stationer 
2. One who sells the materials used in writing, 
as paper, pens, pencils, ink, etc stationers' 
Hall, a building in London belonging to the gild called 
the "Company of Stationers," in which a book is kept for 
the registration of copyrights. Stationers' rule. See 
ridei. Walking, running, or flying stationer, a hawk- 
er of ballads, chap-books, pamphlets, and other kinds of 
cheap popular literature. Compare nmning patterer, m\- 
derpatterer. Tatter, No. 4. 
stationery (sta'slion-er-i), n. and a. [< statiom-r 
+ -i/3 (see -c n/).] I. n. The articles usually sold 
by stationers ; the various materials employed 
in writing, such as paper, pens, pencils, and ink. 
- Stationery office, an office in London which is the me- 
dium through which all government offices, both at home 
and abroad, are supplied with writing materials. It also 
contracts for the printing of reports, etc. Imp. Diet. 
II. . Relating to writing, or consisting of 
writing-materials: as, stationery goods. 
station-house (sta'shon-hous), . 1. A police- 
station. 2. The building containing the office, 
waiting-rooms, etc., of a railway-station. Tlie 
Century, XXXV. 89. 
Station-indicator (sta ' shon - in * di - ka - tor), . 
On a railway: (a) A bulletin-board at a station 
on which are exhibited the time of departure of 
trains and the stations at which they will stop. 
(6) A device in a car for exhibiting in succes- 
sion the names of the stations where stops are 
to be made. 
Station-master (sta'shon-mas'ter), . The of- 
ficial in charge of a station; specifically, the 
person in charge of a railway-station. 
station-meter (sta'shon-me"ter), n, A meter 
of large size used in gas-works to measure the 
now of gas. Such meters are made with various attach- 
ments, as water-line, pressure, and overflow gages, regis- 
ter-clock, and telltale indicators of the rate of flow. E. 
H. Knight. 
Station-pointer (sta' shon -poin'ter), n. In 
sure., an instrument for expeditiously laying 
down on a chart the position of a place from 
which the angles subtended by three distant 
objects, whose positions are known, have been 
measured; a three-armed protractor. 
station -pole, station -staff (sta'shon-pol, 
-staf), n. In sun., same as leveling-staff, 1. 
statism (sta'tizm), n. [< state + -ism."\ The 
art of government; hence, in a depreciative 
sense, policy. [Rare.] 
Hence it is that the enemies of God take occasion to 
blaspheme, and call our religion statism. 
South, Sermons, I. Iv. 
statist (sta'tist), n. [= G. statist = Sw. statist, 
a statesman, politician, = Sp. Pg. estadista, a 
statesman, politician, also a statistician, = It. 
statisla, a statesman ; as state (L. status) + -4st.~] 
1. A statesman; a politician; one skilled in 
government. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Next is your statist's face, a serious, solemn, and super- 
cilious face, full of formal and square gravity. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, il. 1. 
2. A statistician. 
The keen statist reckons by tens and hundreds ; the ge- 
nial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the 
assembly. Emerson, Success. 
statistic (sta-tis'tik), a. and . [I. a. = F. sta- 
tistique = Sp. estadistico = Pg. estadistico = It. 
statistico (cf . G.statistisch = Sw. Dan. statistisk), 
lit. pertaining to a statist or to matters of the 
state ; as statist + -ic. II. n. = F. statistique = 
Sp. estadistica = Pg. estadistica = It. statistica, 
statistics, = G. statistik, political science, sta- 
tistics, = Sw. Dan. statistik, statistics; from the 
adj.] I. a. Statistical. 
II. . 1. Same as statistics. 2. A statisti- 
cal statement. 3f. A statistician. 
Henley said you were the best statistic in Europe. 
SmUhey, 1804, in Robberd's Mem. of Taylor of Norwich 
[I. 608. 
statistical (sta-tis'ti-kal), a. [< statistic + -al.~\ 
Of or pertaining to statistics; consisting of 
facts and calculations or such matters : as, 
statistical tables; statistical information pri- 
mary statistical number, the number of a class ascer- 
tained by direct counting. Statistical Inference. See 
inference. Statistical method, a scientific method in 
which results are deduced from averages as data. Politi- 
cal economy, the kinetic theory of gases, and Darwinian 
evolutionism persue statistical methods, which are also 
now applied to psychology. Statistical proposition. 
See proposition. Statistical ratio, the number of one 
class of things which are found associated upon the aver- 
age with each one of another class of things : thus, the 
number of children per family is a statistical ratio; so is 
the average duration of life. 
statistically (sta-tis'ti-kal-i), adv. In a statis- 
tical manner; by the use of statistics; from a 
statistical point of view. 
Statistician (stat-is-tish'an), . [= F. statis- 
ticien; as statistic + -ion.] One who is versed 
in or collects statistics. 
