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To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material. [Written also stean, and stein.]

A lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well. [Written also steaning.]

A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton.

farm. See def. 10, above. -- Head stock. See Headstock. -- Paper stock, rags and other material of which paper is made. -- Stock account (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side…

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.] Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual s…

ion is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regu…

Material for filling a cavity.

Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.

A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.

The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

ially adapted to structural purposes, esp. in giving the greatest strength with the least material. Hence, Colloq.,

hich retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. -- Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.

Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. Ex. xxxvi. 7. Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. Shak. The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. Sir J. Davies.…

To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.

Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.