Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STALL, v.t.

1. To put into a stable; or to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox. Where king Latinus then his oxen stall'd. – Dryden.
2. To install; to place in an office with the customary formalities. [For this, install is now used.]
3. To set; to fix; to plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed; as, to stall horses or a carriage. [This phrase I have heard in Virginia. In New England, set is used in a like sense.]

STALL'AGE, n.

1. The right of erecting stalls in fairs; or rent paid for a stall.
2. In old books, laystall; dung; compost.

STAL-LA'TION, n.

Installation. [Not used.] – Cavendish.

STALL'ED, pp.

Put or kept in a stable.

STALL'-FED, pp.

Fed on dry fodder, or fattened in a stall or stable. [See Stall-feed.]

STALL'-FEED, v.t. [stall and feed.]

To feed and fatten in a stable or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox. [This word is used in America to distinguish this mode of feeding from grass-feeding.]

STALL'-FEED-ING, ppr.

Feeding and fattening in the stable.

STALL-ION, n. [stal'yun; G. hengst; Dan. staldhingst; Fr. etalon; It. stallone; from stall, or its root, as we now use stud horse, from the root of stud, stead; W. ystal, a stall, stock, produce; ystalu, to form a stock; ystalwyn, a stallion.]

A stone horse; a seed horse; or any male horse not castrated, whether kept for mares or not. According to the Welsh, the word signifies a stock horse, a horse intended for raising stock.

STALL'-WORN, a.

In Shakspeare, Johnson thinks a mistake for stall-worth, stout. His stall-worn steed the champion stout bestrode. – Shak. [This word is not in use.]

STAL'-WORT, a. [Scottish; Sax. stæl-weorth, worth taking.]

Brave; hold; strong; redouted; daring; vehement; violent.

STA'MEN, n. [plur. Stamens or Stamina. L. This word belongs to the root of sto, stabilis, or of stage.]

1. In a general sense, usually in the plural, the fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it its strength and solidity. Thus we say, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength. Hence,
2. Whatever, constitutes the principal strength or support of any thing; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a state.
3. In botany, an organ of flowers for the preparation of the Pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the filament and the anther. It is considered as the male organ of fructification. – Martyn.

STAM'EN-ED, a.

Furnished with stamens.

STAM'IN, n.

A slight woolen stuff. Chaucer.

STAM'IN-AL, a.

Pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens or stamina. – Med. Repos.

STAM'IN-ATE, a.

Furnished with stamens.

STAM'IN-ATE, v.t.

To endue with stamina.

STA-MIN'E-OUS, n. [L. stamineus.]

1. Consisting of stamens.
2. Possessing stamens. Stamineous flowers have no corol; they want the colored leaves called petals, and consist only of the style and stamina. Linnæus calls them apetalous; others, imperfect or incomplete. – Martyn.
3. Pertaining to the stamen, or attached to it; as, a stamineous nectary. – Lee.

STAM-IN-IF'ER-OUS, a. [L. stamen and fero, to bear.]

A staminiferous flower is one which has stamens without a pistil. A staminiferous nectary is one that has stamens growing on it. – Martyn.

STAM'MEL, n.

1. A species of red color. – B. Jonson.
2. A kind of woolen cloth. [See Stamin.] – Com. on Chaucer.

STAM'MER, v.i. [Sax. stamer, one who stammers; Goth. stamms, stammering; Sw. stamma; G. stammeln; D. stameren; Dan. stammer; from the root stam or stem. The primary sense is to stop, to set, to fix. So stutter is from the root of stead, stud.]

Literally, to stop in uttering syllables or words; to stutter; to hesitate or falter in speaking; and hence, to speak with stops and difficulty. Demosthenes is said to have stammered in speaking, and to have overcome the difficulty by persevering efforts.

STAM'MER, v.t.

To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly. – Beaum.

STAM'MER-ER, n.

One that stutters or hesitates in speaking.

STAM'MER-ING, n.

The act of stopping or hesitating in speaking; impediment in speech; articulation disturbed by irregular intermissions or snatches.

STAM'MER-ING, ppr.

1. Stopping or hesitating in the uttering of syllables and words; stuttering.
2. adj. Apt to stammer.

STAM'MER-ING-LY, adv.

With stops or hesitation in speaking.