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Stickling
- verb - dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
Stickpins
- noun - a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie
Stimulant
- adjective - a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process
- any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
- that stimulates; "stimulant phenomena"
Stippling
- verb - apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
- engrave by means of dots and flicks
- make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
- produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
Stitching
- verb - fasten by sewing; do needlework
- joining or attaching by stitches
Stoppling
- verb - close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
Stormwind
- - A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
Storthing
- - The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
Storyline
- noun - subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or advertisment
- the plot of a book or play or film
Straining
- verb - alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- an intense or violent exertion
- become stretched or tense or taut;
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
- remove by passing through a filter;
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
- taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt
- test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- to exert much effort or energy;
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity;