| Stout's wiring | The formation of wire loops on both maxillary and mandibular teeth, for the placement of intermaxillary elastics; used in reduction and fixation of fractures. Synonym: Stout's wiring. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| stout-hearted | Having a brave heart; courageous. Stout"-heart"edness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stove | 1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. 2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers. Origin: Stoved; Stoving. 1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts. "When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers." (Earl of Strafford) "How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!" (Burton) 2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, used for cooking. Dry stove. See Dry. Foot stove. See Foot. Franklin stove. <botany> Stove plant, a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves. Origin: D. Stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to G. Stube room, OHG. Stuba a heated room, AS. Stofe, Icel. Stofa a room, bathing room, Sw. Stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. Stue; of unknown origin. Cf. Estufa, Stew, Stufa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stover | Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. "Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep." (Shak) "Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire." (Tusser) Origin: OE. Estoveir, estovoir, necessity, provisions, properly an inf, "to be necessary." Cf. Estovers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stow | 1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. "Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides." (Dryden) 2. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge. "Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?" (Shak) 3. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship. Origin: OE. Stowen, fr. Stowe a place, AS. Stow; cf. Icel. Eldstoa fireplace, hearth, OFries. Sto, and E. Stand. 163. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stowage | 1. The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel. 2. Room in which things may be stowed. "In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures." (Addison) 3. The state of being stowed, or put away. "To have them in safe stowage." 4. Things stowed or packed. 5. Money paid for stowing goods. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stowce | <chemical> A windlass. A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stowing | <chemical> A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |