Station Sta"tion transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stationed ; present participle & verbal noun Stationing .] To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.

He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed .

Lyttelton.

Station Sta"tion noun In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.

Stational Sta"tion·al adjective [ Latin stationalis : confer French stationnale ( église ).] Of or pertaining to a station. [ R.]

Stationariness Sta"tion·a·ri·ness noun The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.

Stationary Sta"tion·a·ry adjective [ Latin stationarius : confer French stationnaire . Confer Stationer .] 1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.

Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story.

Southey.

2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.

3. Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.

Stationary air (Physiol.) , the air which under ordinary circumstances does not leave the lungs in respiration. -- Stationary engine . (a) A steam engine thet is permanently placed, in distinction from a portable engine, locomotive, marine engine, etc. Specifically: (b) A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.

Stationary Sta"tion·a·ry noun ; plural -ries One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. Holland.

Stationer Sta"tion·er noun [ Confer Stationary , adjective ] 1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station , in the market place or elsewhere. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.

Stationery Sta"tion·er·y noun The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.

Stationery Sta"tion·er·y adjective Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.

Statism Sta"tism noun [ From State .] The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [ Obsolete]

The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism .

South.

Statist Sta"tist noun [ From State .] 1. A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [ Obsolete]

Statists indeed,
And lovers of their country.

Milton.

2. A statistician. Fawcett.

Statistic, Statistical Sta·tis"tic, Sta·tis"tic·al adjective [ Confer French statistique .] Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.

Statistically Sta·tis"tic·al·ly adverb In the way of statistics.

Statistician Stat`is·ti"cian noun [ Confer French statisticien .] One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.

Statistics Sta·tis"tics noun [ Confer French statistique , German statistik . See State , noun ] 1. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state. [ In this sense gramatically singular.]

2. plural Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.

Statistology Stat`is·tol"o·gy noun [ Statistics + -logy .] See Statistics , 2.

Stative Sta"tive adjective [ Latin stativus , from stare , statum , to stand.] (Mil.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters. [ Obsolete or R.]

Statoblast Stat"o·blast noun [ Greek ... standing ( i. e. , remaining) + -blast .] (Zoology) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh- water species; -- also called winter buds .

» They are protected by a firm covering, and are usually destined to perpetuate the species during the winter season. They burst open and develop in the spring. In some fresh-water sponges they serve to preserve the species during the dry season. See Illust. under Phylactolæmata .

Statocracy Sta·toc"ra·cy noun [ State + -cracy , as in democracy .] Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power. [ R.] O. A. Brownson.

Stator Sta"tor noun (Machinery) A stationary part in or about which another part (the rotor) revolves, esp. when both are large; as, (a) (Electricity) The stationary member of an electrical machine, as of an induction motor. (b) (Steam Turbine) The case inclosing a turbine wheel; the body of stationary blades or nozzles.

Statua Stat"u·a noun [ Latin ] A statue. [ Obsolete]

They spake not a word;
But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones,
Gazed each on other.

Shak.

Statuary Stat"u·a·ry noun ; plural Statuaries . [ Latin statuarius , noun , from statuarius , adjective , of or belonging to statues, from statua statue: confer French statuaire . See Statue .] 1. One who practices the art of making statues.

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.

Addison.

2. [ Latin statuaria (sc. ars ): confer French statuaire .] The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple.

3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively.

Statue Stat"ue noun [ French, from Latin statua (akin to stativus standing still), from stare , statum , to stand. See Stand .] 1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.

I will raise her statue in pure gold.

Shak.

2. A portrait. [ Obsolete] Massinger.

Statue Stat"ue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Statued ; present participle & verbal noun Statuing .] To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth." Feltham.

Statued Stat"ued adjective Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. " Statued niches." G. Eliot.

Statueless Stat"ue·less adjective Without a statue.

Statuelike Stat"ue·like` adjective Like a statue; motionless.

Statuesque Stat`u·esque" adjective Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesque limbs; a statuesque attitude.

Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background.

Hare.

Statuesquely Stat`u·esque"ly adverb In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

A character statuesquely simple in its details.

Lowell.

Statuette Stat`u·ette" noun [ French, confer Italian statuetta .] A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Confer Figurine .

