SPage 741
- English Word Staphylotomy Definition The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.
- English Word Staple Definition A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
- English Word Staple Definition Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
- English Word Staple Definition The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
- English Word Staple Definition The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
- English Word Staple Definition Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- English Word Staple Definition The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
- English Word Staple Definition A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
- English Word Staple Definition A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- English Word Staple Definition A small pit.
- English Word Staple Definition A district granted to an abbey.
- English Word Staple Definition Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
- English Word Staple Definition Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
- English Word Staple Definition Fit to be sold; marketable.
- English Word Staple Definition Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- English Word Staple Definition To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
- English Word stapled Definition of Staple
- English Word Stapler Definition A dealer in staple goods.
- English Word Stapler Definition One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
- English Word stapling Definition of Staple