7. STIPFEN. v. n. any of that stiffness and constraint, any of those 1. To grow stiff; to grow rigid ; to be forbidding appearances, which disparage the ac tions of the sincerely pious. Atterburg come unpliant. 6. Rigorousness; harshness. Aghast, astonish'd, and struck dumb with fear, There fill yourself with those most joyous I stood; like bristles rose my stiff 'ning hair. sights; Dryden. But speak no word to her of these sad plights, Which her too constant stifness doth constrain. Like one just blasted by a stroke from heaven, Spenser. Who pants for breath, and stiffens yet alive ; In dreadful looks, a monument of wrath. 7. Manner of writing not easy, but harsla Addison. and constrained. 2. To grow hard ; to be hardened. Rules and critical observations improve a good The tender soil then, stiffening by degrees, genius, where nature leadeth the way, provided Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas. he is not too scrupulous; for that will introduce Dryden. a stiffness and affectation, which are utceriy xbo horrent from all good writing. Faltoa. 3. To grow less susceptive of impression ; TO STIFLE. v.a. [estoufer, French.} to grow obstinate. Some souls we see 1. To oppress or kill by closeness of air ; Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. Dryden. to suffocate. STIFFHE A'RTED. adj. (stiff and heart.] Where have you been broiling ? Obstinate ; stubborn; contumacious. -Among the crowd i' th' abbey, where a finger Could not be wedg'd in more; I am stifted They are impudent children, and stiff-hearted. Ezekiel. With the mere rankness of their joy. Sbaksp. Pray'r against his absolute decree STI'FFLY. adv. [from stiff.] Rigidly ; in- No more avails than breath against the wind, flexibly; stubbornly. Blowa stifing back on him that breathes it forth. In matters divine, it is still maintained stify, Milton that they have no stiffnecked force. Hooker. That part of the air that we drew out, left I commended them that stood so stiffty for the the more room for the stijling steains of the 1 Esdras. Beyl. The Indian fig of itself multipliech from root Stifted with kisses, a sweet death he dies. to root; the plenty of the sap, and the softness Dryden. of the stalk, making the bough, being overloadea At one time they keep their patients so close and not stifly upheld, to weigh down. Bacon. and warm, as almost to stifle them with care; QTI'FFNECKED. adj. [stiff and neck.] and, all on a sudden, the cold regimen isin vogue. Baker. Stubborn ; obstinate; contumacious. I took my leave, being half .tif:d with the An infinite charge to her majesty, to send closeness of the room. over such an army as should tread down all that Swi Standeth before them on foot, and lay on the 2. To keep in; to hinder from emission, ground all the stiffnecked. Spenser. Whilst bodies become coloured by refiecting This stiffnecki pride nor art nor force can or transmitting this or that sort of rays more bend, copiously than the rest, they stop and stift ia Nor high-flown hopes to reason's lure descend. themselves the rays which they do not reflection Denbars. transmit. Newter. $TI'FFNESS. n. s. (from stiff:] 3. To extinguish by hindering communi. cation. t. Rigidity; inflexibility ; hardness ; in 4. To extinguish by artful or gentle means. eptitude to bend. Every reasonable man will pay a tax wish The stiffness and dryness of iron, to melt, chearfulness for stifling a civil war in its kirth. must be holpen by moistening or opening it. Addison Bacon. The willow bows and recovers, the oak is 5. To suppress; to conceal. stubborn and inflexible; and the punishment of If't prove thy fortune, Polydore, to conque that stiffness is that branch of the allegory. Trust me, and let me know thy love's successe L' Esirange. That I may ever after stifte mine. 2. Ineptitude to motion ; torpidness. 6. To suppress artfully or fraudulently. The pillars of this frame grow weak, These conclusions have been acknowledged My sinews slacken, and an icy stiffness by the disputers themselves, till with labour and Benumbs my blood. Donbam. study they had stified their first convictions. 3. Tension; not laxity. On these two pillars will our faith for ele To try new shrouds, one mounts into the stand firm and unmoveable against all attempts, wind, And one below their ease or stiffness noces. whether of vain philosophy to better the doc trine, or of vaincr criticism to corrupt or stifte Dryden. the cvidence. Waterlund. f. Obstinacy; stubbornness; contuma. You excel in the art of stiffing and cor.cegling ciousness. your resentment. Sabijt. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; STIGMA. n. s. [stigma, Latin.] and, as it is the unfictest time to learn in, so the 1. A brand ; a mark with a hot iron. unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater. Soulb. 2. A mark of infamy. Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from STIGMA'TICAL. adj. (from stigma) adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. SriGMA'TICX. ) Branded or marked Locke. with some token of infamy. These hold their opinions with the greatest Thou art like a foul mishapen stigmatick, stiffness; being generally the most tierce and Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided. Sbaksp. firm in their tenets. Locke. He is deformed, crooked, old, and e'er s. Unpleasing formality ; constraint. Vicious, ungentie, foolish, blun:, unkind; All chis religion sat easily upon him, without Stigmatical in making, wo:se in minsta Sbab.p. Rogers. a . come at. Poje. a TO STIGMATIZE. v. a. (stigmatiser, Fr. We do not act that often jest and laugh: from stigma.] To mark with a brand; 'Tis old but true, still swine eat all the draughan to disgrace with a note of reproach. Sbakspeare Your wife, Octavia, with her modest eyes, Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it with greater honesty than men of the And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour, world; because the former, in reading, have been Demuring upon me. Sbakspeare. used to find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized; The storm was laid, the winds retir'd Obedient to thy will; while the latter have seen vice triumphant, and Addison. virtue discountenanced, The sea, that roar'd at thy command, Addisor. Sour enthusiasts affect to stigmatize the finest At thy command was still. and most elegant authors, both ancient and mo 2. Quiet ; calm. dern, as dangerous to religion. Addison. Atin when he spied The privileges of juries should be ascertained, Thus in still waves of deep delight to wade, and whoever violates them stigmatized by pub Fiercely approaching to him, loudly cried. lick censure. Swift. Spenser. From hence my lines and I depart; STILAR. adj. [from stile.) Belonging to I to my soft still walks, they to my heart; the stile of a dial. I to the nurse, they to the child of art. Dense. Ac fifty-one and a half degrees, which is Lon- Religious pleasure moves gently, and theredon's latitude, make a mark; and, laying a ruler fore constantly. It does not affect by, raptare, to the center of the plane, and to this mark, but is like the pleasure of health, which is still draw a line for the stilar line. Moxon. and sober. South. STILE. n. s. [rrigele, from stigan, Sax. Hope quickens all the still parts of life, and keeps the mind awake in her most remiss and in to climb.] dolent hours. Addison 1. A set of steps to pass from one enclo. Silius Italicus has represented it as a very sure to another. gentle and still river, in the beautiful description There comes my master, and another gentle- he has given of it. Addison. man from Frogmare, over the stile this way. How all things listen, while thy muse comSbakspeare. plains ! If they draw several ways, they be ready to Such silence waits on Philomela's strains hang themselves upon every gue or stile they In some still ev'ning, when the whisp'ring breeze L'Estrange. Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. The little strutting pile, You see just by the church-yard stile. Swift. 3. Motionless. 2. (stile, French.) A pin to cast the Gyrecia sit still, but with no still pensiveness. shadow in a sundial. This should ra Sidney ther be style. Though the body really moves, yet not change Erect the stile perpendicularly over the sub- ing perceivable distance with other bodies, as fast stilar line, so as to make an angle with the dial. as the ideas of our minds follow in train, the plane equal to the elevation of the pole of your thing seems to stand still, as we find in the hands place. Moxon. of clocks. Locke. STILE'TTO. n. so (Italian; stilet, Fr.] That, in this state of ignorance, we short sighted creatures might not mistake true fee A small dagger, of which the blade is licity, we are endowed with a power to suspend not edgec, but round, with a sharp any particular desire. This is standing still where point. we are not sufficiently assured. Locke. When a senator should be torn in pieces, he Thy stone, O Sisyphus, stands still ;. hired one, who, entering into the senate-house, Ixion rests upon his wheel. should assault him as an enemy to the state ; STILL. n. s. Calm ; silence. and, stabbing him with stilettoes, leave him to Herne the hunter, be torn by others. Hakervill. Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Io STILL. v. a. [rtıllan, Saxon; stillen, Doth all the winter time, at still of midnight, Dutch.] Walk round about an oak with ragged horns. 1. To silence; to make silent. Sbakspeare. Is this the scourge of France ? He had never any jealousy with his father, Is this the Talbot so much fear'd abroad, which might give occasion of altering court or That with his name the mothers still their babes? council upon the change; but all things passed Shakspeare. Bacen, It hath been anciently reported, and is still curld, Ardaderd silence still d the wat'ry world. Pope. received, that extreme applauses of great multi tudes have so rarified the air, that birds flying 2. To quiet; to appease. over have fallen down. Bacon, 1 in ali refrainings of anger, it is the best re Thou, O matron! medy to make a man's self believe, that the op Here dying, to the shore hast left thy name : portunity of revenge is not yet come; but that Cajeta still the place is callid from thee, he foresees a time for it, and so to still himself The nurse of grcat Æneas' infancy. Dryden. in the mean time, and reserve it. Bacon. 2. Nevertheless; notwithstanding. 3. To make motionless. He having a full sway over the water, had The desire of fame betrays the ambitious mir into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it. Woodward. is still afraid, lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private. Addison. Srill. adj. (stil, Dutch. ] 1. Silent ; uttering no noise. It is well 3. In an increasing degree. As God sometimes addresses himself in this ebserved by Junius, tbat st is the sound manner to the hearts of men; so, if the heart commanding silence. will receive such motions by a ready compliance Popa they will return more frequently, and still more These are nature's stillatories, in whose cam and more powerfully, Soutb. verns the ascending vapours are congealed to The moral perfections of the Deity, the more that universal aquavitæ, that good fresh water. attentively we consider, the more perfectly still More, shall we know them. Atterbury. STI'LLBORN. adj. (still and born.] Born 4. Always ; ever ; continually. lifeless ; dead in the birth. Unless God from heaven did by vision still Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth, shew them what to do, they might do nothing. Should be stillborn, and that we now possest Hooker. The utmost man of expectation, we are My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, A body strong enough to equal with the king. My soul the father; and these two beget Shakspeare. A generation of still-breeding thoughts. Shaksp. Many casualties were but matter of sense ; Whom the disease of talking still once pus- as, whether a child were abortive or stillborn. sesseth, he can never hold his peace. Ben Jonson. Gruunt. He told them, that if their king were still ab- The pale assistants on each other star'd, sent from them, they would at length crown With gaping mouths for issuing words prepar'd: apes. Davies, The stillborn sounds upon the palate hung, Chymists would be rich, if they could still do And died imperfect on the fali'ring tongue. in great quantities, what they have sometimes Dryden. done in little. Boyle. I know a trick to make you thrive; Trade begets trade, and people go much where O, 't is a quaint device! many people are already gone: so men run still Your stillborn poems shall revive, to a crowd in the streets, though only to see. And scorn to wrap up spice. Swift. Temple. STI'LLICIDE. n. s. (stillicidium, Lat.) A The fewer still you name, you wound the succession of drops. more; Bond is but one, but Harpax is a score. Pope. The stillicides of water, if there be water erough to follow, will draw themselves into a 5. After that. small thread, because they will not discontinue. In the primitive church, such as by fear being compelled to sacrifice so strange gods, after re Bacon. pented, and kept still the office of preaching STILLICI'Dious. adj. [from stillicide.) the gospel. Wbitgift. Falling in drops. 6. In continuance. Crystal is found sometimes in rocks, and in I with my hand at midnight held your head; some places not unlike the stirious or stillicidious And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, dependencies of ice. Brown. Still and anon chear'd up the heavy time, Stilling. n. s. [from still.] Saying, what want you?" Sbakspeare. 