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Scutiped \Scu"ti*ped\, a. [L. scutum a shield + pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. scutip[8a]de.] (Zo[94]l.) Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds. | |
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Sea daffodil \Sea" daf"fo*dil\ (Bot.) A European amarylidaceous plant ({Pancratium maritimum}). | |
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Seed \Seed\, n.; pl. {Seed} or {Seeds}. [OE. seed, sed, AS. s[?]d, fr. s[be]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. s[be][?], s[?][?]i, Goth. manas[?]ps seed of men. world. See {Sow} to scatter seed, and cf. {Colza}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant. (b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. --Gen. i. 11. Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle. 2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural. 3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice. 4. The principle of production. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. --Waller. 5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural. 6. Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. --Waller. {Seed bag} (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. {Seed bud} (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. {Seed coat} (Bot.), the covering of a seed. {Seed corn}, [or] {Seed grain} (Bot.), corn or grain for seed. {Seed down} (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed. {Seed drill}. See 6th {Drill}, 2 (a) . {Seed eater} (Zo[94]l.), any finch of the genera {Sporophila}, and {Crithagra}. They feed mainly on seeds. {Seed gall} (Zo[94]l.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. {Seed leaf} (Bot.), a cotyledon. {Seed lobe} (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. {Seed oil}, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. {Seed oyster}, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. {Seed pearl}, a small pearl of little value. {Seed plat}, [or] {Seed plot}, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. {Seed stalk} (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. {Seed tick} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. {Seed vessel} (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp. {Seed weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small weevels, especially those of the genus {Apion}, which live in the seeds of various plants. {Seed wool}, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.] | |
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Shadow \Shad"ow\ (sh[acr]d"[osl]), n. [Originally the same word as shade. [root]162. See {Shade}.] 1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under {Shade}, n., 1. 2. Darkness; shade; obscurity. Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. --Denham. 3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. --Spenser. 4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. --Shak. 5. That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. Sin and her shadow Death. --Milton. 6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. [bd]Hence, horrible shadow![b8] --Shak. 7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. The law having a shadow of good things to come. --Heb. x. 1. [Types] and shadows of that destined seed. --Milton. 8. A small degree; a shade. [bd]No variableness, neither shadow of turning.[b8] --James i. 17. 9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism] --Nares. I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. --Massinger. {Shadow of death}, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. --Ps. xxiii. 4. | |
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John \John\ (j[ocr]n), n. [See {Johannes}.] A proper name of a man. {John-apple}, a sort of apple ripe about St. John's Day. Same as {Apple-john}. {John Bull}, an ideal personification of the typical characteristics of an Englishman, or of the English people. {John Bullism}, English character. --W. Irving. {John Doe} (Law), the name formerly given to the fictitious plaintiff in an action of ejectment. --Mozley & W. {John Doree}, {John Dory}. [John (or F. jaune yellow) + Doree, Dory.] (Zo[94]l.) An oval, compressed, European food fish ({Zeus faber}). Its color is yellow and olive, with golden, silvery, and blue reflections. It has a round dark spot on each side. Called also {dory}, {doree}, and {St. Peter's fish}. | |
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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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Stafette \Sta*fette"\, n. [Cf. G. stafette. See {Estafet}.] An estafet. [R.] --arlyle. | |
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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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Stapedial \Sta*pe"di*al\, a. [LL. stapes stirrup.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to stapes. | |
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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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Stavewood \Stave`wood`\, n. (Bot.) A tall tree ({Simaruba amara}) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia. | |
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Steep-down \Steep"-down`\, a. Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. [R.] Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. --Shak. | |
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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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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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Stepdame \Step"dame`\, n. A stepmother. --Spenser. | |
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Stepdaughter \Step"daugh`ter\, n. [AS. ste[a2]pdohtor.] A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage. | |
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Step-down \Step"-down`\, a. (Elec.) Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer. | |
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Stepfather \Step"fa`ther\, n. [AS. ste[a2]pf[91]der.] The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage. | |
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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. | |
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Stepped \Stepped\, a. Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key. {Stepped gear}, a cogwheel of which the teeth cross the face in a series of steps. | |
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Stepped \Stepped\, a. Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key. {Stepped gear}, a cogwheel of which the teeth cross the face in a series of steps. | |
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Stevedore \Ste"ve*dore`\, n. [Sp. estivador a packer, a stower, fr. estivar to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E. stiff. See {Stiff}, {Stive} to stuff.] One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold. | |
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Stewpot \Stew"pot`\, n. A pot used for stewing. | |
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Stibiated \Stib"i*a`ted\, a. [NL. stibiatus, from L. stibium antimony.] (Med. Chem.) Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium). {Stibiated tartar}. See {Tartar emetic}, under {Tartar}. | |
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Stibiated \Stib"i*a`ted\, a. [NL. stibiatus, from L. stibium antimony.] (Med. Chem.) Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium). {Stibiated tartar}. See {Tartar emetic}, under {Tartar}. | |
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Ruddy \Rud"dy\, a. [Compar. {Ruddier}; superl. {Ruddiest}.] [AS. rudig. See {Rud}, n.] 1. Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. --Milton. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. --Lam. iv. 7. 2. Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. --Dryden. {Ruddy duck} (Zo[94]l.), an American duck ({Erismatura rubida}) having a broad bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks. The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the back; grayish below. Called also {dunbird}, {dundiver}, {ruddy diver}, {stifftail}, {spinetail}, {hardhead}, {sleepy duck}, {fool duck}, {spoonbill}, etc. {Ruddy plover} (Zo[94]l.) the sanderling. | |
