AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
stolidity: the state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.
stolon: a trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.-an extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. such stolons are often present in anthozoa, hydroidea, bryozoa, and social ascidians. see illust. under scyphistoma.
stoma: one of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.-the minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.-the line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. it is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. see illust. of sporangium.-a stigma. see stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).
stomach: an enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. see digestion, and gastric juice, under gastric.-the desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.-hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.-violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.-pride; haughtiness; arrogance.-to resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.-to bear without repugnance; to brook.-to be angry.
stomachal: of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.-helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.-a stomachic.
stomacher: one who stomachs.-an ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. those worn by women were often richly decorated.
stomachic: alt. of stomachical-a medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
stomachical: of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.-strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
stomapoda: an order of crustacea including the squillas. the maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. they have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. called also gastrula, stomatopoda, and squilloidea.
stomatic: of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.-a medicine for diseases of the mouth.
stomatode: having a mouth; -- applied to certain protozoa.-one of the stomatoda.
stomatogastric: of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain mollusca.
stomatoplastic: of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
stomodaeum: a part of the alimentary canal. see under mesenteron.-the primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.
stond: stop; halt; hindrance.-a stand; a post; a station.-to stand.
stone: concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.-a precious stone; a gem.-something made of stone. specifically: --the glass of a mirror; a mirror.-a monument to the dead; a gravestone.-a calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.-one of the testes; a testicle.-the hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. see illust. of endocarp.-a weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.-fig.: symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.-a stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.-to pelt, beat, or kill with stones.-to make like stone; to harden.-to free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.-to wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.-to rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
stonebird: the yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. see tattler, 2.
stonebrash: a subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
stonechat: a small, active, and very common european singing bird (pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.-the wheatear.-the blue titmouse.
stonecrop: a sort of tree.-any low succulent plant of the genus sedum, esp. sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in europe, and is spreading in parts of america. see orpine.
stonecutter: one whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
stonehenge: an assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on salisbury plain, england, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient druidical temple.
stoner: one who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.-one who walls with stones.
stoneroot: a north american plant (collinsonia canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. see horse balm, under horse.
stonerunner: the ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.-the dotterel.
stoneweed: any plant of the genus lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
stonewort: any plant of the genus chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. see chara.
stony: of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.-converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.-inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
stook: a small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in england, twelve sheaves.-to set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
stool: a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.-to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.-a single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.-a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.-a stool pigeon, or decoy bird.-a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.-a bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.-a bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.-material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
stoolball: a kind of game with balls, formerly common in england, esp. with young women.
stoop: originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the dutch stoep as introduced by the dutch into new york. afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the french perron. hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.-a vessel of liquor; a flagon.-a post fixed in the earth.-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.-to yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.-to descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.-to come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.-to sink when on the wing; to alight.-to bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.-to cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.-to cause to submit; to prostrate.-to degrade.-the act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.-descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.-the fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
stop: to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.-to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.-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.-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.-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.-to point, as a composition; to punctuate.-to make fast; to stopper.-to cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.-to cease from any motion, or course of action.-to spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.-the act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.-that which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.-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.-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.-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.-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.-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.-the diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.-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.-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.
stop-gap: that which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
stop-over: permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. see to stop over, under stop, v. i.
stopcock: a bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.-the turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
stope: a horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.-to excavate in the form of stopes.-to fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.-alt. of stopen
stoppage: the act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
stopped: of stop-made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
stopper: one who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.-a short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.-a name to several trees of the genus eugenia, found in florida and the west indies; as, the red stopper. see eugenia.-to close or secure with a stopper.
stopping: of stop-material for filling a cavity.-a partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.-a pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
stopping-out: a method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
stopple: that which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.-to close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.
stopship: a remora. it was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
storage: the act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.-space for the safe keeping of goods.-the price changed for keeping goods in a store.
storax: any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the styrax family. the most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
store: that which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.-a place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.-any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.-articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.-accumulated; hoarded.-to collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.-to furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.-to deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
storehouse: a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.-a mass or quality laid up.
storekeeper: a man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.-one who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. see 1st store, 3.
storge: parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.
storied: told in a story.-having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.-having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.-of story
stork: any one of several species of large wading birds of the family ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. they are found both in the old world and in america, and belong to ciconia and several allied genera. the european white stork (ciconia alba) is the best known. it commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. the black stork (c. nigra) is native of asia, africa, and europe.
storm: a violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.-a violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.-a heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.-a violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.-to assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.-to raise a tempest.-to blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.-to rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
stormglass: a glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
storminess: the state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
stormwind: a heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
stormy: characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.-proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.-violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
storthing: the parliament of norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
story: a set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.-a narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.-the relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.-a euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.-to tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
story-teller: one who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.-an historian; -- in contempt.-a euphemism or child's word for
story-writer: one who writes short stories, as for magazines.-an historian; a chronicler.
stound: to be in pain or sorrow.-stunned.-a sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm.-astonishment; amazement.-hour; time; season.-a brief space of time; a moment.-a vessel for holding small beer.
stoup: a flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.-a basin at the entrance of roman catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup.
stour: a battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.-tall; strong; stern.
stout: strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.-proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.-firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.-large; bulky; corpulent.-a strong malt liquor; strong porter.
stoutly: in a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.
stove: of stave-imp. of stave.-a house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.-an apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.-to keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.-to heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
stovepipe: pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
stow: 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.-to put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.-to arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.
stowage: the act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.-room in which things may be stowed.-the state of being stowed, or put away.-things stowed or packed.-money paid for stowing goods.
stowaway: one who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
stowing: of stow-a method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
strabismus: an affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
strabotomy: the operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
straddle: to part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.-to stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.-to place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.-the act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.-the position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.-a stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.
straddling: of straddle-applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. see straddle, v. i., and straddle, v. t., 3.
straggle: to wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.-to wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.-to escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.-to be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.-the act of straggling.
straggler: one who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.-a roving vagabond.-something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.-something that stands alone or by itself.
straggling: of straggle-a. & n. from straggle, v.
straight: a variant of strait, a.-right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.-approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.-composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.-conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.-unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.-making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight republican; a straight democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.-in a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.-a hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. when they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.-to straighten.
straight-joint: having straight joints.-applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.-in the united states, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
straight-out: acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
straightedge: a board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.