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stouten, v.|ˈstaʊt(ə)n|
[f. stout a. + -en5.]
1. trans. To make stout.
1834L. Hunt Lond. Jrnl. i. Suppl. p. iv/2 Men may surely learn how to stouten their legs, as well as to improve their stockings. 1887D. C. Murray & Herman Traveller Returns xiv. 213 But however she stoutened her heart. 1910Q. Rev. Jan. 217 Sympathy should be stoutened by a certain detachment.
2. intr. To grow stout.
1863‘Holme Lee’ A. Warleigh I. 113 John stoutening fast into rectorial dignity. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys xv, He did not stouten much as summer came on. 1890Pictorial World 7 Aug. 186/3 He felt her perceptibly stiffening, and stoutening, and bonyfying in his clasp.
Hence ˈstoutening vbl. n.
1853Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xv. 385 Much hardening of hands and gross stoutening of bodies in all this. |