3. Subject of attention. With some sweet oblivious antidote The holy scriptures, especially the New Tes Cleanse the stuff’d bosm of that perilous stunt tament, are her daily study. Law. Which weighs upon the heart. Sbakspeare. 6. Apartment appropriated 10 literary em- 5. Essence; elemental part. ployment. Though in the trade of war I have slain men, Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shaksp. Yet do I hold it very stay o'th' conscience Knock at the study, where they say he keeps, To do no contriv'a inurther. Sbakspeare. To ruminate strange piots. Shakspeare. 6. Any mixture or medicine. I did compound for her A certain stiff, which being ta'en would scize Some servants of the king visited the lodgings The present power of life. Sbakspeare. of the accused members, and sealed up their 7. Cloth or texture of any kind. studies and trunks. Clarendon. 8. Textures of wool thinner and slighter Both adorn'd their age; than cloth. One for the study, t'oiler for the stage. Dryden. Let us turn the wools of the land into cloaths To Sru'dy. v. n. (studeo, Latin ; estudier, and stuffs of our own growth, and the hemp and French.) fiax growing here into linen cloth and cordage. 1. To think with very close application ; Bacon. to muse. 9. Matter or thing. In contempt. I found a moral first, and then studied for a O proper stuiff? fable. Szif?. This is the very painting of your fear. Shaksy. 2. To endeavour diligently. Such stig as madmen Study to be quiei, and do your own business. Tongue and brain not. Sbakspears. 1 Tbessaloniuns. At this fusty stuff TO STUDY. v. a. The large Achilles, on his prest bed lolling, From his deep chest laugns out a loud applause. 1. To apply the mind to. Sbakspeare. Nothing lovelier can be found Please not thyself the flatt'ring crowd to hear; In woman, than to study household good. Milt. "T is fulsome stuff to feed thy itching ear. Dryd. If a gentleman be to study any language, it Anger would indite ought to be that of his own country. Locke. Such woful stuff as I or Shadwell write. Dryden. 1. To consider attentively. To-morrow will be time enough He hath studied her well, and translated her To hear such mortifying stuff. Swif out of honesty into English. Slakspeare. The free things that among rakes pass for wit Study thyself: what rank, or what degree, and spirit, must be shocking stuf to the ears of The wise Creator has ordain'd for thee. Dryd. persons of delicacy. Clarisse. You have studied every spot of ground in Flan- 10. It is now seldom used in any sense but ders, which has been the scene of battles and sieges. Dryden. in contempt or dislike. 3. To learn by application. TO STUFF. v. a. (from the noun.] You could, for a need, study a speech of some 1. To fill very fuli with any thing. dozen lines, which I would set down. Sbaksp. When we've stufad These pipes, and these conveyances of blood, STUFF. n. s. [stoffe, Dut. estoje, Fr.] With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls. 1. Any matter or body. Sbakspeure. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to Each thing beheld did yeeld carve: though his art do that it should, his work Our admiration: shelves svith cheeses heapt;. will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter Sheds stuft with lambs and goats, distinctly kept. matter it might have had. Hooker. Chapa The workman on his stuff his skill doth shew, Though plenteous, all too little seems, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. To stuff this may, this vast unbide-bound corps. Davies. Milion. Of brick, and of that stum; they cast to build What have we more to do than to stuf our A city and tow'r. Milton. guts with these figs? L'Estrange. Pierce an hole near the inner edge, because This crook drew hazel-boughs adown, the triangle hath there most substance of stuf: And stuff"d her apron wide with nuts so brown. Moxon. Gay. 2. Materials out of which any thing is 2. To fill to uneasiness. made. With some oblivious antidote Thy verse suvells with stref so fine and smooth, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff That thou art even natural in thine art. Sbuks. Which weighs upon the heart. Shakspeare. Cæsar hath wept; 3. To thrust into any thing. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Sbaks. Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, Success or loss, what is or is not, serves stuffing them close together, but without bruisAs stuff for these two to make paradoxes. Shaks. ing, and they retain smell and colour fresh a Thy father, that poor rag, year. Bacon. Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff 4. To fill by being put into any thing. To some she-beggar, and compounded thee Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Poor rogue hereditary, Sbakspeare. Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Degrading prose explains his meaning ill, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form And shews the stuff, and not the workman's skill. Sbakspeare. Roscommon, With inward arms the dire machine they load, 3, Furniture ; goods. And iron bowels siuff the dark abode. Dryden. Fare away to get our stuff aboard. Sbakspeare. Officious Baucis lays Hayward. Dryden. Groaning waggons loaded high A bed, Cowley. 4. That which fills any thing. The stuffing leaves, with hides of bea o'erspread. Dryden. With stuff 5. To swell out by putting something in. renew wine by mixing fresh wine and I will be the man that shall make you great. raising a new fermentation. Vapid wines are put upon the lees of noble your doublet, and stuf'me out with straw. wines to give them spirit, and we stum our wines Sbakspeare. to renew their spirits. Floger. The gods for sin Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. TO STU'MBLE. v. n. (This word Junius Dryden. derives froin stump, and says the original 6. To fill with something improper or su- meaning is to strike, or trip, against a perfluous. stump. I rather think it comes from It is not usual among the best patterns to stuif tumble. ] the report of particular lives with matter of pub 1. To trip in walking. lic record. Wollon. When she will take the rein, I let her run; Those accusations are stuffed with odious ge- But she 'U not stumble. Sbatspeare. nerals, that the proofs seldoin make good. A headstall being restrained to keep him from Clarendon. stumbling, hath been often burst. Sbakspeare. For thee I dim these eyes, and stuff' this head As we pac'd along With all such reading as was never read. Pope. Upon the giddy footing of the hatches, g. To obstruct the organs of scent or re- Methought that Glo'ster stumbled; and in falling spiration. Struck me, that sought to stay him, overboard. These gloves the count sent me; they are an Sbakspeare. excellent perfume.-am stuffi, cousin, I c?n The of the wicked is as darkness; they not smell. Shakspeare. know not at what they stumble. Properts. 8. To fill meat with something of bigh Cover'd o'er with blood, relish. Which from the patriot's breast in torrents flow'd, He faints; his steed no longer bears the rein, But stuurbles o'er the heap his hand had slain. Prior. In any thing but stuffing of his veal. King 9. To form by stuthing. 2. To slip ; to err; to slide into crimes or An eastern king put a judge to death for an biunders, He that loveth his bro:her abideth in the iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuped into a cushion, and placed upon the tri liglie, and there is none occasion of stumbling in bunal. him. Saviji. 1 Foba. TO STUFF. V.n. To feed gluttonously. This my day of grace, They who neglect and scorn, shall never taste; Wedg’d in a spacious elbow-chair, But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milt. Taught harmiess man to cram and stuff. Szeift. 3. To strike against by chance; to light on by chance : with pon. STUFFING, n. s. [from stuf:] This extreme dealing had driven her to put 1. That by which any thing is filled. herself with a great lady of that country, by Rome was a farrago out of the neighbouring which occasion she had stumbled upon such misnations; and Greece, though one monarchy un- chances as were little for the honour of her or der Alexander, yet the people, that were the her family: Sida. stufing and materials thereof, existed before. What ian art thou, that thus bescreen'd in Hale. night 2. Relishing ingredients put into meat. 6ostumblest on my counsel? Sbakspeare. Arrach leaves are very good in pottage and A mouse, bred in a chest, dropped out over stuffings. Mortimer. the side, and stumbled upon a delicious morsel STUKE or STUCK. n. s. (stuc, Fr. stucco, L'Estrange. Ital.] A composition of lime and mar. Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. Drgåen. ble, powdered very fine, commonly call. Many of thegreatest inventions have been ac. ed plaster of Paris, with which figures cidentally stumbled upon by men busy and inquiand other ornaments resembling sculp- sitive. Ray ture are made. See STUCCO. Bailey, Write down p and b, and make signs to him STULM. n. S. A shaft to draw water out to endeavour to pronounce them, and guide him ..of a mine. by shewing him the motion of your own lips; by STULTI'LOQUENCE, ns. [strilius and which he will, with a little endeavour, stumble Holder. upon one of them. loquentia, Lat.] Foolish talk. Dict. TO STU'M BLE. v, a, STUM. n. s. (stum, Swedish ; supposed to 1. To obstruct in progress; to make to be contracted from mustum, Latin,] trip or stop. 1. Wine yet unfermented ; must... 2. To make to boggle ; to offend. An unctuous clammy vapour, that arises from Such terms amus'd them all, the stum of grapes when they lie mashed in the And stumbled many. Milton. vat, puts out a light when dipped into it. Addis. If one illiterate man was stumbled, 't was like2. New wine used to raise fermentation in ly others of his form would be so too. Fell. dead and rapid wines, One thing more stumbles me in the very foundLet our wines without mixture or stum be acion of this hypothesis. Locke. all fine, STUMBLE. n. s. (from the verb.] Or call up the master, and break his dull noddle. Ben Jonson. 1. A trip in walking. 3. Wine revived by a new fermentation. 2. A blunder; a failure, Drink ev'ry letter on ' in stum, One stumble is enough to duface the character of an honourable life. And make it brisk champaigne become. L'Estrange, Hudibras, Stu'MELER. 11. so [from sturnblu.] One TO STUM. v.a. (fioin the noun.) To that stumbles. Bailey, 1 Be sweet to all: is thy complexion sour?. STUNG. The pret. and part. pass of stinga Then keep such company, make them thy allay; 'To both these sisters have I sworn my love i Get a sharp wife, a servant that will low'r : Each jealous of the other, as the stung, A stumbler stumbles least in rugged way; Are of the adder. Sbakspeare. Herbert, With envy stung, they view each other's deeds; STU'MBLING BLOCK. I n. s. [from stum- The fragrant work with diligence proceeds. STU'M BLINGSTONE. ble.] Cause of Dryder. stumbling ; cause of errour; cause of Stuna. The preterit of stink. offence. TO STUNT. v.a. (stunta, Islandick.] TO We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a hinder from growth. stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foulishness. Though this usage stunted the girl in her 1 Corintbians. growth, it gave her a hardy constitution; she Shakespeare is a stumblingblock to these rigid had lite and spirit. Arbutinet, criticks. Spectator. There he stopt short, nor since has writ a titele, This stumblingstone we hope to take away. But has the wit to make the most of litele; Burnet. Like stunted hide-bound trees, that just have got STUMP. n. s. [stumpe, Danish ; stompe, Sufficient sap at once to bear and rot. Pupe. The tree Dutch ; stompen, Dan. to lop.] The part of any solid body remaining after Grew scrubby, dried a-top, and stunted; the rest is taken away, And the next parson stubb'd and burnt it. Swift. He struck so strongly, that the knotty sting STUPE, 11. s. (stupa, Latin.] Cloth or Of his huge tail he quite in sunder cleft; fax dipped in warm medicaments, and Five joints thereof he hew'd, and but the stump applied to a hurt or sore. him left. Spenser. A fomentation was by some pretender to surYour coli's tooth is not cast yet.-Not while gery applied with coarse woollen stupes, one of I have a stump: Sbakspeare. Wisen.dk TO STUPE. 2:. a. (from the noun.] TO A stump doch trip him in nis pace, foment; to dress with stupes. Down comes pour Hob upon his face The escar divide, and stupe the part affected Amongst the briers and brambles. Drayton. with wine. Wisemani, Who, 'cause they're wasted to the stumps, STUPEFACTion. n. s. (stupefaction, Fr. Are represented best by rumps. Hudibras. A coach-horse snapt off the end of his finger, stupefactus, Latin.] Insensibility; duland I dressed the stump with common digestive. ness ; stupidity; sluggishness of mind; Wiseman. heavy folly. All resistance of the dictates of conscience down under his load. L'Estrange. brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South. She sent to ev'ry child Dryden. And straight succeeded, leaving shame no room, A tongue might have some resemblance to Cibberian foreliead, or Cimmerian gloom. Popr. the stump of a feather. Greze. STUPEFA'CTIVE, adj. [from stupefactis, Worn to the stumps in the service of:he maids, Latin ; stupefactif, French.] Causing 't is thrown out of doors, or condemned to kindie a fre. Ssi. insensibility; dulling; obstructing the senses ; narcotick; opiate, STU'MPY, adj. [from stump.] Full of It is a gentle tomentation, and hath a very little stuinps ; hard; stiff; strong. A bad mixture of some stupefcitive. Baron. word. Opium hath a stui jactive part, and a heating They burn the stubble, which, being so stumpy, part; the cne moving sicep, the other a heat. they seldom plow in. Mortimer. Burtni. To Stun.v.a. [rrunan, Saxon; gesiun, STUPE'N VOIs, oui. [stupendus, Latin.] noise. ] Wonderful; amazing; astonishing. 1. To confound or dizzy with noise. All those stupendous acts deservedly are the An universal hubbub wild subject of a history excellently written in Lati:2 by a learned prelate. Cluzanden Of stunning sounds, and voices all confusid, Assaults his ear. Milton. Great joy was at their meeting, and at sich Still shall I hear, and never quit the score, Of that stupendous bridge bis joy increas'd. Mlir. Stunn'd with hoarse Codrus' Theseid o'er and Porteries and prodigies their souls amaz'd; But most when this stupendous pile was rais'd. o'er? Dryden. Dryadan). Too strong a noise stuns the ear, and one too weak does not act upon the organ. Mortals, fly this curst detested race: A hundred of the same stupendous size, A hundred Cyclops live among the hills. Aloe. Stunn'd and worn out with endless chat Our numbers can scarce give us an idea of ile Of Will did this, and Nan said that. Prior. .vast quantity of systems in this stupendous piece of architecture. Cheyne Shouts as thunder loud afflict the air, And stun the birds releas'd. Prior. STUTID. adj. (stupide, French ; stupidits, The Britons, once a savage kind, Latin.) Descendants of the barbargus Huns, 1. Dull; wanting sensibility; wantins With limbs robust, and voice that stuns, apprehension; heavy ;, sluggish of uriYou taught to modulate their tongues, derstanding. And speak without the help of lungs. Szwift. O that men should be so stupid grown 2. To make senseless or dizzy with a Aslo forsake the living God. 1??49. blow. Men, boys, and women, stipid with 1.4, One hung 3 pole-ax at his saddie-bow, Where'er ste pa res till their wondrins er And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. Dryden. l'ris. tue. If I by chance succeed, Sacrifice not his innocency to the attaining Know, I am not so stupid, or so hard, some little skill of busting for himself, by his Not to feel praise, or fame's desery'd reward. conversation with vitious boys, when the chief Dryden. use of that sturdiness, and standing upon his With wild surprise own legs, is only for the preservation of his vir Locke. A moment stupid, motionless, he stood. Tbomsor. 2. Performed without skill or genius. 2. Brutal strength. Wit, as the chief of virtue's friends, STU'RDY. adj. [estourdi, French.] Disdains to serve ignoble ends : 1. llardy; stout; brutal; obstinate. It Observe what loads of stupid chimes is always used of men, with some disOppress us in corrupted times. Swift. STUPI'DITY. n. s. [stupidité, French ; agreeable idea of coarseness or rude ness. stupiditas, Latin.] Dulness; heaviness This must be done, and I would fain see of mind; sluggishness of understanding. Mortal so sturiy as to gainsay. Hudibras. Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Aw'd by that house, accustom'd to conWho stands confirm'd in full stupidity. Dryden. mand, STU'PIDLY. adv. [from stupid.] The sturdy kerns in due subjection stand, 1. With suspension or inactivity of under- Nor bear the reins in any foreign hand. Drid. standing A sturdy hardened sinner shall advance to the That space the evil one abstracted stood utmost pitch of impiery with less reluctance From his own evil, and for the time remaind than he took the first steps, whilst his conscience Stupidly good. Milton. was yet vigilant and tender. Atterburg: 2. Dully; without apprehension. 