\Stump\, n. [OE. stumpe, stompe; akin to D. stomp, G.
stumpf, Icel. stumpr, Dan. & Sw. stump, and perhaps also to
E. stamp.]
1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after
   the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is
   amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub;
   as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
3. pl. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [Slang]
4. (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the
   ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
5. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point,
   or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a
   crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading
   drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon,
   etc., in powder.
6. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to
   throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers
   are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin
   or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable
   piece.
{Leg stump} (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman.
{Off stump} (Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman.
{Stump tracery} (Arch.), a term used to describe late German
   Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass
   through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off
   short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end
   of each similar stump.
{To go on the stump}, or {To take the stump}, to engage in
   making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a
   phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a
   speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also
   the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech,
   stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]

\Stump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stumping}.]
1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
         Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. --Dr. H.
                                               More.
2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something
   fixed; to stub. [Colloq.]
3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [Colloq.]
4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering
   purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See {To go
   on the stump}, under {Stump}, n. [Colloq. U.S.]
5. (Cricket)
   (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the
       bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is
       defending while he is off his allotted ground; --
       sometimes with out. --T. Hughes.
   (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
             A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped
             the wicket.                       --Tennyson.
{To stump it}.
   (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang]
       --Ld. Lytton.
   (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]

\Stump\, v. i.
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
{To stump up}, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.