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4. A small length ; a small space.

A step-dame too I have, a cursed she, There is but a step between me and death. Who rcles my hen-peck'd sire, and orders 218. 1 Samuel.

Dryden. s. [In the plural.) Walk; passage.

Any body would have guessed miss to have O may thy pow'r, propitious still to me,

been bred up under the influence of a cruel stepConduct my steps to find the fatal tree

dame, and John to be the fondling of a cender mother.

Arbuthact. In this deep forest.

Dryden. 6. Gradation ; degree.

STE'PPINGSTONE. n. s. (step and stone.) The same sin for substance hath sundry steps Stone laid to catch the foot, and save it and degrees, in respect whereof one man bem from wet or dirt. cometh a more heinous offender than another.

Like stepping stenes to save a stride,
Perkins.

In streets where kennels are too wide. Swift. 7. Progression ; act of advancing: To derive two or three general principles of

STERCOR A'Ceous.adj. (stercoraceus, Lat. motion from phænomena, and afterwards to tell

Belonging to dung; partaking of the us how the properties and actions of all corporeal nature of dung. things fallow from those manifest principles, Green juicy vegetables, in a heap together, acwould be a very great step in philosophy, though quire a heat equal to that of a human body; then the causes of those principles were not yet dis- a putrid stercoraceous taste and odour, in taste covered.

Neruton. resembling putrid Aesh, and in smell human One injury is best defended by a second, and

fæces.

Arbuthnos. this by a third : by these steps the old masters STERCORA'Tson, n. s. [from stercora, of the palace in france became masters of the Lat.] The act of dunging; the act of kingdom; and by these steps a general during

manuring with dung. pleasure might have grown into a general for

The first lielp is stercoration : the sheeps dung life, and a general for life into a king. Swift.

is one of the best, and the next, dung of kino The querist niust not proceed too swiftly to

and that of horses.

Bacon. wards the determination of his point, that he

Storcoration is seasonable.

Evelyn may with more ease draw the learner to those

The exteriour pulp of the fruit serves not only principles step by step, from whence the final

for the security of the seed, whilst it hangs upon conclusion will arise.

Watts.

the plant, but, after it is fallen upon the earth, 8. Footstep ; print of the foot.

for the stercoration of the soil, and promotion of From hence Astrea took her flight, and here

the growth, though not the first germination of The prints of her departing steps appear. Dryd. the seminal plant.

Ray. 9. Gait; manner of walking.

STEREO'GRAPHY, n. s. (sepeds and ypápu ; Sudden from the golden throne

stereographie, French.] The art of draw. With a submissive step I hasted down; The glowing garland from my hair I took,

ing the forms of solids upon a plane. Love in my heart, obedience in my look. Prior.

Harris. 10. Action ; instance of conduct.

STERE OʻMETRY. x. s. rseped; and Ms Téu ; The reputation of a man depends upon the stereometrie, French.) The art of mea. first steps he makes in the world. Pope suring all sorts of solid bodies. Harris. STE.P, in composition, signifies one who is STERIL. adj. (sterile, French ; sterilis,

related only by marriage. (rreop, Sax. Lat.] Barren ; unfruitful ; not productfrom rzepan, to deprive, or make an ive; wanting fecundity. orphav: for the Saxons not only said a siep-mother, but a step-daughter, or step

The barren, touched in this holy chase,

Shake off their steril curse. son; to which it indeed, according to

Sbakspeare. this etymology, more properly belongs:

The sea marge steril, and rocky hard. Sbaks.

In very steril years, corn sown will grow to but as it is now seldom applied but to

another kind.

Bacon. the mother, it seems to mean, in the To separate seeds, put them in water: such mind of those who use it, a woman who as are corrupted and steril swim. Brown. has stepped into the vacant place of the She is grown steril and barren, and her births

of animals are now very inconsiderable. More.. true mother.] How should their minds chuse but misdoubt,

When the vegetative stratum was once washed

off by rains, the hills would have become barren, Jest this discipline, which always you match with divine doctrine as her natural and true sister, be

the strata below yielding only mere sterile and

mineral matter, such as was inept for the form, found unto all kinds of knowledge a step-mother?

ation of vegetables. Hooker.

