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f constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. "A stock charge against Raleigh." C. Kingsley. Stock company (Theater), a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one manageme…

nce, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. "Bow, stubborn knees." Shak. "Stubborn attention and more than common application." Locke. "Stubborn Stoics." S…

y important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty. One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. Burke.

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

lace of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.

To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.

A short run by a race horse in exercise. Sweat box (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined. -- Sweat glands (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous.

A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.

The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

r indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton.

An actor.

An actor or player in tragedy. Shak.

rd person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.

nate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Dryden.

To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.