Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: STUM'BLED – STU-PE-FAC'TION
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STUM'BLED, pp.
Obstructed; puzzled.
STUM'BLER, n.
One that stumbles or makes a blunder. – Herbert.
STUM'BLING, ppr.
Tripping; erring; puzzling.
STUM'BLING-BLOCK, or STUM'BLING-STONE, n. [stumble and block or stone.]
Any cause of stumbling; that which causes to err. We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. – 1 Cor. i. This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. – Burnet.
STUM'BLING-LY, adv.
In a stumbling manner.
STUM'MED, pp.
Renewed by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
STUMP, n. [Sw. and Dan. stump; Dan. stumper, Sw. stympa, to mutilate; D. stomp, a stump, and blunt; G. stumpf.]
- The stub of a tree; the part of a tree remaining in the earth after the tree is cut down, or the part of any plant left in the earth by the sythe or sickle.
- The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; as, the slump of a leg, of a finger or a tooth. – Dryden. Swift.
STUMP, v.t.
- To strike any thing fixed and hard with the toe. [Vulgar.]
- To challenge. [Vulgar.]
STUMP'ED, pp.
- Struck hard with the toe.
- Challenged.
STUMP'-OR-A-TOR, n.
A man who harangues the populace from the stump of a tree, or other elevation.
STUMP-OR'A-TO-RY, n.
An electioneering speech from a stump or other elevation.
STUMPY, a.
- Full of stumps.
- Hard; strong. [Little used.] – Mortimer.
- Short; stubby. [Little used.]
STUN, v.t. [Sas. stunian; Fr. etonner. The primary sense is to strike or to stop, to blunt, to stupefy.]
- To make senseless or dizzy with a blow on the head; as, to be stunned by a fall, or by a falling timber. One hung a pole-ax at his saddle-bow, / And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. – Dryden.
- To overpower the sense of hearing; to blunt or stupefy the organs of hearing. To prevent being stunned, cannoneers sometimes fill their ears with wool.
- To confound or make dizzy by loud and mingled sound. … An universal hubbub wild / Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd. – Milton.
STUNG, v. [pret. and pp. of Sting.]
STUNK, v. [pret. of Stink.]
STUN'NED, pp.
Having the sense of hearing overpowered; confounded with noise.
STUN'NING, ppr.
Overpowering the organs of hearing; confounding with noise.
STUNT, v.t. [Ice. stunta; Sax. stintan, to stint; stunt, foolish, stupid. See Stint.]
To hinder from growth; applied to animals sand plants; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. – Arbuthnot. Pope. Swift.
STUNT'ED, pp.
Hindered from growth or increase.
STUNT'ED-NESS, n.
The state of being stunted. – Cheyne.
STUNT'ING, ppr.
Hindering from growth or increase.
STUPE, n. [L. stupa, tow; probably allied to stuff.]
Cloth or flax dipped in warm medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore; fomentation; sweating bath. – Wiseman. Coxe.
STUPE, n.
A stupid person. [Not in use.]
STUPE, v.t.
To foment. – Wiseman.
STU-PE-FAC'TION, n. [L. stupefacio; stupeo, whence stupidus, and facio. See Stop.]
- The act of rendering stupid.
- A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. – South.