Woodward His wanton step-dame loved him the more ;

STERI'LITY. n. s. (sterilité, French; steri-. But, when she saw her offer'd sweets refuse, litas, from sterilis, Latin.) Barrenness ; Her love she turn'd to hate.

Spenser. want of fecundity ; unfruitfulness. You shall not tind me, daughter,

Spain is thin sown of people, by reason of the After the slander of most stop-rothers,

sterility of the soil, and because their natives are Ill-eyed unto you.

Sbakspeare. * exhausted by so many employments in such vast A father cruel, and a step-dame false. Shaksp. territories.

Bacon. Cato the elder, being aged, buried his wife, An eternal steriltty must have possessed the and married a young woman: his son came to world, where all things had been fastened ever. him, and said, Sir, what have I offended, that lastingly with the adamancine chains of specie you have brought a step-mother into your house? fick gravity, if the Almighty had not said, Let

The old man answered, Nay, quite the contrary, the carth bring forth grass, the herb yielding son; thou pleasest me so well, as would be glad seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit. Beniles. to have more such.

Bacon, He had more frequent occasion for repetition The name of step-dome, your practis'd art, than any poet; yet one cannot ascribe this to By which you have estrang'd my father's heart, any sterility of expression, but to the genius of All you have done against me, or design, his times, which delighicd in these reiterated Shows your aversico, but begets not mine. Dryd. versos

Pope.

Our elders say,

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TO STERILIZE. v. a. [from steril.] To

Then shall the war, and stern debace, make barren ; to deprive of fecundity,

strife

Immortal, be the bus'ness of my life; or the power of production.

And in thy fame, the dusty spoils among, May we not as well suppose the sterilizing High on the burnish'd roof my banner shall be the earth was suspended for some time, till the

hung.

Dryden. deluge became the execucioner of ic ?

How, stern as tutors, and as uncles hard,

Woodward. Go! sterilize the fertile with thy rage,

We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. Dryd. Savage.

3. Hard ; afflictive. STE'RLING. adj. [Of this word many de

If wolves had at thy gate howld that stern

time, rirations have been offered; the most Thou shouldst have said, Go, porter, turn the probable of which is that offered by

key, Camden, who derives it from the Easter

All cruels else subscrib'd.

Sbakspeare, lings, who were employed as coiners. ]

Mischiefe stood,

And with his stern steele drew in streames the 1. An epithet by which genuine English

blood.

Chapman. money is discriminated.

The king's treasure, that he left at his death, STERN. n. s. [rreon, Saxon : of the same amounted unto eighteen hundred thousand original with steer.] pounds sterling

Bacon. 1. The hind part of the ship where the Several of them would rather chuse to count rudder is placed. out a sum in sesterces than in pounds sterling.

Let a barbarous Indian, who had never seen

Addison. 2. Genuine; having passed the test.

a ship, view the separate and disjointed parts, as There is not one single witty phrase in this

the prow and stern, the ribs, masts, ropes, and collection, which hath not received the stamp

shrouds, he would form but a very lame idea of it.

Watis. and approbation of one hundred years : he may therefore be secure to find them all genuine,

They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land.

Dryden. sterling, and authentick.

Swift. STE'RLING. n. s. (sterlingum, low Lauin,

2. Post of management; direction.

The king from Eltam I intend to send, from the adjective. )

And sit at chiefest stern of publick weal. Shaks. 1. English coin ; money.

3. The hinder part of any thing. This visionary various projeots tries,

She all at once her beastly body rais'd And knows that to be rich is to be wise:

With doubled forces high above the ground, By useful observation he can tell

Though wrapping up her wreathed stern around. The sacred charms that in true sterling dwell;

Spenser. How gold makes a patrician of a slave, STE'RNAGE. n. s. [from stern.] The A dwarf an Atlas, a Thersites brave. Gartb. Great name! which in our rolls recorded

steerage or stern. Not used. stands,

Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy, Leads honours, and protects the learned bands,

And leave your England as dead midnight still. Accept this offering to thy bounty due,

Shakspeare. And Roman wealth in English sterling vicw.

STE'RNLY. adv. (from stern.] In a stern

C. Arbuthnot. manner; severely; truculentiy. 2. Standard rate.

No mountaine lion tore STERN. adj. [rzynn, Saxon.]

Two lambs so sternly.

