staunch
suomi-englanti sanakirjastaunch englannista suomeksi
tukkia, padota
uskollinen, luotettava
staunch englanniksi
Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)
(RQ:Swift Gulliver)
Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
(syn)
(RQ:Boyle New Experiments)
(RQ:Milton Areopagitica)
(RQ:Evelyn Diary)
(RQ:Ray World)
(RQ:Hawthorne English Notebooks)
Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
(synonyms)
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(RQ:Massinger Bondman) / Yet, though he obſerue, and vvaſte his ſtate vpon vs, / If he be ſtanch and bid not for the ſtocke / That vve vvere borne to traffick vvith; the truth is / VVe care not for his company.
(RQ:Prior Poems)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 2)
(RQ:Scott Quentin Durward) but for the staunch pursuit of Quentin, his uncle Le Balafré, and some of his comrades.
(RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller)
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
(quote-journal)
(RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist)
Of a dog: that can be depended on to upVerb|pick up the scent of, or to mark, game.
(RQ:Gascoigne Venerie)
(RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake)
(RQ:Irving Tour on the Prairies)
(RQ:Barrow Evil-Speaking)
(ant)
(alternative spelling of)
(RQ:Coverdale Bible)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Scott Ivanhoe)
A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
(synonym of)