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Staurolite
n.
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A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.
Staurolitic
a.
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Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
Stauroscope
n.
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An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
Staurotide
n.
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Staurolite.
Stave
n.
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One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
Stave
n.
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One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
Stave
n.
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A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Stave
n.
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The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Staved
imp. & p. p.
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of Stave
Stove
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of Stave
Staving
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Stave
Stave
n.
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To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
Stave
n.
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To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
Stave
n.
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To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
Stave
n.
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To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
Stave
n.
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To furnish with staves or rundles.
Stave
n.
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To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
Stave
v. i.
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To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Staves
n.
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pl. of Staff.
Staves
pl.
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pl. of Stave.
Stavesacre
n.
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A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.
Stavewood
n.
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A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
Staving
n.
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A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
Staw
v. i.
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To be fixed or set; to stay.
Stay
n.
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A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.
Stayed
imp. & p. p.
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of Stay
Staid
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of Stay
Staying
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Stay
Stay
v. i.
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To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
Stay
v. i.
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To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.