Sticking
Stick″ing, a. & n. from Stick, v.Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. — Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point.But screw y...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Stickit
Stick″it (?), a. Stuck; spoiled in making.Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
Stickle
Stic″kle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Stickled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti�tlen, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. ...
Stickle (2)
Stic″kle, v. t. 1. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.Which violently they pursue,Nor stickled would they be. Drayton.2. To intervene in; to ...
Stickle (3)
Stic″kle, n. [Cf. stick, v. t. & i.] A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.Patient anglers, standing all the dayNear to some shallow stickle or deep ba...
Stickleback
Stic″kle‐back′ (?), n. [OE. & Prov E. stickle a prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Banstickle.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small fi...
Stickler
Stic″kler (stĭk″klẽr), n. [See Stickle, v. t.] One who stickles. Specifically: —(a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.Basilius, the judge, a...
Sticktail
Stick″tail′ (?), n. The ruddy duck.
Sticky
Stick″y (?), a. [Compar.Stickier (?); superl.Stickiest.] Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.Herbs which last lon...
Stiddy
Stid″dy (?), n. [See Stithy.] An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy. Halliwell.
Stiff
Stiff (?), a. [Compar.Stiffer (?); superl.Stiffest.] [OE. stif, AS. stīf; akin to D. stijf, G. steif, Dan. stiv, Sw. styf, Icel. stīfr, Lith. stipti to be stiff; cf. L. stipes a...
Stiff-backed
Stiff″–backed′ (?), a. Obstinate. J. H. Newman.
Stiff-hearted
Stiff″–heart′ed (?), a. [Stiff + heart.] Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious. Ezek. ii. 4.
Stiff-necked
Stiff″–necked′ (?), a. Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
Stiff-neckedness
Stiff″–neck′ed‐ness (?), n. The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
Stiff-tailed
Stiff″–tailed′ (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
Stiffen
Stiff″en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Stiffened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Stiffening.] [See Stiff.] 1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.Stif...
Stiffen (2)
Stiff″en, v. i. To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. Dryden.The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. Dryden.Some s...
Stiffener
Stiff″en‐er (?), n. One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Stiffening
Stiff″en‐ing, n. 1. Act or process of making stiff.2. Something used to make anything stiff.Stiffening order(Com.), a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo ...
Stiffish
Stiff″ish, a. Somewhat stiff.
Stiffly
Stiff″ly (?), adv. In a stiff manner.
Stiffness
Stiff″ness, n. The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.The vices of old age have the stiffness o...
Stifftail
Stiff″tail′ (?), n. The ruddy duck.
Stifle
Sti″fle (?), n. [From Stiff.] (Far.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in m...
Stifle (2)
Sti″fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Stifled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Stifling (?).] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. stīfla to dam up.] 1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into...
Stifle (3)
Sti″fle (?), v. i. To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.You shall stifle in your own report. Shak.