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gorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. Clarendon. The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. Daniel.

Having a brave heart; courageous. -- Stout"-heart"ed*ness, n.

Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

The state or quality of being stout.

re of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.

oom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.

ors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

ve birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.