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A stolon.

Having or wearing a stole. After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn. G. Fletcher.

p. p. of Steal.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

Same as Stolidity.

A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

Scientific study or knowledge of the mouth.

The history of the formation of stratified rocks.

The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.

es by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., ralating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur. Dunglison.

Tautological.

Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. -- Tau`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv. Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.

One who uses tautological words or phrases.

To repeat the same thing in different words.

Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. [R.] Tooke.

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.…