Stintless
(Stint"less), a. Without stint or restraint.
The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus.
Marston. Stipe
(Stipe) n. [L. stipes a stock, post, branch: cf. F. stipe.] (Bot.) (a) The stalk or petiole of a frond,
as of a fern. (b) The stalk of a pistil. (c) The trunk of a tree. (d) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
Stipel
(Sti"pel) n. [See Stipule.] (Bot.) The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.
Stipellate
(Sti*pel"late) a. (Bot.) Having stipels.
Stipend
(Sti"pend) n. [L. stipendium; stips, gen. stipis, a gift, donation, given in small coin + pendere
to weigh or pay out.] Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
Stipend
(Sti"pend), v. t. To pay by settled wages. [R.]
Stipendiarian
(Sti*pen`di*a"ri*an) a. Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.
Stipendiary
(Sti*pen"di*a*ry) a. [L. stipendiarius: cf. F. stipendiaire.] Receiving wages, or salary; performing
services for a stated price or compensation.
His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full.
Knolles. Stipendiary
(Sti*pen"di*a*ry), n.; pl. Stipendiaries One who receives a stipend.
If thou art become
A tyrant's vile stipendiary.
Glover. Stipendiate
(Sti*pen"di*ate) v. t. [L. stipendiatus, p. p. of stipendiari to receive pay.] To provide with
a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn.
It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors.
I. Taylor. Stipendless
(Sti"pend*less) a. Having no stipend.
Stipes
(||Sti"pes) n.; pl. Stipites [L., a stock.] (Zoöl.) (a) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or
a crustacean. (b) An eyestalk.
Stipitate
(Stip"i*tate) a. [NL. stipitatus, from L. stipes, gen. stipitis, a stock. See Stipe.] (Bot.) Supported
by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.
Stipitiform
(Stip"i*ti*form) a. [Stipes + -form.] (Bot.) Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.
Stipple
(Stip"ple) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stippled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stippling ] [D. stippelen to make points,
to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.]
1. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect.
Milman. 2. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded
surface.
Stipple
(Stip"ple Stip"pling) n. (Engraving) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or
small points instead of lines.
2. (Paint.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
