STEP- implies "orphan"

STEP'-CHILD, n. [step and child.] A son-in-law or daughter-in-law, [a child deprived of its parent.]
STEP'-DAME, n. A mother by marriage, [the mother of an orphan or one deprived.]
STEP'-DAUGH-TER, n. A daughter by marriage [an orphan daughter.]
STEP'-FA-THER, n. A father-in-law; a father by marriage only; [the father of an orphan.]
STEP'-MOTH-ER, n. A mother by marriage only; a mother-in-law; [the mother of an orphan.]
STEP'-SIS-TER, n. A sister-in-law, or by marriage, [an orphan sister.]

STATION < STANDING TO PRAY

STA´TION, n. [Fr. from L. statio, from sto, status; It. stazione; Sp. estacion.]
‎1. The act of standing.
Their manner was to stand at prayer … on which their meetings for that purpose received the name of stations. [Obs.] – Hooker.

Female spinner

SPIN'STER, n. [spin and ster.]
1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. Hence,
2. In law, the common title by which a woman without rank or distinction is designated.
If a gentlewoman is termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. – Coxe.

Spelling as manners from NW the spelling reformer

SPELL'ING, n. ...
2. Orthography: the manner of forming words with letters. Bad spelling is disreputable to a gentleman.

Folk Etymology

SPAR'ROW-GRASS, n. A corruption of Asparagus.

Academics in Agriculture Metaphor

SOW, v. t. [pret. sowed; pp. sowed or sown. Sax. sawan; G. säen; D. zaajen; Sw. så; Dan. saaer; Russ. siyu; perhaps L. sevi. This word is probably contracted.]

4. To supply or stock with seed.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles. – Hale.

HAP'PY, a.

HAP'PY, a. [from hap; W. hapus, properly lucky, fortunate, receiving good from something that falls or comes to one unexpectedly, or by an event that is not within control. See Hour.]

2. Being in the enjoyment of agreeable sensations from the possession of good; enjoying pleasure from the gratification of appetites or desires. The pleasurable sensations derived from the gratification of sensual appetites render a person temporarily happy; but he only can be esteemed really and permanently happy, who enjoys peace of mind in the favor of God. To be in any degree happy, we must be free from pain both of body and of mind; to be very happy, we must be in the enjoyment of lively sensations of pleasure, either of body or mind.

Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed. Gen. xxx.

He found himself happiest, In communicating happiness to others. Wirt.