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Definition of stress

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Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

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Distress :: Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.

Stitchery :: Stitcher (n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.

Distressing :: Distressing (adv.) In a distressing manner.

Miss :: Miss (n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4..

Housewife :: Housewife (n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

Ministress :: Ministress (n.) A woman who ministers.

Severity :: Severity (n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels..

Severe :: Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold..

Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it..

Sewster :: Sewster (n.) A seamstress.

Darkness :: Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.

Sempstressy :: Sempstressy (n.) Seamstressy.

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Suffering :: Suffering (n.) The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs..

Tine :: Tine (n.) Trouble; distress; teen.

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Sackcloth :: Sackcloth (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence..

Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms..