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2. Heat being produced only by combustion, and com¬ 
bustion being sustained only by a current of air, the current 
should be brought in by channels, where the needful rapidity 
may be preserved without being too distant from the space 
to be warmed, so that the heat it there deposits, may be 
gradually accumulated in the whole of the insulated fur¬ 
nace, in order afterwards to flow out of it slowly, accord¬ 
ing to the laws of the equilibrium of that fluid. 
3. The wood being so far consumed as to give no more 
smoke, it is advantageous to close the mouth of these chan¬ 
nels, in order to retain there the heat that would otherwise 
be carried off through the upper flue, by the continuance 
of a current of fresh air, necessarily of a low temperature. 
4. Lastly; it follows from these maxims, that all things 
being equal, a higher temperature will be obtained, and sup¬ 
ported during a much longer time, by forming, in the internal 
parts of the stove, or under the hearth of a chimney, and in their 
vicinity, tubes in which the air that comes from without may 
be warmed before it enters the apartment, to serve the purpose 
of combustion, or replace that which has been consumed. 
To STOVE, v. a. To keep warm in a house artificially 
heated.—For December, January, and the latter part of 
November, take such things as are green all winter; orange- 
trees, lemon-trees, and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet 
marjoram warm set. Bacon. 
Sl’OVEN, a village of England, in Suffolk; 5 miles north¬ 
east-by-east of Halesworth. 
STO'VER, s. [ estover , Fr., from the Lat. fovere, to 
foster. Minsheu.] Fodder for cattle; coarse hay, or straw; 
and sometimes straw for thatch. 
The turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep 
And flat meads thatch’d with stover them to keep. Skakspeare. 
STOUGHTON, a hamlet of England, in Leicestershire; 
4 miles east-south-east of Leicester. 
STOUGHTON, a parish of England, in Sussex; 6 miles 
north-west of Chichester. Population 489. 
STOUGHTON, Great, a parish of England, in Hun¬ 
tingdonshire ; 3 miles south-east of Kimbolton. 
STOUGHTON, Little, a parish of England, in Bed¬ 
fordshire, half a mile distant from the foregoing. 
STOUGHTON, a post township of the United States, in 
Norfolk county, Massachusetts; 15 miles south of Boston. 
STOULTON, a hamlet of England, in Worcestershire; 
4k miles north-west of Pershore. 
To STOUND, ». n. [stunde , grieved, Icelandic, from 
styn , to grieve.] To be in pain or sorrow. Dr. Johnson 
states it to be out of use. “ It stounds," i. e. it aches, it 
smarts, is used in the north of England. 
STOUND, part. For stunned. —So was he stound with 
stroke of her huge taile. Spenser. 
STOUND, s. Sorrow; grief; mishap. Out of use. The 
Scots retain it.—Begin and end the bitter baleful stound. 
Spenser .—A shooting pain. 
Keep your corpse from the carefull stounds 
That in my carrion carcase abounds. Spenser. 
A noise. 
With that he roar'd aloud, as he were wound. 
That all the palace quaked at the stound. Spenser. 
Astonishment; amazement. 
Thus we stood as in a stound, 
And wet with tears, like dew, the ground. Oat/. 
[jxunb. Sax.] Hour; time ; season; a small space of 
time. This is still a provincial word. 
Till that stoiond could never wight him harme 
By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme. 
Spenser. 
STOUR, s [ stur, Runick, a battle; fteopan, Sax. to 
disturbs Assault; incursion ; tumult. Obsolete. 
And he that harrow’d hell with heavy stour, 
The faulty souls from thence brought to his heavenly bow’r. 
Spenser. 
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STOUR, s. [jcup, Saxon, from the Welsh dwr, water, 
“ Sunt in nostra Britannia plurima flumina appellata es diir, 
sive Sturce, Anglorumsermone stour." Baxter. ] A river • 
whence the prefix stour to many of our places: Stourton, 
Stourminster, Stourbridge, Sturrey, &c. 
