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stumps in the service of the maids, 'tis thrown out of doors, 
or condemned to kindle a fire. Swift. 
To STUMP, v. a. [stompen, Dan.] To lop.—Around 
the stumped top soft moss did grow. More. 
To STUMP, v. n. To walk about heavily, or clumsily, 
like a clown : a low colloquial term. 
Cymon, a clown, who never dreamt of love, 
By chance was stumping to the neighbouring grove. 
Song of Cym. 
STUMPSTOWN, a township of the United States, in 
Dauphin county, -Pennsylvania, on a branch of the Little 
Swatara; 24 miles east-north-east of Harrisburg. 
STU'MPY, ad). Full of stumps; hard; stiff; strong. 
A bad word. —They burn the stubble, which, being so 
stumpy, they seldom plow in. Mortimer .—[ stumpig, 
Swedish.] Short; stubby; sometimes applied to a short but 
stout person : a low expression. 
STUMPY INLET, a channel between two small islands 
on the coast of North Carolina. Lat. 34. 24. N. long. 77. 
43. W. 
To STUN, v. a. [ptunian, gepcun, Saxon, noise. ] To 
confound or dizzy with noise. 
An universal hubbub wild 
Of stunning sounds, and voices all confus’d, 
Assaults his ear. Milton. 
Still shall I hear, and never quit the score, 
Stun'd with hoarse Codrus’ Theseid o’er and o’er. Dryden. 
To make senseless or dizzy with a blow. 
One hung a pole-ax at his saddle bow. 
And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. Dryden. 
STUNG. The preterite and participle passive of sting. 
To both these sisters have I sworn my love: 
Each jealous of the other, as the stung 
Are of the adder. Shakspeare. 
STUNK. The preterite of stink. 
To STUNT, v. a. To hinder from growth. 
There he stopt short, nor since has writ a tittle, 
But has the wit to make the most of little ; 
Like stunted hide-bound trees, that just have got 
Sufficient sap at once to bear and rot. Pope. 
STUNTLEY, a hamlet of England, in the isle of Ely, 
Cambridgeshire; 1J mile east-south-east of Ely. 
STUPE, s. [stupa, Lat.] Cloth or flax dipped in warm 
medicaments, and applied to a hurt or sore.—A fomentation 
was by some pretender to surgery applied with coarse woollen 
stupes, one of which was bound upon his leg. Wiseman. 
To STUPE, ». a. To foment; to dress with stupes.— 
The escar divide, and stupe the part affected with wine. 
Wiseman. 
STUPE, s. A term in derision for a stupid or foolish 
person. The Scotch also use it.—Brother, he does not look 
like a music-master.—He does not look! was ever such a 
poor stupe ! well, and what does he look like then ? 
Bickerstaff. 
STUPEFA’CTION, s. [stupefaction, Fr.; stupefactus, 
Lat.] Insensibility; dulness; stupidity; sluggishness of 
mind; heavy folly. 
She sent to every child 
Firm impudence, or stupefaction mild ; 
And straight succeeded, leaving shame no room, 
Cibberian forehead, or Cimmerian gloom. Pope. 
STUPEFA'CTIVE, adj. [from stupefactus, Lat., stupe- 
fact if, Fr.] Causing insensibility ; dulling; obstructing the 
senses; narcotic: opiate.—Opium hath a stupefactive part, 
and a heating part; the one moving sleep, the other a heat. 
Bacon. 
STUPEFA'CTIVE, s. An opiate.—It is a gentle fomenta¬ 
tion, and hath a very little mixture of some stupefactive. 
Bacon. 
STUPENDOUS, or Stupendious, adj.[stupendus, Lat. 
This word was at first stupend .] Wonderful; amazing; 
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astonishing.—All those stupendous acts deservedly are the 
subject of a history, excellently written in Latin by a learned 
prelate. Clarendon. 
Great joy was at their meeting, and at sight 
Of that stupendious bridge his joy increas’d. Milton. 
STUPENDOUSLY, adv. In a wonderful manner. 
Without a friend 
Stupendiously she fell. Sandys. 
STUPE'NDOUSNESS, s. Wonderfulness.—Those very 
works, which, from their stupendousness, should have taught 
them the greatness of the former, were the occasion of their 
paying that homage to the thing made, which could be due 
to the worker only. Ellis. 
STU'PID, adj. [stupide, Fr., stupidus, Lat.] Dull; 
wanting sensibility; wanting apprehension ; heavy; sluggish 
of understanding. 
O thht men should be so stupid grown 
As to forsake the living God. Milton. 
Performed without skill or genius. 
Wit, as the chief of virtue’s friends. 
Disdains to serve ignoble ends; 
Observe what loads of stupid rhimes 
Oppress us in corrupted times. Swift. 
STUPIDITY, s. [stupidite, Fr.; stupiditas, Lat.] Dul¬ 
ness; heaviness of mind; sluggishness of understanding. 
Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he 
Who stands confirm’d in full stupidity. Dryden. 
STU'PIDLY, adv. With suspension or inactivity of un¬ 
derstanding. 
That space the evil one abstracted stood 
From his own evil, and for the time remain’d 
Stupidly good. Milton. 
Dully; without apprehension.—On the shield there was 
engraven maps of countries, which Ajax could not compre¬ 
hend, but looked on as stupidly as his fellow-beast the lion. 
Dryden. 
STU'PIDNESS, s. Dulness; stupidity.—He so applies 
himself to his pillow, as a man that meant not to be drowned 
in sleep, but refreshed; not limiting his rest by the insatiable 
lust of a sluggish and drowsy stupidness. Bp. Hall. 
STU'PIFIER, s. That which causes stupidity.—Whe¬ 
ther the natural phlegm of this island needs any additional 
stupificr. Bp. Berkeley. 
To STU'PIFY, v. a. [stupefacio, Lat. This word should 
therefore be spelled stupefy; but the authorities are against 
it.] To make stupid; to deprive of sensibility; to dull. 
Those 
Will stupify and dull the sense a while. Shakspeare. 
STU'POR, s. [Lat.; stupeur, Fr.] Suspension or dimi¬ 
nution of sensibility.—A pungent pain in the region of the 
kidneys, a stupor, or dull pain in the thigh, and colic, are 
symptoms of an inflammation of the kidneys. Arbuthnot. 
—Astonishment.—To the stupour and amazement of the 
whole world. Earth. 
To STU'PRATE, ». a. [stupro, Lat.] To ravish; to 
violate. 
STUPRA'TION, s. [stupratio, from stupro, Lat.] Rape; 
violation.— Stupration must not be drawn into practice. 
Brown. 
STURA, a considerable river of the north-west of Italy, 
in Piedmont, which takes its rise in Mount Argenlera, on 
the borders of France, and after a course of 80 miles, dis¬ 
charges itself into the Tanaro near Cherasco. It gave name 
to a department of the French empire. 
STURA, another river of the Sardinian states, in the 
duchy of Montferrat, which falls into the Po at the small town 
of Ponte di Stura. 
STURA, a third river of the Sardinian states, which rises 
in the mountains on the borders of Savoy, and falls into the 
Po a little above Turin. 
STURBRIDGE, a post township of the United States, in 
Worcester county, Massachusetts. It is watered by the 
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