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or is hoisted and secured, to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. Totten. -- Stock taking, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically. -- Tail stock. See Tailstock. -- To have something on the stock, to be at work at something. -- To take stock, to…

rce exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. Rankine. Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter. Clerk Maxwell.…

Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.

Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree. Bp. Hall.

The act of subducting or taking away. Bp. Hall.

Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.

The act of taking or carrying away; removal. [R.] Bp. Hall.

under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation (Surg.), a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success. Bacon. Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The tempter stood. Mil…

See Illust. under Phlanger. -- Sugar tongs, small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl. -- Sugar tree. (Bot.) See Sugar maple, above.

Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide. -- Su"i*ci`dal*ly, adv.

The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.

A taking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.

The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

The act of taking; reception.

Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de.