Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. 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.
2. 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.

1. To strike any thing fixed and hard with the toe. [Vulgar.]
2. To challenge. [Vulgar.]

STUMP'ED, pp.

1. Struck hard with the toe.
2. 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.

1. Full of stumps.
2. Hard; strong. [Little used.] – Mortimer.
3. Short; stubby. [Little used.]

STUN, v.t. [Sas. stunian; Fr. etonner. The primary sense is to strike or to stop, to blunt, to stupefy.]

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.]

1. The act of rendering stupid.
2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. – South.