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•On, in the state of New York. In 1779 it was taken by the 
British, but recovered soon after by the Americans; and the 
whole garrison, consisting of 600 men, with their command¬ 
ing officer, lieutenant-colonel Johnson, made prisoners of 
war. Opposite Verplank’s Point. 
STONY STRATFORD. See Stratford. 
STOOD. The preterite of To stand, [pooh, Sax.] 
Adam, at the news. 
Heart-struck with chilling gripe of sorrow stood. Milton. 
STOODELEY, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 5 
miles from Tiverton. 
STOOK, s. [Serenius adduces the West. Goth, stu/cc, 
signifying the same thing; and refers also to the Su. Goth. 
stacka, to collect grain or hay into a stack or mow.] A shock 
of corn containing twelve sheaves. 
To STOOK, v. a. To set up the sheaves in stooks. 
STOOL, s. [stols , Goth.; pool, Sax.; stoel, Dutch; 
stoll. Germ.; from stellen, to place, to set.] A seat without 
a back, so distinguished from a chair. 
Thou fearful fool. 
Why takest not of the same fruit of gold ? 
Ne sittest down on that same silver stool. 
To rest thy weary person in the shadow cold ? Spenser. 
Evacuation by purgative medicines.—The peristaltic mo¬ 
tion, or repeated changes of contraction and dilitation, is not 
m the lower guts, else one would have a continual needing 
of going to stool. Arbuthnot. 
Stool of Repentance, or cutty stool, in the kirks of Scot¬ 
land, is somewhat analogous to the pillory. It is elevated 
above the cohgregation. In some places there may be a seat 
in it; but it is generally without, and the person stands 
therein who has been guilty of fornication, for three Sundays, 
in the forenoon ; and after sermon is called upon by name 
and surname, the beadle or kirk-officer bringing the offender, 
if refractory, forwards to his post; and then the preacher pro¬ 
ceeds to admonition. Here too are set to public view adul¬ 
terers; only these are habited in a coarse canvas, analogous 
to a hairy or monastic vest, with a hood to it, which they 
call the sack or sackcloth, and that every Sunday throughout 
a year, or longer. 
STO'OLBALL, s. A play where balls are driven from 
stool to stool. 
While Betty dances on the green, 
And Susan is at stoolball seen. Prior. 
To STOOM, v. a. To put bags of herbs, or other ingre¬ 
dients, info wine. 
To STOOP, v. n. [pcupian. Sax. ; stuypen, Dutch.] 
To bend down ; to bend forward.—Like unto the boughs of 
this tree he bended forward and stooped toward the earth. 
Ralegh. —To lean forward standing or walking. 
He, stooping, open’d my left side, and took 
From thence a rib. Milton. 
To yield; to bend ; to submit. 
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long. 
And swept the riches of the world from far; 
Yet stoop'd to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. Drydeit. 
To descend from rank or dignity.—He that condescended 
so far, and stooped so low, to invite and to bring us to 
Heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there. Boyle. 
—To yield; to be inferior. 
These are arts, my Prince, 
In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome. Addison. 
To sink from resolution or superiority, to condescend.— 
They, whose authority is required unto the satisfying of 
your demand, do think it both dangerous to admit such con¬ 
course of divided minds, and unmeet that their laws, which, 
being once solemnly established, are to exact obedience of 
all men and to constrain thereunto, should so far stoop as 
to hold themselves in suspense from taking any effect upon 
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you, till some disputer can persuade you to be obedient. 
Hooker. —-To come down on prey as a falcon. Stooping 
is when a hawke, being upon her wings at the height of her 
pitch, beudeth violently downe to strike the fowle, or any 
other prey. Latham. —When they stoop, they stoop with 
the like wing. Shakspeare. —To alight from the wing. 
Satan ready now 
To stoop with weaned wings and willing feet. 
On the bare outside of this world. Milton. 
To sink to a lower place. 
Cowering low 
With blandishment, each bird stoop'd on his wing. Milton. 
To STOOP, v. a. To submit. 
Sole cause that stoops 
Their grandeur to man’s eye. Young. 
STOOP, s. Act of stooping; inclination downward. 
Descent from dignity or superiority. 
Can any loyal subject see 
With patience such a stoop from sovereignty ? 
An ocean pour’d upon a narrow brook ? Dryden.. 
Fall of a bird upon his prey. 
Now will I wander through the air. 
Mount, make a stoop at every fair. Waller. 
[ptoppa, Sax, stoope, Dutch.] A vessel of liquor.— 
Come, lieutenant, I have a stoop of wine; and here with¬ 
out are a brace of gallants, that would fain have a measure 
to the health of Othello. Shakspeare. —A post fastened in 
the earth: a northern word, [sf upa, Lat.] Ray, and Grose. 
Written also stoup or stoxvp. 
It might be known hard by an ancient stoop. 
Where grew an oak in elder days. Tancred and Gismunda. 
STO'OPER, s. One who stoops. Sherwood. 
STO'OPINGLY, adv. With inclination downwards.— 
Nani was noted to tread softly, to walk stooping/y, and raise 
himself from benches with laborious gesture. Wotton. 
STOOSS, or Stosz, a mining town in the north of 
Hungary, in the county of Zyps, inhabited by descendants 
of Germans; 19 miles west of Caschau Lat 48. 42. N. 
long. 20. 49. 50. E. 
To STOP, v. a. [estouper, Fr., stopparc, Ital., stoppen, 
Dutch.] To hinder from progressive motion. 
From the oracle 
They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had 
Shall stop or spur me. Shakspeare . 
To hinder from successive operation. 
Can any dresses find a way 
To stop the approaches of decay. 
And mend a ruin’d face ? Dorset. 
To hinder from any change of state, whether to better or 
worse. To hinder from action or practice. 
Friend, ’tis the duke's pleasure, 
Whose disposition, all the world well knows. 
Will not be rubb’d nor stopp'd. Shakspeare. 
To put an end to the motion or action of any thing; to 
intercept. 
Almon falls, pierc’d with an arrow from the distant war : 
Fix’d in his throat the flying weapon stood. 
And stopp'd his breath, and drank his vital blood. Dryden. 
To repress; to suspend.—Every bold sinner, when about 
to engage in the commission of any known sin, should arrest 
his confidence, and stop the execution of his purpose with 
this question: Do I believe that God has denounced death 
to such a practice, or do I not? South. —To suppress.— 
He, on occasion of stopping my play, did me a good office 
at court, by representing it as long ago designed. Dryden. 
To regulate musical strings with the fingers.—In instru¬ 
ments of strings, if you stop a string high, whereby it hath 
less scope to tremble, the sound is more treble, but yet more 
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