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- English Word Stacking Definition of Stack
- English Word Stacking Definition a. & n. from Stack.
- English Word Stackstand Definition A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.
- English Word Stackyard Definition A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.
- English Word Stacte Definition One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
- English Word Staddle Definition Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
- English Word Staddle Definition The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
- English Word Staddle Definition A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
- English Word Staddle Definition A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
- English Word Staddle Definition To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
- English Word Staddle Definition To form into staddles, as hay.
- English Word Stade Definition A stadium.
- English Word Stade Definition A landing place or wharf.
- English Word Stadia Definition of Stadium
- English Word Stadimeter Definition A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
- English Word Stadium Definition A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
- English Word Stadium Definition Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
- English Word Stadium Definition A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
- English Word Stadtholder Definition Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
- English Word Stadtholderate Definition Alt. of Stadtholdership
- 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.