bishop | noun (n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. |
| noun (n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. |
| noun (n.) In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents. |
| noun (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer. |
| noun (n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. |
| noun (n.) An old name for a woman's bustle. |
| verb (v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor. |
| verb (v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth. |
chop | noun (n.) A change; a vicissitude. |
| noun (n.) The act of chopping; a stroke. |
| noun (n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop. |
| noun (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap. |
| noun (n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops. |
| noun (n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise. |
| noun (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops. |
| noun (n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop. |
| noun (n.) A permit or clearance. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up. |
| verb (v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down. |
| verb (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument. |
| verb (v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize. |
| verb (v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out. |
| verb (v. i.) To barter or truck. |
| verb (v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another. |
| verb (v. i.) To purchase by way of truck. |
| verb (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about. |
| verb (v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i. |
hop | noun (n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring. |
| noun (n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. |
| noun (n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops). |
| noun (n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste. |
| noun (n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip. |
| verb (v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. |
| verb (v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt. |
| verb (v. i.) To dance. |
| verb (v. t.) To impregnate with hops. |
| verb (v. i.) To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.] |
shop | noun (n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. |
| noun (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. |
| noun (n.) A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- generally in deprecation. |
| noun (n.) A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; |
| noun (n.) any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc. |
| noun (n.) Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. |
| verb (v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. |
| () imp. of Shape. Shaped. |
stanch | noun (n.) That which stanches or checks. |
| noun (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. |
| verb (v. t.) To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. |
| verb (v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. |
| verb (v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood. |
| verb (v. t.) Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship. |
| verb (v. t.) Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. |
| verb (v. t.) Close; secret; private. |
| verb (v. t.) To prop; to make stanch, or strong. |
standing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stand |
| noun (n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand. |
| noun (n.) Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing. |
| noun (n.) Place to stand in; station; stand. |
| noun (n.) Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing. |
| adjective (a.) Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn. |
| adjective (a.) Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water. |
| adjective (a.) Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color. |
| adjective (a.) Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees. |
| adjective (a.) Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed). |
stand | noun (n.) To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position |
| noun (n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc. |
| noun (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation. |
| noun (n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine. |
| noun (n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary. |
| noun (n.) To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources. |
| noun (n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. |
| noun (n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. |
| noun (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice. |
| noun (n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts. |
| noun (n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. |
| noun (n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord. |
| noun (n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor. |
| noun (n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate. |
| noun (n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless. |
| noun (n.) To measure when erect on the feet. |
| noun (n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. |
| noun (n.) To appear in court. |
| verb (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat. |
| verb (v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand. |
| verb (v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer. |
| verb (v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet. |
| verb (v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat. |
| verb (v. i.) The act of standing. |
| verb (v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand. |
| verb (v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something. |
| verb (v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand. |
| verb (v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course. |
| verb (v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand. |
| verb (v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court. |
| verb (v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. |
| verb (v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing. |
| verb (v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do. |
| verb (v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree. |
| verb (v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch. |
| verb (v. i.) To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as dealt. |
standard | noun (n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign. |
| noun (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard. |
| noun (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test. |
| noun (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
| noun (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
| noun (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
| noun (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing. |
| noun (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
| noun (n.) The sheth of a plow. |
| noun (n.) A large drinking cup. |
| adjective (a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver. |
| adjective (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors. |
| adjective (a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees. |
| adjective (a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree. |
stack | noun (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood. |
| adjective (a.) 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. |
| adjective (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. |
| adjective (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. |
| adjective (a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence: |
| adjective (a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. |
| adjective (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved. |
| adjective (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack. |
staff | noun (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. |
| noun (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. |
| noun (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff. |
| noun (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. |
| noun (n.) The round of a ladder. |
| noun (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. |
| noun (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. |
| noun (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. |
| noun (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. |
| noun (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper. |
| noun (n.) Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster. |
stag | noun (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti. |
| noun (n.) The male of certain other species of large deer. |
| noun (n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl. |
| noun (n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox. |
| noun (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. |
| noun (n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. |
| noun (n.) The European wren. |
| verb (v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks. |
| verb (v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of. |
stage | noun (n.) A floor or story of a house. |
| noun (n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. |
| noun (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging. |
| noun (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. |
| noun (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. |
| noun (n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs. |
| noun (n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope. |
| noun (n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. |
| noun (n.) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles. |
| noun (n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. |
| noun (n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. |
| noun (n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage. |
| verb (v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. |
stagger | noun (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. |
| noun (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. |
| noun (n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. |
| noun (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man. |
| noun (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers. |
| noun (n.) Bewilderment; perplexity. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. |
stoop | noun (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. |
| noun (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon. |
| noun (n.) A post fixed in the earth. |
| noun (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders. |
| noun (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. |
| noun (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. |
| verb (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position. |
| verb (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. |
| verb (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. |
| verb (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. |
| verb (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight. |
| verb (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate. |
| verb (v. t.) To degrade. |
stop | noun (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. |
| noun (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction. |
| noun (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. |
| noun (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated. |
| noun (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop. |
| noun (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. |
| noun (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation. |
| noun (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. |
| noun (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. |
| noun (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. |
| verb (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. |
| verb (v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. |
| verb (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood. |
| verb (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. |
| verb (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. |
| verb (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate. |
| verb (v. t.) To make fast; to stopper. |
| verb (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop. |
| verb (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action. |
| verb (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. |