Were l'a common laugher, or did use STALK. n. s. [from the verb.) 1. High, proud, wide, and stately step. To every new protestor. Sbakspeare. Bchind it forth there leat An ugly fiend, more foui chau dismal day; On abject orts and imitations; The which with monstrous stalk behind him Which, out of use, and stal d by other men, stept, Begin his fashion. Shakspeare. And ever as he went due watch upon him kept. TO STALE. V. n. (from the noun.] To Spenser. make water. Great Milton next, with high and haughty Having tied his beast t'a pale, stalks, And taken time for both to stale. Hudibras. Unsetter'd in majestick numbers walks. Addison. STA'LELY. adv. [from stale. ] Of old; of 2. (stele, Dutch.] The stem on which long time. flowers or fruits grow. All your promis'd mountains A stock-gillyflorrer, gently tied on a stick, put And seas I am so stalely acquainted with. into a steep glass full of quicksilver, so that the Ben Jonson. quicksilver cover it: after tive dats vou will and STA'LENESS. n. s. [from stale.] Oldness; the flower fresh, and the stalk harder and less flexible than it was. Bacon, state of being long kept ; state of being Small store will serve, where store, corrupted by time. All seasons, ripe for use hangs on the stalk. The beer and wine, as well within water as Milton. above, have not been palled; but somewhat better That amber attracts not basil, is wholy rethan bottles of the same drinks and staleness, pugnant unto truth; for if the leaves thereof, kept in a cellar. Bacon. or dried stalks, be stripped unto small straws, Provided our landlord's principles were sound, they arise unto amber, wax, and other electwe did not take any notice of the staleness of his ricks, no otherways than those of wheat and rye. provisions. Addison Brown. TO STALK. v. n. [rtealcan, Saxon.] Roses unbid, and ev'ry fragrant flow'r, 1. To walk with high and superb steps. Flew from their stalks to strew thy nuptial bow'r. It is used commonly in a sense of dis Dryden. like. 3. The stem of a quill. His monstrous enemy. Viewed with a glass, they appear made up of little bladders, like those in the plume or With sturdy steps came stalking in his sight. stalk of a quill. Grew, Spenser. Shall your city call us lord, STA'LKINGHORSE. n. s. [stalking and In that behalf by which we challeng'd it ? horse.) A horse either real or fictitious, Or shall we give the signal to our rage, And stalk in blood to our possession? Shaksp. by which a fowler shelters himself from Unfold th' eternal door: the sight of the game ; a mask; a preYou see before the gate what stalking ghost tence. Commands the guard, what sentries keep the Let the counsellor give counsel not for faction post. Dryden. but for conscience, forbearing to make the good With manly mien he stolk'd along the ground; of the state the stalkinghorse of his private ends. Nor wonted voice bely'd nor vaunting sound. Hakewill. Dryden, Hypocrisy is the devil's stalkingkorse, under Then stalking through the deep an affectation of simplicity and religion. He fords the ocean, while the topmost wave L'Estrange. Scarce reaches up his middle side. Addison. STA'LKY. adj. [from stalk.] Hard like a Vexatious thought still found my flying mind, stalk. Nor bound by limits, nor to place contin'd; It grows upon a round stalk, and at the top Haunted my nights, and terrified my days, Stall'd through my gardens, and pursued my STALL. n. s. [rreal, Saxon; stal, Dutch; bears a great stalky head. Mortimer, ways, Nor shut from artful bow'r, nor lost in winding stalla, Italian.] Prior, 1. A crib in which an ox is fed, or a horse Scornful turning from the shore is kept in the stable. My haughty step, I stalk'd the valley o'er. Pope. A herd of oxen then he carv’d, with high rais'd 2. It is often used with some insinuation heads, forg'd all of contempt or abhorrence. Of gold and tin, for colour mixt, and bellowing Bertran from their stall, Stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend Rusht to their pastures. Chapman. Pressing to be employ’d. Dryden. Duncan's horses, They pass their precious hours in plays and Beauteous and swift, the minions of the race, sports, Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, filung Till death behind came stalking on unseen. out, Shalspeare. 1 Kgs. 3. To walk behind a stalking horse or His fellow sought what lodging be'ccuid find; At last he found a stall where ozen stocd. cover. The king asked how far it was to a certain Dryden. town: they said six miles. Half an hour after 2. A bench or form where any thing is sct be asked again: one said six miles and a half. to sale. The king alighted out of his coach, and crept Stalls, balks, windows, under the shoulder of his led horse : and when Are smother'd up, leads till'd, and ridges hors'd some asked his majesty what he meant, I must With variable coinplexions; ail agreein", stalk, said he; for yonder town is sily, and flies In earnestness to see hiin. Sholspeare. B460%. They are nature's cuanser wares that lie en VOL. IV, V maze. the stall, exposed to the transient view of every STA'LLworn. adj. (stall and worn.) Long conmon eye. Glanville. kept in the stable. But it is probably Bess Hoy first found it troublesome to bawl, And therefore plac'd her cherries on a stall. a mistake for stalworth. [rrapelferð, Saxon, stout.] strode. Sbakspeare. Harley, the nation's great support, ST A'MINA. n. s. (Latin.] Returning home one day from court, 1. The first principles of any thing. Observ'd a parson near Whitehall 2. The solids of a human body. Cheap'ning old authors on a stall. Swift. 