Index of English words, starting with "st"

(1) - Strychnic (a.) used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.
(2) - Strychnic (a.) Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning

(1) - Strychnine (n.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

(1) - Stub (v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
(2) - Stub (v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
(3) - Stub (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
(4) - Stub (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
(5) - Stub (n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib.
(6) - Stub (n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
(7) - Stub (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
(8) - Stub (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.
(9) - Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.