Word Meanings - STACKSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

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• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• STACKET
  A stockade. Sir W. Scott.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• STAG
  The European wren. Stag beetle , any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Lucanus and allied genera, especially L. cervus of Europe and L. dama of the United States. The mandibles are large and branched, or forked, whence
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• STAG-HORNED
  Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
• STACKAGE
  1. Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. 2. A tax on things stacked. Holinshed.
• STAGHOUND
  A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
• STAGGERWORT
  A kind of ragwort .
• STACKING
  from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• STAGGER
  1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• STAGNATE
  stagnant, from stagnum a piece of standing water. See Stank a pool, 1. To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room. 2. To
• STAGWORM
  The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as , which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.
• STACK-GUARD
  A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• MYSTAGOGIC; MYSTAGOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before