<B>stillman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a workman employed to attend to a still. </DL>
<A NAME="stillness">
<B>stillness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>absence of noise; quiet; silence. <BR> <I>Ex. the stillness of the grave, to listen in sullen stillness.</I> (SYN) hush. <DD><B> 2. </B>absence of motion; calm. <BR> <I>Ex. the stillness of a mill pond.</I> (SYN) immobility. <DD><B> 3. </B>lack of excitement. <BR> <I>Ex. stillness of passions.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stillroom">
<B>still-room, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>(originally) a room in a house in which cordials and other alcoholic liquors were distilled. <BR> <I>Ex. A hundred years ago every lady in the country had her still-room (Thackeray).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(later) a room where cordials, preserves, or the like, are kept, and tea and coffee are prepared. </DL>
<A NAME="stillsdisease">
<B>Still's disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a chronic disease of children, in which the spleen and lymphatic glands become enlarged and many of the joints inflamed. It is a kind of rheumatoid arthritis. </DL>
<A NAME="stillsonwrench">
<B>Stillson wrench,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a wrench with an adjustable L-shaped jaw that tightens as pressure on the handle is increased, used for turning pipes and other round objects. </DL>
<B>stilt, </B>noun, pl. <B>stilts</B> or (for 3, collectively) <B>stilt,</B> verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>one of a pair of poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the ground. Stilts are used for walking in shallow water, or by children, entertainers, or performers for amusement. <DD><B> 2. </B>a long post or pole used to support a house, shed, or other building, above water or swampland. <DD><B> 3. </B>a wading bird with very long, slender legs and a slender, sharp bill, that lives in marshes. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to raise on or as if on stilts. adj. <B>stiltlike.</B> </DL>
<B>stilted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>stiffly dignified or formal. <BR> <I>Ex. stilted conversation. He has a stilted manner of speaking. There were letters of stilted penitence to his father, for some wrong-doing (Elizabeth Gaskell).</I> (SYN) pompous. <DD><B> 2. </B>supported on props or posts so as to be raised above the ground. <DD><B> 3. </B>raised as if on stilts. <DD><B> 4. </B>raised above the general level by a course of masonry. A vault that does not spring immediately from the top of a pier or other apparent point of impost is a stiltedvault. adv. <B>stiltedly.</B> noun <B>stiltedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stilter">
<B>stilter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who walks on or as if on stilts. </DL>
<A NAME="stiltoncheese">
<B>Stilton cheese,</B> or <B>Stilton, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rich white cheese veined with mold when well ripened. Stilton cheese is much like Roquefort cheese and is classed as one of the great cheeses of England. </DL>
<A NAME="stiltroot">
<B>stilt root,</B> =prop root.</DL>
<A NAME="stiltsandpiper">
<B>stilt sandpiper,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a long-legged American sandpiper with a gray back and white rump. </DL>
<B>stilyaga, </B>noun, pl. <B>stilyagi,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a young person in the former Soviet Union, who sought to cultivate the style of dress, uninhibited manners, and tastes associated with the younger generation in Western countries. <BR> <I>Ex. There have, of course, been unofficial movements of dress reform in recent years among young Russians--such as the bright shirts and drainpipe trousers worn by the stilyagi (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stime">
<B>stime, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish and Irish.) a glimmer or glimpse. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulability">
<B>stimulability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state or quality of being stimulable. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulable">
<B>stimulable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be stimulated. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulant">
<B>stimulant, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a food, drug, or medicine, that temporarily increases the activity of the body or some part of the body. Tea and coffee are stimulants. <BR> <I>Ex. Some stimulants ... make a drowsy person more wakeful (Edward F. Domino).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something that excites, stirs, or stimulates; motive or influence that rouses one to action. <BR> <I>Ex. Hope is a stimulant.</I> (SYN) stimulus. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) an alcoholic drink. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=stimulating.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stimulate">
<B>stimulate, </B>verb, <B>-lated,</B> <B>-lating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to spur on; stir up; rouse to action. <BR> <I>Ex. Praise stimulated her to work hard.</I> (SYN) prick, goad, incite, encourage, impel, urge. <DD><B> 2. </B>to increase temporarily the functional activity of (the body or some part of the body, especially a nerve). <DD><B> 3. </B>to excite with alcoholic liquor; intoxicate. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to act as a stimulant or a stimulus. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulater">
<B>stimulater, </B>noun. =stimulator.</DL>
<A NAME="stimulating">
<B>stimulating, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> rousing to (mental or physical) action; stirring; inspiring. <BR> <I>Ex. a stimulating speech, article.</I> adv. <B>stimulatingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stimulation">
