Definition of Stoutening

1. stouten [v] - See also: stouten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoutening

stoure
stoures
stourie
stourier
stouriest
stours
stoury
stoush
stoushed
stoushes
stoushing
stout
stout-hearted
stouten
stoutened
stoutening (current term)
stoutens
stouter
stoutest
stouth
stouthearted
stoutheartedly
stoutheartedness
stouthrief
stouths
stoutish
stoutly
stoutness
stoutnesses
stouts

Literary usage of Stoutening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How to Get Strong and how to Stay So by William Blaikie (1879)
"... thickening and stoutening the back, and the other half at "dipping" and other half-arm work on the parallel bars—so spreading and enlarging the chest ..."

2. How to Get Strong and how to Stay So by William Blaikie (1899)
"... an hour at the gymnasium during the latter part of the morning ; half of it at the rowing-weights, so thickening and stoutening the back; ..."

3. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1885)
"... stout horses and fat cattle ; close setting of brick walls against cold winds and snow ; much hardening of hands and gross stoutening of bodies in all ..."

4. The Art of the Pitti Palace: With a Short History of the Building of the by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (1903)
"... gross stoutening of bodies in all this; . . . fleshy, substantial, iron-shod humanities, but humanities still, — humanities which God had his eye upon, ..."

5. The Art of the Pitti Palace: With a Short History of the Building of the by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (1903)
"... there was different work doing in the dank fields of Flanders . . . much hardening of hands and gross stoutening of bodies in all this; . . . fleshy, ..."

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