STANG
STANG, noun [G.]1. A pole, rod or perch; a measure of land. [Not in use.]2. A long bar; a pole; a shaft.To ride the stang is to be carried on a pole on mens shoulders, in derisi...
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STANK
STANK, adjective Weak; worn out. [Not in use.]STANK, verb intransitive To sigh. [Not used.]STANK, old preterit tense of stink. Stunk is now used.STANK, noun [See Stanch.] A dam ...
STANNARY
STANNARY, adjective [Latin See Tin.] Relating to the tin works; as stannary courts.STANNARY, noun A tin mine.
STANNEL
STANNEL, STANYEL, noun The kestrel, a species of hawk; called also stone-gall and wind-hover.
STANNIC
STANNIC, adjective Pertaining to tin; procured from tin; as the stannic acid.
STANTING
SLANT, STANTING adjective Sloping; oblique; inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; as a slanting ray of light; a slanting floor.SLANT, verb transitive...
STANYEL
STANNEL, STANYEL noun The kestrel, a species of hawk; called also stone-gall and wind-hover.
STANZA
STANZA, noun In poetry, a number of lines or verses connected with each other, and ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem containing every variation of measure in tha...
STAPAZIN
STAPAZIN, noun A bird, a species of warbler.
STAPLE
STAPLE, noun [G., a stake, a pile or heap, a staple stocks, a mart. The primary sense of the root is to set, to fix. staple is that which is fixed, or a fixed place, or it is a ...
STAPLER
STAPLER, noun A dealer; as a wool stapler
STAR
STAR, noun1. An apparently small luminous body in the heavens, that appears in the night, or when its light is not obscured by clouds or lost in the brighter effulgence of the s...
STAR-APPLE
STAR-APPLE, noun A globular or olive-shaped fleshy fruit, inclosing a stone of the same shape. It grows in the warm climates of America, and is eaten by way of dessert. It is of...
STAR-CHAMBER
STAR-CHAMBER, noun Formerly, a court of criminal jurisdiction in England. This court was abolished by Stat. 16 Charles I. See Blackstone, B. 4 Chapter 19.
STAR-FISH
STAR-FISH, noun [star and fish.] The sea star or asterias, a genus of marine animals or zoophytes, so named because their body is divided into rays, generally five in number, in...
STAR-FLOWER
STAR-FLOWER, noun A plant, a species of Ornithogalum. A plant of the genus Stellaria.
STAR-GRASS
STAR-GRASS, noun [star and grass.] Starry duck meat, a plant of the genus Callitriche.
STAR-HAWK
STAR-HAWK, noun A species of hawk so called.
STAR-HYACINTH
STAR-HYACINTH, noun A plant of the genus Scilla.
STAR-JELLY
STAR-JELLY, noun A plant, the Tremella, one of the Fungi; also, star-shoot, a gelatinous substance.
STAR-PAVED
STAR-PAVED, adjective [star and paved.] Studed with stars.The road of heaven star-paved
STAR-PROOF
STAR-PROOF, adjective [star and proof.] Impervious to the light of the stars; as a star-proof elm.
STAR-READ
STAR-READ, noun [star and read.] Doctrine of the stars; astronomy. [Not in use.]
STAR-SHOOT
STAR-SHOOT, noun [star and shoot.] That which is emitted from a star.I have seen a good quantity of that jelly, by the vulgar called a star-shoot as if it remained upon the exti...
STAR-STONE
STAR-STONE, noun Asteria, a kind of extraneous fossil, consisting of regular joints, each of which is of a radiated figure.
STAR-THISTLE
STAR-THISTLE, noun A plant of the genus Centaurea.
STAR-WORT
STAR-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Aster, and another of the genus Iridax. The yellow star-wort is of the genus Inula or elecampane.