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301 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOCK.7 (Noah Webster)

4. A person very stupid, dull and senseless.

302 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOCKISH.1 (Noah Webster)

STOCKISH, a. Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]

303 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOLID.1 (Noah Webster)

STOLID, a. [L., from the root of still, stall, to set.] Dull; foolish; stupid. [Not used.]

304 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOLIDITY.1 (Noah Webster)

STOLIDITY, n. [supra.] Dullness of intellect; stupidity. [Little used.]

305 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOP.1 (Noah Webster)

… , whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop, or a stop.] The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]

306 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPE.3 (Noah Webster)

STUPE, n. A stupid person. [Not in use.]

308 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFACTION.3 (Noah Webster)

2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity.

309 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFIER.1 (Noah Webster)

STUPEFIER, n. [from stupefy.] That which causes dullness or stupidity.

310 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFY.2 (Noah Webster)

1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive of sensibility. It is a great sin to attempt to stupefy the conscience.

311 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.1 (Noah Webster)

STUPID, a. [L., to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop .]

312 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.3 (Noah Webster)

O that men should be so stupid grown, as to forsake the living God.

313 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.4 (Noah Webster)

With wild surprise, a moment stupid, motionless he stood.

314 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.6 (Noah Webster)

Observe what loads of stupid rhymes oppress us in corrupted times.

315 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPIDITY.1 (Noah Webster)

STUPIDITY, n. [L.] Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

317 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPOR.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to ones interests.

318 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBSTANTIAL.2 (Noah Webster)

If this atheist would have his chance to be a real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar.

319 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SWINE.1 (Noah Webster)

… heavy, stupid animal, and delights to wallow in the mire.

320 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THICKHEADED.1 (Noah Webster)

THICKHEADED, a. Having a thick skull; dull; stupid.