stave jointer (stav jointer)

See jointer1. staver1 (sta'ver), n. [ Mi Asphyxia's reputation in the region was perfectly established. She was spoken of with applause under such titles as "a staver," "a pealer," "a roarer to work." H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 117. IMG:content-2038.png:[blocks in formation] cies of larkspur, Delphinium Staph is agria, tive in southern Europe and Asia Minor. It is an erect downy herb, a foot or two high, with bluish or purple flowers in terminal racemes. Its seeds contain a poisonous principle, delph i nine, and are used in a powder or ointment against vermin on man and beast, also in tincture as an application for rheumatism. They were delph i nine and lousewort, 2. formerly employed as a purgative, but found too violent. stave-tankard (stāv'tang kärd), n. A drinking-cup formed of staves of wood, hooped with either wood or metal, the bottom being general ly wood also. One preserved in Exeter, England, is 5 inches high and 4 inches in diameter at the bottom. It is formed of fourteen staves of boxwood, the fifteenth, of oak, forming the handle, and is bound with bra hoops. Also called sapling -tankard. stave wood (stav'wud), n. [ wood1 .] 1. See qua ia, 2.-2. A tall stout tree, Ster culia fatida, of the East Indies, eastern Africa, and Australia. The wood is soft, and thought to be of little value.