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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: stockyard - stoma</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="stockyard"> stockyard, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a place with pens and sheds for cattle, sheep, hogs, or horses. A stockyard is often connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, or market. </DL> <A NAME="stodge"> stodge, verb, stodged, stodging, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t., v.i. to gorge; stuff; cram. Ex. He grabs the Leader and leaves me to stodge myself with his Times (George Bernard Shaw). <DD>noun 1. a thick, heavy, usually starchy food. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) dull, stodgy subjects, articles, or composition. Ex. This symposium devoted to the arts ... was never planned as a solemn magazine of esoteric stodge (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="stodger"> stodger, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person who is lacking in spirit and liveliness; stodgy person. </DL> <A NAME="stodgy"> stodgy, adjective, stodgier, stodgiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. dull or uninteresting; tediously commonplace. Ex. a stodgy book, a stodgy mind or character. <DD> 2. thick and heavy in consistency; very filling. Ex. stodgy food. <DD> 3. heavily built. Ex. a stodgy person. <DD> 4. stuffed full. Ex. a stodgy bag. adv. stodgily. noun stodginess,. </DL> <A NAME="stoechiology"> stoechiology, noun. =stoichiology.</DL> <A NAME="stoep"> stoep, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in South Africa) a raised porch around the front and often the sides of a house. Ex. Tante Let was still sitting on the stoep when Gijs returned from the veld (L. H. Brinkman). </DL> <A NAME="stogie"> stogie or stogy, noun, pl. -gies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a long, slender, cheap cigar, usually rather strong in flavor. Ex. Mr. Born listened politely, tilting his stogie this way and that (New Yorker). <DD> 2. a rough, heavy kind of boot or shoe. </DL> <A NAME="stoic"> Stoic, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a member of the ancient school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno (335?-265? B.C.). This school taught that virtue is the highest good and that men should be free from passion and unmoved by life's happenings. <DD>adj. having to do with or belonging to the school of the Stoics or its system of philosophy. </DL> <A NAME="stoic"> stoic, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a person who remains calm, represses his feelings, and is indifferent to pleasure and pain. Ex. A stoic of the woods--a man without a tear (Thomas Campbell). The sternest seeming stoic is human after all (Charlotte Bronte). <DD>adj. =stoical. </DL> <A NAME="stoical"> Stoical, adjective. =Stoic.</DL> <A NAME="stoical"> stoical, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. like a stoic; indifferent to pleasure and pain; self-controlled. Ex. a stoical person. <DD> 2. of or like that of a stoic. Ex. stoical courage. adv. stoically. noun stoicalness. </DL> <A NAME="stoicheiology"> stoicheiology, noun. =stoichiology.</DL> <A NAME="stoichiology"> stoichiology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the elements comprising animal tissues. Also, stoechiology, stoicheiology. </DL> <A NAME="stoichiometric"> stoichiometric, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with stoichiometry. adv. stoichiometrically. </DL> <A NAME="stoichiometry"> stoichiometry, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the process or art of calculating the equivalent and atomic weights of the elements participating in any chemical reaction. <DD> 2. the branch of science that deals with the relationships between the elements making up substances and the properties of the substances. </DL> <A NAME="stoicism"> Stoicism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the philosophy of the Stoics. </DL> <A NAME="stoicism"> stoicism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> patient endurance; indifference to pleasure and pain. Ex. William so far forgot his wonted stoicism as to utter a passionate exclamation at the way in which the English regiments had been sacrificed (Macaulay). </DL> <A NAME="stoit"> stoit, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD>v.i. to move unsteadily; stumble or lurch. <DD>noun a lurch; stumble. </DL> <A NAME="stoke"> stoke (1), verb, stoked, stoking.