Webster's Dictionary 1828

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STILLY

STILLY, adverb1. Silently; without noise.2. Calmly; quietly; without tumult.

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STILPNOSIDERITE

STILPNOSIDERITE, noun [Gr., shining, and siderite.] A mineral of a brownish black color, massive, in curving concretions, splendent and resinous.

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STILT

STILT, noun [G.] A stilt is a piece of wood with a shoulder, to support the foot in walking. Boys sometimes use stilts for raising their feet above the mud in walking, but they ...

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STIMULANT

STIMULANT, adjective [Latin] Increasing or exciting action, particularly the action of the organs of an animal body; stimulating.STIMULANT, noun A medicine that excites and incr...

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STIMULATE

STIMULATE, verb transitive [Latin, to prick, to goad, to excite; a goad.] Literally, to prick or goad. Hence,1. To excite, rouse or animate to action or more vigorous exertion b...

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STIMULATED

STIMULATED, participle passive Goaded; roused or excited to action or more vigorous exertion.

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STIMULATING

STIMULATING, participle present tense Goading; exciting to action or more vigorous exertion.

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STIMULATION

STIMULATION, noun1. The act of goading or exciting.2. Excitement; the increased action of the moving fibers or organs in animal bodies.

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STIMULATIVE

STIMULATIVE, adjective Having the quality of exciting action in the animal system.STIMULATIVE, noun That which stimulates; that which rouses into more vigorous action; that whic...

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STIMULATOR

STIMULATOR, noun One that stimulates.

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STIMULUS

STIMULUS, noun [Latin This word may be formed on the root of stem, a shoot.] Literally, a goad; hence, something that rouses from languor; that which excites or increases action...

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STING

STING, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive stung. Stang is obsolete. [G., to stick, to sting We see that sting is stick altered in orthography and pronunciation...

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STINGER

STINGER, noun That which stings, vexes or gives acute pain.

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STINGILY

STINGILY, adverb [from stingy.] With mean covetousness; in a niggardly manner.

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STINGINESS

STINGINESS, noun [from stingy.] Extreme avarice; mean covetousness; niggardliness.

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STINGLESS

STINGLESS, adjective [from sting.] Having no sting.

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STINGO

STINGO, noun [from the sharpness of the taste.] Old beer. [A cant word.]

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STINGY

STINGY, adjective [from straitness.]1. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; narrow hearted; as a stingy churl. [A word in popular use, but low and not adm...

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STINK

STINK, verb intransitivepreterit tense stand or stunk. To emit a strong offensive smell.STINK, noun A strong offensive smell.

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STINKARD

STINKARD, noun A mean paltry fellow.

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STINKER

STINKER, noun Something intended to offend by the smell.

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STINKING

STINKING, participle present tense Emitting a strong offensive smell.

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STINKINGLY

STINKINGLY, adverb With an offensive smell.

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STINKPOT

STINKPOT, noun An artificial composition offensive to the smell.

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STINKSTONE

STINKSTONE, noun Swinestone, a variety of compact lucullite; a subspecies of limestone.

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STINT

STINT, verb transitive [Gr., narrow.]1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth; to stint the mind in knowledge; to st...

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STINTANCE

STINTANCE, noun Restraint; stoppage. [Not used or local.]