<B>stimulation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of stimulating or condition of being stimulated. <BR> <I>Ex. Lazy people need stimulation to make them work.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="stimulative">
<B>stimulative, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> tending to stimulate; stimulating. <DD><I>noun </I> a stimulating thing; stimulus. adv. <B>stimulatively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stimulator">
<B>stimulator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that stimulates. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulatory">
<B>stimulatory, </B>adjective. =stimulative.</DL>
<A NAME="stimulose">
<B>stimulose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) covered with stimuli or stings. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulus">
<B>stimulus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-li.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>something that stirs to action or effort. <BR> <I>Ex. Ambition is a great stimulus. We need some imaginative stimulus ... to carry us year after year ... through the routine work which is so large a part of our life (Walter Pater).</I> (SYN) incentive, spur. <DD><B> 2. </B>something that excites the body or some part of the body to a specific activity or function; something that produces a response, such as the transmitting of an impulse along a nerve, the movement of a muscle, or a changed state of consciousness, in an organism. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor used mild electric shocks as a stimulus to keep the patient's heart beating. The stimulus of a loud sound, carried by nerves to the brain, made the baby cry.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Botany.) a sting, such as a stinging hair on a nettle. </DL>
<A NAME="stimulusthreshold">
<B>stimulus threshold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) the minimum stimulus to produce a conscious effect. </DL>
<A NAME="stimy">
<B>stimy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies,</B> verb, <B>-mied,</B> <B>-mying.</B> =stymie.</DL>
<A NAME="sting">
<B>sting, </B>verb, <B>stung</B> or (Archaic) <B>stang,</B> <B>stinging,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to pierce or wound with a sharp-pointed organ (often) bearing a poisonous fluid. <BR> <I>Ex. If a honeybee stings you, remove the stinger.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(of certain plants or substances) to produce irritation, rash, or inflammation in (a person's skin) by contact. <DD><B> 3. </B>to affect with a tingling pain, burning sensation, sharp hurt, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Mustard stings the tongue. The electric spark stung his arm.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) to affect with a sudden, sharp mental pain; cause to suffer mentally. <BR> <I>Ex. He was stung by the jeers of the other children.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) to drive or stir up as if by a sting. <BR> <I>Ex. Their ridicule stung him into making a sharp reply.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) to impose upon; charge too much; cheat. <BR> <I>Ex. Guess I'll have to get down to the office now and sting a few clients (Sinclair Lewis).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to use a sting. <BR> <I>Ex. Bees, wasps, and hornets sting.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause a feeling like that of a sting. <BR> <I>Ex. Mustard stings.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to feel sharp mental or physical pain or distress; smart. <BR> <I>Ex. The groans of a person stinging under defeat (Thackeray).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of stinging. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a wound caused by stinging; prick; wound. <BR> <I>Ex. Put mud on the sting to take away the pain.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the pain or smart of such a wound. <DD><B> 3. </B>the sharp-pointed part of an insect, animal, or plant that pricks or wounds and often poisons. <BR> <I>Ex. A wasp's sting is not left in the wound.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Botany.) a stiff, sharp-pointed, glandular hair that emits an irritating fluid when touched, as on the nettle; stinging hair. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) a sharp pain or wound. <BR> <I>Ex. the stings of remorse. The ball team felt the sting of defeat. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is they victory? (I Corinthians 15:55).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>something that causes a sharp pain. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) something that drives or urges sharply; stimulus; incitement. <DD><B> 8. </B>stinging quality; capacity to sting or hurt. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) This passage ... has been deprived of half its sting (Sir George Trevelyan).</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>(U.S. Slang.) an illegal scheme, such as a swindle, theft, or confidence game. <BR> <I>Ex. Cosby, a safecracker, and Poitier, a con man, pull off separate, spectacular stings at the film's outset (Time).</I> adv. <B>stingingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="stingaree">
<B>stingaree, </B>noun. =sting ray.</DL>
<A NAME="stinged">
<B>stinged, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a sting, as an insect. </DL>
<A NAME="stinger">
<B>stinger</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the part of an insect or animal that stings. <DD><B> 2. </B>anything that stings. <BR> <I>Ex. Keep away from yellow jackets; they are stingers.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a stinging blow, remark, or the like. </DL>