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to stir up and feed (a fire). <DD> 2. to tend the fire in (a furnace) or under (a boiler). <DD>v.i. to tend a fire; stoke or stoke up anything. expr. stoke up, <DD> a. to get or supply with fuel. Ex. Stoke up the furnace. The ship is stoking up. <DD> b. (Figurative.) to stir up. Ex. Neither the British nor the German soldier has been able to stoke up that virulent hate (Blackwood's Magazine). <DD> c. (Figurative.) to gird or be girded; prepare. Ex. Now she is stoking up for a personal-appearance tour to promote her biggest and best part yet (Time). </DL> <A NAME="stoke"> stoke (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the centimeter-gram-second system, a unit for measuring the kinematic viscosity of a fluid (the viscosity of a fluid divided by its density). </DL> <A NAME="stokehold"> stokehold, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the place in a steamship where the furnaces and boilers are. It adjoins or includes the engine room and is usually below the water line. <DD> 2. =stokehole. </DL> <A NAME="stokehole"> stokehole, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the hole through which fuel is put into a furnace, especially into a coal-burning furnace. <DD> 2. the space in front of a furnace where stokers shovel in coal and take out ashes. </DL> <A NAME="stoker"> stoker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a worker who tends the fires of a furnace or boiler. <DD> 2. a mechanical device for putting coal in a furnace automatically. </DL> <A NAME="stokesadamsdisease"> Stokes-Adams disease,<DL COMPACT><DD> a slow, progressive degeneration of the heart muscle, accompanied by fainting and dizzy spells, convulsions, dropsy, slow pulse, and shortness of breath. </DL> <A NAME="stokesaster"> Stokes' aster, =stokesia.</DL> <A NAME="stokesia"> stokesia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a composite perennial herb of the southern United States, that has large terminal heads of blue, purplish, or white flowers. </DL> <A NAME="stokeslaw"> Stokes' law,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the law that the frequency of luminescence excited by radiation is usually not higher than the frequency of the exciting radiation. </DL> <A NAME="stol"> STOL, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> short take-off and landing (a type of aircraft with a greatly reduced take-off and landing distance). Ex. The STOL plane tends to be slower than a conventional plane and much slower than a jet airliner but it is faster than a helicopter. It is able to use a field much smaller than the strip that a jetliner needs. But it needs more room than a helicopter (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="stola"> stola, noun, pl. -lae.<DL COMPACT><DD> a long, ample robe worn by matrons in ancient Rome. </DL> <A NAME="stole"> stole (1), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense of steal. Ex. Who stole my money? </DL> <A NAME="stole"> stole (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders by a clergyman during certain church functions. <DD> 2. a woman's scarf or similar garment of fur or cloth, worn usually with the ends hanging down in front. Ex. She wore a cloth coat, preferring it to a mink stole she won in a raffle a year ago (Newsweek). <DD> 3. (Archaic.) a long robe. </DL> <A NAME="stoled"> stoled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> wearing a stole. </DL> <A NAME="stolefee"> stole fee,<DL COMPACT><DD> a fee paid to a Roman Catholic priest for a religious service, such as a marriage, christening, or funeral. </DL> <A NAME="stolen"> stolen, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past participle of steal. Ex. The money was stolen by a thief. </DL> <A NAME="stolid"> stolid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> hard to arouse; not easily excited; showing no emotion; seeming dull. Ex. a stolid person, a stolid face, a stolid refusal. The Prime Minister is immensely popular among the stolid and dour northerners (New York Times). (SYN) impassive. adv. stolidly. noun stolidness. </DL> <A NAME="stolidity"> stolidity, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> stolid quality or condition. </DL> <A NAME="stollen"> Stollen, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) a rich, fancy bread, often containing nuts, fruits, and spices. </DL> <A NAME="stolon"> stolon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Botany.) <DD> a. a slender branch along the ground that takes root at the tip and grows into a new plant. A very slender, naked stolon with a bud at the end is a runner. <DD> b. a rhizome or rootstock of certain grasses, used for propagation. <DD> 2. (Zoology.) a rootlike growth in a compound organism. It is a process of the soft tissue joining a bud or zooid to the main part. </DL> <A NAME="stoloniferous"> stoloniferous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> producing stolons. adv. stoloniferously. </DL> <A NAME="stolonization"> stolonization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the producing of stolons. </DL> <A NAME="stolport"> STOLport or stolport, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an airport for STOL planes. </DL> <A NAME="stoma"> stoma, noun, pl. -mata or -mas.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an opening or pore in a plant; breathing pore. A leaf contains many stomata which let water and gases in and out of the plant. <DD> 2. a mouthlike opening in an animal body, especially a small or simple aperture in a lower animal. </DL> <A HREF="stomach.dic">NEXT</A>