STOUR, East, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 4 
miles west of Shaftesbury. 
STOUR, West, another parish in the same county, se¬ 
parated from the foregoing by the river Stour, over which 
there is a bridge. 
STOUR, a river of England, which rises in the county 
of Somerset, from three sources, the first near Wincanton, the 
second near Pen, and the third near More Park. The second 
and third of these streams unite, soon after their entering 
Dorsetshire, in Gillingham Forest, where the Stour becomes 
a considerable river, and directs its course nearly towards the 
south, where it is joined by the stream from Wincaunton, 
near Fifehead. About two miles and a half below this 
junction, it receives the waters of the Lyddon ; and about 
half a mile farther, it is joined by the Dulish, flowing with 
a full stream to Sturminster Newton. Here it advances to the 
south-east, washing the town of Blandford, and receiving 
at Wimbourn Minster, the waters of the Allen. About four 
miles below its junction with the Allen it leaves Dorsetshire, 
and falls into the English channel at Christ Church, in 
Hampshire.—2. A river which rises in Shropshire, and run¬ 
ning through Staffordshire and Worcestershire, falls into the 
Severn at Stourport, above Hartlebury castle. Its course is 
about 20 miles, and in that space it has on it upwards of 30 
slitting mills, forges, corn mills, &c.—3. A river in Dorset¬ 
shire, which runs into the Avon near Canford Lawn.—4. A 
river which rises in Essex, and running through Hertford¬ 
shire, falls into the Lea at Hawsham.—5. A river which 
rises in Oxfordshire, and running through Warwickshire, 
falls into the Avon below Stratford.— 6 . Stour, or Stoure, 
Greater and Lesser, are two rivers of England, in the 
county of Kent. The Greater Stour rises from two princi¬ 
pal branches, the first at Well-street, near Lenham, and the 
other among the hills between Liminge and Postling. These 
streams, with the addition of several rivulets, unite near Ash¬ 
ford, where turning to the north-east, they flow in one chan¬ 
nel by Spring-grove to Wye. Thence proceeding through 
a beautiful country, this river passes several villages in its way 
to Canterbury, through which it flows in a divided stream, 
and again unites a little below the city, having formed three 
small islands in its progress. It then takes a north-easterly 
direction to the isle of Thanet. Here it anciently joined the 
Wantsume, a river at one time of considerable magnitude, 
but the channel of which became in time choaked up by the 
tides, and the name is now lost in that of the Stour. The 
Stour, after directing a branch north-westward from Sarre 
flows to the east, and being joined by the Lesser Stour, con¬ 
tinues its course between the isle ofThanetandthe mainland ; 
and making an immense sweep southwards to Sandwich, it 
then returns towards the north, and falls into the Sandwich, 
and thence winding to the north, it falls into the British 
channel at Pepperness. That branch which proceeds north¬ 
wards from Sarre, is called the Nethergong; and being joined 
by a stream from Cheslet, flows into the sea at Newhaven. 
The Lesser Stour rises near Liminge, and flows northwards 
in a north-easterly direction by Barham Downs, and passing 
various pleasant villages, in nearly a parallel line with the 
Greater Stour, falls into that river about a mile beyond 
Stourmouth. The Stour is famous for trout.—7. A river of 
England, which rises on the borders of Cambridgeshire ; 
near Haverhill, and forms the entire boundary between the 
counties of Suffolk and Essex. It passes by Clare, Sudbury, 
and Nayland, and after being joined by the Bret and other 
smaller streams, receives the tide at Manninglree. Here, in¬ 
creasing considerably in breadth, it presents a beauiful object 
at high water, the effect of which, however, is considerably 
diminished by its muddy channel and contracted stream 
during ebb. It joins the Orwell from Ipswich, and their 
vmited streams form the noble harbour of Harwich, whence 
they 
