stone lugger (stonlug"er)

1. A catostomoid fish of the United States, Catostomus or Hypentelium nigricans; the hog-sucker or hogmolly. Also called stone - roller and stone -toter. -2. A cyprinoid fish of the United States, of that genus. It is 6 or 8 inches long; in the males in spring some of the parts become fiery-red, and the head and often the whole body is studded with large rounded tubercles. It is herbivorous, and abounds in deep still places in streams from New York to Mexico. Also stone-roller. See cut under Campos tom a. stone man (ston'man), n. [ IMG:content-2193.png:[merged small][ocr errors] hides in quarries or piles of rock. See cut un- der Nyctala . [Pennsylvania.] stone-parsley (ston'pärsli), n. IMG:content-2194.png:[ocr errors] a number of saws, and being suspended by chains over the block to be cut, the spaces between the blades regulating the thickne of the slabs. Circular saws have also been used to cut thin slabs of stone into narrow pieces by the agency of wet sand. An improvement on this method is the use of circular saws armed with black diamonds or car- bon-points. The saw is placed in a frame resembling an iron-planer, the saw-arbor having a vertical motion; and the block of stone, dogged to a traversing table, is fed to the saw as the cut is made. Diamond stone-cutting ma- chines have also been made in the form of rec i proc at- ing saws. In one new stone-sawing machine, called a channeling- machine , used to cut out large blocks and col- umns in a quarry, a circular saw having carbon-points is employed, the power being applied by means of gearing to the edge of the saw instead of at the arbor. Another form of quarrying stone-saw consists of an endle band of twist- ed wire rope pa ing in a horizontal direction over large pulleys, like a band-saw, and employing wet sand as the IMG:content-2195.png:[blocks in formation] stone-shower (ston's hou"ėr), n. A fall of aëro- lites; a meteoric shower. smith. stone-snipe (ston's nip), n. 1. The greater tell tale, greater yellow shanks, or long-legged tat- tler, Totanus melanoleucus , a common North American bird of the family Scolopacidæ . The length is from 13 to 14 inches, the extent 24; the bill is 2 or more inches long, the tarsus 2). The legs are chrome- yellow; the bill is greenish-black. The upper parts are dusky, speckled with whitish; the under parts are white, streaked on the jugulum, marked on the sides, flanks, axillars with dusky bars and arrow-heads. The tail is barred with blackish and white. The stone-snipe inhabits North America at large, breeding in high latitudes, and is chiefly seen in the United States during the migrations and in winter. It is a noisy and restle denizen of marshes, bays, and estuaries. See cut under yellowlegs. 2. Same as stone - plover , 1. Encyc. Dict. stone-sponge (ston's punj), n. A lithistid an sponge: so called from the hardne . See Lithistid a . stone-squarer (stōn's kwar"ėr), n. One who forms stones into square shapes; a stone-cutter. And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone squarers [the Gebalites, R. V.]. stone-still (ston's til'), a. [ ston - stille ; stone + still1 .] Still as a stone; absolutely motionle , silent, etc. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 242. stone-sturgeon (stōn's ter" jon), n . Same as lake- sturgeon. stone-sucker (ston's uk"ėr), n. The lamprey; a petromyzont. [Local, Eng.] stone-thrush (ston thrush), n. The mistle- thrush. [Prov. Eng.] stone-toter (ston to tér), n. 1. Same as stone- lugger, 1. Also toter .-2. A cyprinoid fish, IMG:content-2196.png:[blocks in formation] stonish ment (ston'ish-ment), n. tonish ment. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 19. stontt. Middle English form oftast contraction of standeth , present indicative third person singular of stand . stonyl (sto ni), a. [ steinig = Sw. stenig ), stony, stān , stone: see stone . Cf. AS. staniht = G. steinicht = Dan. stenet , stony.] 1. Containing stones; abounding in stone.-2. Made of stone; consisting of stone; rocky. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. Shak., R. and J., ii. 2. 67. 3. Hard like stone, but not made of stone; stone-like. IMG:content-2197.