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- English Word Stifle Definition To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
- English Word Stifle Definition To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
- English Word Stifle Definition To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
- English Word Stifled Definition of Stifle
- English Word Stifled Definition Stifling.
- English Word Stifler Definition One who, or that which, stifles.
- English Word Stifler Definition See Camouflet.
- English Word Stifling Definition of Stifle
- English Word Stigma Definition A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
- English Word Stigma Definition Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
- English Word Stigma Definition That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
- English Word Stigma Definition A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
- English Word Stigma Definition A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
- English Word Stigma Definition One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
- English Word Stigma Definition One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
- English Word Stigma Definition One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
- English Word Stigma Definition A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
- English Word Stigma Definition Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
- English Word Stigmaria Definition The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
- English Word Stigmas Definition of Stigma
- English Word Stigmata Definition of Stigma
- English Word Stigmata Definition pl. of Stigma.
- English Word Stigmatic Definition A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
- English Word Stigmatic Definition A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
- English Word Stigmatic Definition A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
- English Word Stigmatic Definition Alt. of Stigmatical
- English Word Stigmatical Definition Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
- English Word Stigmatical Definition Impressing with infamy or reproach.
- English Word Stigmatical Definition Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
- English Word Stigmatically Definition With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.