STORMING
STORMING, participle present tense Attacking with violent force; raging.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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STORMY
STORMY, adjective1. Tempestuous; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; as a stormy season; a stormy day or week.2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as a stormy soun...
STORY
STORY, noun [Latin, Gr.]1. A verbal narration or recital of a series of facts or incidents. WE observe in children a strong passion for hearing stories.2. A written narrative of...
STORY-TELLER
STORY-TELLER, noun [story and tell.]1. One who tells stories; a narrator of a series of incidents; as an amusing story-teller2. A historian; in contempt.3. One who tells fictiti...
STOT
STOT, noun1. A horse. [Not in use.]2. A young bullock or steer. [Not in use or local.]
STOTE
STOTE. [See Stoat.], verb intransitive1. To be in pain or sorrow. [Not in use.]2. Stunned. [Not in use. See Astound.]
STOUND
STOUND, noun1. Sorrow; grief. [Not in use.]2. A shooting pain. [Not in use.]3. Noise. [Not in use.]4. Astonishment; amazement. [Not in use.]5. Hour; time; season. [Not in use.]6...
STOUR
STOUR, noun A battle or tumult. stour signifies a river, as in Sturbridge.
STOUT
STOUT, adjective1. Strong; lusty.A stouter champion never handled sword.2. Bold; intrepid; valiant; brave.He lost the character of a bold, stout magnanimous man.3. Large; bulky....
STOUTLY
STOUTLY, adverb Lustily; boldly; obstinately. He stoutly defended himself.
STOUTNESS
STOUTNESS, noun1. Strength; bulk.2. Boldness; fortitude.3. Obstinacy; stubbornness.
STOVE
STOVE, noun [G., a bagnio or hot house; a room; a stove This primarily is merely a room, a place. See Stow.]1. A hot house; a house or room artificially warmed.2. A small box wi...
STOVER
STOVER, noun [a contraction of estover.] Fodder for cattle; primarily, fodder from threshed grain; but in New England, any kind of fodder from the barn or stack.
STOW
STOW, verb transitive [G. Latin, to crowd, to stuff; the handle of a plow. The sense is to set or throw down, from the more general sense of throwing, driving.]1. To place; to p...
STOWAGE
STOWAGE, noun1. The act or operation of placing in a suitable position; or the suitable disposition of several things together. The stowage of a ships cargo to advantage require...
STOWED
STOWED, participle passive Placed in due position or order; reposited.
STOWING
STOWING, participle present tense Placing in due position; disposing in good order.
STRABISM
STRABISM, noun [Latin, a squint-eyed person.] A squinting; the act or habit of looking asquint.
STRADDLE
STRADDLE, verb intransitive To part the legs wide; to stand or walk with the legs far apart.STRADDLE, verb transitive To place one leg on one side and the other on the other of ...
STRADDLING
STRADDLING, participle present tense Standing or walking with the legs far apart; placing one leg on one side and the other on the other.
STRAGGLE
STRAGGLE, verb intransitive stragl. [This word seems to be formed on the root of stray. G., to pass, to migrate.]1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove. When troops...
STRAGGLER
STRAGGLER, noun1. A wanderer; a rover; one that departs from the direct or proper course; one that rambles without any settled direction.2. A vagabond; a wandering shiftless fel...
STRAGGLING
STRAGGLING, participle present tense Wandering; roving; rambling; being in a separate position.
STRAHLSTEIN
STRAHLSTEIN, noun [G., a beam or gleam, and stone. Another name of actinolite.
STRAIGHT
STRAIGHT, adjective [Latin, formed from the root of reach, stretch, right. It is customary to write straight for direct or right, and strait, for narrow, but this is a practice ...
STRAIGHTEN
STRAIGHTEN, verb transitive1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.2. To make narrow, tense or close; to tighten.3. To reduce to difficulties or distress.
STRAIGHTENED
STRAIGHTENED, participle passive Made straight; made narrow.