1. The act of stilling. STILL. n. s. (from distil.] A vessel for 2. A stand for casks. distillation ; an alembick. STI'LLNESS. n. s. [from still.] 1. Calm ; quiet ; silence; freedom from noise. The still of his refining mold Minting the garden into gold. Cleaveland. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! In distilling hot spirits, if the head of the still be taken off, che vapour which ascends out of the Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musick still will take fire at the fame of a candle, and Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night the flame will run along the vapour from the Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sboksp. candle to the still. Newton, When black clouds draw down the lab'ring This fragrant spirit is obtained from all plants skies, An horrid stillness first invades the ear, in the least aromatick, by a cold still, with a hcat not excceding that of summer. Arbuthnot. And in that silence we the tempest fear. Drvd. Virgil, to heighten the horrour of Æneas's To STILL. v. a. (from distil.] To distil; passing by this coast, has prepared the reader by to extract, or operate upon, by distil Cajeta's funeral, and the stillness of the night. lation. Dryden. TO STILL. V. n. (stillo, Lat.) To drop ; If a house be on fire, those at next door may to fall in drops. Out of use. escape, by the stillness of the weather. Swifi. His sceptre 'gainst The ground he threw, 2. Habitual silence ; taciturnity: And tears still, from him which mov'd all the The gravity and stiliness of your youth Chapman. The world hath noted. Sbakspeare. Short thick sobs, whose thund'ring volleys STI'LLSTAND. n. so (still and stand.) Ab Hoat, The tide, swellid up unto his height, Crasbaw. Then makes a stillstand, running neither way. STILLATI'Tious, adj. (stillatitius, Lat.] Sbakspears. Falling in drops ; drawn by a still. STI'LLY. adv. [from still.] STI'LLATORY:n. s. [from still or distil.] 1. Şilently; not loudly; 1. An alembick; a vessel in which distil. From camp to camp, through the foul womb lation is performed. of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds. Shaksp. In all stillatories, the vapour is turned back 2. Calmly ; not tumultuously. upon itself, by the encounter of the sides of the stillatery. Bacon. STILTS. n. s. (styltor, Swedish ; stelten, 2. The room in which stills are placed ; Dutch; seelcan, Saxon.] Supports on laboratory. which boys raise themselves when they All offices that require heat, as kitchens, stile walk. lstories, stoves, should be meridional. Wottona Some could not be content to walk upon she VOL. IV. 2 crew. Battlements, but they must put themselves up; STI'NGO. n. s. [from the sharpness of the on stilts. Horcel. taste.) Old beer. A cant word. The heron, and such like fowl that live of STI'NGY. adj. [a low cant word. In this fishes, walk on long stilts like the people in the marshes. More. word, with its derivatives, the g is proMen must not walk upon stilts. L'Estrange. nounced as in gem.j Covetous ; nigTO STIMULATE. v. a. (stimulo, Latin.) gardly ; avaricious. 1. To'prick. A stingy narrow-hearted fellow, that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch 2. To prick forward; to excite by some it till it began to be rorten. L'Estranges pungent motive. He relates it only by parcels, and won't give 3. [In physick.] To excite a quick sen- us the whole; which forces me to bespeak his sation, with a derivation toward the friends to engage him to lay aside that stingy part. humour, and gratify the publick at once. Extreme cold stimulates, producing first a ri Arbutbreis gour, andthen a glowing hcat; those things which TO STINK. v. n. preterit stunk or stank. stimulate in the extreme degree excite pain. roman, Saxon; stincken, Dutch.) To Arbuthnot. emit an offensive smell, commonly a Some medicines lubricate, and others both lu smell of putrefaction. bricate and stimulate. Sharp. John, it will be stinking law for his breath. STIMULATION. n. s. (stimulatio, Latin.] Sbakspears. Excitement ; pungency. When the children of Ammon saw that they Some persons, from the secret stimulations of stank before David, they sent and hired Syrians. vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and 2 Samuzi. throw contempt upon it by wholesale. Watts. What a fool art thou, to leave thy mother for 7. STING. v. a. pret. stung or stang ;' a naszy stinking soat! L'Estrange. participle pass. stang or stung. [zingan, Most of smells want names; sweet and stinke ing serve our turn for these ideas, which is little Sax. stungen, sore pricked, Islandic..] more than to call them pleasing and displeasing. 