stateswoman 
How shu ws in debt, mill where she meant 
To raise fresh sums : shu 'a a great statesumtnnu .' 
B. Jonson, 
stathe (stiith), it. [Also gtaitli, xtiulhi ; early 
mod. E. also uttnjth, stcytli ; < ME. stathe (AF. 
stathe), < AS. steetli, later vteth, bank, shore, 
= Icel. xtfidli, a harbor, roadstead, port, laud- 
ing; akin to AS. stale, stead: see att'iid.] A 
landing-place; a wharf. [Obsolete or prov. 
En*.] 
stathmograph (stath'rn$-graf), n. [< Gr. araU- 
/tav, measure, + ypfyuv, write.] An instru- 
ment for indicating and registering the velo- 
city of railroad-trains: a form of velocimeter. 
E. H. Kn it/lit. 
static (stat'ik), a, [< Gr. arariKof, causing to 
stand, pertaining to standing, < crarof, verbal 
adj. of UJT&VCU, mid. and pass. laraodat, stand : see 
stasis, stand.] If. Pertaining to weight and the 
theory of weight. 2. Same asxfaHcn/.-stattc 
atana, inability to stand without falling or excessive 
swaying, especially with closed eyes, as in tabes. Static 
gangrene, gangrene resulting from mechanical obstruc- 
tion to the return of blood from a part. Static refrac- 
tion. See refraction. 
statical (stat'i-kal), a. [< static + -a/.] 1. 
Pertaining to bodies at, rest or to forces in equi- 
librium. 2. Acting by mere weight without 
producing motion: as, statical pressure. -stati- 
cal electricity. See electricity.- atlMcal induction. 
See induction, 6 Statical manometer. See manometer. 
Statically (stat'i-kal-i), arfc. In a statical man- 
ner; according to 'statics. 
Statice (stat'i-se), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), 
< Gr. araTudi, an astringent herb, fern, of arari- 
xof, causing to stand: see static.] A genus of 
gamopetalous plants, 
of the order Plumba- 
f/iuese, type of the tribe 
Statieex. It is character- 
ized by its acaulescent or 
tufted herbaceous or some- 
what shrubby habit, flat al- 
ternate leaves, inflorescence 
commonly cymose and com- 
posed of one-sided spikes, 
stamens but slightly united 
to the petals, and styles dis- 
tinct to the angles of the 
ovary, with capitate, oblong, 
or linear stigmas. Over 120 
species have been described, 
natives of the sea-shore and 
of desert sands, mostly of the 
Old World, and of the north- 
ern hemisphere, especially 
of the Mediterranean region. 
A smaller number occur in 
America, South Africa, tropi- 
cal Asia, and Australia. They 
are usually perennials; a 
few are diminutive loosely 
branched shrubs. They are 
smooth or covered with scurf 
or dust. The leaves vary from linear to obovate, and from 
entire to pinnatifld or dissected ; they form a rosette at 
the root, or are crowded or scattered upon the branches. 
The short- pedicelled corolla consists of five nearly or quite 
distinct petals with long claws, and Is commonly sur- 
rounded by a funnel-shaped calyx which is ten-ribbed 
below, and scarious, plicate, and colored above, but usually 
of a different color from the corolla, which is often white 
with a purple or lavender calyx and purplish-brown pedi- 
cel. They are known in general as sea-lavender. The 
common European S. Limonium is also sometimes called 
marsh-beet from its purplish root ; it is the red behen of the 
old apothecaries. Its American variety, Caroliniana, the 
marsh-rosemary of the coast from Newfoundland to Texas, 
is also known as canter-root, from the use as an astringent 
of its large bitter fleshy root, which also contains tannic 
acid (whence its name ink-root). The very large roots of 
S. latifolia are used for tanning in Russia and Spain, and 
those of S. mucronata as a nervine in Morocco under the 
name of mfrifa. Other species also form valued remedies, 
as S. Bratiliensis, the guaycura of Brazil and southward. 
Many species are cultivated for their beauty, as 5. ttiti- 
folia, and S. arborescent, a shrub from the Canaries. In 
Afghanistan, where several species grow in desert regions, 
they form a source of fuel. 
Staticeae (sta-tis'e-e), n. pi [NL. (Endlicher, 
1836), < Statice + -ex.] A tribe of plants, of the 
order Pltimbaginese, distinguished fromthe other 
tribe (Plumbagex) by flowers with a commonly 
spreading, scarious, and colored calyx-border, 
stamens united to the petals at the base or 
higher, and styles distinct to the middle or the 
base. It includes 6 genera, of which Statice is the type. 
They are commonly acaulescent plants, very largely mari- 
time, and of the Mediterranean region. 
Statics (stat'iks), n. [PI. of static (see -ics). Cf. 
F. statique, < Gr. arannri, the art of weighing, 
fern, of orariKOf, causing to stand : see static.] 
