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  • English Word Stonewort Definition Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
  • English Word Stonily Definition In a stony manner.
  • English Word Stoniness Definition The quality or state of being stony.
  • English Word Stoning Definition of Stone
  • English Word Stonish Definition Stony.
  • English Word Stont Definition 3d pers. sing. present of Stand.
  • English Word Stont Definition Stands.
  • English Word Stony Definition Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
  • English Word Stony Definition Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
  • English Word Stony Definition Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
  • English Word Stood Definition imp. & p. p. of Stand.
  • English Word Stood Definition of Stand
  • English Word Stook Definition A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
  • English Word Stook Definition To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
  • English Word Stooked Definition of Stook
  • English Word Stooking Definition of Stook
  • English Word Stool Definition A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
  • English Word Stool Definition To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • English Word Stool Definition A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
  • English Word Stool Definition A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  • English Word Stool Definition A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
  • English Word Stool Definition A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
  • English Word Stool Definition A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
  • English Word Stool Definition A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  • English Word Stool Definition Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
  • English Word Stoolball Definition A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
  • English Word Stoom Definition To stum.
  • English Word Stoop Definition Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
  • English Word Stoop Definition A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
  • English Word Stoop Definition A post fixed in the earth.