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ater is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.

A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.

A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

A stone. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift. Stang ball, a projectile consisting of two half balls united by a bar; a bar shot. See Illust. of Bar shot, under Bar. -- To ride the stang, to be carried on a pole on men's shoulders. This method of punishing wife beaters, etc., was once in vogue in…

two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

See Stannel.

Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry. [Obs.]

A dam or mound to stop water. [Prov. Eng.] Stank hen (Zoöl.), the moor hen; -- called also stankie. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.

A salt of stannic acid.

The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.] With what wing the staniel checks at it. Shak.

designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds. Stannic acid.

Containing or affording tin.

A mineral of a steel

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.

Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.

A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.

designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds. Stannous chloride (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, SnCl2.(H2O)2, obtained by dissolving tin in hydrochloric acid. It is used as a mordant in dyeing.