stuffing-wheel 
heat being variously applied by a steam-jacket, 
an internal si cam-coil, or (now rarely) by direct 
admission of steam into the drum. 
Stuffy (stuf'i), a. [< stuff + -i/ 1 .] 1. Clo.se, us 
if from being stuffed and nnaired; musty from 
closeness; oppressive to the head or lungs. 
The hut let in the (rust in winter ami tile heat in sum- 
mer, and were at once stuffy and draughty. 
Urn. .1. II. l-:,nn : i. Short Life, li. 
2. Stuffed out; fat: said of a person. [Prov. 
Eng.J 3. Affected as if by stuffing; muffled: 
said of the voice or speech. 
Why, this was Mrs.Vangilt herself ; her own stuffy voice, 
interspersed with the familiar coughs and gasps. 
Harper's May., LXXIX. 548. 
4. Made of good stuff; stout; resolute; met- 
tlesome. [Scotch.] 5. Angry; sulky; obsti- 
nate. [Colloq.,U. S.] 
stuggy(stug'i),rt. [Adial.var. of stilt///, utix-l.-//. \ 
Stocky; thick-set; stout. [Devonshire, Eng.] 
We are of a thickset breed. . . . Like enough, we could 
meet them, man for man, . . . and allow them what a 
cross-buttock means, because we are so etuijtn/. 
It. D. Bladnmire, Lorna Doone, v. 
stuket, " An old spelling of <i'A*. 
Stull 1 (still), n. [Prob. < (i. xtollt; < MHO. stolte, 
O1UJ. xtollo, a support, prop, post. Cf. titool, 
xtiilm.] lii iiiininii, a heavy timber secured in 
an excavation, and especially in the stones. 
On the si nils rests the lagging, and they together form 
the support for the attle, or deads, which is left In the 
mine partly to keep the excavation from falling together 
and partly to avoid the expense of raising worthless rock. 
stull- (stul), n. [Origin obscure.] A luncheon; 
also, a large piece of bread, cheese, or other 
eatable. IlalliioeU. [Prov. Eng.] 
stulpt (stulp), w. [E. dial, also stolp, stoup, 
ftiiiij)^; early mod. E. stoulpe; < ME. stulpe, 
xialpe, < Icel. stolpi = Sw. Dan. stol/ie = MD. 
stolpe, a post, pillar. Cf. stall 1 .] A short stout 
post of wood or stone set in the ground for any 
purpose. 
But III I'm itc high on stulpes must ther be 
A floor for hem. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (K. E. T. S.), p. 89. 
Stultification (stul'ti-fi-ka'shon), n. [< LL. 
stultificare, turn into foolishness (see stultify), 
+ -ation.] The act of stultifying, or the state 
of being stultified. Imp. Diet. 
stultifier (stul'ti-fi-*r), . [< stultify + -erl.] 
One who or that which stultifies. 
stultify (stul'ti-fi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. stultified, 
ppr. stultifying. [< LL. stultificare, turn into 
foolishness, < L. stultus, foolish, silly, + facere, 
make.] 1. To make or cause to appear fool- 
ish; reduce to foolishness or absurdity: used 
of persons or things. 
We stick at technical difficulties. I think there never 
was a people so choked and stultified hy forms. 
Emerson, Affairs In Kansas. 
Mythologists . . . contrived ... to stultify the my- 
thology they professed to explain. 
E. B. Tylar, Prim. Culture, I. 262. 
2. To look upon as a fool ; regard as foolish. 
[Bare.] 
The modern sciolist stultifies all understandings but his 
own, and that which he regards as his own. 
Hazlttt. (Imp. Diet.) 
To stultify one's self, (a) To deny, directly or by im- 
plication, what one has already asserted ; expose one's 
self to tlie charge of self-contradiction. (b) In law, to 
allege one's own insanity. 
stultiloquence (stul-til'o-kwens), n. [< L. 
stitltiloqiientia, foolish talk', babbling, < stultilo- 
i//ii'ii(t-)s, equiv. to stultilo(/uus, talking fool- 
ishly: see stultiloquent.] Foolish or stupid 
talk ; senseless babble. Bailey, 1731. 
stultiloquent ( stul -til 'o-k went), a. [< L. </- 
tiloquen(t-)*, equiv. to stiiltiloquus, talking fool- 
ishly, < xtultitx, foolish, + loquen(t-)s, ppr. of 
loqiii, talk, speak.] Given to stultiloquence, or 
foolish talk. I/up. Diet. 
stultiloquently (stul-til'o-kwent-li), adv. In 
a stultiloquent manner; with foolish talk. 
stultiloquy (stul-til'o-kwi), n. [< L. stitltilo- 
qiiiiim, foolish talking, < stultiloquus, talking 
foolishly: see stultiloquent.] Foolish talk; silly 
babbling. [Hare.] 
What they call facetiousness and pleasant wit is Indeed 
to all wise persons a mere tftidtilumiu, or tarking like a 
fool. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 741. 
stultyt, " [< L. stultus, foolish.] Foolish; 
stupid. 
