To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition. For their heart studieth destruction. --Prov. xxiv. 2. | |
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Study \Stud"y\, n.; pl. {Studies}. [OE. studie, L. studium, akin to studere to study; possibly akin to Gr. [?] haste, zeal, [?] to hasten; cf. OF. estudie, estude, F. [82]tude. Cf. {Etude}, {Student}, {Studio}, {Study}, v. i.] 1. A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge. Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study. --Bp. Fell. Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. --Sir W. Temple. 2. Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation. Just men they seemed, and all their study bent To worship God aright, and know his works. --Milton. 3. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration. The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study. --Law. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope. 4. A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. [bd]His cheery little study.[b8] --Hawthorne. 5. (Fine Arts) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. 6. (Mus.) A piece for special practice. See {Etude}. | |
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Study \Stud"y\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Studied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Studying}.] [OE. studien, OF. estudier, F. [82]tudier. See {Study}, n.] 1. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder. --Chaucer. I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable. --Swift. 2. To apply the mind to books or learning. --Shak. 3. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous. --1 Thes. iv. 11. | |
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Stut \Stut\, v. i. To stutter. [Obs.] --Skelton. | |
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Stythe \Stythe\, n. (Mining) Choke damp. | |
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Stythy \Styth"y\, n. & v. See {Stithy}. | |
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Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suiting}.] 1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. --Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. --Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. --Prior. 3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.] So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak. 4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste. | |
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Swathe \Swathe\ (sw[amac][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swathed} (sw[amac][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Swathing}.] [OE. swathen, AS. swe[edh]ain. See {Swath}, n., and cf. {Swaddle}.] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. --Abp. Abbot. | |
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Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs. {Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw[91]tan, fr. sw[be]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. sw[c7]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. [?], [?], sweat, [?] to sweat, Skr. sv[c7]da sweat, svid to sweat. [fb]178. Cf. {Exude}, {Sudary}, {Sudorific}.] 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. --Shak. 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller. 3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap. | |
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sweetweed \Sweet"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A name for two tropical American weeds ({Capraria biflora}, and {Scoparia dulcis}) of the Figwort family. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sweetwood \Sweet"wood`\, n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel ({Laurus nobilis}.) (b) The timber of the tree {Oreodaphne Leucoxylon}, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
state n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged} state." The standard question "What's your state?" means "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?" Typical answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning "What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?". Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be "state-p latest hack?". 2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic or human). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
state configuration, attributes, condition, or information content. The state of a system is usually temporary (i.e. it changes with time) and volatile (i.e. it will be lost or reset to some initial state if the system is switched off). A state may be considered to be a point in some {space} of all possible states. A simple example is a light, which is either on or off. A complex example is the electrical activation in a human brain while solving a problem. In computing and related fields, states, as in the light example, are often modelled as being {discrete} (rather than continuous) and the transition from one state to another is considered to be instantaneous. Another (related) property of a system is the number of possible states it may exhibit. This may be finite or infinite. A common model for a system with a finite number of discrete state is a {finite state machine}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-10-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
stdout {standard input/output} |