AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
stickle: to separate combatants by intervening.-to contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.-to play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.-to separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.-to intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.-a shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
stickleback: any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus gasterosteus and allied genera. the back is armed with two or more sharp spines. they inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
stickler: one who stickles.-one who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.-one who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
sticky: having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
stiff: not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.-not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.-firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.-not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.-not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.-harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.-bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.-very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
stiff-necked: stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
stiff-neckedness: the quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
stiffen: to make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.-to inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.-to make torpid; to benumb.-to become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
stiffener: one who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
stiffening: of stiffen-act or process of making stiff.-something used to make anything stiff.
stiffness: the quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
stifle: 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.-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.-to stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.-to suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.-to die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
stifler: one who, or that which, stifles.-see camouflet.
stigma: a mark made with a burning iron; a brand.-any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.-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.-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.-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.-one of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.-one of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. see illust. of scorpion.-one of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of amphioxus.-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.-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.
stigmatic: a notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.-a person who is marked or deformed by nature.-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.-alt. of stigmatical
stigmatical: marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.-impressing with infamy or reproach.-of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
stigmatist: one believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of christ's wounds. see stigma, 8.
stigmatization: the act of stigmatizing.-the production of stigmata upon the body. see stigma, 8.
stigmatize: to mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.-to set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
stilbene: a hydrocarbon, c14h12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.
stilbite: 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: a pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. see style.-mode of composition. see style.-a step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.-one of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
stiletto: a kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.-a pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.-a beard trimmed into a pointed form.-to stab or kill with a stiletto.
still: motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.-uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.-not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.-comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.-constant; continual.-not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.-freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.-a steep hill or ascent.-to this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.-in the future as now and before.-in continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.-in an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.-notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. see synonym of but.-after that; after what is stated.-to stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.-to stop, as noise; to silence.-to appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.-a vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. the name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.-a house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.-to cause to fall by drops.-to expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.-to drop, or flow in drops; to distill.
still-burn: to burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
still-hunt: a hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously.
stillatory: an alembic; a vessel for distillation.-a laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed.
stillborn: dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.-fig.: abortive; as, a stillborn poem.
stillion: a stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
stillness: the quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.-habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
stillroom: a room for distilling.-an apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept.
stilly: still; quiet; calm.-in a still manner; quietly; silently; softly.
stilpnomelane: a black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. it is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.
stilt: a pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. it is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.-a crutch; also, the handle of a plow.-any species of limicoline birds belonging to himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.-to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.
stilted: of stilt-elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
stilty: unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
stimulant: serving to stimulate.-produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.-that which stimulates, provokes, or excites.-an agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.
stimulate: to excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.-to excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.
stimulation: the act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.-the irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation.
stimulism: the theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.-the practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.
stimulus: a goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.-that which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.
sting: any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. the sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. the caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. the term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. see illust. of scorpion.-a sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. the points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.-anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.-the thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.-a goad; incitement.-the point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.-to pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.-to pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.-to goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
stingbull: the european greater weever fish (trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. see weever.
stinging: of sting-piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
stingy: stinging; able to sting.-extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
stink: to emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.-to cause to stink; to affect by a stink.-a strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
stinkard: a mean, stinking, paltry fellow.-the teledu of the east indies. it emits a disagreeable odor.
stinkball: a composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
stinker: one who, or that which, stinks.-any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
stinkhorn: a kind of fungus of the genus phallus, which emits a fetid odor.
stinkpot: an earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.-a vessel in which disinfectants are burned.-the musk turtle, or musk tortoise. see under musk.
stinkstone: one of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.
stinkwood: a name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the foetidia mauritiana of the mauritius, and that of the south african ocotea bullata.
stint: any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of europe and america, the dunlin, the little stint of india (tringa minuta), etc. called also pume.-a phalarope.-to restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.-to put an end to; to stop.-to assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.-to serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.-to stop; to cease.-limit; bound; restraint; extent.-quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
stipe: the stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.-the stalk of a pistil.-the trunk of a tree.-the stem of a fungus or mushroom.
stipend: settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.-to pay by settled wages.
stipendiary: receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation.-one who receives a stipend.
stipes: the second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.-an eyestalk.
stipitate: supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.
stipple: to engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.-to paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.-alt. of stippling
stippling: of stipple-a mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.-a mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
stipular: of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.
stipulate: furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.-to make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of france.
stipulation: the act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.-that which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.-a material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.-the situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
stipule: an appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.
stir: to change the place of in any manner; to move.-to disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.-to bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.-to incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.-to move; to change one's position.-to be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.-to become the object of notice; to be on foot.-to rise, or be up, in the morning.-the act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.-public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.-agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
stirabout: a dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
stirrer: one who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.
stirring: of stir-putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.
stirrup: a kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.-any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. see bridle iron.-a rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
stitch: a single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.-a single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.-a space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.-a local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.-a contortion, or twist.-any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.-a furrow.-to form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.-to sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.-to form land into ridges.-to practice stitching, or needlework.
stitching: of stitch-the act of one who stitches.-work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.
stithy: an anvil.-a smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge.-to forge on an anvil.
stive: to stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.-to be stifled or suffocated.-the floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
stiver: a dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.
stoat: the ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. the name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
stockade: a line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.-an inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.-to surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
stockdove: a common european wild pigeon (columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.
stockfish: salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.-young fresh cod.
stockholder: one who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
stockinet: an elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
stocking: of stock-a close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.-to dress in gbs.
stockjobber: one who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. in england a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
stockjobbing: the act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
stockman: a herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.
stockwork: a system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.-a metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. this kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. such deposits are worked in floors or stories.
stoic: a disciple of the philosopher zeno; one of a greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.-hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.-alt. of stoical
stoical: of or pertaining to the stoics; resembling the stoics or their doctrines.-not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
stoichiology: that part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.-the doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought.-the statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.
stoichiometrical: of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.
stoichiometry: the art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.
stoicism: the opinions and maxims of the stoics.-a real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
stoke: to stick; to thrust; to stab.-to poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.-to poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
stokehole: the mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.
stoker: one who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.-a fire poker.
stole: of steal-imp. of steal.-a stolon.-a long, loose garment reaching to the feet.-a narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. at mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. it is used in various sacred functions.
stolid: hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.