1. To pierce or wound with a point danced Lake. out, as that of wasps or scorpions. Chloris, this costly way to stink give o'er, The snake, roll'd in a flow'ry bank, "T is throwing sweet into a common shore : With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child Not all Arabia would sufficient be; That for the beauty thinks it excellent. Shatsp: Thou smeil'st nct of thy sweets, they stink of That snakes and vipers sting, and transmit thee. Granville. their mischief by the tail, is not easily to be jus, STINK. n. s. [from the verb.] Otiensive titied; the poison lying about the teeth, and smell, communicated by the bite. Brown. These stinks which the nostrils straight abhior 2. To pain acutely. are not most pernicious; but such airs as have His unkindness, some similitude with man's body, and so betrax That stript her from his benediction, turn'd her the spirits. Bacan. To foreign casualties, gave her dear righ: They share a sin; and such proportions fall, To his doghcarted daughters; these things sting Thut, like a stink, 't is nothing to them all. him Dryden. So venoriousl;', that burning hame detains him By what criterion do ye eat, d' From his Cordelia. Sbuespeare. ye think, If this is priz'd for sweetness, that for stink? No more I wave Pope. To prove the hero.--Slander stings the brave. STI'N KARD. ». s. [from stink.] A meait Pope. The stinging lash apply. Pope. stinking paltry feilow. STING.'n, s. (from the verb.) STU’NKER. N. s. [from slink.] Something 3. Å sharp point with which some animuals intended to ofiend by the smell. are armed, and which is commonly Thic air was be purified by burning of stink pots or stirkers in contagious lanes. Harvey. venomouS. STI'N KINGLY.odv.[from stinking.) With Serpents have venomous teeth, which are mise taken for their sting. Bacon. a stink. His rapier was a hornet's sting; Caust thou believe thy living is a life, It was a very dangerous thing; So stinkingly depending? Sbakspeare. For if he chanc'd to hurt the king, STI'N KPOT, . So stink and pot.) in It would be long in healing. Drayton. artificial composition offensive to the 2. Any thing that gives pain. smell. The Jews receiving this book originally with The air may be puritied by fires of pitch barsuch sting in it, shews that the authority was rels, especially in close places, by burning of high. Forbes. Harte3. The point in the last verse. TO SFINT. v. a. (stynta, Swedish ; stunta, It is not the jerk or sting of an epigram, nor Islandick.] To bound; to limit; to the set ming contradiction of a poor antithesis. confine ; to restrain ; to stop. Dryden. The reason hereof is the end which he hack 4. Remorse of conscience. proposed, and the law whercby his wisdom hath STI'NGILY. adv. [from stingy.] Covet. stinted the effects of his power in such sort, that ously. it doch not work intinitely, but correspoudently, Hosier. STI'NGINESS. n. s. [from stingy.) Avarice; unto that end for which it worketh. Then hopeless, heartless, 'gan the cunning covetousness; niggardliness. thief STI'NGLESS. adj. [from sting.] Having no Persuade us die, to stint all further strife. Sponso sting, Nature wisely stints our appetite, He hugs this viper when he thinks it stingless. And craves no more than undisturb'd delight. Decay of Piery. desdits. fill : I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude stipuler, Fr.) To contract; to bargain ; of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the to settle terms. production of weeds; but give it its full scope, The Romans very much neglected their marie in an universal diminution of the fruitfulness of time affairs; for they stipulated with the Care the earth. Woodward. thaginians to furnish them with ships for transA supposed heathen deity might be so poor in port and war, Arbutbrot. his attributes, so stinted in his knowledge, that a pagan might hope to conceal his perjury from STIPUL A'TION. n. s.[stipulation, Fr. from his notice. Addison. stipulate.] Bargain. Few countries which, if well cultivated, would We promise obediently to keep all God's not support double their inhabitants; and yet commandments; the hopes given by the gospel fewer where one third are not extremely stinted depend on our performance of that stipul.tinn. in necessaries. Swift. Rogers. She stints them in their meals, and is very STIPULA'TOR. n. s. One who contracts scrupulous of what they eat and drink, and tells or bargains. them how many tine shapes she has seen spesied To STIR. v. a. (stirian, Saxon ; stooren, in ner time for want of such care. Law. STINT. n. s. (from the verb.] Dutch. 