Stuff

stuf, n. materials of which anything is made textile fabrics, cloth, esp when woofien worthle matter [B household furniture, . —7' A to by crowding to very to pre in: to crowd: to cause to bulge out by filling to with seasoning, as a fowl to the skin of a dead animal, so ns to reproduce its living form —vi to feed gluttonously. [O. Fr. cUoJft'y Fr. etofle— L. stupfa, the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Stultification, stul-ii-fi-ka's hnn, «. act of stultifymg 01 making foolish. Stultify, stulti-fT, to make a fool of to cause u* appear foolish to destroy the force of ones argument by self-contradiction —fa t and fo.p- Miil'iitied [L. stultus, foolish, facto, to make Stumble, slum bl, to strike the feet against something to trip in walking by upon) to light on by chance to slide into crime or error. to cause to trip or slop to puzzle.— «. a trip walking nr tunning a blunder a failure. Akin to vulgar L slump, to walk with heavy steps, and to O Out. stoinclcu also to E- Stamp Stumbling-block, stum'hling-blok, Stum’bling stone, -ston, a blotk or stone over which one would he likely to stumble a cau.se of error. Stump, stump, the part of a tree left in the gumnd after the trunk is cut down the part of a body remaining after a part cut off or desire eil one of the three slicks forming a wicket in cricket: to dm c to stump tn cut off part of: lo knock clown the wickets in cricket when the h»wn.\n out ol lus ground. (Allied to Low Gt:i stump, >ut stomp Stump-orator, stump-nr'a-tor, one who harangues the multitude from a temporary platform, as the stm/ip of a tree a speaker who travels about the country, and whose appeals arc m.uui} to the pa ions of his audience Stun, stun, r / stupefy or astonish with a loud noise, 01 with a blow to surprise completely: to amaze pr.p. smnn'ing pat. and pap. stunned. [A S. stnman, to strike against, to stun cog with tier, stauuen hut prob, modified by confusion with 0 Fr. estonner, Fr. etanner. See Astonish Stung, suing, fa t and pa p. of Sting. Stunk, stungk, pa p of Stink. Stunt, stunt, at to lumirr front gtowth. (A S. xtunt, blunt, stupid Ice. stuttr, short, blunted.] Stupefaction, stu-p»-fak's huu. n. ihc act of making stupid or senst le insensibility stupidity.