stallman

[Eng. stall, and man.] One who keeps a stall. *stall-on, s . [STALL, 8. ) A slip, a cutting. "I know who might haue had a slip or stall on thereof." Holinshed: Desc. England, bk. ii. ch. xix. stal-wart, *stål-warth, *stål-worth, *stalwarde, * stale-warde, stale wurthe, * stalword, *stall-worth, a. & 8. [A. S. stalwyrdhe , either worth stealing, or good at stealing; from A. S. stalu theft, and worth (q. v.); or stall-worthy, i.e., worthy of a place or stall (q. v.).] A. As adjective : 1. Strong, stout; big and strong in frame. "Faire man he was and wis, stalworth & bolde." Robert de Brunne, p. 26. 2. Brave, bold, redoubted, daring. B. As subst.: A name adopted by a section of the Republican party in the United States, headed by Roscoe Conkling, and acting in opposition to an element in the party which advocated the absolute control of government patronage by the executive. They were known as The Stalwarts , and the feeling generated by their doctrine, was the direct cause of the a a ination (by a crazy member of the party) of President Garfield. *stal-wart-hood, *stal-ward-hed, s . [English stalwart; -hood.] Stalwartne . "The kyng adde by hys vorste wyf one stalwarde sone, That, vor hys stalwardhed , longe worth in mone." Robert of Gloucester , p. 293. stăl - wart-lý, * stal - ward-lyche, * stăl'worth-lý, *stal-wort he-ly, adv . [Eng. stalwart; -ly.) In a stalwart manner; stoutly, bravely. "Whan the i were alle dight, stalworthely & fast, Bothe day & nyght into the toure he hast." Robert de Brunne, p. 165. IMG:content-0180.png:[blocks in formation] *1. A thread, especially a thread of the warp; the warp in the ancient upright loom at which the weaver stood upright, instead of sitting. 2. ( Pl .): The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity. 3. Hence ( pl .) that which constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; staying power, vigor, backbone. *4. A first principle; an e ential part. "Some few of the main stamina , or chief lines, were taken care of from the first, and made up the first creeds." -Water land: Works, iv. 309. II. Bot . The male organ of a flower, called by the old botanists an apex and a chive. Morphologically, it is a transformed leaf. It consists of a filament, an anther, and pollen. The last two are e ential, the first is not. When anther and pollen are wanting, the stamen is called sterile or abortive. If the stamens are equal in number to the petals, then normally they alternate with them. When opposite, as in the primrose, it is supposed that the stamens are the second of two rows, of which the first has not been developed. When the stamens are twice as numerous as the petals, and are arranged in a circle, as in Silene, it is believed that they really constitute two rows of five each, though they look like a single row. They always originate from the space between the base of the petals and the base of the ovary, but they may cohere with other organs, whence the terms Epigynous, Hypogynous, and Perigynous (q. v.). Cohesion among themselves may Stamens. make them Monadelphous, Diadelphous, or Polyadelphous (q. v.). Thev may be on different flowers, or even different plants, from the pistils, whence the terms Moncæcio us or Diecious (q.v.). Other terms used of stamens are exserted, included, declinate, didynamous, and tetradynamous (q. v.). In the Linnean or Artificial System of arrangement, most of the cla es are framed on the number of the stamens. [LINNEAN-SYSTEM.] The stamens taken collectively form the Andrœceum or male apparatus of the flower. 3827 *stā-měn (2), 8. [STAMIN.]