Statuminate Sta·tu"mi·nate transitive verb [ Latin statuminatus , past participle of statuminare to prop, from statumen a prop, from statuere to place.] To prop or support. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Stature Stat"ure noun [ French stature , Old French estature , from Latin statura , originally, an upright posture, hence, height or size of the body, from stare , statum , to stand. See Stand .] The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.

Foreign men of mighty stature came.

Dryden.

Statured Stat"ured adjective Arrived at full stature. [ R.]

Status Sta"tus noun [ Latin ] State; condition; position of affairs.

Status in quo Sta"tus in` quo" Sta"tus quo" [ Latin , state in which.] The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum , or are left in statu quo ante bellum , i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.

Statutable Stat"u·ta·ble adjective 1. Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.

2. Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.

Statutably Stat"u·ta·bly adverb Conformably to statute.

Statute Stat"ute noun [ French statut , Late Latin statutum , from Latin statutus , past participle of statuere to set, station, ordain, from status position, station, from stare , statum , to stand. See Stand , and confer Constitute , Destitute .] 1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law . See Common law , under Common , adjective Bouvier.

» Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies, legislature laws of the sovereign are called edicts , decrees , ordinances , rescripts , etc. In works on international law and in the Roman law, the term is used as embracing all laws imposed by competent authority. Statutes in this sense are divided into statutes real, statutes personal, and statutes mixed; statutes real applying to immovables; statutes personal to movables; and statutes mixed to both classes of property.

2. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

3. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair . [ Eng.] Confer 3d Mop , 2. Halliwell.

Statute book , a record of laws or legislative acts. Blackstone. -- Statute cap , a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [ Obsolete] Halliwell. -- Statute fair . See Statute , noun , 3, above. -- Statute labor , a definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in certain English colonies. -- Statute merchant (Eng. Law) , a bond of record pursuant to the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; -- called also a pocket judgment . It is now fallen into disuse. Tomlins. Bouvier. -- Statute mile . See under Mile . -- Statute of limitations (Law) , a statute assigned a certain time, after which rights can not be enforced by action. -- Statute staple , a bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may, on nonpayment, forthwith have execution against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, as in the statute merchant . It is now disused. Blackstone.

Syn. -- Act; regulation; edict; decree. See Law .

Statutory Stat"u·to·ry adjective Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.

Staunch, Staunchly Staunch, Staunch"ly Staunch"ness etc. See Stanch , Stanchly , etc.

Staurolite Stau"ro·lite noun [ Greek ... a cross + -lite .] (Min.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite , and grenatite .

Staurolitic Stau`ro·lit"ic adjective (Min.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

Stauroscope Stau"ro·scope noun [ Greek ... a cross + -scope .] (Crystallog.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

Staurotide Stau"ro·tide noun [ French staurotide , from Greek ... cruciform (from Greek ... a cross) + ... form.] (Min.) Staurolite.

Stave Stave noun [ From Staff , and corresponding to the plural staves . See Staff .] 1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

2. One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Let us chant a passing stave
In honor of that hero brave.

Wordsworth.

4. (Mus.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. [ Obsolete]

Stave jointer , a machine for dressing the edges of staves.

Stave Stave transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Staved or Stove ; present participle & verbal noun Staving .] [ From Stave , noun , or Staff , noun ] 1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in ; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.

2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off .

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

South.

3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off ; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

And answered with such craft as women use,
Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance
That breaks upon them perilously.

Tennyson.

4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

All the wine in the city has been staved .

Sandys.

5. To furnish with staves or rundles. Knolles.

6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

To stave and tail , in bear baiting, ( to stave ) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; ( to tail ) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.

Stave Stave intransitive verb To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank.

Longfellow.

Staves Staves noun ; plural of Staff . "Banners, scarves and staves ." R. Browning. Also (stāvz), plural of Stave .

Stavesacre Staves"a`cre noun [ Corrupted from New Latin staphis agria , Greek ... dried grape + ... wild.] (Botany) A kind of larkspur ( Delphinium Staphysagria ), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.

Stavewood Stave`wood` noun (Botany) A tall tree ( Simaruba amara ) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

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