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Stifftail \Stiff"tail`\, n. The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.] | |
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Ruddy \Rud"dy\, a. [Compar. {Ruddier}; superl. {Ruddiest}.] [AS. rudig. See {Rud}, n.] 1. Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. --Milton. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. --Lam. iv. 7. 2. Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. --Dryden. {Ruddy duck} (Zo[94]l.), an American duck ({Erismatura rubida}) having a broad bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks. The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the back; grayish below. Called also {dunbird}, {dundiver}, {ruddy diver}, {stifftail}, {spinetail}, {hardhead}, {sleepy duck}, {fool duck}, {spoonbill}, etc. {Ruddy plover} (Zo[94]l.) the sanderling. | |
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Stifftail \Stiff"tail`\, n. The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.] | |
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Stiff-tailed \Stiff"-tailed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. | |
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Stipitate \Stip"i*tate\, a. [NL. stipitatus, from L. stipes, gen. stipitis, a stock. See {Stipe}.] (Bot.) Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants. | |
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d8Stipes \[d8]Sti"pes\ (-p[emac]z), n.; pl. {Stipites}. [L., a stock.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean. (b) An eyestalk. | |
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Stipitiform \Stip"i*ti*form\, a. [Stipes + -form.] (Bot.) Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike. | |
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Emu wren \E"mu wren`\ (Zo[94]l.) A small wrenlike Australian bird ({Stipiturus malachurus}), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers. | |
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Stiptic \Stip"tic\, a. & n. (Med.) See {Styptic}. | |
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Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also {stiptic}.] {Styptic weed} (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ({Cassia occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna. | |
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Stiptic \Stip"tic\, a. & n. (Med.) See {Styptic}. | |
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Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also {stiptic}.] {Styptic weed} (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ({Cassia occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna. | |
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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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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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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\, 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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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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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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Stopped \Stopped\, a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). --H. Sweet. | |
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Diapason \Di`a*pa"son\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] (i. e., [?] [?] [?] the concord of the first and last notes, the octave); dia` through + [?], gen. pl. of [?] all: cf. F. diapason. Cf. {Panacea}.] 1. (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. 2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. --Milton. 3. The entire compass of tones. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. --Dryden. 4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason. 5. One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as {open diapason}, {stopped diapason}, {double diapason}, and the like. | |
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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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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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Stubbed \Stub"bed\, a. 1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. 2. Abounding in stubs; stubby. A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. --R. Browning. 3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. [bd]Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.[b8] --Berkley. | |
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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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Stubbedness \Stub"bed*ness\, n. The quality or state of being stubbed. | |
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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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Stupe \Stupe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stuped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stuping}.] To foment with a stupe. --Wiseman. | |
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Stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.] 1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! --Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. --Swift. Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- {Stu"pid*ly}, adv. -- {Stu"pid*ness}, n. | |
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Stupidity \Stu*pid"i*ty\, n. [L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.] A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. --Chapman. | |
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Stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.] 1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! --Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. --Swift. Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- {Stu"pid*ly}, adv. -- {Stu"pid*ness}, n. | |
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Stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.] 1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! --Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. --Swift. Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- {Stu"pid*ly}, adv. -- {Stu"pid*ness}, n. | |
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Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also {stiptic}.] {Styptic weed} (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ({Cassia occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna. | |
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Styptic \Styp"tic\, n. (Med.) A styptic medicine. | |
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Collodion \Col*lo"di*on\, n. [Gr. [?] like glue; ko`lla glue + [?] form. Cf. {Colloid}.] (Chem.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. {Collodion process} (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. {Styptic collodion}, collodion containing an astringent, as tannin. | |
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Colloid \Col"loid\, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid. 2. (Med.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer. {Styptic colloid} (Med.), a preparation of astringent and antiseptic substances with some colloid material, as collodion, for ready use. | |
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Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also {stiptic}.] {Styptic weed} (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ({Cassia occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna. | |
