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Spud
  • (n.) A dagger.

    Spume
  • (n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation
  • (v. i.) To froth

    Spun
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spin

    Spur
  • (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam
  • (v. i.) To spur on one' horse
  • (v. t.) To prick with spurs

    Sputter
  • (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles
  • (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
  • (v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound

    Sputum
  • (n.) That which is expectorated

    Spy
  • (n.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer
  • (v. i.) To search narrowly
  • (v. t.) To discover by close search or examination.

    Spyglass
  • (n.) A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

    Squab
  • (a.) Fat
  • (adv.) With a heavy fall
  • (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
  • (v. i.) To fall plump

    Squad
  • (n.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.

    Squalid
  • (a.) Dirty through neglect

    Squall
  • (n.) A loud scream
  • (v. i.) To cry out

    Squalor
  • (n.) Squalidness

    Squama
  • (n.) A scale cast off from the skin

    Squamiform
  • (a.) Having the shape of a scale.

    Squamosal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.
  • (n.) The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal

    Squamulose
  • (a.) Having little scales

    Squander
  • (n.) The act of squandering
  • (v. i.) To spend lavishly
  • (v. t.) To scatter

    Square
  • (a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon
  • (n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry
  • (v. i.) To accord or agree exactly

    Squarrose
  • (a.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating

    Squash
  • (n.) A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets
  • (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass

    Squat
  • (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
  • (n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
  • (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.

    Squawk
  • (n.) Act of squawking
  • (v. i.) To utter a shrill, abrupt scream

    Squawroot
  • (n.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States

    Squeak
  • (n.) A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed
  • (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment

    Squeal
  • (n.) A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.
  • (v. i.) To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain

    Squeamish
  • (a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated

    Squeegee
  • (v. t.) To smooth, press, or treat with a squeegee

    Squeeze
  • (n.) A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone
  • (v. i.) To press

    Squelch
  • (n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat
  • (v. i.) To make a sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush
  • (v. t.) To quell

    Squeteague
  • (n.) An American sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion regalis), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and much valued as a food fish

    Squib
  • (a.) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
  • (v. i.) To throw squibs

    Squid
  • (n.) A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid

    Squiggle
  • (v. i.) To move about like an eel

    Squill
  • (n.) A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine

    Squinch
  • (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower

    Squint
  • (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident
  • (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes
  • (v. i.) To deviate from a true line
  • (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

    Squirarchy
  • (n.) The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.

    Squire
  • (n.) A male attendant on a great personage
  • (v. t.) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection

    Squirm
  • (v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm

    Squirrel
  • (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the family Sciuridae

    Squirt
  • (n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly
  • (v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice

    Stab
  • (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon
  • (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon

    Staccato
  • (a.) Disconnected

    Stack
  • (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack
  • (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile

    Stacte
  • (n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax

    Staddle
  • (v. i.) Anything which serves for support
  • (v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay.

    Stadimeter
  • (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances

    Stadium
  • (n.) A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements

    Stadtholder
  • (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland

    Staff
  • (n.) A long piece of wood

    Stag
  • (n.) A castrated bull
  • (v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
  • (v. t.) To watch

    Staid
  • (a.) Sober

    Stain
  • (n.) A discoloration by foreign matter
  • (v. i.) To give or receive a stain
  • (v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

    Stair
  • (n.) A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another

    Stake
  • (n.) A territorial division
  • (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay

    Stalactite
  • (n.) A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment

    Stalagmite
  • (n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns

    Stale
  • (a.) To make water
  • (n.) The stock or handle of anything
  • (v. i.) A prostitute.
  • (v. t.) A laughingstock

    Stalk
  • (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
  • (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game
  • (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.

    Stall
  • (n.) A covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb
  • (v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
  • (v. t.) To fatten

    Stamen
  • (n.) A thread

    Staminate
  • (a.) Furnished with stamens
  • (v. t.) To indue with stamina.

    Staminode
  • (n.) A staminodium.

    Stammel
  • (a.) Of the color of stammel
  • (n.) A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.

