Words starting with st

Words and definitions

Stabbed means: of Stab

Stabbing means: of Stab

Stab means: To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

Stab means: Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

Stab means: To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.

Stab means: To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.

Stab means: The thrust of a pointed weapon.

Stab means: A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.

Stab means: Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

Stabat Mater means: A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.