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2198.png:[blocks in formation] U. S., in both senses.] stone-walling (ston' waling), n. 1. The pro- ce of walling with stone; hence, walls built of stone. Encyc . Brit ., II. x. 388.- 2. Parliamen- tary obstruction by talking against time, rais- IMG:content-2199.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2200.png:[blocks in formation] By land and sea, so well he him acquitte, To speake of him I stony in my witte. Hakluyt's Voyages . L. 296. Hard- stook (stük), n. [Also dial. stouk ; prob. stūke , LG. stuke , a heap or bundle, as of flax or turf, G. stauche , a bundle, as of flax; cf. MD. styck , a chest, hamper.] A shock of corn, con- sisting, when of full size, of twelve sheaves. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] But stooks are cowpet wi' the blast. Burns, Third Epistle to J. Lapraik. Still shearing, and clearing, The tither stooked raw [row]. What! d'ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yer synods, and yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer stool o' repentance? Scott , Waverley, xxx. To fall between two stools, to lose, or be disappointed in, both of two things between which one is hesitating. No one would have thought that. Lily was aware that she was like to fall to the ground between two stools -having two lovers, neither of whom could serve her turn. Trollope , Last Chronicle of Barset, xxxv. (See also camp - stool , footstool , night - stool , piano- stool .) stool (stöl), v. [ stool , n.] I. in trans. 1. To throw up shoots from the root, as a gra or a grain-plant; form a stool. See stool , n., 6. I worked very hard in the copse of young ash with my bill-hook and a shearing knife, cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, xxxviii. Burns, To the Guidwife of Wauchope House. 2. To decoy duck or other fowl by means of stool (stöl), n. [ stool , stole , stol , stol OS. stol = OFries. stõl = D. stoel = MLG. stol , LG. stol = OHG. stuol, stual, stol , MHG. stuol, G. stuhl = Icel. stöll = Sw. Dan. stol = Goth. stols , a seat, chair; cf. OBulg. stolŭ = Ru . stolŭ = Lith. stalas , a table, = Gr. στήλη, an upright slab (see stele3 ); from the root of stall, stell , ult. from the root of stand : see stalll , stell, stand.] 1. A seat or chair; now, in par- ticular, a seat, whether high or low, consisting of a piece of wood mounted usually on three or four legs, and without a back, intended for one person; also, any support of like construction used as a rest for the feet, or for the knees when kneeling. I may nouzte stonde ne stoupe ne with-oute a stole knele. Piers Plowman (B), v. 394. Oh! who would cast and balance at a desk, Perch'd like a crow upon a three-legg'd stool ? Tennyson, Audley Court. 21. The seat of a bishop; a see. This bispryche [Salisbury] wes hwylen two bispriche; theo other stol wes at Remmesbury, the other at Schireburne. Old Eng. Misc. (ed. Morris), p. 145. I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool , the dread of every scolding quean, Yet sure, a lover should not die so mean. This woful lady lerned had in you the So that she werken and enbrouden couthe, And weven in hir stole the radevore As hit of women hath be woned yore. For wet stooling , the wooden ones [decoys] are prefer- able, as the tin ones soon rust and become worthle . Shore Birds , p. 45. 3. To be decoyed; respond to a decoy. [U.S.] They [widgeons] stool well to any shoal-water duck de- coys, and answer their call. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 206. 4. To evacuate the bowels. II. trans. To plow; cultivate. [Prov. Eng.] -To stool turfs, to set turfs two and two, one against the other, to be dried by the wind, Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] stool-ball (stöl bal), n . the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gen- erally played by women alone, but sometimes in company with men. tion. Daugh. Will you go with me? Wooer. What shall we do there, wench? Daugh. Why, play at stool - ball . Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 2. Stool- Ball . This game, so often mentioned in old writers, is still played in almost every village in Su ex, and is Two for ladies and girls exactly what cricket is to men. pieces of board 18 inches by 12 are fixed to two sticks from 3 to 4 feet high, according to the age of the players. These sticks are stuck in the ground sloping a little back- wards, and from 10 to 15 yards apart. The players take sides, generally eight to ten each. The bowler pitches the ball at the board, which in fact is the wicket. If he hits it the player is out. The same is the case if the ball is caught; and the running out, stumping, ., are ex- N. and Q., 3d ser., XI. 457. actly like cricket. stool-end (stöl'end), n . The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape, With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape. Tennyson, Prince , vi. (song). 4. Specifically, to swoop upon prey or quarry, as a hawk; pounce. As I am a gentleman, I'll meet next cocking, and bring a haggard with me That stoops as free as lightning. Tomkis (?), Albumazar, iii. 5. 5. To condescend; deign: especially expre - ing a lowering of the moral self, and generally followed by an infinitive or the preposition to . Is Religion a beggarly and contemptible thing, that it doth not become the greatne of your minds to stoop to take any notice of it? Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. v. Thus hath the Field and the Church stouped to Mahomet. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 242. I will make thee stoop , thou abject. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, v. 3. II. trans. 1. To bend downward; bow. Myself... 2. To incline; tilt: as, to stoop a cask. Halli- well . [Prov. Eng.]-3. To bring or take down; lower, as a flag or a sail. Nor, with that Consul join'd, Vespas i an could prevail In thirty several fights, nor make them stoop their sail. Drayton, Polyolbion, viii. 212. 4. To put down; abase; submit; subject. I will stoop and humble my intents You have found my spirit; try it now, and teach me To stoop whole kingdoms. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, i. 1. 6t. To swoop or pounce down upon. The hawk that first stooped my pheasant is killed by the spaniel that first sprang all of our side. Webster and Dekker , Northward Hoe, v. 1. ing the rest. stool-pigeon (stöl'pijon), n. 1. A pigeon fast- ened to a stool, and used as a decoy. The Stool - Pigeon , also, as familiar to English ears as to ours, exists here and even in the Eastern States - still in both its primary signification and its figurative exten- sion. In the former it means the pigeon, with its eyes stitched up, fastened on a stool, which can be moved up and down by the hidden fowler, an action which causes the bird to flutter anxiously. This attracts the pa ing flocks of wild pigeons, which alight and are caught by a net, which may be sprung over them. Hence-2. A person employed as a decoy: as, a stool-pigeon for a gambling-house: such a fellow is generally a "rook" who pretends to be a "pigeon." See pigeon , 2, and rook1 , 3. stoom (stöm), n. and v . Same as stum. stoopl (stöp), v. [Formerly and still dial. stoup ; stoupen , stowpen , stupen , stū- pian = MD. stuypen = Icel. stupa (very rare), stoop, Norw. stupa , fall, drop, = Sw. stupa , dial. stjupa , fall, drop, tr. lower, incline, tilt; akin to steep1 : see steep1 , and cf. steep2 . The reg. mod. form from AS. stupian is stoup (pron. stoup), as in dialectal use. The retention of or reversion to the orig. AS. vowel-sound ö occurs also in room ( rum ) (and in wound (as pron. wönd), wund ).] I. in trans . 1. To bend; bow; incline; especially, of persons, to lower the body by bending forward and down- ward. He hit on his helme with a heuy sword, That greuit hym full gretly, gert hym to stoupe . Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7256. The gra stoops not, she treads on it so light. Shak ., Venus and Adonis, 1. 1028. How sweetly does this fellow take his dowst! Stoops like a camel! 2. To be bent or inclined from the perpendicu- lar; specifically, to carry the head and shoul- ders habitually bowed forward from the up- right line of the rest of the body. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop ; a black beard will turn white. Shak ., Hen. V., v. 2. 168. Tall trees stooping or soaring in the most picturesque variety. George Eliot , Felix Holt, xxiii. 