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Stonefly
- noun - primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
Stoniest
- adjective - abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
- hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
Stonings
- noun - the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
Stooging
- verb - act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner; "He stooged for the flamboyant Senator"
- act as the stooge; "His role was to stooge for the popular comedian"
- cruise in slow or routine flights
Stoolies
- noun - someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
Stooling
- verb - grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
Stoop To
- verb - make concessions to
Stoopers
- noun - a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others
- a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward
Stooping
- verb - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
- descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
- having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
- sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
Stop-Gap
- - That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.