Study (v. t.) 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.
Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
Stuff (v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
Stuff (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
Stuff (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
Stuff (v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
Stuff (v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
Stuff (v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
Stuff (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
Stuff (v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
Stuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Stuff
Stuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stuff
Stuff (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
Stuff (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
Stuff (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
Stuff (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
Stuff (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
Stuff (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
Stuff (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
Stuff (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
Stuff (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
Stuff (v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Stuffer (n.) One who, or that which, stuffs.
Stuffiness (n.) The quality of being stuffy.
Stuffing (n.) That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
Stuffing (n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
Stuffy (a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Stuffy (a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
Stuffy (a.) Ill-ventilated; close.
Stuke (n.) Stucco.
Stull (n.) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Stulp (n.) A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.
Stultification (n.) The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.
Stultifier (n.) One who stultifies.
Stultified (imp. & p. p.) of Stultify
Stultifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stultify
Stultify (v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
Stultify (v. t.) To regard as a fool, or as foolish.
Stultify (v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Stultiloquence (n.) Silly talk; babbling.
Stultiloquent (a.) Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling.
Stultiloquy (n.) Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling.
Stulty (a.) Foolish; silly.
Stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
Stum (n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.
Stummed (imp. & p. p.) of Stum
Stumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stum
Stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
Stumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Stumble
Stumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stumble
Stumble (v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
Stumble (v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
Stumble (v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
Stumble (v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
Stumble (v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.
Stumble (v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
Stumble (n.) A trip in walking or running.
Stumble (n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.
Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
Stumblingly (adv.) In a stumbling manner.
Stumbling-stone (n.) A stumbling-block.
Stump (n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
Stump (n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
Stump (n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Stump (n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
Stump (n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Stumped (imp. & p. p.) of Stump
Stumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stump
Stump (v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Stump (v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus.
Stump (v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
Stump (v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
Stumpage (n.) Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.
Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.
Stumper (n.) One who stumps.
Stumper (n.) A boastful person.
Stumper (n.) A puzzling or incredible story.
Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.
Stump-tailed (a.) Having a short, thick tail.
Stumpy (a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Stumpy (a.) Short and thick; stubby.
Stunned (imp. & p. p.) of Stun
Stunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun
Stun (v. t.) To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
Stun (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
Stun (v. t.) To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
Stun (n.) The condition of being stunned.
Stung () imp. & p. p. of Sting.
Stunk () imp. & p. p. of Stink.
Stunner (n.) One who, or that which, stuns.
Stunner (n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.
Stunning (a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
Stunning (a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.