Anagrams of: STABILATES

• a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support

• (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change

• not able or intended to be moved

• capable of being sated

• A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.

• In the middle ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.

• In fortification, a barricade made of felled trees denuded of their smaller branches, with the butt-ends of the trunks embedded in the earth or secured by pickets, and the sharpened ends of the branches directed upward and outward toward an advancing enemy, for the purpose of obstructing his progress. In field-fortifications the abatis is usually constructed in front of the ditch. See fortification.

• In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.

• the verbal act of urging on

• any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers