stable room

Room in a stable; room for stables. *stable-stand, s . Old Eng. Law : (See extract.) "Stable-stand is one of the four evidences or presump tions, whereby a man is convicted to intend the stealing of a king's deer in the forest."-Cowell: Law Dict. stā-ble (1), v. t. [STABLE, a.] To make stable, fixed, or firm; to fix, to establish. "Articles devised by the king's highne to stable Christian quietne and unity among the people." -Strype : Life of Archbishop Cranmer (under 1536). stā-ble (2), v. t . & i . [STABLE, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. Lit.: To put, place, or keep in a stable. "He meetly stabled his steed in stall." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , i. 31. IMG:content-0161.png:[blocks in formation] chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; stack *stab-li, *stab-liche, adv. [STABLY.] stā-bling, s. [Eng. stabl (e), s.; -ing.] 1. The act or practice of keeping in a stable or stables. 2. A stable; a house or shed for lodging beasts. "Now smok'd in dust, a stabling now for wolves." Thomson: Liberty. *stab-lish, *stab-lis-en, v . t . [An abbrev. of establish (q.v.).] To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to fix, to settle, to establish. "Wiste thou not well that all the lawe of kinde is my lawe, and by God ordeined and stablished to dure by kinde reasoun." Chaucer : Testament of Loue . *stab-lish-ment, s. [English stablish ; -ment.] Establishment; firm settlement. "Sufficient for their soules' health, and the stablish ment of his monarch is me." -Holinshed: Descript. Brit., ch. ix. stā-bly, *stab-li, *stab-liche, adv . [English stab( le ); -ly .) In a stable or firm manner; firmly, steadily, constantly. "And bad hem for the loue of God, that heo hem vnderstode, And stabliche hold togedere, to saue that lond." Robert of Gloucester , p. 123. *stăb-u-lā-tion, s. [Lat. stubulatio , from stabu lat us , pa. par. of stabulor =to stand in a stable; stabutum a stable (q. v.).] 1. The act of stabling or housing beasts. 2. A place or room for housing beasts; a stable. stab-wõrt, s. [Eng. stab (1), s., and wort .] Bot.: Oxalis ace to sell a. Park in his Theater says that it is "singular good in wounds, punctures, thrusts, and stabbes into the body." ( Britten & Holland .) stăc-ca -tô, adv. [Ital., pa. par. of staccare, for dist acc are to separate, to detach.] Music: Detached, taken off, separated. In music the word signifies a detached, abrupt method of singing or playing certain notes, by making them of le duration than they otherwise would be. A heavy accent (1) over a note signifies that it is to be played staccato, and a det (.) under a note, that it is to be played half-staccato. stăcher, v. i. [A softened form of stagger (q. v.).] To stagger. ( Scotch.) "I stacher'd whiles, but yet took tent aye To free the ditches." Burns: Death and Dr Hornbook. sta-chỹd'-ě-æ, stā'-che-sæ, s . pl . [Latin stachys, gen it. stachyd (is); fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] Bot .: A tribe of Lamiaceæ. Stamens four, parallel, two upper shorter, ascending under the concave upper lip, or included in the tube; nutlets free, smooth, or tubercled.