SPage 806
- English Word Stive Definition To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
- English Word Stive Definition To be stifled or suffocated.
- English Word Stive Definition The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
- English Word Stived Definition of Stive
- English Word Stiver Definition A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.
- English Word Stives Definition Stews; a brothel.
- English Word Stiving Definition of Stive
- English Word Stoak Definition To stop; to choke.
- English Word Stoat Definition The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
- English Word Stocah Definition A menial attendant.
- English Word Stoccade Definition See Stockade.
- English Word Stoccado Definition A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
- English Word Stochastic Definition Conjectural; able to conjecture.
- English Word Stock Definition The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
- English Word Stock Definition The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
- English Word Stock Definition A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- English Word Stock Definition Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
- English Word Stock Definition The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
- English Word Stock Definition The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
- English Word Stock Definition The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.