Chapman. 1. Severe of countenance; truculent of

Sternly he pronounc'd
The rigid interdiction.

Milton. aspect.

Yet sure thou art not, nor thy face, the Why look you still so stern and tragical? Sbak.

same, I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, Nor thy limbs moulded in so soft a frame; Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth, Thou look'st more sternly, dost more strongly Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, And more of awe thou bear'st, and less of love. To win thee, lady. Shakspeare.

Dryden.
It shall not be amiss here to present the stern
But lively countenance of this so famous a man.

SrE'RNNESS. n. s. [from stern.]
Knolles.

I. Severity of look.
Gods and men

Of stature huge, and eke of courage bold, Fear'd her stern frown, and she was queen o'th'

That sons of men amaz'd their sternness do bem woods.

Milion.
hold.

Spenser. The judge supreme soon cast a stedfast eye,

How would he look, to see his work so noble Stern, yet attemper’d with benignity. Harte.

Wildly bound up! or how 2. Severe of manners ; harsh ; unrelent

Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold

The sternness of his presence ! Shakspeare. ing; cruel. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and Alexible ;

2. Severity or harshness of manners. Thou, stern, obdurate, fiinty, rough, remorseless.

I have sternness in my soul enough
To hear of soldiers work.

Drydex.
Sbakspeare.
The common executioner,

STE'R NON. n. s. (sirror.' The breastbone. Whose heart th’accustom'd sight of death makes

A soldier was shot in the breast through the

Wiseman. Falls not the ax upon the humbled neck

STERNUT A'TION. N. s. (sternutatio, Lat.) But first begs pardon : will you sterner be

The act of sneezing. Than he that deals and lives by bloody drops ? Sternutation is a convulsive shaking of the

Sbakspeare. nerves and muscles, occasioned by an irritation Did this in Cæsar seem ambitious ?

of those in the nostrils.

Quincy. When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath Concerning sternutation, or sneezing, and the wept ;

custom of saluting upon that motion,

is geneAmbition should be made of sterner stuff. Sbakso rally believed to derive its original from a dis

move,

hard,

sternon,

a

ease wherein sternutation proved mortal, and a small pond where fish are kept for the such as sneezed died.

Brown.

table. STER NU'T ATIVE. adj., (sternutatif, Fr. STEWARD. n. s. [sripand, Saxon.)

from sternuto, Lat.) Having the quality 1. One who manages the affairs of anof provoking to sneeze.

other. STERNU'T ATORY. n. s. (sternutatoire, Fr.

There sat, yclad in red from sternuto, Lat.) Medicine that pro- Down to the ground, a comely personage, vokes to sneeze.

That in his hand a white rod managed; Physicians, in persons near death, use sternu- He steward was, high diet, ripe of age, tatories, or such medicines as provoke unto

And in demeanour sober, and in council sage. sneezing; when, if the faculty arise, and ster

Spenser. autation ensueth, they conceive hopes of life. Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still. Brown.

Sbakspeare STE'VEN. 1. s. [srefen, Sax.) A cry, or

Take on you the charge loud clamour.

And kingly government of this your land;

Not as protector, starvard, substitute,
Ne sooner was out, but, swifter than thought; .
Fast by the hide the wolf Lowder caught;

Or lowly factor for another's gain. Shakspeare.

How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an And had not Roify renne to the steven, Lowder had been slain thilke same even.

account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward.

Luke. Spenser: T. STEW. v.a. Cestuver, Fr. sioven, Dui.]

Improre all those talents the providence of

God hath intrusted us with, because we are but To secth any thing in a slow moist heat, istemuards, and must give an account of them. with little water.

Nelsen. Ere I was risen from the place, that show'd

When a steward defrauds his lord, he must My duty kneeling, came a reeking post,

connive at the rest of the servants while they S:20'd in his haste, lialf breathless. Shakspeare.

are following the saine practice. Swift. I bruised my skin with playing at suord and What can be a greater honour, than to be dagger with a master of fence, three veneys for chosen one of the stewards and dispensers of a dish of sterud prunes.

Sbakspeare.

God's bounty to mankind? What can give a 70 STEW.7. %. To be seethed in a slow generous spirit more complacency, than to con

sider that great nuinbers owe to him, under God, moist hcat.

their subsistence, and the good conduct of their STEw. n. s. [estuve, Fr. stufa, Ital. estufa, lives?

