SPage 502
- English Word Station Definition A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
- English Word Station Definition The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
- English Word Station Definition A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
- English Word Station Definition The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
- English Word Station Definition The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
- English Word Station Definition The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- English Word Station Definition A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
- English Word Station Definition A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
- English Word Station Definition A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
- English Word Station Definition An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- English Word Station Definition Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- English Word Station Definition Situation; position; location.
- English Word Station Definition State; rank; condition of life; social status.
- English Word Station Definition The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- English Word Station Definition A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- English Word Station Definition One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.
- English Word Station Definition To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
- English Word Stational Definition Of or pertaining to a station.
- English Word Stationariness Definition The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
- English Word Stationary Definition Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
- English Word Stationary Definition Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
- English Word Stationary Definition Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
- English Word Stationary Definition One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
- English Word Stationed Definition of Station
- English Word Stationer Definition A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.
- English Word Stationer Definition One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
- English Word Stationery Definition The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
- English Word Stationery Definition Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
- English Word Stationing Definition of Station
- English Word Statism Definition The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.