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What a fool art thou, 
A ramping fool, to brag, to stamp, and swear, 
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave. 
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side ? Shalcspeare. 
STAMP, s. [estampe , Fr.; stampa, Ital.] Any instru¬ 
ment by which a distinct and lasting impression is made. 
’Tis gold so pure. 
It cannot bear the stamp without alloy. Dryden. 
A mark set on any thing; impression. 
That sacred name gives ornament and grace. 
And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass; 
’Twere folly now a stately pile to raise, 
To build a playhouse, while you throw down plays. 
Dry den. 
A thing marked or stamped. 
The mere despair of surgery he cures; 
Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, 
Put on with holy prayers. Shalcspeare. 
A picture cut in wood or metal; a picture made by im¬ 
pression ; a cut; a plate.—At Venice they put out very 
curious stamps of the several edifices, which are most famous 
for their beauty and magnificence. Addison.—A mark 
set upon things that pay customs to the government. 
Indeed the paper statnp 
Did very much his genius cramp: 
And since he could not spend his fire, 
He now intended to retire. Swift. 
A character of reputation, good or bad, fixed upon any 
thing.—Authority; currency; value derived from any suf¬ 
frage or attestation.—Of the same stamp is that which is 
obtruded upon us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of 
the loadstone. Brown. —Make; cast; form. 
If speaking truth 
In this fine age were not thought flatt’ry, 
Such attribution should this Douglas have. 
As not a soldier of this season’s stamp 
Should go so general current through the world. Shalcspeare. 
STAMPA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the district 
of Sondrio, near the Lake of Como. 
STAMPALIA, or Istampolia, anciently Astypalaca, a 
small island of the Grecian archipelago, situated about 60 
miles west-north-west of Rhodes, in Lat. 36. 40. long. 26. 
16. E. It is of an irregular form; 14 miles long and about 
4j broad. Its coasts afford several good bays and anchorage 
grounds, and the soil of the island is fertile; but water being 
scarce, and piratical incursions to be dreaded, the population 
is very thin: it consists of Greeks, in a very backward state 
of civilisation. 
STAMPALIA, a small island of the Grecian archipelago, 
in the neighbourhood of Candia, with a harbour. 
STA'MPER, s. An instrument of pounding.—From the 
stamping-mill it passeth through the crazing-mill; but of 
late times they mostly use wet stampers. Carew. 
STAMPFEN, Stompha, or Stupawa, a small town of 
the west of Hungary; 10 miles north-by-west of Presburg. 
It is inhabited by Slowacs and Jews, the former mostly 
weavers, the latter petty merchants. 
STAMPING GROUNDS, a post village of the United 
States, in Scott county, Kentucky. 
STAN, amongst our forefathers, was the termination of the 
superlative degree: so Athelstan, most noble; Betstan, 
the best; Leojstan, the dearest; Wist an, the wisest; Dun- 
stan, the highest. Gibson's Camden. 
STANALL, a township of England, in Lancashire; 4 
miles north-by-east of Poulton. 
STANBRIDGE, a township of England, in Bedford¬ 
shire ; 3 miles east-by-south from Leighton-Buzzard. 
STANBRIDGE, a township of Lower Canada, in the 
county of Bedford. 
STANCEL, a small hamlet of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6 miles from Doncaster. 
To STANCH, v. a. [estancher, Fr.; stagnare, Ital.] 
S T A 
To stop blood; to hinder from running—Iron or stone, 
laid to the neck, doth stanch the bleeding of the nose. 
Bacon. 
To STANCH, ». n. To stop.—A woman touched the 
hem of his garment, and immediately her issue stanched. 
St. Luke. 
STANCH, adj. Sound; such as will not run out.—What 
we endeavoured in vain may be performed by some virtuoso, 
that shall have stancher vessels and more sunny days. Boyle. 
—Firm ; sound of principle ; trusty : hearty ; determined. 
—The standing absurdity, without the belief of which no 
man is reckoned a stanch churchman, is that there is a 
calf s-head club. Addison. 
In politics, I hear, you’re stanch. 
Directly bent against the French. Prior. 
In this sense is used a stanch hound. A dog that follows 
the scent without error or remissness.—Strong; not to be 
broken. 
If I knew 
What hoop would hold us staunch from edge to edge 
O’ th’ world, I would pursue it. Shalcspeare. 
STA'NCHER, s. One that stops blood. Sherwood. 
STA'NCHION, s. [estangon, Fr.] A prop; a support. 
STA'NCHLESS, adj. Not to be stopped. 
There grows, 
In my most ill-compos’d affection, such 
A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, 
I should cut off the nobles for their lands. Shalcspeare. 
STANCO, a small island in the Grecian archipelago, the 
ancient Cos, celebrated as the birth-place of Hippocrates and 
Apelles; it is about 70 miles in circumference, and 12 miles 
distant from the continent. The country is for the most part 
level, though on the eastern side there are some hills of small 
elevation. It contains large plantations of lemon trees, and 
abounds also with cypress and turpentine, and a number of 
medicinal plants. It produces that species of stone known 
by the name of whetstone, and the Latin name of which was 
derived from this island. There is one considerable town, 
situated in a bay, with a harbour, defended by a castle. 
Lat. 36. 46. N. long. 26. 56. E. 
STANCO, a bay on the western coast of Asia Minor, de¬ 
riving its name from the island which is situated at its mouth. 
To STAND, v. n. preterite I stood, I have stood, [stan- 
dan, Goth.; ptanban, Sax.; staen, Dutch; stare, Ital.; 
estar, Span.; stare, Lat.] To be upon the feet; not to sit, 
kneel, or lie down.—The absolution to be pronounced by the 
priest alone standing, the people still kneeling. Common 
Prayer. —To be not demolished or overthrown. 
What will they then ? what but unbuild 
A living temple, built by faith to stand ? Milton. 
To be placed as an edifice.—’This poet’s tomb stood on the 
other side of Naples, which looks towards Vesuvio. Addi~ 
son. —To remain erect; not to fall. 
To stand or fall, 
Free in thine own arbitrement it lies. 
Chariot and charioteer lay overturn’d, 
And fiery foaming steeds: what stood, recoil’d 
O’r weary’d, through the faint Satanic host 
Defensive scarce, or with pale fear surpris’d 
Fled ignominious. 
To become erect. 
Mute, and amaz’d, my hair with horror stood; 
Fear shrunk my senses, and congeal’d my blood. 
To stop; to halt; not to go forward. 
The leaders, having charge from you to stand, 
Will not go off until they hear you speak. Shalcspeare. 
Mortal, w'ho this forbidden path 
In arms presum’st to tread, I charge thee stand. 
And tell thy name. Dry den. 
To be at a stationary point without progress or regression. 
Immense 
Milton. 
Milton. 
Dryden. 
