AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
stable: firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.-steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.-durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.-to fix; to establish.-a house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.-to put or keep in a stable.-to dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
stable stand: the position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer.
stableman: a boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
stabling: of stable-the act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.-a building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.
stablish: to settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.
stably: in a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.
stabulation: the act of stabling or housing beasts.-a place for lodging beasts; a stable.
staccato: disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. it is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.-expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
stack: a large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.-a pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.-a pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.-a number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. hence:-any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.-a section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.-a data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.-to lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
stackage: hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.-a tax on things stacked.
stacte: one of the sweet spices used by the ancient jews in the preparation of incense. it was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
staddle: anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.-the frame of a stack of hay or grain.-a row of dried or drying hay, etc.-a small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.-to leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.-to form into staddles, as hay.
stadimeter: a horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
stadium: a greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. it was equal to 600 greek or 625 roman feet, or 125 roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches english. this was also called the olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at olympia.-hence, a race course; especially, the olympic course for foot races.-a kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
stadtholder: formerly, the chief magistrate of the united provinces of holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
staff: 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.-a stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.-a pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.-a pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.-the round of a ladder.-a series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.-the five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.-an arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.-the grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.-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 etat major.-hence: a body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
stag: the adult male of the red deer (cervus elaphus), a large european species closely related to the american elk, or wapiti.-the male of certain other species of large deer.-a colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.-a castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. see the note under ox.-an outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.-one who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.-the european wren.-to act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.-to watch; to dog, or keep track of.
stag-horned: having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
stage: a floor or story of a house.-an elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.-a floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.-a platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.-the floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.-a place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.-the platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. see illust. of microscope.-a place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.-a degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.-a degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.-a large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.-one of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.-to exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
stagecoach: a coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
stageplayer: an actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
stager: a player.-one who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.-a horse used in drawing a stage.
stagger: to move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.-to cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.-to begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.-to cause to reel or totter.-to cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.-to arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.-an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.-a disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.-bewilderment; perplexity.
staggerbush: an american shrub (andromeda mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. it grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.
staghound: a large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. the breed is nearly extinct.
staging: a structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.-the business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.
stagirite: a native of, or resident in, stagira, in ancient macedonia; especially, aristotle.
stagnant: that stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.-not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
stagnate: to cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.-to cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.-stagnant.
stagnation: the condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.-the cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.
stagworm: the larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.
stahlian: pertaining to, or taught by, stahl, a german physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the stahlian theory of phlogiston.-a believer in, or advocate of, stahlism.
stahlianism: the stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul.
staid: sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.-of stay
staidness: the quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or levity.
stail: imp. & p. p. of stay.-a handle, as of a mop; a stale.
stain: to discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.-to color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.-to spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.-to cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.-to give or receive a stain; to grow dim.-a discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.-a natural spot of a color different from the gound.-taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.-cause of reproach; shame.-a tincture; a tinge.
stainer: one who stains or tarnishes.-a workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
stair: one step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.-a series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.
staircase: a flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
staith: a landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
stake: a piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.-a stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.-the piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.-a small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.-that which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.-to fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.-to mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.-to put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.-to pierce or wound with a stake.
stake-driver: the common american bittern (botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. called also meadow hen, and indian hen.
stakehead: a horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
stakeholder: the holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
staktometer: a drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. see pipette.
stalactite: a pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.-in an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.
stalactitical: of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.
stalagmite: a deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.
stale: the stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.-vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.-not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.-having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.-worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.-to make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.-to make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.-that which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.-a prostitute.-urine, esp. that of beasts.-something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.-a stalking-horse.-a stalemate.-a laughingstock; a dupe.
stalemate: the position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.-to subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.
stalk: the stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.-the petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.-that which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.-an ornament in the corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.-one of the two upright pieces of a ladder.-a stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.-the narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.-the peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.-an iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.-to walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.-to walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.-to walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. the word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.-to approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.-a high, proud, stately step or walk.
stalk-eyed: having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans.
stalking-horse: a horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.-fig.: something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.
stall: a stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.-a stable; a place for cattle.-a small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.-a bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.-a seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. it is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. the stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.-in the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.-the space left by excavation between pillars. see post and stall, under post.-to put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.-to fatten; as, to stall cattle.-to place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.-to plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.-to forestall; to anticipitate. having-to keep close; to keep secret.-to live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.-to kennel, as dogs.-to be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.-to be tired of eating, as cattle.
stall-feed: to feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox.
stallage: the right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.-dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.
stalworth: brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.
stalworthness: the quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring.
stamen: a thread; especially, a warp thread.-the male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. it consists of the anther and filament.
stamina: of stamen-see stamen.-the fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.-whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a state.
staminate: furnished with stamens; producing stamens.-having stamens, but lacking pistils.-to indue with stamina.
stamineous: consisting of stamens or threads.-of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.
staminodium: an abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.
stammel: a large, clumsy horse.-a kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. it seems to have been often of a red color.-a red dye, used in england in the 15th and 16th centuries.-of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.
stammer: to make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.-to utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.-defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
stammering: of stammer-apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.-a disturbance in the formation of sounds. it is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
stamp: to strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.-to bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.-to crush; to pulverize; specifically (metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.-to impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.-fig.: to impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.-to cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.-to put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.-to strike; to beat; to crush.-to strike the foot forcibly downward.-the act of stamping, as with the foot.-the which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.-the mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.-that which is marked; a thing stamped.-a picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.-an offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.-hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.-an instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.-a character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.-make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.-a kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.-a half-penny.-money, esp. paper money.
stampede: a wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.-to run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.-to disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
stanch: to stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.-to extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.-to cease, as the flowing of blood.-that which stanches or checks.-a flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.-strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.-firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.-close; secret; private.-to prop; to make stanch, or strong.
stancher: one who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.
stanchion: a prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.-any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.-a vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
stanchless: incapable of being stanched, or stopped.-unquenchable; insatiable.