3. [stall, Swedish; stal, Armorick.] 'A 3. [In botany.] Those little fine threads small house or shed in which certain or capillaments which grow up within the Rowers of plants, encompassing trades are practised. All these together in one heap were thrown, round the style, and on which the apicer Like carcases of beasts in butcher's stall; grow at their extremities. And in another corner wide were strown 4. A slight sort of stuff. The antique ruins of the Romans fall. Spenser. STAMI'NEOUS. adj. [stamineus, Latin.] A. The seat of a dignified clergyman in the 1. Consisting of threads. choir. 2. Stamineous flowers are so far imperfect The pope creates a canon beyond the number as to want those coloured leaves which limited, and commands the chapter to assign unto such canon a stall in the choir and place in the are called petala, and consist only of the chapter. Ayliffe. stylus and the stamina; and such plants The dignified clergy, out of mere humility, as do bear these stamineous flowers Ray have called their thrones by the names of stalls. makes to constitute a large genus of Warburton, plants. TO STALL. v. a. (from the noun. n.] STA'MMEL. n. s. A species of red colour. 1. To keep in a stall or stable. Reedhood, the first that doth appear For such encheason, if you go nie, In stammel : scarlet is too dear. Ben Jonson, Few chimneys reeking you will espy; TO STAMMER. v. n. [reamer, a stamThe fat ox, that won't ligg in the stall, merer, Saxon ; stamelen, stameren, to Is now fast stalled in his crumenal. Spenser. For my part, he keeps me rustically at home; stammer, Dutch.] To speak with unor, to speak more properly, sties me here at natural hesitation ; to utter words with home unkept : for call you that keeping, for a difficulty. gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the Sometimes to her news of myself to tell stalling of an ox? Shakspeare. I go about : but then is all my best 'Nisus the forest pass'd, Wry words, and stamm'ring, or else doltisha And Alban plains, from Alba's name so callid, dumb : Where king Latinus then his oxen stalld. Dryd. Say then, can this but of enchantment come ? 2. [for install.] To invest. Sidney. Long may'st thou live to wail thy children's I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightst pour out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a And see another as I see thee now, narrow-mouth'd bottle, either too much at once, Deck'd in thy rights as thou art stallid in mine. or none at all. Sbakspeare. She stammers; oh what grace in lisping lies! If she says nothing, to be sure she's wise. Dryd. 1. To inhabit ; to dwell. Lagean juice, Which stammering tongues and stagg'ring feet We could not stall together in the world. Shak. produce. Dryden. 2. To kennel. Cornelius hoped he would come to stammer STA'LLAGE. n. s. [from stall.] like Demosthenes. Arbutbrei. 1. Rent paid for a stall. Your hearers would rather you should be less 2. [In old books.] Laystall; dung; com correct, than perpetually stammering, which is one of the worst solecisms in rhetorick. Swifi. post. STA'LLFED. adj. [stall and fed.] Fed not STA'NMERER.n. s. [from stammer.] One with grass, but dry feed. who speaks with hesitation. Every one must every day sustaine A stammerer cannot with moderation hope The load of one beast, the most fat and best for the gift of tongues, or a peasant to become Of all the stallfed, to the woer's feast. Chapman. To STAMP. v. a. [stampen, Dutch ; learned as Origen. Tegier. Arbutbrot. stamper, Danish.] Welsh word : the one is derived from downward. If Arcite thus deplore His suff'rings, Palemon yet suffers more : cannot certainly tell. Wotton. Estallion, He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the French ; stallone, Italian ; stalhengst, ground; Dutch. Junius thinks it derived from The hollow tow'r with camour rings around. grälan, to leap.] A horse kept for Drydre. mares. 2. To pound; to beat as in a mortar. The present defects are breeding without I took the calf you had made, burnt it wil choice of stallions in shape or size. Temple. fire, and stamped and ground it very small. Deut. If fleet Dragon's progeny at last, Some apothecaries, upon stamping of colo · Prove jaded, and in frequent matches cist, quintida, have been put into a great scouring by No favour for the stallion we retain, the vapour only Base And no respect for the degen’rate strain. Dryd3. [estampor, Fr. siampare, Ital.estampare loss; Spanish.) To impress with some mark 'T is gold so pure, or figure. It cannot bear the stamp without allay. Dryder. Height of place is intended only to stamp the 2. A mark set on any thing; impression. South. The stamp of kings imparts no more Worth, than the metal held before. Carew. That sacred name gives ornament and grace, complete. Pope. And, like his stams, makes basest metals pass: 4. To fix a mark by impressing it. "T were folly now a stately pile to raise, Out of mere ambition, you have made To build