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Styptical \Styp"tic*al\, a. Styptic; astringent. | |
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Stypticity \Styp*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. stypticit[82].] The quality or state of being styptic; astringency. | |
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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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Potato \Po*ta"to\, n.; pl. {Potatoes}. [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.] (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum}) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico. (b) The sweet potato (see below). {Potato beetle}, {Potato bug}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A beetle ({Doryphora decemlineata}) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also {Colorado potato beetle}, and {Doryphora}. See {Colorado beetle}. (b) The {Lema trilineata}, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species. {Potato fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species ({Lytta atrata}), the striped ({L. vittata}), and the gray ({L. cinerea, [or] Fabricii}) are the most common. See {Blister beetle}, under {Blister}. {Potato rot}, a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold ({Peronospora infestans}), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems. {Potato weevil} (Zo[94]l.), an American weevil ({Baridius trinotatus}) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop. {Potato whisky}, a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. {Potato worm} (Zo[94]l.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth ({Macrosila quinquemaculata}); -- called also {tomato worm}. See Illust. under {Tomato}. {Seaside potato} (Bot.), {Ipom[d2]a Pes-Capr[91]}, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] {Sweet potato} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ipom[d2]a Balatas}) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the {Solanum tuberosum}, and this is the [bd]potato[b8] of the Southern United States. {Wild potato}. (Bot.) (a) A vine ({Ipom[d2]a pandurata}) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant ({I. fastigiata}) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Scott Depot, WV Zip code(s): 25560 | |
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South Bethany, DE (town, FIPS 67700) Location: 38.51615 N, 75.05838 W Population (1990): 148 (845 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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South Bethlehem, PA (borough, FIPS 71976) Location: 40.99963 N, 79.33955 W Population (1990): 479 (206 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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South Of The Bor, SC Zip code(s): 29547 | |
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South Padre Isla, TX Zip code(s): 78597 | |
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South Padre Island, TX (town, FIPS 69140) Location: 26.11089 N, 97.16716 W Population (1990): 1677 (4082 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) | |
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South Patrick Shores, FL (CDP, FIPS 67725) Location: 28.20184 N, 80.60975 W Population (1990): 10249 (4092 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 4.3 sq km (water) | |
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South Pittsburg, TN (city, FIPS 70060) Location: 35.01584 N, 85.71142 W Population (1990): 3295 (1444 housing units) Area: 14.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37380 | |
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South Pottstown, PA (CDP, FIPS 72432) Location: 40.23702 N, 75.66459 W Population (1990): 1966 (932 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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St. David, AZ (CDP, FIPS 62280) Location: 31.90009 N, 110.22939 W Population (1990): 1468 (648 housing units) Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) St. David, IL (village, FIPS 66768) Location: 40.49203 N, 90.05136 W Population (1990): 603 (267 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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St. Peter, IL (village, FIPS 67132) Location: 38.86739 N, 88.85180 W Population (1990): 353 (149 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) St. Peter, MN (city, FIPS 58036) Location: 44.32902 N, 93.96385 W Population (1990): 9421 (2869 housing units) Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
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St. Peters, MO (city, FIPS 65126) Location: 38.77848 N, 90.60528 W Population (1990): 45779 (15773 housing units) Area: 40.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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St. Petersburg, FL (city, FIPS 63000) Location: 27.75800 N, 82.64212 W Population (1990): 238629 (125452 housing units) Area: 153.3 sq km (land), 190.3 sq km (water) St. Petersburg, PA (borough, FIPS 67384) Location: 41.16088 N, 79.65436 W Population (1990): 349 (163 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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St. Petersburg Beach, FL (city, FIPS 63025) Location: 27.71018 N, 82.77881 W Population (1990): 9200 (7205 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 45.6 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Stupids n. Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them; succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologized since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few `Brights' like herself, a huge majority of `Stupids', and a minority of `Tweens', the merely ordinary geniuses. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
stupid-sort n. Syn. {bogo-sort}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SCSI adaptor between a computer and its {SCSI} {peripherals}. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned {SCSI ID} 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's {bus} (e.g. {PCI}, {ISA}, {PCMCIA}) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the {motherboard}. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like {Ultra SCSI} and {Ultra-Wide SCSI}. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use {DMA} or {bus mastering}. Some SCSI adaptors include a {BIOS} to allow PCs to {boot} from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. {Adaptec} make the majority of SCSI {chipsets} and many of the best-selling adaptors. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface". (1999-11-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
STFT {Short Term Fourier Transform} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
stop bit In serial communications, where each bit of the message is transmitted in sequence, stop bits are extra "1" bits which follow the data and any {parity} bit. They mark the end of a unit of transmission (normally a byte or character). For example, characters on an {EIA-232} {serial line} may have one or two stop bits added. Some {UART}s even allow for 1.5 stop bits but one is probably the most commonly used. A serial connection may be described as, for example, "8N1" which means eight data bits, no {parity} and one stop bit. (1995-01-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Stuffit {archiving} and {compression} utility, developed by {Aladdin Systems, Inc.}. Stuffit was originally developed for the {Macintosh} and is still the Mac standard tool for compression and archiving (compressing multiple files into one). Stuffit is now also available for {Microsoft Windows} and {Linux}. Compared to the standard Windows tool, {WinZip}, it is faster and gives better compression. Stuffit archives can be extracted with Stuffit Expander. {Stuffit Home (http://www.stuffit.com/)}. (2003-09-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Stupids Term used by {samurai} for the {suit}s who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
stupid-sort Synonym {bogo-sort}. |