Stucco noun ; plural Stuccoes , Stuccos . [ Italian , from Old High German stucchi a crust, piece, German stück piece; akin to Anglo-Saxon stycce . See Stock .]
1. Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.

2. Work made of stucco; stuccowork.

Stucco transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stuccoed ; present participle & verbal noun Stuccoing .] To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.

Stuccoer noun One who stuccoes.

Stuccowork noun Work done in stucco.

Stuck imperfect & past participle of Stick .

Stuck noun [ Confer 1st Stoccado .] A thrust. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Stuck-up adjective Self-important and supercilious, ...onceited; vain; arrogant. [ Colloq.]

The airs of small, stuck-up , men.

A. K. H. Boyd.

Stuckle noun [ From Stook .] A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.

Stud noun [ Middle English stod , stood , Anglo-Saxon stōd ; akin to Old High German stuota , German stute a mare, Icelandic stō... stud, Lithuanian stodas a herd, Russian stado , and to English stand . The sense is properly, a stand, an establishment. √163. See Stand , and confer Steed .] A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor, and size.

Sir W. Temple.

He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

Macaulay.

Stud noun [ Anglo-Saxon studu a post; akin to Swedish stöd a prop, Icelandic sto... a post, sty...ja to prop, and probably ultimately to English stand ; confer Dutch stut a prop, German stütze . See Stand .]
1. A stem; a trunk. [ Obsolete]

Seest not this same hawthorn stud ?

Spenser.

2. (Architecture) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

3. A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs .

Marlowe.

Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems
And studs of pearl.

Milton.

4. An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.

5. (Machinery) (a) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal. (b) A stud bolt.

6. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Stud bolt , a bolt with threads on both ends, to be screwed permanently into a fixed part at one end and receive a nut upon the other; -- called also standing bolt .

Stud transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Studded ; present participle & verbal noun Studding .]
1. To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.

Thy horses shall be trapped,
Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.

Shak.

2. To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.

The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen.

Bp. Hobart.

Stud-horse noun [ Anglo-Saxon stōd- hors .] A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.

Studbook noun A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

Studdery noun A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud. [ Obsolete]

King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery .

Holinshed.

Studding noun Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

Studding sail (Nautical) A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom . See Illust. of Sail . Toten.

Student noun [ Latin studens , -entis , present participle of studere to study. See Study , noun ]
1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student ; a hard student .

Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book.

Shak.

2. One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

Studentry noun A body of students. [ R.]

Studentship noun The state of being a student.

Studfish noun (Zoology) Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus , as F. catenatus .

Studied adjective
1. Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

2. Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.

I shrewdly suspect that he is little studied of a theory of moral proportions.

Burke.

3. Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult. " Studied magnificence." Hawthorne.

4. Intent; inclined. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Studiedly adverb In a studied manner.

Studier noun A student. [ R.] W. Irving.

Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy.

Tillotson.

Studio noun ; plural Studios . [ Italian studio , properly, study. See Study .] The working room of an artist.

Studious adjective [ Latin studious : confer French studieux . See Study .]
1. Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

2. Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative. Locke.

3. Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of ; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.

You that are so studious
Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own.

Massinger.

4. Planned with study; deliberate; studied.

For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented?

Rambler.

5. Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade. [ Poetic]

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister's pale.

Milton.

-- Stu"di*ous*ly , adverb -- Stu"di*ous*ness , noun

Study noun ; plural Studies . [ Middle English studie , Latin studium , akin to studere to study; possibly akin to Greek ... haste, zeal, ... to hasten; confer Old French estudie , estude , French étude . Confer Etude , Student , Studio , Study , intransitive verb ]
1. A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.

Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study .

Bp. Fell.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace.

Sir W. Temple.

2. Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.

Just men they seemed, and all their study bent
To worship God aright, and know his works.

Milton.

3. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .

Law.

The proper study of mankind is man.

Pope.

4. A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. "His cheery little study ." Hawthorne.

5. (Fine Arts) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.

6. (Mus.) A piece for special practice. See Etude .

Study intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Studied ; present participle & verbal noun Studying .] [ Middle English studien , Old French estudier , French étudier . See Study , noun ]
1. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder. Chaucer.

I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.

Swift.

2. To apply the mind to books or learning. Shak.

3. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous. 1 Thes. iv. 11.

Study transitive verb
1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.

Study thyself; what rank or what degree
The wise Creator has ordained for thee.

Dryden.

3. To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.

4. To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.

For their heart studieth destruction.

Prov. xxiv. 2.

Stufa noun [ Italian stufa a stove. See Stove .] A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

Stuff noun [ Old French estoffe , French étoffe ; of uncertain origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to English stop , v.t. Confer Stuff , transitive verb ]
1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

Ex. xxxvi. 7.

Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff .

Shak.

The workman on his stuff his skill doth show,
And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.

Sir J. Davies.

2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder.

Shak.

3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?

Shak.

It [ the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively.

F. G. Lee.

4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff .

Hayward.

5. A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak.

6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

Anger would indite
Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.

Dryden.

7. (Nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

8. Paper stock ground ready for use.

» When partly ground, called half stuff . Knight.

Clear stuff . See under Clear . -- Small stuff (Nautical) , all kinds of small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Stuff gown , the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown , under Silk .

Stuff transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stuffed ; present participle & verbal noun Stuffing .] [ Middle English stoffen ; confer Old French estoffer , French étoffer , to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, Old French estouffer to stifle, French étouffer ; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to English stop . Confer Stop , transitive verb , Stuff , noun ]
1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown,
And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.

Gay.

Lest the gods, for sin,
Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.

Dryden.

2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.

Bacon.

3. To fill by being pressed or packed into.

With inward arms the dire machine they load,
And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.

Dryden.

4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

I'm stuffed , cousin; I can not smell.

Shak.

6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.

7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.

Swift.

8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [ U. S.]

Stuff intransitive verb To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Taught harmless man to cram and stuff .

Swift.

Stuffer noun One who, or that which, stuffs.

Stuffiness noun The quality of being stuffy.

Stuffing noun
1. That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

2. (Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.

3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

Stuffing box , a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland , which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

Stuffy adjective
1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [ Scot.] Jamieson.

2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [ U. S.]

3. Ill-ventilated; close.

Stuke noun Stucco. [ Obsolete]

Stull noun [ CF. Stum .] A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones. [ Prov. Eng.]

Stulm noun [ Confer German stollen a post, a stulm, English stall , stand .] A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [ Local, Eng.] Bailey.

Stulp noun [ Confer Icelandic stōlpi , Dan., Swedish , & OD. stolpe .] A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Stultification noun The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.

Stultifier noun One who stultifies.

Stultify transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stultified ; present participle & verbal noun Stultifying .] [ Latin stultus foolish + -fy .]
1. To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct. Burke.

2. To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [ R.]

The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own.

Hazlitt.

3. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.

Stultiloquence noun [ Latin stultiloquentia ; stultus foolish + loquentia a talking, from loquens , present participle of loqui to talk.] Silly talk; babbling.

Stultiloquent adjective [ Confer Latin stultiloquus . See Stultiloquence .] Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly , adverb

Stultiloquy noun [ Latin stultiloquium .] Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.

Stulty adjective [ Latin stultus foolish.] Foolish; silly. [ Obsolete] Testament of Love.

Stum noun [ Dutch stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; confer French vin muet stum. Confer Stammer , Stoom .]
1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.

Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.

B. Jonson.

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.

Dryden.

2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras.

Stum transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stummed ; present participle & verbal noun Stumming .] To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

We stum our wines to renew their spirits.

Floyer.