Swift Spanish.]

Just steward of the bounty he receiv'd, 1. A bagnio ; a hothouse.

And dying poorer than the poor reliev'd. Harto

2. An officer of state. As burning Ælna from his boiling steru Doth belch out fames, and rocks in pieces broke,

The duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims And ragged ribs of mountains molten new,

To be high steward.

Sbatspeare Enwrapt in coal-black clouds and tilthy smoke.

STEWARDSHIP. n. s. [from steward.] Spenser.

The office of a steward. The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use

The earl of Worcester any armour, and give thenisclves to baths and Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship. Abbot.

Sbakspeare

Shew us the hand of God 2. A brothel; a house of prostitution.

That hath disiniss'd us from our stewardship. (This signification is by some imputed

Sbakspeare to this, that there were licensed brothels If they are not employed to such purposes, near the stews or fishponds in South- we are false to our trust, and the stervardsbi wark; but probably stew, like bagnio, committed to us, and shall be one day severely took a bad signification from bad use. accountable to God for it.

Calamy. It may be doubted whether it has any

STE'WPAN. n. so[from stew and pan.) A singular. South uses it in a plural ter.

pan used for stewing. mination with a singular sense. Shakso ST!'BLA L. adj. [from stibium, Lat.] An

timonial. penre makes it singular.] There be that hate harlots, and never were

The former depend upon a corrupt incinerated at the stews; that abhor falsehood, and never

melancholy, and the latter upon an adust stibial brake promise.

Ascham.
or eruginous sulphur.

Harve: I have scen corruption boil and bubble,

STIBIA'RIAN. n. s. [from stibium.] A Till it o'er-run the stew.

Sbakspeare.

violent man: from the violent operation With them there are no stews, no dissolute of antimony. Obsolete. houses, no curtesans.

Bacon. This stibiarian presseth audaciously upon the Her, though sev'n years she in the stews had

royal throne, and, after some sacrification, tenlaid,

dereth a bitter pill of sacrilege and cruelty; A nunnery durst receive and think a maid;

but, when the saine was rejected because it was And, though in childbirth's labour she did lie,

violent, then he presents his antimonian potion. Midwives would swear 't were but a tympany.

Donne. STICADOS. n. s. (sticadis, Lat.) An herb. What mod’rate fop would rake the park or

stews, Who among troops of faultless nymphs can

STICK. n. s. (rricca, Sax. stecco, Ital. choose?

Roscommon. steck, Dutch.) Making his own house a steri's, a bordel, and 1. A piece of wood small and long. a school of lewdness, to instil the rudiments of

Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth ; and so vice into the unwary fexuible years of his poor will the herb orpin, with which in the country children.

South.

they trim their houses, binding it to a lath or 3. (stowen, Dutch, to store.] A storepond; stick set against a wall,

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Some strike from clashing flints their fiery We are your only friends; stick by us, and we seed,

will stick by you.

Davenant. Some gather sticks the kindled fames to feed. The advantage will be ou our side, if we sticke

Dryden.
to its essentials.

Addison 2. Many instruments long and slender are

7. To be troublesome by adhering: with called sticks.

by or to. TO STICK. v.a. preterit stuck; participle

I am satisfied to trific away ny time, rather than let it stick by me.

Pope. pass. stuck. (stican, Saxon.) To fasten on so as that it may adhere.

8. To remain ; not to be lost. Two troops in fair array one moment show'd;

Proverbial sentences are formed into a verse, The next, a field with fallen bodies stro'v'd:

whereby they stick upon the mernory. Watts. The points of spears are stuck within the shield, 9. To dwell upon; not to forsake. The steeds without their riders scour the field,

If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop The knights unhors'd.

Dryden.

and buckle to it, and stice upon it with labour Would our ladies, instead of sticking on a

and thought, and not leave it till it has mastered patch against their country, sacrifice their seck

the difficuky.

Lock:. laces against the common enemy, what decrees

Every man, besides occasional affections, has ought not to be made in their favour! Addison,

beloved studies which the mind will more closely

stick to Oh for some pedant reign,

Luide Some gentle James to bless the land again;

10. To cause difficulties or scruple. To stick the doctor's chair unto the throne,

This is the difficulty that sticks with the most Give law to words, or war with words alone. reasonable of those who, from conscience, refuse Pope. to join with the revolution.

