SPage 719
- English Word Stadtholdership Definition The office or position of a stadtholder.
- English Word Stafette Definition An estafet.
- English Word Staff Definition A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
- English Word Staff Definition A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
- English Word Staff Definition A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
- English Word Staff Definition A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- English Word Staff Definition The round of a ladder.
- English Word Staff Definition A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- English Word Staff Definition The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
- English Word Staff Definition An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- English Word Staff Definition The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- English Word Staff Definition An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
- English Word Staff Definition Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
- English Word Staffier Definition An attendant bearing a staff.
- English Word Staffish Definition Stiff; harsh.
- English Word Staffman Definition A workman employed in silk throwing.
- English Word Staffmen Definition of Staffman
- English Word Staffs Definition of Staff
- English Word Staffs Definition of Staff
- English Word Stag Definition The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.