Studiedly Stud"ied·ly adverb In a studied manner.
Studier Stud"i·er noun A student. [ R.]
W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy.
Tillotson.
Studio Stu"di·o noun ;
plural Studios . [ Italian
studio , properly, study. See
Study .]
The working room of an artist.
Studious Stu"di·ous 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 Stud"y 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 Stud"y 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 Stud"y 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 Stu"fa noun [ Italian
stufa a stove. See
Stove .]
A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
Stuff 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 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 Stuff intransitive verb To feed gluttonously; to cram. Taught harmless man to cram and stuff .
Swift.
Stuffer Stuff"er noun One who, or that which, stuffs.
Stuffiness Stuff"i·ness noun The quality of being stuffy.
Stuffing Stuff"ing 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 Stuff"y adjective 1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [ Scot.]
Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [ U. S.]
3. Ill-ventilated; close.
Stuke Stuke noun Stucco. [ Obsolete]
Stull 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 Stulm noun [ Confer German
stollen a post, a stulm, English
stall ,
stand .]
A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [ Local, Eng.]
Bailey.
Stulp 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 Stul`ti·fi·ca"tion noun The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.
Stultifier Stul"ti·fi`er noun One who stultifies.
Stultify Stul"ti·fy 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 Stul·til"o·quence noun [ Latin
stultiloquentia ;
stultus foolish +
loquentia a talking, from
loquens , present participle of
loqui to talk.]
Silly talk; babbling.
Stultiloquent Stul·til"o·quent adjective [ Confer Latin
stultiloquus . See
Stultiloquence .]
Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. --
Stul*til"o*quent*ly ,
adverb
Stultiloquy Stul·til"o·quy noun [ Latin
stultiloquium .]
Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling. Jer. Taylor.
Stulty Stul"ty adjective [ Latin
stultus foolish.]
Foolish; silly. [ Obsolete]
Testament of Love.
Stum 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 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.
Stumble Stum"ble intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Stumbled ;
present participle & verbal noun Stumbling .] [ Middle English
stumblen ,
stomblen ; freq. of a word akin to English
stammer . See
Stammer .]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
Chaucer. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble .
Prov. iv. 19. 2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Sir W. Scott. 3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him.
1 John ii. 10. 4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on , upon , or against . Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
Dryden. Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake.
C. Smart.
Stumble Stum"ble transitive verb 1. To cause to stumble or trip. 2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall. False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
Milton. One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
Locke.
Stumble Stum"ble noun 1. A trip in walking or running. 2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L'Estrange.
Stumbler Stum"bler noun One who stumbles.
Stumbling-block Stum"bling-block` noun Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error. We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block , and unto the Greeks foolishness.
1 Cor. i. 23.
Stumbling-stone Stum"bling-stone` noun A stumbling-block. This stumbling-stone we hope to take away.
T. Burnet.
Stumblingly Stum"bling·ly adverb In a stumbling manner.
Stump Stump noun [ Middle English
stumpe ,
stompe ; akin to Dutch
stomp , German
stumpf , Icelandic
stumpr , Dan. & Swedish
stump , and perhaps also to English
stamp .]
1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. 2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom. 3. plural The legs; as, to stir one's stumps . [ Slang]
4. (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. 5. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder. 6. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump (Cricket) ,
the stump nearest to the batsman. --
Off stump (Cricket) ,
the stump farthest from the batsman. --
Stump tracery (Architecture) ,
a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. --
To go on the stump , or
To take the stump ,
to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator , stump speaker , stump speech , stump oratory , etc. [ Colloq. U.S.]
Stump Stump transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Stumped ;
present participle & verbal noun Stumping .]
1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.
Dr. H. More. 2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. [ Colloq.]
3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [ Colloq.]
4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump , under Stump , noun [ Colloq. U.S.]
5. (Cricket) (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out . T. Hughes. (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And stumped the wicket.
Tennyson. To stump it .
(a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape . [ Slang]
Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [ Colloq. U.S.]
Stump Stump intransitive verb To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. To stump up ,
to pay cash. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Stump-tailed Stump"-tailed` adjective Having a short, thick tail. Stump-tailed lizard (Zoology) ,
a singular Australian scincoid lizard ( Trachydosaurus rugosus ) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also sleeping lizard .
Stumpage Stump"age noun 1. Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. [ Local, U.S.]
Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land.
C. S. Sargent. 2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [ Local, U.S.]
The Nation.
Stumper Stump"er noun 1. One who stumps. 2. A boastful person. [ Slang]
3. A puzzling or incredible story. [ Slang, U.S.]
Stumpiness Stump"i·ness noun The state of being stumpy.
Stumpy Stump"y adjective 1. Full of stumps; hard; strong. 2. Short and thick; stubby. [ Colloq.] "A
stumpy little man."
J. C. Harris.
Stun Stun transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Stunned ;
present participle & verbal noun Stunning .] [ Middle English
stonien ,
stownien ; either from Anglo-Saxon
stunian to resound (cf. Dutch
stenen to groan, German
stöhnen , Icelandic
stynja , Greek ..., Sanskrit
stan to thunder, and English
thunder ), or from the same source as English
astonish . √168.]
1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head. One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
And one a heavy mace to stun the foe.
Dryden. 2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
Pope. 3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. William was quite stunned at my discourse.
De Foe.
Stun Stun noun The condition of being stunned.
Stundist Stun"dist noun [ Russian
shtundist , probably from German
stunde hour; -- from their meetings for Bible reading.]
(Eccl. Hist.) One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. --
Stun"dism noun
Stung Stung imperfect & past participle of Sting .
Stunk Stunk imperfect & past participle of Stink .
Stunner Stun"ner noun 1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. [ Slang]
Thackeray.
Stunning Stun"ning adjective 1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise. 2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [ Slang]
C. Kingsley. --
Stun"ning*ly ,
adverb [ Slang]
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