3. To come down; descend. Now observe the stoops , The bendings, and the falls. IMG:content-2201.png:[blocks in formation] To give the stoopt, to stoop; submit; yield. O that a king should give the stoop to such as these. stoop2, stoup2 (stöp, stoup), n. [ stope , appar. a var. (due to confusion with the related ME. stoppe , stoppa : see stop2 ) of *stepe, * steap , steáp , a cup, = MD. stoop , a cup, ve el, D. stoop , a measure of about two quarts, MLG. stop , a cup, ve el, also a mea- sure, LG. stoop , a measure, = OHG. stouf, stouph , MHG. stouf , G. stauf , a cup, = Icel. staup , a cup, = Sw. stop ( stubechin , G. stübchen , a gallon, measure; prob. ult. iden- tical with Icel. staup , a lump (orig. meaning something cast), hence a ve el of metal, etc., from the verb represented by Icel. steypa = Sw. stöpa = Dan. stöbe , cast (metals), pour out (liquids), E. steep : see steep2 . The spelling stoup is partly Sc., and in the Sc. pron. stoup is prob. of Icel. origin.] 1. A drinking-ve el; a beaker; a flagon; a tankard; a pitcher. Fetch me a stoupe of liquor. stoop Hence-2. Liquor for drinking, especially wine, considered as the contents of a stoop: as, he to ed off his stoop. He took his rouse with stoups of Rhenish wine. Marlowe , Doctor Faustus, (iii. 4. 3. A basin for holy water, usually placed in a niche or against the wall or a pil- lar at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches: also used in private houses. In the Greek Church it is called a colymbion or hag i as mater on . In this sense usually written stoup . Sometimes also called by the French name bénitier, and for- merly holy - water stock , holy- water stone. stoop3 (stöp), [Derived from D. usage in New York; stoep , a stoop (een hooge stoep , a high stoop), MD. stoepe , a stoop, a bench at the door, = OS. stōpo = OHG. stuofa , MHG. stuofe , G. stufe , a step, guide; a doublet of stope , lit. a step, and from the root of step (AS. stap an , steppan , pret. stop ): see step.] An uncovered platform before the en- n. Holy-water Stoup. Church of San Mini a to, Florence. IMG:content-2202.jpg:[blocks in formation] Nearly all the houses (in Albany] were built with their gables to the street, and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops with seats at its door. J. F. Cooper , Satanstoe, xi. They found him [Stuyvesant], according to custom, smoking his afternoon pipe on the stoop , or bench at the porch of his house. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 297. stoop (stöp), n. [Also stoup; a var. of stulp.] 11. The stock or stem, as of a tree; the stump. It may be known, hard by an ancient stoop , Where grew an oak in elder days, decay'd. course. Tancred and Gismunda, iv. 2. 2. A post or pillar; specifically, an upright post used to mark distance, etc., on a race Palsgrave. Carts or waines are debarred and letted [by coaches]: the milk-maid's ware is often spilt in the dirt,. being crowded and shrowded up against stalls and stoopes. Stoulpe , before a doore, souche. John Taylor , Works, ii. 242. ( Bartlett .) And 'twere well to have a flag at the ending stoup of each heat to be let down as soon as the first horse is past the stoup . Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 421. 3. An upright support; a prop or column; specifically, in coal - mining , a pillar of coal left to support the roof.-4. Figuratively, a sustainer; a patron. Dalhousie, of an auld descent, My chief, my stoup , and ornament. Ramsay , Poems, II. 367. (Jamie son.) [Prov. Eng. and Scotch in all uses.] Stoop and room, a method of mining coal in use in Scotland, differing but little from the pillar and breast method. See pillar . - Stoop and roop. [Also stoup and roup ; a riming formula, of which the literal or original meaning is not obvious; explained by Jamie son as for stump and rump .] The whole of everything; every jot: often used adverbially. "But the stocking, Hobbie?" said John Elliot; "we're utterly ruined.... Weare ruined stoop and roop." Scott , Black Dwarf, x. N. and Q., Stoop and thirl. Same as stoop and room. 7th ser., VI. 264. stooped (stö'ped or stöpt), a. [ The college witticism that " and IMG:content-2203.jpg:[blocks in formation]