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stour, stoor, a. [Eng. stór ; O. Icel. stórr ; Low Ger. stúr .] Strong, great, brave, tall, stern, hard, tough. "A fenny goose, even as her fleshe is blacker, stoorer , unholsomer, so is her feather, for the same cause, courser, stoorer , and rougher." - Ascham : Toxophilus , bk. ii. stour-looking, a. Gruff-looking. ( Scotch .) *stoure, *stowre, s . [STOUR, 8.] stout, *stoute, a . , adv . & subst. [O. Fr. estout stout, furious, rash, from O. Dut. stolt , stout =stout, bold, rash; Ger. stolt ; cogn. with stolz =proud; A.S. stolt ; cogn. with Lat. stolid us =stolid (q. v.).] IMG:content-0368.png:[blocks in formation] "Rifted Jove's stout oak."- Shakesp .: Tempest, v. *3. Proud; one po e ed of strength or stoutne being tempted to this feeling; overbearing. "So ambitious and stout to strive against An tigon us for the chiefest place of authority." -North : Plutarch's Lives, p. 509. *4. Bold, intrepid; valiant, brave, courageous. (Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , v. 4.) 5. Rather corpulent, or fat in proportion to size; thickset. *B. As adv.: Stoutly, vigorously, bravely, over- bearingly. "A man that beris him stoute , whan that he suld bowe, In chance if that he coute, he findes foos inowe." Robert de Brunne , p. 290. C. As subst.: The strongest kind of porter. "With heavenly lambs-wool and nectarial stout ." Somervile: The Wife. stout-built, stout-made, a. Robust, strong, thickset. *stout-resolved, a . Firm or resolute in purpose. "How now, my hardy, stout-resolved mates? Are you now going to despatch this thing?" Shakesp.: Richard III., i. 3. IMG:content-0369.png:[blocks in formation] Thy mother rather feel thy pride, than fear Thy dangerous stoutne . IMG:content-0370.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0371.png:[blocks in formation]