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Statistics (sta-tis'tiks), . [PI. of xtatistie (see 
-ics).~] 1. A' systematic collection of numbers 
relating to the enumeration of great classes, 
or to ratios of quantities connected with such 
classes, and ascertained by direct enumeration. 
Thus, a table of the populations of the different States 
of the American I'nion is called a table of statistics; so 
is a table showing the percentages of farms in different 
farms by the total number of farms. 
The word statistics, as the name of a peculiar science, 
was first engrafted into our language by Sir John Sinclair. 
It comprehends, according to the practice of the German 
writers, from whom it was adopted, all those topics of in- 
quiry which interest the statesman. 
Monthly Rev., 17%, App., p. 553 (N. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 
[404). 
2. The study of any subject, especially sociolo- 
gy, by means of extensive enumerations; the 
science of human society, so far as deduced from 
enumerations. Bureau of Statistics. See bureau. 
Vital statistics, a collection of statistical ratios relat- 
ing to the average course of life, including the death- 
rates at different ages, liability to different diseases, etc. 
statistology (sta-tis-tol'o-ji), n. [Irreg. < sta- 
tist(ics) + Gr. -Xoyio, < teyeiv, speak : see -oloyy.] 
A discourse or treatise on statistics. 
Stative (sta'tiv), a. [= OF. statif, < L. stati- 
vus, standing still, < stare, stand: see state.] 
1. Pertaining to a fixed camp or military post 
or quarters. 2. In Heb. gram., indicating a 
physical state, or mental, intransitive, or re- 
flexive action : said of certain verbs. 
statizet (sta'tiz), r. i. [< state + -i;e. Cf. sta- 
tist.'] To meddle in state affairs. Davies. 
Secular . . . mysteries are for the knowledge of statiz- 
ing Jesuits. Rev. T. Adams, Work*, II. 168. 
Statlicht, a. A Middle English form of stately. 
Statoblast (stat'o-blast), n. [< Gr. orordf, stand- 
ing, fixed (see static), + /JXaordf, a bud, germ.] 
One of the peculiar internal asexual buds de- 
veloped in the body-cavity of the fresh-water 
or phylactoleematous polyzoans, comparable to 
the gemmules of the fresh-water sponges, and 
serving for reproduction. These germs of new in- 
dividuals to be reproduced agamogenetically by internal 
gemmation are formed in the funiculus or mesentery of the 
polyzoan ; on the death of the parent organism, they are 
ruptured, and give exit to a young animal essentially like 
the parent. The factthatstatoblastscontainnogenninal 
vesicle, and never exhibit the phenomena of segmentation 
or yolk-cleavage, is conclusive against their being ova or 
eggs ; and, moreover, an ovary producing ova occurs else- 
where in the same individual that produces statoblasts. 
Also called irinier bud. See cut under 1'litinatella. 
statoblastic (stat-o-blas'tik), a. [< statoblast 
+ -ic.] 1. Having the character or nature of 
a statoblast; of or pertaining to statoblasts: 
as, statoblastic capsules; statoblastic reproduc- 
tion. 2. Giving rise to statoblasts; repro- 
duced by means of statoblasts: as, & stato- 
blastic polyzoan. 
statocracy (sta-tok'ra-si), H. [< state + -ocracy, 
after aristocracy, etc.] Government or rule by 
the state alone, uncontrolled by ecclesiastical 
power. 
statoscope (stat'o-skop), n. [< Gr. ararof, stand- 
ing, fixea (see static), + amire'iv, view.] A form 
of aneroid barometer for registering minute va- 
riations of atmospheric pressure. It consists of a 
sensitive metallic diaphragm exposed on the outside to 
the changes of atmospheric pressure, and connecting on 
the Inside with a closed reservoir of air, of four or five liters 
capacity, protected from temperature-changes by non-con- 
ducting walls filled with felt and wool. Registration is 
effected by a long index-needle on the cylinder of a chron- 
ograph. At the beginning of observation the index is 
brought to zero of the scale by opening a stop-cock con- 
necting the reservoir with the outside air, and the abso- 
lute pressure at the moment is observed with a mercurial 
barometer. The stop-cock is then closed, and the index- 
needle shows variations of pressure as small as .01 milli- 
meter of mercury. The total limit of change that can be 
registered is about 5 millimeters ; for pressures beyond 
this the instrument must be reset 
statosphere (stat'o-sfer), n. [< Gr. orarof, 
standing, fixed, + a<jmipa, a globe.] The glo- 
bose, chitinous, spiculiferous envelop of the 
protoplasm of the winter or resting stage of 
hot., a motionless or resting spore; a hypno- 
spore. 
statuat (stat'u-8), n. [< L. statua, an image, a 
statue : see statue.'] A statue. 
Even at the base of Pompey's statua, 
Which all the while ran blood, great Csesar fell. 