1. Liinit; hound; restraint. 1. To move ; to remove from its place. We must come at the length to some pause : My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir, but as it was lifted. Temple. for if every thing were to be desired for soine Other spirits other without any stint, there could be no cer Shoot through their tracts, and distant muscles Cain end proposed unto our actions; we should go on we know not whither. Husker. The exteriors of mourning, a decent funeral, This sov'reign, by his arbitrary nod, Restrains or sends his ministers abroad; and black habits, are the usual stints of common Swift and obedient to his nigh command, husbands. Dryder They stir a finger, or they lift a hand. 2. A proportion ; a quantity assigned. Blackmore, Touching the stint or measure thereof, rites 2. To agitate; to bring into debate. and ceremon es, and other external things of Preserve the right of thy place, but stir nok the like nature, being hurtful unto the church, either in respect of their quality, or in reg.ard questions of jurisdiction; and rather assume thy right in silence than voice it with claims. Bacon. of their number; in che former chere could be One judgment in parliament, that cases of no doubt or citficulty what would be done; their deliberation in the latter was more difficult. that nature ought to be determined according Hooker. to the common law, is of greater weight than Our stint of woe many cases to the contrary, wherein the ques. Is common; every day a sailor's wife, tion was not stirred; yea, even though it should The masters of some merchant, and the mer. be stirred, and the contrary affirmed. Haie, chant, 3. To incite ; to instigate; to animate. Have just our theme of woe. Sbakspeare. With him is come the mother queen; He that give the hini, An Até stirring him to blood and strife. Sheksp. This letter for to print, If you stir these daughters hearts Must also pay the stint. Donbam, Against their father, fool me not so much How much wine drink you in a day? my stint To bear it tamely. Sbakspeare, Nestor next beheld in company is a pint at noon. Savift, STIPEND. n. The subtle Pylian orator range up and downe s. (stipendium, Latin. ) the field, Wages; settled pay Embattelling his men at armes, and stirring all All the earth, to blowes. Clapman. Her kings and etrarchs, are their tributaries; 4. To raise ; to excite. People and nations pay them hourly stipends. The soldiers love her brother's memory, Ben Jonson. St. Paul's zeal was expressed in preaching And for her sake some mutiny will stir. Dryd. without any offerings or stipend. Taylor. 5. To STiR up. To incite ; to animate ; to STIPENDIARY. adj. (stipendiarius, Lat.] instigate by infiaming the passions. Receiving salaries ; performing any ser This would seem a dangero's commission, vice for a stated price. and ready to stir up all the Irish in rebellion. His great stipendiary prelates came with Spenser. troops of evil appointed horsemen not half full. The greedy thirst of royal crown, That knows no kindred, no regards, no right, Knolles. Place rectors in the remaining churches, Stirrid Porrex up to put his brother down. which are now served only by stipendiary cum Spenser. Savift. The words of Judas were very good, and able STIPENDIARY. n. s. (stipendiaire, Fr. to stir them up to valour. Maccabees. Having overcome and thrust him out of his stipendiarius, Lat.) One who performs kingdom, he stirred up the Christians and Nuany service for a settled payment. midians against him. Kolles. This whole country is called the kingdom of The vigorous spirit of Montrose stirred him Tunis; the king whereof is a kind of stipendiary up to make some attempt, whether he had any unto the Turk. Abbot. help or no. Clarendon. If thou art become The improving of his own parts and happie A tyrant's vilu stipendiary, with grief ness stir him up to so notable a design. That valour thus triumphant I behold, Alore against Atheism, Which after all its danger and brave toil, Thou'with rebel irsolence didst dare Deserves no honour from the gods or men. To own and to protect that hoary ruffian, Glover. To stir the factious rabble wp to arms. Rowe. Sri'prick. See STYPTIĆK. 6. lo STiR up. To put in action ; to exTO STIPULATE. V. n. (stipulor, Latin ; cite; to quicken. Y% rates. a |