    Stammer
  • (n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance
  • (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words
  • (v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly

    Stamp
  • (n.) that which is marked
  • (v. t.) A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark

    Stance
  • (n.) A stanza.

    Stanch
  • (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release
  • (v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood.
  • (v. t.) Close

    Stand
  • (n.) To adhere to fixed principles
  • (v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition
  • (v. t.) To abide by

    Stanhope
  • (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top

    Stank
  • (a.) Weak
  • (imp.) Stunk.
  • (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
  • (v. i.) To sigh.

    Stannic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to tin

    Stanniferous
  • (a.) Containing or affording tin.

    Stannite
  • (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color

    Stannous
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin

    Stanza
  • (n.) An apartment or division in a building

    Stapelia
  • (n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family)

    Stapes
  • (n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear

    Staple
  • (a.) Established in commerce
  • (n.) A district granted to an abbey.
  • (v. t.) To sort according to its staple

    Star
  • (n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance
  • (v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star
  • (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies

    Stasis
  • (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls

    State
  • (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic
  • (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais
  • (v. t.) To express the particulars of

    Statics
  • (n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them

    Station
  • (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers
  • (v. t.) To place

    Statism
  • (n.) The art of governing a state

    Statistician
  • (n.) One versed in statistics

    Statistics
  • (n.) 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

    Stative
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

    Statoblast
  • (n.) 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

    Stator
  • (n.) A stationary part in or about which another part (the rotor) revolves, esp. when both are large

    Statuary
  • (n.) A collection of statues

    Statue
  • (n.) A portrait.
  • (v. t.) To place, as a statue

    Stature
  • (n.) The natural height of an animal body

    Status
  • (n.) State

    Statutable
  • (a.) Made or being in conformity to statute

    Statute
  • (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law
  • (n.) An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something

    Statutory
  • (a.) Enacted by statute

    Staurolite
  • (n.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross

    Stave
  • (n.) A metrical portion
  • (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something

    Stay
  • (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
  • (v. i.) To bear up under

    Stead
  • (n.) A farmhouse and offices.
  • (v. t.) To fill place of.

    Steak
  • (v. t.) A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling

    Steal
  • (n.) A handle
  • (v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft
  • (v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner

    Steam
  • (n.) Any exhalation.
  • (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.
  • (v. t.) To exhale.

    Steapsin
  • (n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids

    Stearate
  • (n.) A salt of stearic acid

    Stearic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow

    Stearin
  • (n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao

    Steatite
  • (n.) A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils

    Steed
  • (n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war

    Steel
  • (n.) A chalybeate medicine.

    Steep
  • (a.) Bright
  • (n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent
  • (v. i.) To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid
  • (v. t.) Difficult of access

    Steer
  • (a.) A young male of the ox kind
  • (n.) A helmsman, a pilot.
  • (v. i.) To be directed and governed
  • (v. t.) A rudder or helm.

    Steeve
  • (n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly
  • (v. i.) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel
  • (v. t.) To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon

    Stela
  • (n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.

    Stele
  • (n.) A stale, or handle

    Steller
  • (n.) The rytina

    Stelliform
  • (a.) Like a star

    Stellular
  • (a.) Having the shape or appearance of little stars

    Stem
  • (n.) A branch of a family.
  • (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel

    Stench
  • (n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor
  • (v. i.) An ill smell
  • (v. t.) To stanch.

    Stencil
  • (n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it
  • (v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils

    Stenograph
  • (n.) A production of stenography
  • (v. t.) To write or report in stenographic characters.

    Stenosis
  • (n.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice

    Stentor
  • (n.) A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice

    Step
  • (n.) At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion
  • (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  • (v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step

    Stercoraceous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to dung

    Stere
  • (n.) A rudder.
  • (v. t. & i.) To stir.

    Sterilization
  • (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile

    Sterilize
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing

    Sterlet
  • (n.) A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor

    Sterling
  • (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage
  • (n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.

