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That which stimulates.

One who stimulates.

A woman who stimulates.

salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.

One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.

That which stridulates. Darwin.

, and size. Sir W. Temple. He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories. Macaulay.

reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.

A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self- immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character. [India]

Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton.

, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]

Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe…

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

he terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.