Shak., J. C., iii. 2. 192. 
Behold the Statuas which wise Vulcan plac'd 
Under the altar of Olympian Jove, 
And gave to them an artificial life. 
Seaumont, Masque of Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. 
statuminate 
Statuary (stat'u-a-ri), a. and n. [= F. statuaire 
= Sp. Pg. estatuario = It. statuariu, < L. stalua- 
riiis, of or pertaining to statues (statuaria, sc. 
ars, the statuary art), < statua, a statue: see 
xtntiie.] I. a. Of or pertaining to a statue or 
statuary. 
What connoisseurs call statuari/ grace, by which is 
meant elegance unconnected with motion. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. 
Statuary marble, tine-grained white marble, especially 
sought for monuments, busts, etc. 
II. . ; p\.xt/ttii<irii',t(-r\z). 1. Onewho makes 
statues; a sculptor; specifically, one who makes 
statues in metal, a bronze-caster, or one who 
makes copies of statues designed by another 
artist. 
Statuaries could 
By the foot of Hercules set down punctually 
His whole dimensions. 
Matrinyrr, Emperor of the East, ii. 1. 
Burst the gates, and burn the palaces, break the works 
of the statuary. Tennyson, Experiments, Boadicea. 
2. The art of carving or making statues or 
figures in the round representing persons, ani- 
mals, etc. : a main branch of sculpture. 
The northern nations . . . were too barbarous to pre- 
serve the remains of learning more carefully than they did 
those of statuary or architecture or civility. 
Sir W. Temple, Ancient and Modern Learning. 
3. Statues collectively. 
statue (stat'u), . [< ME. statue, < OF. statue, 
F. statue = Sp. Pg. estatua = It. statua, < L. 
statua, an image set up, a statue, pillar, < statu- 
ere, set up: see statute."] 1. A figure of a per- 
son or an animal, made of some solid substance, 
as marble, bronze, iron, or wood, or of any sub- 
stance of solid appearance ; a sculptured, cast, 
or molded figure, properly of some size (as dis- 
tinguished from a statuette or figurine) and in 
the round (as distinguished from a relief or an 
intaglio). 
This proude king let make a statue of golde 
Sixty cubytes long. Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 169. 
Within the area of the foundation walls, and all round 
them, were lying heads and bodies of many statues, which 
had once stood within the temple on bases still In position 
in three parallel rows. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Archeeol., p. S06. 
2f. A picture. 
The rede statue of Mars with spere and targe 
So shyneth in his whyte baner large 
That alle the feeldes gliteren up and doun. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 117. 
Sir John. Yournieces, ere they put to sea, crave humbly, 
Though absent in their bodies, they may take leave 
Of their late suitors' statues. 
Luke. There they hang. Massinger, City Madam, v. 8. 
Equestrian statue, a statue in which the figure is rep- 
resented as seated on horseback. Plinth of a statue. 
See plinth. 
statue (stat'u), v. t. ; pret. and pp. statued, ppr. 
stattiing. [< statue, n.] To place as a statue; 
form a statue of. 
The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and 
earth. Feltham, Resolves, I. 38. 
statued (stat'ud), . [< statue + -erf 2 .] Fur- 
nished with statues; having the form of a 
statue ; consisting of a statue or of statues. 
Pacing in sable robes the statued hall. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Falcon of Federigo. 
Sometimes he encountered an imperial column ; some- 
times he came to an arcadian square flooded with light, 
and resonant with the fall of statued fountains. 
Disraeli, Lothair, Ixix. 
Statue-dress (stat'u-dres), . Theat., a dress 
for the body and legs, made in one piece, worn 
in representations of statuary, 
statuesque (stat-u-esk'), a. [< statue + -esque.~\ 
Like a statue; having the formal dignity or 
beauty of a statue. 
The statuesque attitudes exhibited in the ballets at the 
opera-house. De Quincey, English Opium-Eater. 
statuesquely (stat-u-esk'li), adr. In a statu- 
esque manner; in tlie manner of a statue ; as a 
statue. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 97. 
statuesqueness (stat-u-esk'nes), . Statuesque 
character or appearance. The Academy, No. 
904, p. 141. 
statuette (stat-u-ef), n. [F., dim. of statue, a 
statue : see statue.] A small statue ; a statue 
or image in the round much smaller than na- 
ture ; a figurine. 
Most of the figures do not much exceed life-size, and 
many were small statuettes. 
C. T. Xewton, Art and Archeeol., p. 307. 
statuize (stat'u-iz), v. t. [< statue + -tee.'] 
To commemorate by a statue. [Rare.] 
James II. did also statueize himself in copper. 
Misson, Travels In Eng., p. 309. (Daviei.) 
statuminatet (sta-tu'mi-nat), v. t. [< L. statu- 
m hiatus, pp. of statumintire, prop up, support, 
