Stupe, stūp, n. a fomentation, or rather the tow or cloth dipped in it, and used in its application.—v.t. to treat with a stupe.—adjs. Stū′pēous, covered with long loose filaments or scales—also Stū′pōse; Stū′pulōse, finely stupose. [L.,—Gr. stuppē, tow.]
Stupefy, stū′pe-fī, v.t. to make stupid or senseless: to deaden the perception: to deprive of sensibility:—pa.t. and pa.p. stū′pefied.—adj. Stūpefā′cient, stupefying.—n. anything that stupefies, a narcotic drug.—n. Stūpefac′tion, the act of making stupid or senseless: insensibility: stupidity.—adj. Stūpefac′tive, causing stupefaction or insensibility.—ns. Stū′pefīedness; Stū′pefīer.—adj. Stū′pent, struck with stupor. [L. stupēre, to be struck senseless, facĕre, to make.]
Stupendous, stū-pen′dus, adj. wonderful, amazing, astonishing for its magnitude, force, enormity.—adv. Stūpen′dously.—n. Stūpen′dousness. [L. stupendus.]
Stupid, stū′pid, adj. struck senseless: insensible: deficient or dull in understanding: formed or done without reason or judgment: foolish: unskilful.—ns. Stupe (coll.), a stupid person; Stūpid′ity, Stū′pidness.—adv. Stū′pidly. [Fr.,—L. stupidus.]
Stupor, stū′por, n. the state of being struck senseless: suspension of sense either complete or partial: insensibility, intellectual or moral: excessive amazement or astonishment.—adj. Stū′porous.
Stuprum, stū′prum, n. forcible violation of chastity: rape.—v.t. Stū′prāte, to ravish.—n. Stūprā′tion. [L.,—stuprāre, -ātum, to debauch.]
Sturdy, stur′di, adj. (comp. Stur′dier, superl. Stur′diest) resolute: firm: forcible: strong: robust: stout: (obs.) stubborn or obstinate.—adv. Stur′dily.—n. Stur′diness. [O. Fr. estourdi, pa.p. of estourdir (Fr. étourdir), It. stordire, to stun; acc. to Diez, through an assumed Low L. form from L. torpidus, stupefied.]
Sturdy, stur′di, n. the gid, a disease affecting young sheep with staggering and stupor, caused by a species of tapeworm in the brain.—adj. Stur′died.
Sturgeon, stur′jun, n. a genus of large Ganoid fishes, yielding palatable flesh, caviare from their roe, isinglass from their air-bladders. [O. Fr. esturgeon, from Old High Ger. sturjo—stōren, to spread.]
Sturnidæ, stur′ni-dē, n.pl. a family of oscine passerine birds, its representative genus, Stur′nus, the starlings.—adjs. Stur′niform; Stur′noid.