    Stern
  • (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern
  • (n.) The black tern.
  • (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect

    Stet
  • (subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand
  • (v. t.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission

    Stevedore
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port

    Stew
  • (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
  • (v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
  • (v. t.) A brothel

    Stibine
  • (n.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony

    Stibnite
  • (n.) A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals

    Stich
  • (n.) A line in the Scriptures

    Stick
  • (n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface
  • (v. i.) To adhere
  • (v. t.) A composing stick.

    Stiffen
  • (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
  • (v. t.) To inspissate

    Stifle
  • (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals
  • (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration
  • (v. t.) To stop

    Stigma
  • (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron

    Stilbene
  • (n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals

    Stilbite
  • (n.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses

    Stile
  • (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow
  • (v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.

    Still
  • (a.) After that
  • (adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent
  • (n.) A steep hill or ascent.
  • (v.) A house where liquors are distilled
  • (v. i.) To drop, or flow in drops
  • (v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.

    Stilt
  • (n.) A crutch
  • (v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

    Stimulant
  • (a.) Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
  • (n.) An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts

    Stimulate
  • (v. t.) To excite

    Stimulus
  • (v. t.) A goad

    Sting
  • (v. t.) A goad

    Stink
  • (n.) A strong, offensive smell
  • (v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell
  • (v. t.) To cause to stink

    Stint
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc
  • (v. i.) To stop
  • (v. t.) Limit

    Stipe
  • (n.) The stalk of a pistil.

    Stipitate
  • (a.) Supported by a stipe

    Stipple
  • (v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

    Stipulate
  • (a.) Furnished with stipules
  • (v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything

    Stipule
  • (n.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance

    Stir
  • (n.) Agitation of thoughts
  • (v. i.) To become the object of notice
  • (v. t.) To bring into debate

    Stitch
  • (n.) An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style
  • (v. i.) A contortion, or twist.
  • (v. t.) To form land into ridges.

    Stithy
  • (n.) An anvil.
  • (v. t.) To forge on an anvil.

    Stiver
  • (n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling

    Stoat
  • (n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail

    Stochastic
  • (a.) Conjectural

    Stock
  • (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply
  • (n.) A block of wood
  • (v. t.) To lay up

    Stodgy
  • (a.) Wet.

    Stogy
  • (a.) heavy
  • (n.) A kind of cheap, but not necessary inferior, cigar made in the form of a cylindrical roll.

    Stoic
  • (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno

    Stoke
  • (v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire
  • (v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire

    Stole
  • (imp.) of Steal
  • (n.) A long, loose garment reaching to the feet.

    Stolid
  • (a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid

    Stolon
  • (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons

    Stoma
  • (n.) A stigma.

    Stomp
  • (v. i.) To stamp with the foot.

    Stone
  • (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder

    Stony
  • (superl.) Converting into stone

    Stood
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stand

    Stool
  • (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees
  • (v. i.) To ramfy

    Stoop
  • (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
  • (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward
  • (v. t.) To bend forward and downward

    Stoor
  • (v. i.) To rise in clouds, as dust.

    Stop
  • (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought
  • (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
  • (v. t.) To arrest the progress of

    Storage
  • (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.

    Storax
  • (n.) Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family

    Store
  • (a.) Accumulated
  • (v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail

    Storied
  • (a.) Having (such or so many) stories

    Stork
  • (n.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill

    Storm
  • (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force
  • (v. i.) To blow with violence
  • (v. t.) To assault

    Story
  • (n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie
  • (v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level

    Stoup
  • (n.) 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

    Stour
  • (a.) Tall
  • (n.) A battle or tumult

    Stout
  • (n.) A strong malt liquor
  • (superl.) Firm

    Stove
  • (n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated
  • (v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove

    Stow
  • (v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in

    Strabismus
  • (n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object

    Straddle
  • (n.) 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
  • (v. i.) To part the legs wide
  • (v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of

    Straggle
  • (n.) The act of straggling.
  • (v. t.) To be dispersed or separated

    Straight
  • (a.) A variant of Strait, a.
  • (adv.) In a straight manner
  • (n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value
  • (superl.) Approximately straight
  • (v. t.) To straighten.