Swift. TO STICK: V.n.

II. To scruple ; to hesitate. 1. To adhere; to unite itself by its tena

It is a good point of cunning for a man to city or penetrating power.

shape the answer he would have in his own I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto

words and propositions; for it makes the other thy scales.

Eacon. E:.

part stick the less.

The church of Rome, un ier pretext of ex. The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketb.

position of scripture, doth not stick to add and alter.

Pucon. Bacon.

Rather than impute our miscarriages to our Though the sword be put into the sheath, we must not suffer is there to rust, or stick so fast

own corruption, we do not stick to arraign prcm vidence itself.

L'Estrange. as that we shall not be able to draw it readily when need requires.

Every one without hesitation supposes eter

Raleigh. I on your fame our sex a blot has thrown,

nity, and sticks not to ascribe infinity to duration,

Luche 'T will ever stick, thro' malice of your own. That two bodies cannot be in the same place,

Young

is a truth that no body any more sticks at, than 2. To be inseparable ; to be united with

at this maxim, that it is impossible for the same any thing. Generally in an ill sense. thing to be, and not to be.

Locke. Now does he feel

To stick at nothing for the publick interest, is His secret murthers sticking on his hands. Sbaks. represented as the retined part of the Venetian He is often stigmatized with it, as a note of wisdom.

Addison. infumy, to stick by him whilst the world lasteth. Some stick not to say, that the parson and ata

Sanderson,
torney forged a will.

Arbutinot. In their quarrels they proceed to calling 12. To be stopped; to be unable to pronames, till they light upon one that is sure to

cecd. stick.

Swift.

If we should fail. 3. To rest upon the memory painfully.

-We fail ! The going away of that which had staid so

But screw your courage to the sticking place, long, doch yet stick with me. Bacon, And we'll not fail.

Sbaispeare: 4. To stop; to lose motion.

They never doubted the commons; but heard None of those, who stick at this impediment, all stuck in the lords house, and desired the names have any cnemies so bitter and impicable as of those who hindered the agreement between they found theirs. Keilwell. the lords and commons,

Clarendon. I shudder at the name!

He threw: the trembling weapon pa s'd My blood runs backward, and my fault'ring Through nine bull-hides, each under other plac'd tongue

On his broad shield, and stuck within the last. Sticks at the sound. Smith.

Dryden. s. To resist emission.

13. To be embarrassed ; to be puzzied. Wherefore could I not pronounce amen? Where they stick, they are not to be farther I had most need of blessing, and amen

puzzled by putting them upon finding it out Stuck in my throat. Slakspear. themselves.

Locke. 6. To be constant to; to adhere with They will stick long at part of a demonstration, firmness: sometimes with to, and some

for want of perceiving the connexion of two times with by.

ideas, that, to one more exercised, is as visible as The knave will stick by thee, I can assure thee

any thing.

Locke. that: he will not out, he is true bred. Sluksp.

Souls a little more capacious can take in the The first contains a sticking fast to Chrisi,

connexion of a few propositions; but if the chain when the christian profession is persecuted; and

be prolix, here they stick and are confounded.

Watts. the second a rising from sin, as he rose, to a new christian life.

Tummond. 14. TO STICK out. To be prominent with Some stick to you, and some to t'other side.

deformity: Dryden.

His flesh is consuo ed away that it cannot be They could not but conclude that to be their

seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. interest, and, being so coaringid, pursue it and

Job. wich wit

T:totiuni, 15. TU STICK out. To refuse compliance.

TO STICK. v. a. (rrician, Saxon ; steken, STICKY. adj. [from stick.] Viscous; ad. Dutch.]

hesive ; glutinous. 1. To stab; to pierce with a pointed in. Herbs wbich last longest are those of strong strument.

smell, and with a sticky stalk.

Васот. The Heruli, when their old kindred fell sick, STIFF. adj. [ruf, Saxon; stiff, Danish; stuck them with a dagger.

Grew. styf, Swedish ; stifur, Islandick; stijf, 2. To fix upon a pointed body : as, he Dutch.] stuck the fruit upon his knife.

