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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stout \Stout\, a. [Compar. {Stouter}; 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.
13.
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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