That branch of mechanics which treats of the 
relations of strains and stresses, or of the fig- 
ures of bodies in equilibrium and of the magni- 
tudes and directions of the pressures Chemi- 
cal, graphical, social statics. See the adjectives. 
Station (sta'shpn), n. [< ME. stacion, < OF. sta- 
tion, stneion, estagon, estaclioii, extnixun, etc.. F. 
station Sp. cxl/lciiui IV. (fsliic,'in = It. uln- 
zioiie = D. U. Sw. Dan. xtntiim. <*L. statio(n-), 
a standing, place of standing, station, a post, 
abode, dwelling, position, office, etc., < atari'. 
stand: see state, stand.] I. A standing still; 
a state of rest or inactivity. [Obsolete or 
archaic.] 
Her motion and her utatiim are as one. 
,S'/m*., A. and ('., iii. 3. 22. 
Man's life is a progress, and not a tfatimi. 
Emerson, Compensation. 
2. Manner of standing; attitude; pose: rare 
except in the specific uses. 
An eye like Mars to threaten and command; 
A station like the herald Mercury 
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill. 
stationer 
Ilenevcrcmirt.il m, i in 
Xii'ijt, Death of Dr. Swift. 
Content may dwell in nil xtations. 
Ot T. llruirne, Christ. Mor., i. 27. 
fiivcn as a tonic, but not worthy an officinal */- 
DunyliHon, Med. Diet. 
13. In miniiif/, an enlargement made in a shaft, 
level, or gangway to receive a pump, bob, tank, 
or machinery of any kind False station, in mm: 
Sec /ate. Life-saving station, a station on a sea-coast 
furnished with life-boats and other apparatus for saving 
life from shipwreck. Military station, a place where 
troops are regularly kept in garrison. Naval station, 
a safe and commodious shelter or harbor for the warlike 
or commercial ships of a nation, where there is a dock- 
yard and everything requisite for the repair of ships. - 
Outside station. See outside. = Syn. 9 </). See depot. 
Specifically (a) In med., the steadiness (freedom fron 
swaying) with which one stands, (b) The manner of stand 
ing or the attitude of live stock, particularly of exhibition 
game fowls ; as, a duckwing game-cock of standard high 
station. 
., Hamlet, iii. 4. 58. Station (sta'slmii). r. /. (_<stntiti, n.] To as- 
sign a station or position to: as, to sttitiini 
troops on the right or left of an army ; to gta- 
linii a sentinel on a rampart; to Station one's 
self at a door. 
3. The spot or place where anything habitually 
stands or exists ; particularly, the place to which 
a person is appointed and which he occupies 
Not less one glance he caught 
Thro' open doors of Ida tttation'd there 
Unshaken, clinging to her purpose. 
Tennyson, Princess, v. 
Howcrinff Plant of Statice Limi 
nijtm, var. CttroliHt'atta. 
<r, the flower with its bracts. 
tions of the officers and crew of a ship when a station. 
the fire-signal is sounded. stationariness(sta'shon-a-ri-nes), n. Station- 
If that service ye now do want, ary character or quality ; iixity : as, the station- 
Whatxtartonwillyebe? ariness of the barometer ; the statiotiariness of 
Blancheflour andJellyflorice(CtiM's Ballads, IV. 297). rents. J. S. Mill, On Liberty, iii. 
One oj lour companions took his station as sentinel upon stationary (sta'shon-a-ri), a. and n. [= F. 
the tomb of the l.ttle mosque. O'Donovan, Merv, xx. st(l tionnaire = Sp. Pg. 'estacionario = It. ttatio- 
4. The place where the police force of any nario, < L. stationaritts, pertaining to a post or 
district is assembled when not on duty; a dis- station/ statio(n-), a post, station: see station .] 
trict or branch police office. See police station, ' 
under police. 5. The place where the British 
officers of a district in India, or the officers of 
trict or branch police office. See police station, I. a. 1. Having a particular station or place ; 
T^ ^i./,> i,o,o +1,0 n,u;=i, remaining in a certain place ; not movable, or 
not intended to be moved ; not moving, or ap- 
a garrison, reside ; also, the aggregate of soci- pearing not to move ; technically, without ve- 
Pt.V 1T1 SllpVl fl. Tlln./^O act tr\Qolrflio atst-Hnm +f\ Hi-n . innl4-*r ,. 1 , . . i I . . .. , 1 ' . . > llii ;_ 1 
ety in such a place : as, to ask the station to din- 
ner. Yule and Btirnell, Anglo-Indian Glossary. 
The little bills done by the rich bunneahs, the small 
and great pecuniary relations between the station and the 
bazaar. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 194. 
6. The condition or position of an animal or 
a plant in its habitat, or its relation to its en- 
locity, whether this condition is only instan- 
taneous, or whether the body spoken of re- 
mains motionless for an interval of time. A 
planet is said to be stationary at a turning-point of its 
motion, when its longitude is neither increasing nor di- 
minishing. The sun is said to be stationary when it 
reaches one of the tropics and begins to turn toward the 
equinoctial. 
vironment: often .used synonymously with hab- 2. Remaining in the same condition or state; 
itat (but habitat is simply the place where an making no progress; without change; with 
animal or plant lives, station the condition un- neither increase nor decrease of symptoms, in- 
der which it lives there). 
