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stout

staʊt
WordNet
Francis A. Stout on the left, William Dorsheimer in the middle, George Geddes on the right.
Francis A. Stout on the left, William Dorsheimer in the middle, George Geddes on the right.
  1. (adj) stout
    euphemisms for `fat' "men are portly and women are stout"
  2. (adj) stout
    dependable "the stalwart citizens at Lexington","a stalwart supporter of the UN","stout hearts"
  3. (adj) stout
    having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships "hardy explorers of northern Canada","proud of her tall stalwart son","stout seamen","sturdy young athletes"
  4. (n) stout
    a garment size for a large or heavy person
  5. (n) stout
    a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. stout
    A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is Guinness' stout.
  2. Stout
    Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
  3. Stout
    Large; bulky; corpulent.
  4. Stout
    Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. "Your words have been stout against me.", "Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. stout
    Bold; valiant; brave; daring.
  2. stout
    Proud; haughty.
  3. stout
    Firm; resolute; persistent; stubborn.
  4. stout
    Hardy; vigorous; lusty; sturdy.
  5. stout
    Firm; sound; stanch; strong.
  6. stout
    Solid; substantial.
  7. stout
    Bulky in figure; thick-set; corpulent.
  8. stout
    Synonyms Valorous, manful, gallant.
  9. stout
    Stalwart, Sturdy, etc. See robust.
  10. (n) stout
    Strong ale or beer of any sort; hence, since the introduction of porter, porter of extra strength: as, Dublin stout.
  11. stout
    To be bold or defiant.
  12. stout
    To persist; endure: with an impersonal it.
  13. stout
    To dare; defy; resist.
  14. (n) stout
    A gnat.
  15. (n) stout
    A gadfly.
  16. (n) stout
    A firefly or miller.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Stout
    stowt strong: robust: corpulent: resolute: proud:
  2. (n) Stout
    extra strong porter
  3. (adj) Stout
    stowt (B.) stubborn
Quotations
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
Horace
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary D. stout, bold (or OF. estout, bold, proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and perh. to E. stilt,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. estout, bold—Old Dut. stolt, stout; Ger. stolz, bold.

Usage in the news

Microblog Sina Weibo lets users embed pictures, post comments and easily communicate CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports. cnn.com

A stout D wasn't enough for Whitmer to come away with the win. nbc24.com

Tewksbury Country Club Chef Mark Stout with a pasta seafood dish. thevalleydispatch.com

UW-Stout Sports Information photo by Steve Stangel Former Pony Kate Mikutowski (12) ended her collegiate career this week while collecting more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in four seasons at UW-Stout. stillwatergazette.com

LSU's stout D likely will eventually need offense to lend a hand . columbiatribune.com

One of the Midwest's most anticipated events, the Ada Air Expo and 6th annual Ray Stout Memorial Warbird Fly-in, is right around the corner--June 19 and 20, in Ada, Okla. hpj.com

Portales coach Cliff Stout lead Portales to the Class 3A state title game in 2009. qcsunonline.com

From Kristie Lu Stout, CNN. edition.cnn.com

Muskegon County's newly appointed undersheriff, Daniel A Stout, said he's looking forward to the challenges of the job. blog.mlive.com

Stout, 57, currently the sheriff department's chief deputy and director of emergency services, will begin his new duties effective Sunday. blog.mlive.com

Muskegon County's newly appointed undersheriff , Daniel A Stout, said he's looking forward to the challenges of the job. blog.mlive.com

Myles Stout sentenced in shooting death. timesfreepress.com

Cyndy Stout and her fried Lisa Hosterman can't resist a good deal on a cute pair of shoes. kansascw.com

Principal and shareholder, Ellsworth Gilman Johnson & Stout CPAs. lasvegassun.com

Allegany County United Way honors Steve Stout, Sherry Walton. ellsvilledaily.com

Usage in scientific papers

Also shown in the figure are the continuum estimates obtained with stout action and the parametrization based on hadron resonance gas (HRG) model [135].
Lattice QCD at non-zero temperature

The difference between the stout action and the p4 and asq tad actions for the trace anomaly translates into the differences in the pressure and the energy density.
Lattice QCD at non-zero temperature

The fermionic action uses nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions with stout links in the derivative terms (SLiNC ).
Charmed hadron spectroscopy on the lattice for $N_f=2+1$ flavours

We now present results of an implementation with the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm including stout smearing.
First results from dynamical chirally improved fermions

The main difference between the stout smearing and other kinds of smearing is the way in which the general 3 × 3 complex matrix is projected back to SU(3).
First results from dynamical chirally improved fermions

Usage in literature

Just then a stout weed caught the child's foot. "Taking Tales" by W.H.G. Kingston

True to her prediction, Marcia Arnold had found nothing to say to the stout girl's parting shot. "Marjorie Dean High School Freshman" by Pauline Lester

And his mother had not realized before how tall and stout he was getting. "A Little Girl in Old New York" by Amanda Millie Douglas

Why, she isn't very stout or rosy. "A Little Girl in Old Boston" by Amanda Millie Douglas

Panicles differ very much in appearance according to the relative length and stoutness of the branches. "A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses" by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

There was no question in his mind but that she must be slender, for he himself and his sister were both stout. "In the Mist of the Mountains" by Ethel Turner

How changed he was from the stout seaman he had appeared but a few days before. "The Three Midshipmen" by W.H.G. Kingston

He was a little, man, stoutly built and meanly dressed. "The Book of All-Power" by Edgar Wallace

She thought he was rather stout and short, but as to this she was not sure. "The Green Rust" by Edgar Wallace

It was a stout craft with a sail, and lockers for stores. "The Border Watch" by Joseph A. Altsheler

Usage in poetry
Macdonell he was young an stout,
Had on his coat o mail,
And he has gane oot throw them a'
To try his han himsell.
"Traditionary Version" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
But dearer far than all of these,
Than all from sea to sea,
To Canada's brave sons of toil,
Is the stout maple tree.
"The Maple Tree" by Thomas Frederick Young
Macdonell, he was young an stout,
Had on his coat o' mail,
An he has gane oot throw them a',
To try his han himself.
"The Battle Of Harlaw" by Anonymous British
And large and stout the volume
That yet would scarce contain
The things that total strangers
Have told me in the train.
"The Misanthrope" by Cicely Fox Smith
Wherever the fight is fiercest
I know that my boy will be;
Wherever the need is sorest
Of the stout arms of the free.
May he prove as true to his country
As he has been true to me.
"Gone To The War" by Horatio Alger Jr Author object (302)
There were hardships you may guess, and enough of weary toil
For the first few years, but then it was so grand
To see the corn and wheat waving o'er the virgin soil,
And two stout and loving hearts went hand in hand.
"The Pioneer" by Hanford Lennox Gordon