2. Strong ; forcille. On the shield there were engraven maps of The ill-apparelled kright now had gotten the countries, which Ajax could not comprehend, reputation of some sturdy lout, he had so well but looked on as stupidly as his fellow-beast the dcfended himself.. Sierry, lion. Dryden. Ne aught his sturdy strokes might stand be fore, STU'PIFIER. N. s. [from stupify.] That That high trees overthrew, and rocks in pieces which causes stupidity. tore. Spenser. TO STU'PIFY. v. a. (stupefacio, Latin : 3. Stiff; stout. this word should therefore be spelled He was not of any delicate contexture, his stupefy ; but the authorities are against limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Wotton. it.] Sturdiest oaks Bow'd their stiff necks, loaden with stormy 1. To make stupid; to deprive of sensi. blasts, bility ; to dull. Or torn up sheer. Milton. Those Will stupify and dull the sense a while. Sbaksp. STU'RGEON. n. s. (sturio, tursio, Latin.] Consider whether that method, used to quiet A sea fish. some consciences, does not stupefy more. It is part of the scutellated bone of a sturgren, Decay of Pictv. being ilat, of a porous or cellular constitution on The fumes of his passion do as really intoxi- one side, the cells bcing worn down and smooth cate his discerning faculty, as the fumes of drink on the other. Woodcoard. discompose and stupify the brain of a man over- STURK. n. s. [rzyrc, Saxon.] A young charged with it. South. ox or hcifer. Bailey. Thus they are Envy, like a cold poison, benuabs and stupio still called in Scoiland. fies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds TO STUT. its arms in despair. Collier. V. n. (stätten, to hinder, 2. To deprive of material motion. TOSTU”TTER. Dutch.) To speak It is not malleable ; but yet is not Huent, but with hesitation; to stammer. stupified. Bacon. Divers strt: the cause is the refrigeration of Pounce it into the quicksilver, and so proceed the tongue, whereby it is less apt to move; and to the stupifying Bacon. Bacon. STU'POR. n. s. (Latin; stupeur, French.] STU'TIER. n.s. (from stut.] One that Suspension or diminution of sensibility. SrlTTERER. Í speaks with hesitation; A pungent pain in the region of the kidney's, a stanimcrer. a stipor or dull pain in the thigh, and colick, are Niany stutters are very cholerick, choler insymptoms of an inflammation of the kidneys. ducing a dryness in the tongue. Bacon, Arbusiknot. Sry.n.s. (rzige, Saxon] To STU'PRATE. v. a. (stupro, Latin.] 10 1. A cabin to keep hogs in. ravish ; to violate. Tell Richmond, STUPRAPTION. n. s. (stupratio, from stu- That in the sty of this most bloody boar pro, Lat.] Rape ; violation. My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold. Stupration must not be drawn into practice. Sbakspearo. Brown, When her hogs had miss'd their way, STU'RDILY. ado. [fron sturdy.] Th’untoward creatures to the sty I drove, And whistled all the way. I. Stouily; hardily. May thy black pigs lie warm in little sty, 2. Obstinately; resolutely. And have nu thought to grieve them till they Then withdraw die. King. From Cambridge, thy old nurse : and, as the 2. Any place of bestial debauchery, Yest, They all their friends and native home forget, Here toughly chew and sturdily digest To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Miltca. Th’immense vast volumes of our common law. With what ease Donns. STU'R DINESS. n. s. [from sturdy.] Mightst thou expel this monster from his throns, 1. Stoutness; hardiness. Now made a sty. Gay. out 3. [I know not how derived.] A humour Style is the middle prominent part of the in the eyelid. flower of a plant, which adheres to the fruit or To S1v. v. a. (from the noun.} To shut seed: 't is usually slender and long, whence it has its name. Quincy. up in a sty. The figure of the flower-leaves, stamina, Here you sty me apices, stile, and seed vessel. Ray. In this hard rock, while you do keep from me TO STYLE, v. a. (from the noun.] To The rest of th' island. Sbakspeare. To Sry. v. n. To soar; to ascend. Spenser. call; to term; to name. The chancellor of the exchequer they had no STY'GIAN, adj. (stygius, Latin.] Hellish; mind should be styled a knight. Clarendon infernal; pertaining to Styx, one of the Err not that so shall end poetical rivers of hell. The strife which thou call'st evil, but we style At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng The strife of glory. Milton Bent their aspect. Milion. Fortune's gifts, my actions