Vocabulary : Stowce to Straddled

Stowce : A windlass. ;; A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.
Stowed : of Stow
Stowing : of Stow ;; A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Stowre : See Stour, a. ;; See Stour, n.
Strabism : Strabismus.

Strabismometer : An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.
Strabismus : An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
Strabotomy : The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Straddle : To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. ;; To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub. ;; To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse. ;; The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart. ;; The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle. ;; A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.
Straddled : of Straddle

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