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301 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOT.5 (Noah Webster)
SOT, v.i. To tipple to stupidity. [Little used.]
302 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISH.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very foolish. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!
303 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISHNESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Dullness in the exercise reason; stupidity. Few consider into what a degree of sottishness and confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves.
304 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOTTISHNESS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Stupidity from intoxication.
305 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STARE.3 (Noah Webster)
… , surprise, stupidity, horror, fright and sometimes by eagerness to hear or learn something, sometimes by impudence. We say, he stared with astonishment.
306 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOCK.7 (Noah Webster)
4. A person very stupid, dull and senseless.
307 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOCKISH.1 (Noah Webster)
STOCKISH, a. Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]
308 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.]
309 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STOLIDITY.1 (Noah Webster)
STOLIDITY, n. [supra.] Dullness of intellect; stupidity. [Little used.]
310 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.]
311 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPE.3 (Noah Webster)
STUPE, n. A stupid person. [Not in use.]
312 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFACTION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of rendering stupid.
313 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFACTION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity.
314 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPEFIER.1 (Noah Webster)
STUPEFIER, n. [from stupefy.] That which causes dullness or stupidity.
315 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.
316 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.1 (Noah Webster)
STUPID, a. [L., to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop .]
317 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.3 (Noah Webster)
O that men should be so stupid grown, as to forsake the living God.
318 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.4 (Noah Webster)
With wild surprise, a moment stupid, motionless he stood.
319 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPID.6 (Noah Webster)
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes oppress us in corrupted times.
320 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUPIDITY.1 (Noah Webster)
STUPIDITY, n. [L.] Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.