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Stouter

Stout \Stout\ (stout), a. [Compar. Stouter (stout"[~e]r); superl. Stoutest.] [D. stout bold (or OF. estout bold, proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and perh. to E. stilt.]

  1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.

    With hearts stern and stout.
    --Chaucer.

    A stouter champion never handled sword.
    --Shak.

    He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.
    --Clarendon.

    The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
    --Daniel.

  2. Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic]

    Your words have been stout against me.
    --Mal. iii. 1

  3. Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout.
    --Latimer.

    3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

  4. Large; bulky; corpulent.

    Syn: Stout, Corpulent, Portly.

    Usage: Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: ``The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size.'' In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.

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stouter

a. (en-comparative of: stout)

Usage examples of "stouter".

Bengalis and Highlanders hunted through the ruins, their war cries shrill as they bayoneted and shot the garrison, while behind them, before the smoke of the carcasses had even begun to fade or the fighting in the mill die down, the engineers were constructing a stouter bridge across which they could haul their siege guns so they could turn the old mill into a breaching battery.

As each took the other formally by the hand, he measured his opponent hastily, body and limb, and perhaps each thought that he had never seen a stronger, stouter, better- knit man than the one upon whom he looked.

Dressed as they were in heavy cloaks, their hats pulled low against the wind, they were barely distinguishable even from each other, except that the older, stouter of the two did most of the talking.

Turning his own body, so as to take advantage of a dim ray from the nearest gaslight, he was aware that the woman, shorter and stouter than Miss Bruce, had muffled herself in a cloak, and was closely veiled.

He is stouter, the haggard look of worry and self-conscious inferiority has gone from his face, it is full and healthy and satisfied.

Evans has grown stouter, his face is heavy now, he has grown executive and used to command, he automatically takes charge wherever he is.

The shorter, stouter Lord dy Baocia pattered by his side, puffing to keep pace.

Joel, a much bigger, stouter fellow who had snuffed out the lives of nearly three times the number of victims.

But Johnson grew stouter and prospered in spite of his wife--for a year or so.

As she descended, I saw that she was tall, and, if rather stout, not stouter than suited her age and style.

Stanton was younger, shorter, stouter, with a thick, curly beard and a look of driving energy.

Jones and I had been watching her perplexity, as we came up the Strada della Madonna, and having a stouter knife than hers offered to help her.

She looked just the same as ever, a trifle stouter, but the same saucy look about the eyes.

Still I should desire greater strength and a stouter bow, wilder creatures to combat.

For all the time that the miners had spent in digging it, this passageway was no longer than the first one, and he thought it might be even slightly narrower, as if perhaps the diggers had hoped to discourage the passage of anyone stouter than themselves, without quite daring to make it impossible, against his direct request.