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STO'LEN. Participle passive of steal.—Stolen waters 
are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Prov. 
STO'LID, ad). [stolidus, Lat.] Stupid; foolish. Cock - 
eram. 
STOLI'DITY, s. [stolidus, Lat.; stolidite, Fr.] Stu¬ 
pidity ; want of sense.—To the end his prince might never, 
by opening his eyes, come to the knowledge of his own 
stolidity. Trans, of Boccalini. —These are the fools in 
the text, indocile untractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle 
all arguments. Bentley. 
STOLLBERG IM GEBIRGE (i. e. among the moun¬ 
tains), a small town of Saxony; 9 miles south-west of 
Chemnitz, and 49 south-west of Dresden. It has 1800 in¬ 
habitants, with manufactures, on a small scale, of woollens, 
linens, and stockings. 
STOLLHOFEN, a village of Germany, in Baden, near 
the Rhine; 16 miles north-north-east of Strasburg. In 
1703 lines were thrown up here, extending eastward to the 
Black Forest, and along the Rhine, towards Philipsburg: 
these the French attacked, but were defeated with heavy 
loss. 
STOLPE, a walled town of Prussia, in Pomerania, on 
the river Stolpe. It contains 4500 inhabitants, with three Pro¬ 
testant churches, a convent, and a cadet school. It has 
some trade in linen and wood, and some petty manufactures 
of broad cloth, woollen stuffs, and amber, which is made 
into trinkets, and sent chiefly to the Levant. Its harbour 
is at the small town of Stolpemunde, at the mouth of the 
river; 110 miles north-east of Stargard, and 64 west of 
Dantzic. Lat. 54. 27. 59. N. long. 16. 55. 15. E. 
STOLPE, a small town of Prussia, in Pomerania, on the 
Peene ; 5 miles west of Anclam. 
STOLPE, a small town of the Prussian province of 
Brandenburg, government of Potsdam; 45 miles north-east 
of Berlin. 
STOLPEN, a small town of Germany, in Saxony; 13 
miles east of Dresden. Population 1000. It has a citadel 
situated on a rock of magnificent basalt. 
STOLWYK, a large village of the Netherlands, in Hol¬ 
land, with a population of 1100; 14 miles north-east of 
Rotterdam, and 4 south-east of Gouda. 
STOLZ, a large village of Prussian Silesia, near Frank¬ 
enstein, with 1000 inhabitants. 
STOLZENAU, a small town of the north of Germany, 
in Hanover, on the Weser; 8 miles north of Nienburg. 
Population 1200. 
STOLZENBERG, a town of West Prussia, adjoining to 
Dantzic. It was formerly a suburb of that city; but in 
1772, this and the adjacent suburbs of Old Scotland, Schid- 
litz, and St. Albert, were united and formed into a separate 
town, with its own magistrates and municipal rights. The 
population of the whole is about 8000; they have a council- 
house, a Lutheran and a Franciscan convent, and a Catholic 
gymnasium. The principal manufactures are woollens, 
gloves, watches, buttons, and tanneries. See Dantzic. 
STOLZENBURG, or Szelindek, a large village of 
Transylvania, in the district called the province of the 
Saxons, situated in a deep valley to the north of Hermann- 
stadt. 
STO'MACH, s. [ cstomach , Fr.; stoniachus, Lat.] The 
ventricle in which food is digested. 
If you’re sick at sea. 
Or stomach qualm’d at land, a dram of this 
Will drive away distemper. Shakspeare. 
This filthy simile, this beastly line, 
Quite turns my stomach. Pope. 
Appetite ; desire of food. 
Tell me, what is’t that takes from thee 
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep ? Shakspeare. 
Inclination; liking. 
He which hath no stomach to this fight; 
Let him depart. Shakspeare. 
[Stomach us, Lat.] Anger; violence of temper. 
Is’t near dinner time ?—I would it were 
That you might kill your stomach on your meat. 
And not upon your maid. Shakspeare. 
Sullenness; resentment; stubbornness. 
That nobles should such stomachs bear! 
I myself fight not once in forty year. Shakspeare. 
Pride; haughtiness. 
He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking 
Himself with princes. Shakspeare. 
To STO'MACH, v. a. [stomachor, Lat.] To resent; 
to remember with anger and malignity. 
Believe not all; or, if you must believe, 
Stomach not all. Shakspeare. 
To STO'MACH, v. n. To be angry.—Let a man, 
though never so justly, oppose himself unto those that k are 
disordered in their ways, and what one amongst them com¬ 
monly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at 
reproof, and hate such as would reform them ? Hooker. 
STO'MACHAL, adj. [stomacal, Fr.] Cordial; help¬ 
ing the stomach. Cotgrave and Sherwood. 
STO'MACHED, adj. Filled with passions of resent¬ 
ment. 
High stotnach'd are they both, and full of ire; 
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -Shakspeare. 
STO'MACHER, s. An ornamental covering worn by 
women on the breast. 
Golden quoifs and stomachers, 
For my lads to give their dears. Shakspeare. 
STO'MACHFUL, adj. [stomachosus, Lat.] Sullen; 
stubborn; perverse.—Obstinate or stomachful crying should 
not be permitted, because it is another way of encouraging 
those passions which ’tis our business to subdue. Locke. 
STO'MACHFULNESS, s. Stubbornness; sullenness; 
obstinacy.—Pride, stomachfulness, headiness, — avail but 
little. Granger. 
STOMA'CHICAL, or Stoma'ciiic, adj. [stomachique, 
Fr.] Relating to the stomach; pertaining to the stomach. 
—By a cartarrh the stomachical ferment is vitiated. Plover. 
STOMA'CHIC, s. A medicine for the stomach. 
STO'MACHING, s. Resentment.—This is no time for 
private stomaching. Shakspeare. 
STO'MACHLESS, adj. Being without appetite.—Thy 
sleep broken, thy meals stomachless. Bp. Hall. 
STO'MACHOUS, adj. [ stomachosus, Lat.] Stout; an¬ 
gry ; sullen; obstinate. Obsolete. 
That stranger knight in presence came, 
And goodly salved them; but nought again 
Him answered, as courtesy became; 
But with stern looks, and stomachous disdain, 
Gave signs of grudge and discontentment vain. Spenser. 
STOMATIA, in Natural History, the name of a genus of 
shell-fish, frequently confounded with the ear-shell. 
The shell of the stomatia is formed of one piece, has no 
perforations in any part of its surface, and is of a depressed, 
flat figure; and its mouth is the most patent of all the uni¬ 
valve shells, the limpet only excepted. It has a short spiral 
turn running into the mouth at the head. 
There are several species of this genus. 
STOMOXYS, in Entomology, a genus of insects of the 
order Diptera. The Generic Character is: Sucker with a 
single-valved sheath, enclosing bristles in their proper sheaths; 
two feelers which are short and setaceous, with five articula¬ 
tions ; the antennae are setaceous. There are sixteen species, 
in two divisions. 
I. Sheath convolute and geniculate at the base, with two 
bristles. 
1, Stomoxys morio.—Black; fore part of the thorax hairy, 
ferruginous; wings black, with white spots.—This is found 
in Brazil. 
2. Stomoxys grisea.—The antennae of this species are fea¬ 
thered 