Shall tire ben blamed for it brend a foole naturally by 
his own stulty wit in stering? 
Testament of Love, li. (Richardson.) 
Stum (stum), w. [Also dial, stoom ; < D. stom, 
uiifermented wine, must, < stom, mute, quiet, 
= OS. stum = AILU. niuiH, L({. stiimni = OHO. 
MH(ir. stum, (1. xtiinim = Sw. Dan. slum, dumb, 
0007 
mute; akin to strm*, <., Httniiitirr. Cf. F. na 
nun I, mute wine.'] Unfermented or partly fer- 
mented grape-juice. Specifically (a) Must which 
has not yet begun to ferment. (6) Mustthe fi-nnuntiitiini 
of which has been checked by some ingredient mixed 
with it. 
Let our wines without mixture or Htuw be all fine, 
Or call up the muster, and break his dull nod'llr. 
B. Joiuton, Leges Convivales, v. 
stum (stum), v. t.; pret. and pp. xlummi-d, ppr. 
shiiinniiiii. [Also slninii : < D. r-lnniiiirii ; from 
the noun: see slum, .] 1. To prevent from 
fermenting; operate upon (wine) in a manner 
to prevent after-fermentation in casks. A com- 
mon method is, before tilting them, to burn sulphur in 
the casks with the bung-holes stopped. The sulphur 
is coated upon a linen rag, lighted, and then dropped in 
through the bung-hole, wtiich is thereupon immediately 
closed. The wood of the cask is thus saturated with 
sulphur dioxid, which destroys all the germs of fermen- 
tation contained in it, and when the wine is put in a 
minute portion of the sulphur dim id is dissolved in the 
liquor. Sodium sulphite added to wine in small <|uantity 
produces a similar result. Salicylic acid in minute quan- 
tity iilso prevents after-fermentation. A few drops of oil 
of mustard or a little mustard seed dropped into wine 
will also stum It. 
When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine, 
Expect false Latin and stum'd Wine. 
Prior, Upon a Passage in Scaligerlana. 
We stum our wines to renew their spirits. 
Sir J. Flayer. 
2. To fume with sulphur or brimstone, as a 
cask. [Prov. Eng.] 
stumble (stum'bl), r. ; pret. and pp. stumbled, 
ppr. stumbling. [< ME. stumblen, stomblen, stum- 
len, stummelcn, stomelen, stomelin = MD. stome- 
len, D. stommelen, stumble, = OHG. stumbalon, 
bustle, = Sw. dial, stambla, stammla, stomla = 
Norw. stumbla, stumble, falter; a var. of tttiim- 
mer, q. v., and ult. of stammer. Cf. stump.] 
1. intrans. 1. To slip or trip in moving on the 
feet ; make a false step ; strike the foot, or miss 
footing, so as to stagger or fall. 
He made the ky nge Rion for to stomble, that was sory 
for his braaen malle that he hadde so loste. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), 11. 339. 
If my horse had happened to stumble, he had fallen 
downe with me. Coryat, Crudities, I. 89. 
Stumbling at every obstacle . . . left in the path, he at 
last . . . attained a terrace extending in front of the 
Place of Fairladles. Scott, Redgauntlet, eh. xv. 
2. To move or act unsteadily or in a stagger- 
ing manner; trip in doing or saying anything; 
make false steps or blunders, as from confu- 
sion or inattention: as, to stumble through a 
performance. 
Fray Inocenclo, who was terribly frightened at speak- 
ing to so great a personage, grew pale and stumbled in his 
speech. The Century, XXXVIII. 361. 
3. To take a false step or be staggered men- 
tally or morally ; trip, as against a stumbling- 
block ; find au occasion of offense ; be offended 
or tempted. 
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and 
there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John ii. 10. 
This Article of God's sending his Son into the World, 
which they seem most to stumble at. 
SNUingJket, Sermons, III. ix. 
4. To come accidentally or unexpectedly: 
chance ; happen ; light : with on or upon. 
Chance sometimes, in experimenting, maketh us to 
stumble upon somewhat which is new. 
Bacon, Praise of Knowledge (ed. 1887). 
On what evil day 
Has he then stumbled? 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise. I. 415. 
U. trans. 1. To cause to stumble ; cause to 
trip; stagger; trip up. 
False and dazzling tires to stumUe men. 
Milton, Divorce, ii. 3. 
2. To puzzle; perplex; embarrass; nonplus; 
confound. [Archaic.] 
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of 
this hypothesis. /...,/,.. 
We do not wonder he [President Edwards] was stumbled 
with this difficulty, for it is simply fatal to his theory. 
BibKotheca Sacra, XLV. 616. 
Stumble (stum'bl), n. [< stumble, t,'.] 1. The 
act of stumbling ; a trip in walking or running. 
He would have tripped at the upward step. . . . Then 
he apologized for his little stumble. 
Trollope, Last Chron. of Barset, xlix. 
