Word Meanings - STINGAREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.
Related words: (words related to STINGAREE)
- STRE
Straw. Chaucer. - STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - STROKER
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
See ETC - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - STRONTIAN
Strontia. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - STORER
One who lays up or forms a store. - STACK
1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were - STROMATIC
Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds. - STINTLESS
Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston. - STUNNER
1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - STATUELESS
Without a statue. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the - STICK-LAC
See LAC - STRATARITHMETRY
The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure. - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - IATROCHEMISTRY
Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, - FREEDSTOOL
See FRIDSTOL - MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer. - SHIRT WAIST
A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse. - TESTIFICATION
The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South. - MALACOSTOMOUS
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - BURINIST
One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev. - AGROSTOLOGIST
One skilled in agrostology. - MYSTAGOGY
The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries. - HEADSTALL
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak. - POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller. - SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - PROPLASTIC
Forming a mold.
