Index Guide

stopcock 263 stop-gap substitute 147 stopper 263 stoppage end 67 cessation 142 hindrance 706 stopper 263 store location 184 stock 636 shop 799 (collection 72) (abundance 639) in – destiny 152 preparing 673 lay in a – 637 set no – 483 set – by important 642 commend 931 – away 184 – in the memory 505 – of knowledge 490 storehouse 636 storeroom 636 storeship ship 273 ship of war 726 storge love 897 storied descriptive 594 stork 366 storm crowd 72 convulsion 146 violence 173 agitation 315 wind 349 attack 716 passion 825 anger 900 ride the – 267 – brewing 665 – in a teacup overrate 482 exaggerate 549 unimportance 643 blunder 699 – is up 349 take by – conquer 731 seize 789 storthing 696 story rooms 191 layer 204 lie 546 history 594 as the – goes 532 the old – 897 story-teller 548, 594 stot 366 stound 870 stoup cup 191 altar 1000 stour 59 large 192 stout strong 159 stout-hearted 861 stove fireplace 386 – in 252 stow locate 184 pack close 195 store 636 stowage space 180 location 184 stowaway 528 strabism 443 straddle 266 tergiversation 607 Stradivarius 417 strafe 527 straggle stroll 266 deviate 279 straggler 268 straggling disjunction 44 disorder 59 straight vertical 212 rectilinear 246 direction 278 cards 840 all – rich 803 solvent 807 – course 628 – descent 167 – lined 246 – poker 840 – sailing 705 – shot 278 – ticket 609 – up vertical 212 straighten make straight 246 remedy 662 – out 774 straightforward 278 truthful 543 artless 703 honorable 939 straightness 246 straightway 132 strain race 11 continuity 69 weaken 160 operation 170 violence 173 percolate 295 transgress 303 sound 402 melody 415 overrate 482 exaggerate 549 style 569 voice 580 poetry 597 clean 652 effort 686 fatigue 688 – a point go beyond 303 exaggerate 549 not observe 773 undue 925 – at a gnat and swallow a camel 608 – every nerve 686 – in the arms 902 – one’s ears 418 – one’s eyes 441 – one’s invention 515 – the meaning 523 – the throat 411 strainer sieve 260 strait interval 198 water 343 difficulty 704 -s poverty 804 straitened poor 804 strait-handed 819 strait-laced severe 739 restraint 751 fastidious 868 haughty 878 strait-waistcoat restrain 751 means of restraint 752 stramash 720 strand thread 205 land 342 stranded stuck fast 150 in difficulty 704 failure 732 pain 828 strange unrelated 10 exceptional 83 ridiculous 853 wonderful 870 – bedfellows 713 – to say 870 strangely much 31 stranger extraneous 57 a – to ignorant 491 strangle render powerless 158 contract 195 kill 361 strangulation [see strangle] punishment 972 strap fasten 43 fastening 45, 752 remedy 662 punish 972 instrument of punishment 975 strappado 972 strapping strong 159 big 192 – pace 274 strapwork 847 stratagem deception 545 plan 626 artifice 702 strategic plan 626 artifice 702 strategist planner 626 director 694 proficient 700 strategy conduct 692 warfare 722 (skill 698) strath 252 strathspey 840 stratification layers 204 structure 329 stratocracy 737 stratum 204 stratus 353 straw scatter 73 light 320 unimportant 643 catch at -s overrate 482 credulous 486 misuse 679 unskillful 699 hope 858 rash 863 care not a – indifference 866 despise 930 in the – 161 man of – unsubstantial 4 cheat 548 insolvent 808 low person 876 not worth a – trifling 643 useless 645 – bail 545 – bid 545 – bidder 548 – to show the wind 463 the eyes drawing -s 683 strawberry 298 strawboard 593 straw-colored 436 stray dispersion 73 exceptional 83 traveler 268 deviate 279 (stroll 266) streak long 200 narrow 203 furrow 259 light 420 stripe 440 mark 550 streaked crossed 219 variegated 440 stream assemble 72 move 264 – of fluid 347 – of water 348 – of air 349 – of light 420 abundance 639 against the – 708 – of events 151 – of time 109 with the – conformity 82 progression 282 assent 488 facility 705 concord 714 fashion 852 servility 886

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