STYLE. n. s. (stylus, Latin.] May stile their own rewards. Denhamn Whoever backs his tenets with authorities, 1. Manner of writing with regard to lan thinks he ought to carry the cause, and is ready guage. Happy to stile it impudence in any one who shall stand Locked That can translate the stubbornness of fortune His conduct might have made him stild Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Sbakspeare. A father, and the nymph his child. Swift Their beauty I will rather leave to poets, than venture upon so tender and nice a subject with STY'PTICK. Į adj. [sutled; styptique, Fr. my severer style. More. STY'PTICALS This is usually, though Proper words in proper places make the true erroneously, written stiptick.] The same definition of a stile. Swift. as astringent; but generally expresses Let some lord but own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the style refines ! the most efficacious sort of astringents, Pope. or those which are applied to stop he2. Manner of speaking appropriate to par morrhages. Quincy. ticular characters. Fruits of trees and sbrubs contain phlegm, oil. No style is held for base, where love well and an essential salt, by which they are sharp. named is. Sidney, sweet, sour, or styptick. Arbutbrot. There was never yet philosopher There is a sour stiptick salt diffused through That could endure the toothach patiently, the earth, which passing a concoction in plants,' However they have writ the style of gods, becometh milder. Brown. And make a pish at chance and sufferance. From spirit of salt, carefully dephlegmed and Shakspeare. removed into lower glasses, having gently ab3. Mode of painting. stracted the whole, there remained in the botThe greac stile stands alone, and does not re- tom, and the neck of the retort, a great quantity quire, perhaps does not as well admit, any ad- of a certain dry and stiptical substance, mostly dition from inferior beauties. The ornamental of a yellowish colour. Boyle. stile also possesses its own peculiar merit : how- In an effusion of blood, having dossils ready ever, though the union of the two may make a dipt in the royal stiptick, we applied them. sort of composite stile, yet that stile is likely to Wiseman. be more imperfect than either of those which go STYPTI'CITY. . s. The power of stanchto its composition. Reynolds. ing blood. A. It is likewise applied to musick. Catharticks of mercurials precipitate the vis5. Tiile ; appellation. cidities by their stypticity, and mix with all aniFord 's a knave, and I will aggravate his stile; mal acids. Floyer, thou shalt know himn for knave and cuckold. To Sty’THY. v. a. (See Srithy.] To Sbakspeare. forge on an anvil. The king gave them in his commission the By the forge that stytbied Mars his helm, style and appelation which belonged to them. I'll kill thee every where, yea, o'er and o'cr. Clarendon. Sbakspeare. O virgin! or what other name you bear SUA'SIBLE, adj. [from suadeo, Latin.] Above that style, O more than mortal fair! Easy to be persuaded. SUA'siv E. adj. [from suadeo, Latin.) Hava Whether the style of Titan please thee more, ing power to persuade. Whose purple rays th' Achæmenes adore. Pope. It had the passions in perfect subjection; and 6. Course of writing. Unusual. though its command over them was but suasive While his thoughts the ling’ring day beguile, and political, yet it had the force of coaction, and To gentle Arcite let us turn our style. Dryden. despotical. South. 7. Sree of Court, is properly the prac. SU A’sor Y. adj. (suasorius, Lat.] Having tice observed by any court in its way of tendency to persuade. proceeding. Ayliffe. SUA'VITY. 7. s. (suavité, French ; suavi. 8. A pointed iron used anciently in writ tas, Latin.) ing on tables of wax. 1. Sweetness to the senses. 9. Any thing with a sharp point, as a She desired them for rarity, pulchritude, and Suzvity. Brown. graver; the pin of a dial. Placing two stiles or needles of the same steel, 2. Sweetness to the mind. touched with the same loadstone, when thie one SUB, in composition, signifies a subordiis removed but half a span, the other wou'd nate degree. stand like Hercules's pillars. B1077. SUBA'cio, adj. [sub and acidus, Latin,} Jo. The stalk which rices from amid the Sour in a small degree. leaves of a flower, The juice of the stem is like the chyle in the |