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- English Word Stature Definition The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
- English Word Statured Definition Arrived at full stature.
- English Word Status Definition State; condition; position of affairs.
- English Word Status in quo Definition Alt. of Status quo
- English Word Status quo Definition The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.
- English Word Statutable Definition Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.
- English Word Statutable Definition Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.
- English Word Statutably Definition Conformably to statute.
- English Word Statute Definition An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
- English Word Statute Definition An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
- English Word Statute Definition An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
- English Word Statutory Definition Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
- English Word Staunch Definition Alt. of Staunchness
- English Word Staunchly Definition Alt. of Staunchness
- English Word Staunchness Definition See Stanch, Stanchly, etc.
- English Word Staurolite Definition A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.
- English Word Staurolitic Definition Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
- English Word Stauroscope Definition An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
- English Word Staurotide Definition Staurolite.
- English Word Stave Definition One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- English Word Stave Definition One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
- English Word Stave Definition A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- English Word Stave Definition The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- English Word Stave Definition To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
- English Word Stave Definition To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
- English Word Stave Definition To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
- English Word Stave Definition To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
- English Word Stave Definition To furnish with staves or rundles.
- English Word Stave Definition To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
- English Word Stave Definition To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.