Adjective

(er)

Thin; slim.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

(Gaelic languages)  Palatalized.

Adjective

(er)

large; bulky, thickset; corpulent, fat.

(obsolete) bold, strong-minded; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular.

* Shakespeare

a stouter champion never handled sword

* Clarendon

He lost the character of a bold, stout , magnanimous man.

* Daniel

The lords all stand / To clear their cause, most resolutely stout .

(obsolete) proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.

* Bible, Mal. iii. 13

Your words have been stout against me.

* Latimer

Commonly they that be rich are lofty and stout .

firm; resolute; dauntless.

materially strong, enduring.

Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}

obstinate.