*stum*

n. See Aposteme. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. costume, It. costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude. ] 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. [ 1913 Webster ]

I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Customary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Frusta E. Frustums [ L. fruslum piece, bit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Geom.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Posthumous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin muet stum. Cf. Stammer, Stoom. ] 1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stummed p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming. ] To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Stumbled p. pr. & vb. n. Stumbling ] [ OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer. ] 1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. [ 1913 Webster ]

There stumble steeds strong and down go all. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. Prov. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

He stumbled up the dark avenue. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. 1 John ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to stumble or trip. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall. [ 1913 Webster ]

False and dazzling fires to stumble men. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A trip in walking or running. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who stumbles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error. [ 1913 Webster ]

We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a stumbling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stumbling-block. [ 1913 Webster ]

This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stumpe, stompe; akin to D. stomp, G. stumpf, Icel. stumpr, Dan. & Sw. stump, and perhaps also to E. stamp. ] 1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. --
Off stump (Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman. --
Stump tracery (Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. --
To go on the stump, or
To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [ Colloq. U.S. ] --
on the stump campaigning for public office; running for election to office. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stumped p. pr. & vb. n. Stumping. ] 1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Cricket) (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out. T. Hughes. (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. [ 1913 Webster ]

A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And stumped the wicket. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [ Slang ] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stump up, to pay cash. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [ Local, U.S. ] The Nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who stumps. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boastful person. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A puzzling or incredible story. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being stumpy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a short, thick tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stump-tailed lizard (Zool.), a singular Australian scincoid lizard (Trachydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also sleeping lizard. [ 1913 Webster ]