Storthing Stor"thing noun [ Norw. storting ; stor great + ting court, court of justice; confer Danish ting , thing .] The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

Storven Stor"ven obsolete past participle of Starve . Chaucer.

Story Sto"ry noun ; plural Stories . [ Old French estoré , estorée , built, erected, past participle of estorer to build, restore, to store. See Store , transitive verb ] A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [ Written also storey .]

» A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below upward; as, the lower, second, or third story ; a house of one story , of two stories , of five stories .

Story post (Architecture) , a vertical post used to support a floor or superincumbent wall.

Story Sto"ry noun [ Middle English storie , Old French estoire , French histoire , from Latin historia . See History .] 1. A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story .

Barrow.

Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story .

Ed. Rev.

The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story .

Sir W. Temple.

2. The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance. Addison.

3. A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story . [ Colloq.]

Story Sto"ry transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Storied ; present participle & verbal noun Storying .] To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.

Shak.

It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

Bp. Wilkins.

Story-teller Sto"ry-tell`er noun 1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story- teller .

2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift.

3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."

Story-telling Sto"ry-tell`ing adjective Being accustomed to tell stories. -- noun The act or practice of telling stories.

Story-writer Sto"ry-writ`er noun 1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines.

2. An historian; a chronicler. [ Obsolete] "Rathums, the story-writer ." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.

Storybook Sto"ry·book` noun A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

Stot Stot (stŏt) noun [ Anglo-Saxon stotte a hack, jade, or worthless horse; confer Swedish stut a bull, Danish stud an ox. Confer Stoat .] 1. A horse. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. Thorold Rogers.

2. A young bull or ox, especially one three years old. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Stote Stote (stōt) noun (Zoology) See Stoat .

Stound Stound (stound) intransitive verb [ Confer Astound , Stun .] To be in pain or sorrow. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Stound Stound adjective [ See Stound , intransitive verb ] Stunned. [ Obsolete]

Stound Stound noun 1. A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

2. Astonishment; amazement. [ Obsolete] Spenser. Gay.

Stound Stound noun [ Anglo-Saxon stund ; akin to Dutch stond , German stunde , Icelandic stund .] 1. Hour; time; season. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

2. A brief space of time; a moment. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

In a stound , suddenly. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Stound Stound noun [ Confer Stand .] A vessel for holding small beer. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Stoup Stoup (stōp) noun [ See Stoop a vessel.] 1. A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [ Scot.] Jamieson.

2. (Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup .

Stour Stour noun [ Old French estour , estor , tumult, combat, of Teutonic origin. See Storm .] A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion. [ Obsolete] Fairfax. "That woeful stowre ." Spenser.

She that helmed was in starke stours [ fierce conflicts].

Chaucer.

Stour Stour adjective [ See Stoor , adjective ] Tall; strong; stern. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Stout Stout adjective [ Compar. Stouter ; superl. Stoutest .] [ Dutch stout bold (or Old French estout bold, proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to Anglo-Saxon stolt , German stolz , and perhaps to English stilt .] 1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.

With hearts stern and stout .

Chaucer.

A stouter champion never handled sword.

Shak.

He lost the character of a bold, stout , magnanimous man.

Clarendon.

The lords all stand
To clear their cause, most resolutely stout .

Daniel.

2. Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [ Archaic]

Your words have been stout against me.

Mal. iii. 13.

Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout .

Latimer.

3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

4. Large; bulky; corpulent.

Syn. -- Stout , Corpulent , Portly . Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout , in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold ; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky , and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: "The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size." In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.

Stout Stout noun A strong malt liquor; strong porter. Swift.

Stout-hearted Stout"-heart"ed adjective Having a brave heart; courageous. -- Stout"-heart"ed*ness , noun

Stoutish Stout"ish adjective Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

Stoutly Stout"ly adverb In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

Stoutness Stout"ness noun The state or quality of being stout.

Syn. -- Strength; bulk; courage; force; valor; lustiness; brawniness; boldness; fortitude; stubbornness.

Stovain Sto"va·in noun Also -ine [ Stove (a translation of the name of the discoverer, Fourneau + -in , -ine .] (Pharm.) A substance, C ₁₄ H ₂₂ O ₂ NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anęsthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anęsthesia below the point of introduction.

Stove Stove imperfect of Stave .

Stove Stove noun [ Dutch stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to German stube room, Old High German stuba a heated room, Anglo-Saxon stofe , Icelandic stofa a room, bathing room, Swedish stufva , stuga , a room, Danish stue ; of unknown origin. Confer Estufa , Stew , Stufa .] 1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.

When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.

Earl of Strafford.

How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!

Burton.

2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.

Cooking stove , a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking. -- Dry stove . See under Dry . -- Foot stove . See under Foot . -- Franklin stove . See in the Vocabulary. -- Stove plant (Botany) , a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. -- Stove plate , thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.

Stove Stove transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stoved ; present participle & verbal noun Stoving .] 1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. Bacon.

2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

Stovehouse Stove"house` noun A hothouse.

Stovepipe Stove"pipe` noun Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.

Stovepipe hat , the common tall silk hat. [ Slang, U.S.]

Stover Sto"ver noun [ Middle English estoveir , estovoir , necessity, provisions, properly an inf., "to be necessary." Confer Estovers .] Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

Where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep.

Shak.

Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require,
Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire.

Tusser.

Stow Stow transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stowed ; present participle & verbal noun Stowing .] [ Middle English stowen , from stowe a place, Anglo-Saxon stow ; confer Icelandic eld stō a fireplace, hearth, OFries. stō , and English stand . √163.] 1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stow bags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.

Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides.

Dryden.

2. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.

Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?

Shak.

3. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.

Stowage Stow"age noun 1. The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

2. Room in which things may be stowed. Cook.

In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures.

Addison.

3. The state of being stowed, or put away. "To have them in safe stowage ." Shak.

4. Things stowed or packed. Beau. & Fl.

5. Money paid for stowing goods.

Stowaway Stow"a·way` noun One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

Stowboard Stow"board noun A place into which rubbish is put. [ Written also stowbord .]

Stowce Stowce noun (Mining) (a) A windlass. (b) A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.

Stowing Stow"ing noun (Mining) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

Stowre Stowre adjective See Stour , adjective [ Obsolete]

Stowre Stowre noun See Stour , noun [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Strabism Stra"bism noun (Medicine) Strabismus.

Strabismometer Stra`bis·mom"e·ter noun [ Strabismus + -meter .] (Medicine) An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.

Strabismus Stra·bis"mus noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., from ... to squint, from ... distorted, squinting.] (Medicine) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

Strabotomy Stra·bot"o·my noun [ Greek ... squinting + ... to cut.] (Surg.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

Straddle Strad"dle intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Straddled ; present participle & verbal noun Straddling .] [ Freq. from the root of stride .] 1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

Straddle Strad"dle transitive verb To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

Straddle Strad"dle noun 1. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.

2. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle .

3. A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e. , securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [ Broker's Cant]

Straddling Strad"dling adjective Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle , intransitive verb , and Straddle , transitive verb , 3. Knight.

Stradometrical Strad`o·met"ric·al adjective [ Italian strada street or road + English metrical .] Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [ R.]

Straggle Strag"gle intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Straggled ; present participle & verbal noun Straggling .] [ Freq. of Middle English straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke , transitive verb ] 1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle . Dryden.

2. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.

The wolf spied out a straggling kid.

L'Estrange.

3. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out .

Mortimer.

4. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. " Straggling pistol shots." Sir W. Scott.

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

Sir W. Raleigh.

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