16. collar, collaret, neckcloth, neckpiece, dickey, gorget, wimple; ruff, rabato, ruche, bertha, boa; neckerchief, kerchief, scarf, ascot, cravat, tie, bowtie; necklace, choker, neckband, ribbon.
-adj. 17. staple, basic, fundamental, regular, regularly or always in stock or in supply or on hand, permanent, easy to find; essential, necessary, needed, required, indispensable, important, vital, sustenative; standard, classic, recognized, established, acknowledged, accepted, approved, official, authoritative; customary, consuetudinary, normal, usual, traditional, conventional, expected, familiar; most important, primary, prime, principal, main, chief, leading, foremost, biggest; most popular, highly requested, in demand.
18. common, ordinary, average, Inf. plain old, garden-variety, Inf. dime-a-dozen, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, pedestrian; commonplace, everyday, household, G.I.; oft-repeated, oft-met, often heard, Inf. same old; banal, hackneyed, trite, stale, overused, overworked, worn out, old, tired.
-v. 19. supply, provision, ration, provender, fill up; equip, furnish, outfit, gear, accouter, prepare, ready, get ready, make ready; handle, keep, provide, offer, deal in, trade, sell, market; store, store up, lay in, stock up on, accumulate, amass, heap up, pile up, stack up, gather, collect, buy up; save, reserve, put away, Inf. salt away, retain, hold, hoard; cache, stow away, Sl. stash; provide for a rainy day, build a nest egg, feather one's nest; put up, can, salt down, preserve, conserve; refrigerate, put on ice, bottle, jar, Brit. tin.
stocking, n. Often stockings hose, hosiery, nylons, pantyhose, fishnets, opaques, Archaic, stock; tights, leotards, leg warmers, leggings, gaiters, puttees, gam-bodos; sock, Argyle, footie, Trademark. Ped, anklet, knee sock, knee highs, over-the-calf hose, thigh highs; slipper sock, mukluk, slipper, footwear.
stock-still, adj. 1. moticniess, inert, unmoving, still, Chiefly Literary, stilly; stationary, fixed, immobile, immovable, static.
2. inactive, idle, passive, dormant, dormient, latent; unstirring, stagnant, becalmed; inanimate, lifeless, dead.
stocky, adj. heavy-set, thick-set, thick, stodgy; solid, stout, sturdy, burly, beefy, Scot. and North Eng. stiff, Inf. chunky; squat, stubby, Inf. stumpy.
stodgy, adj. 1. dull, dull as dishwater, uninteresting, boring, boresome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, dry, dry-as-dust, Sl. dead, Sl. deadly; flat, bland, insipid, vapid, jejune, Sl. for the birds, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; ponderous, elephantine; stiff, wooden; prosaic, commonplace, humdrum, monotonous, uneventful.
2. (all of food) heavy, dense, thick, indigestible.
3. stocky. See stocky.
4. old-fashioned, old-fogyish, stuffy, behind the times, Inf. fuddy-duddy, Sl. out of it.
5. awkward, clumsy, cloddish, clodhopping, loutish, oafish, lumpish, lumpen; graceless, inelegant, like a bull in a china shop.
stoical, adj. impassive, dispassionate, passionless, unimpassioned, stolid, stoic; indifferent, apathetic, uninterested; cool, self-disciplined, self-possessed, self-controlled; imperturbable, inexcitable, unflappable; enduring, long-suffering, forbearing, patient, patient as Job.
stoicism, n. self-control, self-discipline; dispassion, inexcitability, imperturbability, unflappability; strength, fortitude, endurance, sufferance; patience, forbearance, longanimity, long-suffering, Archaic. long-sufferance.