Still-room, n.

    1. Stillatory, laboratory.
    2. Store-room, preserve-closet.

Stilly, a. Quiet, calm, tranquil, serene, still, peaceful, silent.

Still-yard, n. See Steel-yard.

Stilt, n. Stilt-bird, long-legged plover (Himantopus melanopterus).

Stilt-bird, n. Stilt.

Stilted, a. Pompous, swelling, inflated, bombastic, turgid, pretentious, grandiloquent, high-flowing, high- sounding, fustian, stilty, tumid, highflown, grandiose.

Stimulant, a. Stimulating, exciting, stimulative.

Stimulant, n.

    1. Stimulating medicine.
    2. Incentive, stimulus, provocative, spur.

Stimulate, v. a. Incite, excite, instigate, animate, awaken, provoke, pique, encourage, inspirit, urge, prompt, goad, rouse, arouse, whet, foment, spur, impel, inflame, fire, kindle, stir up, set on, work up, prick, fillip, irritate, exasperate, incense.

Stimulative, a. See Stimulant.

Stimulative, n. See Stimulus.

Stimulus, n. Incentive, spur, goad, incitement, stimulant, provocative, provocation, motive, encouragement.

Sting, v. a.

    1. Prick, wound, hurt.
    2. Afflict, pain, cut to the quick, go to one’s heart.

Sting, n. Prick, act of stinging.

Stinging, a. Piercing, painful, acute.

Stingy, a. Niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, miserly, close, mean, covetous, avaricious, sordid, close- fisted, narrow-hearted.

Stink, v. n. Smell bad, smell ill, emit a stench.

Stink, n. Stench, fetor, offensive odor, bad smell.


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