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Adjektiivi

1. Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.
2. (by extension) Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
3. Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
4. Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
5. Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
6. (chiefly hunting) Of a hunting dog: that can be depended on to pick up the scent of, or to mark, game.
7. (obsolete) Cautious, restrained.
8. Stubborn, intransigent.

Substantiivi

1. (obsolete) That which stanches or checks a flow.
2. Alternative spelling of stanch (“a floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river”).
3. (specifically, archaic) A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
4. (obsolete) An act of stanching or stopping.
5. (mining) Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”).