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Word Meanings - STING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine,

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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.

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    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STRE
    Straw. Chaucer.
  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
    See ETC
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • STRONTIAN
    Strontia.
  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • STACK
    1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
  • STROMATIC
    Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
  • STINTLESS
    Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
  • STUNNER
    1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
  • STATUELESS
    Without a statue.
  • STRATARITHMETRY
    The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
  • STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
    Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
  • STICK-LAC
    See LAC
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    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • STRIATUM
    The corpus striatum.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STREPITORES
    A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
  • STRAPPING
    Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
  • FREEDSTOOL
    See FRIDSTOL
  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • IATROCHEMISTRY
    Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
  • SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
    Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
  • POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
    Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
  • AGROSTOLOGIST
    One skilled in agrostology.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • TESTIFICATION
    The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
  • HEADSTALL
    That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
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    One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
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    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • PROPLASTIC
    Forming a mold.
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    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
    The state or quality of being apostolical.

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