Part 230

Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.

The Forum.

Squirt, n. (Hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.

Stab culture. (Bacteriol.) A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire. The growths are usually of characteristic form.

Sta"ble, a. (Physics) So placed as to resist forces tending to cause motion; of such structure as to resist distortion or molecular or chemical disturbance; -- said of any body or substance.

{ Sta"di*a hairs or wires } (?). (Surv.) In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.

Sta"di*um (?), n. A modern structure, with its inclosure, resembling the ancient stadium, used for athletic games, etc.

Staff (?), n. [G. staffiren to fill or fit out, adorn, fr. D. stoffeeren, OF. estoffer, F. étoffer, fr. OF. estoffe stuff, F. étoffe. See Stuff, n.] (Arch.) Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.

Stage director. (Theat.) One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

Stage fright. Nervousness felt before an audience.

Stage manager. (Theat.) One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage director.

Sta"gy (?), a. [Written also stagey.] Having an air or manner characteristic of the stage; theatrical; artificial; as, a stagy tone or bearing; -- chiefly used depreciatively.

Stake, n. (Mormon Ch.) A territorial division; -- called also stake of Zion.

Every city, or "stake," including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.

Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Stalk (?), n. The act or process of stalking.

When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.

T. Roosevelt.

Stall (?), n. A covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb; a cot; as, a thumb stall; a finger stall.

Stam*pede" (?), n. Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse; as, a stampede to the gold regions; a stampede in a convention.

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Stance (?), n. (Golf) The position of a player's feet, relative to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke.

Stand (?), v. i. (Card Playing) To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as dealt.

{ ||Stän"de*rath`, or Stän"de*rat` (?) }, n. [G.] (Switzerland) See Legislature, above.

Star drift. (Astron.) Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from apparent change of place due to solar motion.-- ##?? = star streaming? --

Star stereogram. A view of the universe of brighter stars as it would appear to an observer transported into space outside or beyond our universe of stars.

State socialism. A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain equality of opportunity, as compulsory state insurance, old- age pensions, etc., answering closely to socialism of the chair.

Sta"tion, n. In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.