Squitch grass
(Squitch" grass`) (Bot.) Quitch grass.
Squitee
(Squi*tee") n. [From the N. American Indian name.] (Zoöl.) The squeteague; — called also
squit.
Stab
(Stab) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stabbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stabbing.] [Cf. OD. staven to fix, fasten, fr.
stave, staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E. staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a
stub. Cf. Staff.]
1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a
man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
Stab
(Stab), v. i.
1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
None shall dare
With shortened sword to stab in closer war.
Dryden. 2. To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
Shak. To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.
Stab
(Stab), n.
1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin. Shak.
3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
Stabat Mater
(||Sta"bat Ma"ter) [L., the mother was standing.] A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with
these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read
in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the
cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).
Stabber
(Stab"ber) n.
1. One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.
2. (Naut.) A small marline spike; a pricker.
Stabbingly
(Stab"bing*ly) adv. By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly. Bp. Parker.
Stabiliment
(Sta*bil"i*ment) n. [L. stabilimentum, fr. stabilire to make firm ir stable, fr. stabilis. See
Stable, a.] The act of making firm; firm support; establishment. [R.] Jer. taylor.
They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade.
Derham. Stabilitate
(Sta*bil"i*tate) v. t. [LL. stabilitatus, p. p. of stabilitare to make stable.] To make stable; to
establish. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Stability
(Sta*bil"i*ty) n. [L. stabilitas; cf. F. stabilité. See Stable, a.]
