Sticktail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Stick-tight (n.) Beggar's ticks.
Sticky (superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Stiddy (n.) An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.
Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Stiff (superl.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Stiff (superl.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Stiff (superl.) Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Stiff (superl.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Stiff (superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Stiff (superl.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Stiff (superl.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Stiff-backed (a.) Obstinate.
Stiffened (imp. & p. p.) of Stiffen
Stiffening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiffen
Stiffen (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
Stiffen (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.
Stiffen (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
Stiffener (n.) One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Stiffening (n.) Act or process of making stiff.
Stiffening (n.) Something used to make anything stiff.
Stiff-hearted (a.) Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.
Stiffish (a.) Somewhat stiff.
Stiffly (adv.) In a stiff manner.
Stiff-necked (a.) Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
Stiff-neckedness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
Stiffness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Stiff-tailed (a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
Stifle (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
Stifled (imp. & p. p.) of Stifle
Stifling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stifle
Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
Stifle (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
Stifled (a.) Stifling.
Stifler (n.) One who, or that which, stifles.
Stifler (n.) See Camouflet.
Stigmas (pl. ) of Stigma
Stigmata (pl. ) of Stigma
Stigma (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
Stigma (v. t.) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
Stigma (v. t.) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
Stigma (v. t.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
Stigma (v. t.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
Stigma (v. t.) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
Stigma (v. t.) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
Stigma (v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
Stigma (v. t.) Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
Stigmaria (n.) The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Stigmata (n.) pl. of Stigma.
Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
Stigmatic (n.) A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
Stigmatic (n.) A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
Stigmatic (a.) Alt. of Stigmatical
Stigmatical (a.) Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
Stigmatical (a.) Impressing with infamy or reproach.
Stigmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
Stigmatically (adv.) With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.
Stigmatist (n.) One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8.
Stigmatization (n.) The act of stigmatizing.
Stigmatization (n.) The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma, 8.
Stigmatized (imp. & p. p.) of Stigmatize
Stigmatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stigmatize
Stigmatize (v. t.) To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
Stigmatize (v. t.) To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
Stigmatose (a.) Same as Stigmatic.
Stigonomancy (n.) Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.
Stike (n.) Stanza.
Stilar (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of a dial.
Stilbene (n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.
Stilbite (n.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.
Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
Stile (n.) Mode of composition. See Style.
Stile (v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
Stile (v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
Stilet (n.) A stiletto.
Stilet (n.) See Stylet, 2.
Stilettos (pl. ) of Stiletto
Stiletto (n.) A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
Stiletto (n.) A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
Stiletto (n.) A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
Stilettoed (imp. & p. p.) of Stiletto
Stilettoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiletto
Stiletto (v. t.) To stab or kill with a stiletto.
Still (adv.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
Still (adv.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
Still (adv.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
Still (adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
Still (adv.) Constant; continual.
Still (adv.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
Still (n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
Still (n.) A steep hill or ascent.
Still (a.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
Still (a.) In the future as now and before.
Still (a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
Still (a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.