2. A blunder; a failure; a false step. 
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an 
honourable life. Sir K. L'Estrange. 
stumbler (stum'bler),?i. [< ME. stumlere,,<s1ome- 
lare ; < stumble + -er'.] One who stumbles, in 
any sense, G. Herbert, Church Porch. 
stumbling-block (stum'bling-blok), M. Any 
cause of stumbling or failing; that which pre- 
stump 
si'iits itself iis a difficulty in one's wiiy; a hin- 
drance or obstruction, physically or morally; 
an offense or temptation. 
We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a tiunMimj- 
bloclr, and unto the Greeks foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 23. 
Indeed this [coasting trade-wind] was the great stum- 
Minn /;(<.</. that wi- lin-t with in runnini! (mm thu Oalla- 
pagos Islands for the Island OOCOH. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. ill. 15. 
stumblingly (stum'bling-li ),</('. In a stum- 
bling or blundering manner. 
I ... marvel . . . that wee in this cleare age make so 
stumUiiujlil after him |('haui'i>r|. 
Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetiie, |>. (,_' 
stumbling-Stone (stuui'bling-ston), . Same 
as 
This stumblingstone we hope to take away. 
T. Burnt!, Theory of the Earth. 
stumbly (stum'bli), <t. [< xtumlilr + -//'.] Lia- 
ble to stumble; given to stumbling. [Hare.] 
The miserable horses of the peasants are awfully slow 
and very stumbly. The Century, XL. 570. 
stummel (stum'el), n. The short part of a to- 
bacco-pipe, consisting of the pipe-bowl and a 
short section of the stem or a socket for the at- 
tachment of a stem or mouthpiece. Heyl, U. 8. 
Import Duties (1889), iii. 95. 
stummer (stum'er), v. i. [< ME. slomereii = 
Icel. Norw. xtuira= Dan. stumre, stumble; cf. 
stumble and stammer.] To stumble. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
stump (stump), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also 
stompe; < ME. stumpe, xtompe = MD. sttimpt, D. 
stomp = OHG. stumph, MHG. G. stuntpf^ Icel. 
stumpr = Dan. Sw. stump, a stump, = Lith. 
stanwras, a stump ; Skt . stambha, a post, stem. 
Cf. stub.] I. H. 1. The truncated lower end 
of a tree or large shrub ; the part of a vegeta- 
ble trunk or stem of some size left rooted in 
the ground when the main part falls or is cut 
down ; after eradication, the stub with the at- 
tached roots; used absolutely, the stub of a 
tree : as, the stump of an oak; cabbage-gtompgy 
to clear a field of stumps. 
Their courtly figures, seated on the stuwp 
Of an old yew, their favorite resting-place. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 
They disposed themselves variously on stumps and boul- 
ders, and sat expectant, liret Harte, Tennessee's Partner. 
2. A truncated part of anything extended in 
length; that part which remains after the main 
or more important part has been removed; a 
stub: as, the stump of a limb; the stump of a 
tooth ; a cigar-0<mj>. 
The stumpe of Dagon, whose head and hands were cut 
off by his fall. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 30. 
A Gauntlet of hot Oil was clapped upon the stump {of 
au amputated arm], to stanch the Blood. 
HoweU, Letters, I. I. 18. 
3. pi. Legs: as, to stir one's stumps. [Colloq.] 
How should we bustle forward ? give some counsel 
How to bestir our stumps in these cross ways. 
It. Jonxm, Tale of a Tub, iii. 1. 
4. A post. [Prov. Eng.] 5. One of the three 
posts constituting a wicket in the game of 
cricket. They are called respectively the leg-stump 
(next to which the batsman stands), middle stump, and of- 
stump. Their lower ends are pointed so as to be easily 
driven Into the ground ; the height at which they stand 
when fixed is 27 Inches, and the width of the three, in- 
cluding the space between them, 8 inches. The top of 
each stump is grooved, and in the grooves the two small 
Sieces of wood called bails, each 4 inches long, are laid 
i MM stump to stump. 
6. A rubbing instrument used for toning the 
lights and shades of crayon- or charcoal-draw- 
ings, and sometimes for softening or broaden- 
ing the lines of pencil-drawings and for apply- 
ing solid tints with powdered colors. It is a 
short thick roll of paper or soft leather, or a 
bar of india-rubber, pointed at both ends. 7. 
In a lock, a projection on which a dog, fence, 
or tumbler rests. Sometimes it is introduced 
to prevent the improper retraction of the bolt, 
and sometimes to guide a moving part. 8. A 
place oran occasion of popular political oratory; 
a political rostrum or platform ; hence, partizan 
public speaking; popular advocacy of a cause: 
as, to take the stump, or go on the stump, for 
a candidate. This meaning of the word arose from the 
frequent early use in the I'nited States of a tree stump as 
a rostrum in open-air political meetings. It does not 
necessarily convey a derogatory implication. 
Superficial politicians on the stump still talk of the 
Uladstonian policy of lH86as If it existed in 1889. 
Xineleenth Century, XXVI. 748. 
9. In cual-niinina, a small pillar of coal left be- 
tween the gangway or airway and the breasts 
to protect these passages; any small pillar. 
Surr. (Unx*. 10. A blunted sound; a 
