Stryphnic
(Stryph"nic) a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained
by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a
bitter, astringent taste.
Stub
(Stub) n. [OE. stubbe, AS. stub, styb; akin to D. stobbe, LG. stubbe, Dan. stub, Sw. stubbe,
Icel. stubbr, stubbi; cf. Gr. .]
1. 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.
Stubs sharp and hideous to behold.
Chaucer.
And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
Dryden. 2. A log; a block; a blockhead. [Obs.] Milton.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
6. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened. — Stub iron,
iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, — used in making gun barrels. — Stub mortise
(Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed. — Stub nail, an old
horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail. — Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.),
the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which
retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. — Stub twist, material for a gun barrel,
made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.
Stub
(Stub), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stubbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stubbing.]
1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land.
Berkley. 2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. [U. S.]
Stubbed
(Stub"bed) a.
1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
2. Abounding in stubs; stubby.
A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood.
R. Browning. 3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. "Stubbed, vulgar constitutions." Berkley.
Stubbedness
(Stub"bed*ness), n. The quality or state of being stubbed.
Stubbiness
(Stub"bi*ness) n. The state of being stubby.
