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Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top [it] bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.

d cold, and my hair to stare. Shak. Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive. Mortimer.

llustrious. Dryden. The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness. Boyle.

, you make a short stay in this city. Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. Dryden. Embrace the hero and his stay implore. Waller.

s in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

nto the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging. "The lurking serpent's mortal sting." Shak.

rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

Stallion. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A sort of tree. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.

off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer.

session of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.

To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

ron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed. -- Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail. -- Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of…

by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

ss To rue upon her wifely steadfastness. Chaucer. This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. Atterbury.

tile web Arachne can not spin. Spenser. I do distinguish plain Each subtile line of her immortal face. Sir J. Davies.

tender feet upon the stony ground. Spenser. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.

of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.

To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. Mortimer.