The males and females of the same species of butterfly 
are known in several cases to inhabit different stations, 
the former commonly basking in the sunshine, the latter 
haunting gloomy forests. 
Danrin, Descent of Man, I. 391. 
tensity, etc. : as, a stationary temperature. 
The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was 
content to be stationary. Macaulay, Bacon. 
Stationary air, the amount of air which remains con- 
stantly in the lungs in ordinary respiration. Station- 
ary contact, diseases, engine. See the nouns. Sta- 
tionary motion, such a motion of a system that no 
particle continually departs further and further from its 
original position, nor does its velocity continually increase 
or diminish. Clausius. Stationary point, on a curve, a 
point where the point generating the curve is stationary 
7. Insure.: () The place selected for planting 
the instrument with which an observation is to 
be made. (6) A fixed uniform distance (usu- 
ally the length of a chain of 100 feet, or 66 feet, , , . _, 
or half the length of a twenty-meter chain) and turns back; a cusp; a binode whose two tangents coin- 
into which a line of survey is divided. The S*tlffiSfiSS!!SS**5?M*Hi!*?*?S 
stations are consecutively numbered. 8. A 
stock-farm. [Australia.] 9. A regular stop- 
ping-place, (a) One of the stages or regular stopping, 
places at which pilgrims to Rome or other holy place 
were wont to stop and rest, as a church or the tomb of a 
martyr, (b) One of the places at which ecclesiastical proces- 
sions pause for the performance of an act of devotion, as a 
church, the tomb of a martyr, or some similar sacred spot. 
Hence (c) The religious procession to and from or the 
service of devotion at these places, (rf) One of the rep- 
resentations of the successive stages of Christ's passion 
which are often placed round the naves of churches, and 
by the sides of the way leading to sacred edifices, and 
which are visited in rotation, (e) In the early church, the 
the moving tangent generating the curve is stationary and 
turns back ; an inflection. Stationary tangent plane 
of a surface, a tangent plane which has stationary contact 
with the surface. 
II. .; pi. stationaries (-riz). 1. A person or 
thing which remains or continues in the same 
place or condition ; specifically, one of a force 
of permanent or stationary troops. 
The stationaries are mine already. So are the soldiery 
all the way up the Nile. Kingsley, Hypatia, xx. 
Then they are stationaries in their houses, which be in 
the middle points of the latitudes, which they call eclip- 
ticks- Holland, tr. of Pliny, ii. 1. 
place appointed at church for each class of worshipers, o On wlm wiaTioa fr, =fo,r . . . l,o,.a i, 
more especially for each grade of penitents; hence the ^ L ' WUo msh ^ "> stay as or where he IS ; 
status, condition, or class so indicated. (/) A place where one wn O opposes or resists progress; an ex- 
railway-trains regularly stop for the taking on of passen- treme conservatist. 
gers or freight ; hence, the buildings erected at such a 
place for railway business a depot. Divided between the party of movement and that of re- 
10. Eccles.: (a) In the early cTinrch, an assem- Si8tance - theprogr ^17!l,l" 1 1 r ! ^ > '' a '^ T 
bly of the faithful in the church, especially for , Hw ' llavels <trans - 1852) ' IL 129 ' 
the celebration of the eucharist. (6) The fast Station-bill (sta shou-bil), n. Naut., a list cou- 
and service on Wednesday and Friday (except taming the appointed posts of the ship's corn- 
between Easter and Pentecost), in memory of _P a y for a . n evolutions. 
the council which condemned Christ, and of Station-calendar (sta'shon-kaFen-dar), n. On 
his passion. These are still maintained by the Greek a railroad, a station-indicator. 
Church, but the fast of Wednesday in the Western Church Stationer (sta shon-er), n. [Early mod. E. sta- 
has been abrogated, (c) Among Roman Catholics, tyoner ; < ME. s'iacyonere, < ML. stationariux, 
a church where indulgences are to be obtained staeionarius, a resident, resident canon, vender 
on certain days. 11. Situation; position. 
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as 
the highest station, in a human figure. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 98. 
12. Status; rank; standing ; specifically, rank 
or standing in life; social state or position; 
condition of life ; hence, high rank or standing. 
They in France of the best rank and station. 
Shalt., Hamlet, i. 3. 73. 
of .books, < L. statio(n-), a station, stall : see 
station.] If. A bookseller. 
Any scurrile pamphlet is welcome to our mercenary 
stationers in English. 
Burton, Auat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 23. 
Anterior to the invention of printing, there flourished a 
craft or trade who were denominated statvmers; they were 
scribes and limners, and dealers in manuscript copies, and 
in parchment and paper, and other literary wares. 
/. D'leraeli, Amen, of Lit., II. 4S2. 