    Strain
  • (a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it
  • (n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
  • (v. i.) To make violent efforts.

    Strait
  • (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water
  • (adv.) Strictly
  • (superl.) Close
  • (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

    Strake
  • (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces

    Stramonium
  • (n.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium)

    Strand
  • (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
  • (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground
  • (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).

    Strange
  • (adv.) Strangely.
  • (superl.) Backward
  • (v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.
  • (v. t.) To alienate

    Strangle
  • (v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.
  • (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration

    Strangulate
  • (a.) Strangulated.

    Strangury
  • (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

    Strap
  • (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
  • (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.

    Strass
  • (n.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium

    Strata
  • (n.) pl. of Stratum.

    Strategics
  • (n.) Strategy.

    Strategist
  • (n.) One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

    Strategy
  • (n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements

    Straticulate
  • (a.) Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.

    Stratification
  • (n.) The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers

    Stratiform
  • (a.) Having the form of strata.

    Stratify
  • (v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth

    Stratigraphy
  • (n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

    Stratocracy
  • (n.) A military government

    Stratum
  • (n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds

    Stratus
  • (n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer.

    Straw
  • (n.) Anything proverbially worthless
  • (v. t.) To spread or scatter.

    Stray
  • (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude
  • (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost
  • (v. i.) Having gone astray
  • (v. t.) To cause to stray.

    Streak
  • (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground
  • (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on

    Stream
  • (n.) A beam or ray of light.
  • (v. i.) To extend
  • (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

    Street
  • (a.) Originally, a paved way or road

    Strelitzia
  • (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers

    Strength
  • (n.) A strong place
  • (v. t.) To strengthen.

    Strenuous
  • (a.) Eagerly pressing or urgent

    Streptococcus
  • (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.

    Stress
  • (n.) Distress.
  • (v. t.) To place emphasis on

    Stretch
  • (n.) A continuous line or surface
  • (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances
  • (v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth

    Stretto
  • (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.

    Strew
  • (v. t.) To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon

    Stria
  • (n.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.

    Stricken
  • (n.) Worn out
  • (p. p. & a.) Struck
  • (v. t.) Whole

    Strickle
  • (n.) An instrument for whetting scythes

    Strict
  • (a.) Exact

    Stride
  • (n.) The act of stridding
  • (v. t.) To pass over at a step

    Stridor
  • (n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.

    Stridulate
  • (v. t.) To make a shrill, creaking noise

    Stridulous
  • (a.) Making a shrill, creaking sound.

    Strife
  • (n.) Altercation

    Strigil
  • (n.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

    Strigose
  • (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles

    Strike
  • (n.) A bushel
  • (v. i.) To become attached to something
  • (v. t.) To advance

    Striking
  • (a.) Affecting with strong emotions

    String
  • (n.) Act of stringing for break.
  • (v. i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc
  • (v. t.) To deprive of strings

    Strip
  • (n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long
  • (v. i.) To fail in the thread
  • (v. t.) To deprive

    Strive
  • (n.) An effort
  • (v. i.) To make efforts

    Strobila
  • (n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma

    Stroboscope
  • (n.) An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted

    Strode
  • (imp.) of Stride

    Stroke
  • (imp.) Struck.
  • (v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something

    Stroll
  • (n.) A wandering on foot
  • (v. i.) To wander on foot

    Stroma
  • (n.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia

    Strong
  • (superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination

    Strontia
  • (n.) An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties

    Strontium
  • (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc

    Strop
  • (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
  • (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen

    Stroud
  • (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

    Strove
  • (imp.) of Strive

    Struck
  • (imp.) of Strike
  • (p. p.) of Strike

    Structural
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to organit structure

    Structure
  • (n.) Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body

    Struggle
  • (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body
  • (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish

    Strum
  • (v. t. & i.) To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way

    Strung
  • (imp.) of String
  • (p. p.) of String

    Strut
  • (a.) Protuberant.
  • (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart
  • (v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.

    Strychnine
  • (n.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St


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