1. Rigid ; inflexible ; resisting Rexure; not 3. To fasten by transfixion.

flaccid ; not limber; not easily flexible ; Her death!

not pliant I'll stand betwixt; it first shall pierce my heart: They, rising on stif pinions, tower We will be stuck together on his dart. Dryden. The mid aerial sky.

Milton. 4. To set with something pointed.

The glittering robe
A lofty pile they rear;

Hung floating loose, or stiff with mazy gold.
The fabrick's front with cypress twigs they

Tbosor. strew,

2. Not soft ; not giving way; not fluid; And stick the sides with boughs of baleful yew.

Dryden.

not easily yielding to the touch.

Still less and less my boiling spirits flow; STI'CKINESS. n. s. [from sticky.] Adhe

And I grow stiff as cooling metals do. Drydens sive quality ; viscosity; glutinousness; Mingling with that oily liquor, they were tenacity.

wholly incorporate, and so grew more stif and T. STI'CKLE. v. a. [from the practice firm, making but one substance. Burud.

of prizefighters, who placed seconds 3. Strong; not easily resisted.
with staves or sticks to interpose occa-

On a stif gale
The Theban swan extends his wings. Derbami

. sionally. ] 1. To take part with one side or other.

4. Hardy ; stubborn; not easily subdued.

How stiff is my vile sense,
Fortune, as she's wont, turn'd fickle,

That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling
And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras.

Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract! 2. To contest ; to altercate ; to contend

Sbakspeare. rather with obstinacy than vehemence. s. Obstinate ; pertinacious. Let them go to't, and stickle,

We neither allow unmeet nor purpose the Whether a conclave or a conventicle. Cleavel. stif defence of any unnecessary custom herecoHeralds stickle, who got who,

fore received.

Hooker. So many hundred years ago.

Hudibras. Yield to others when there is cause; but it 3. To trim ; to play fast and loose ; to is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument. act a part between opposites.

Tagler. When he sees half of the christians killed,

A war ensues, the Cretans own their cause, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he

Stif to defend their hospitable laws. Dryden. stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and 6. Harsh ; not written with ease; conthe race of fiends.

Dryden. strained. STICKLEBAG. N. s. (properly stickleback,

Stiff, formal style.

Gordibert. from stick, to prick; pungitius, Latin.] 7. Formal; rigorous in certain ciremo. The smallest of fresh-water fish.

nies; not disengaged in behaviour ; A little fish called a sticklebag, withouts cales,

starched; affected. kath his body fenced with several prickles.

The French are open, familiar, and talkative;

Walton. the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved. STICKLER. n. s. [from stickle.]

Addisen. 1. A sidesman to fencers; a second to a

Stif forms are bad, but let not worse intrude, duellist ; one who stands to judge a

Nor conquer art and nature to be rude. Young.

8. In Shakspeare it seems to meari, strongly combat.

maintained, or asserted with good evi. Basilius came to part them, the sticllers au

dence.
thority being unable to persuade cholerick hear-
ers; and part them he did.

Sidney:
This is stiff news.

Shakspeare Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and

To Sri’FFEN. v. a. (rtifian, Saxon.] trumpets, whom the others should obey. Sidney. 1. To make stiff; to make inflexible; to

Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, make unpliant.
First fought t'infiame the parties, then to poise: When the blast of war blows in our ears,

The quarrel lov'd, but did the cause abhor; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
And did not strike to hurt, but make a noise. Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.
Dryden.

Sbakspeare. 2. An obstinate contender about anything. He stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart

Quercetanus, though the grand stickler for the from turning unto the Lord. 2 Cbronicles. tria prima, has this concession of the irresoluble- The poor, by them disrobed, naked lie, Dess of diamonds.

Boyle. Veil'd with no other covering but the sky The inferior tribe of common women have, in Expos'd to stiff" ning frosts, and drenching most reigns, been the professed sticklers for such

showers, as have acted against the true interest of the na- Which thicken'd air from her black bosom pours tion. Addison.

Sandys. The tory or high church clergy were the Her eyes grow stiffen'd, and with sulphur burn. greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceed

Drydema ings of king James 11.

Swift. 2. To make torpid. All place themselves in the list of the national church, though they are great sticklers for liberty

Her stif"ning grief,

W'ho saw her children Slaughter'd all at once, of conscience. Swift. Was dull to mine.

Dryden and Lite

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