a playhouse, while you throw down Your holy hat be stampt on the king's coin. plays. Dryden. Shakspeare. Ideas are imprinted on the memory; some by These prodigious conceits in nature spring out an object affecting the senses only; others, thác of framing abstracted conceptions, instead of have more than once offered themselves, have those easy and primary notions which nature yet been little taken notice of; the mind, intent stamps in all men of common sense. Digby. only on one thing, not settling the stamp deep There needs no positive law or sanction of into itself. Locke, God to stamp an obliquity upon such a disobe 3. A thing marked or stamped. dience. South. The mere despair of surgery he cures; No constant reason of this can be given, but Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, from the nature of man's mind, which hath this Put on with holy prayers. Sbaespeare. notion of a deity born with it, and stamped upon 4. A picture cut in wood or metal; à it; or is of such a frame, that in the free use of picture made by impression ; a cut; a * itself it will find out God. Tillotson. plate. Though God has given us no innate ideas of At Venice they put out very curious stamps himself; though he has stampt no original cha- of the several edifices, which are most famous racters on our minds, wherein we may read his for their beauty and magnificence. Addişuna being; yet having furnished us with those faculries our minds are endowed with, he hath not 5. A mark s«t upon things that pay cus. left himself without witness. Locke, toms to the government. What titles had they had, if nature had not Indeed the paper stimp Strove hard to thrust the worst deserving first, Did very much his genius cramp; And since he could not spend his fire, Surift . What an unspeakable happiness would it be 6. A character of reputation, good or bad, to a man engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, fixed upon any thing. if he had but a power of stamping his best senti. The persons here reflected upon are of such ments upon his memory in indelible characters! a peculiar stamp of impiety, that they seem Watts. forined into a kind of diabolical society for the 5. To make by impressing a mark. finding out new experiments in vice. South, If two pennyweight of silver, marked with a Where reason or scripture is expressed for certain impression, shall here in England be any opinion, we may receive it as of divine auequivalent to three pennyweight marked with thority; but it is not the strength of our own another impression, they will not fail to stamp persuasions which can give it that stamp. Locke. pieces of that fashion, and quickly carry away 7. Authority: currency; value derived your silver, Locke. from any suffrage or attestation. 6. To mint ; to form ; to coin. Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded We are bastards all; upon us, that an adamant suspends the attracAnd that most verterable man, which I tion of the loadstone. Brorun. Did call my father, was I know not where The common people do not judge of vice or When I was stampt. Sbakspeare. virtue by the morality or immorality, so much TO STAMP. v. n. To strike the foot sud- as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. L'Estrange. denly downward. What a fool art thou, 8. Make; cast ; form. A ramping fool, to brag, to stamp and swear, If speaking truth In this tine age were not thought flatt'ry, Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave, Such attribution should this Douglas have, As not a soldier of this season's stump. Should gąso general current through the world. ing_of the hoofs of his strong horses. Jeremiáb. Sbakspeare. There is such an echo among the old ruins When one man of an exemplary improbity, and vaults, that, if you stamp but a little louder charges another of the saine stamp in a court of whan ordinary, you hear the sound repeated. justice, he lies under the disadvantage of a strong Addison. suspicion. 1.' Estrange. Let a friend to the government relate to hin He cannot bear th' astonishing delight, But starts, exclaims, and stomps, and raves, and a matter of fact, he gives him the lye in every dies. Dennis. look ; but if one of his own stamp should tell They got to the top, which was flat and even, him that the king of Sweden would be suddenly at Perth, he hugs himself at the good news. and stamping upon it, they found it was hollow, Addison. Swift. A king of heav'n's own stamp, not vulgar STAMP. n. so [estampe, Fr. stampa, Ital.] make; 1. Any instrument by which a distinct and Blessed in giving, and averse to take. Harte. lasting impression is made. STAʼMPER. n. s. ( from stamp.] An in- From the stamping-inill it passeth through the crazing-mill; bui of late times they mostly use She bas a stamp, and prints the buy. Waller, wet stampersa Carew. a STAN, among our forefathers, was the 1. To be upon the feet; not to sit, knecl, termination of the superlative degree : or lie down. so Athelstar, most noble ; Betstan, the The absolution to be pronounced by the priest best ; Leofstan, the dearest; Wistan, alone standing, the people still kneeling. the wisest'; Dunstan, the highest. Common Prayer. Gibson's Camden. 2. To be not demolished or overthrown. What will they then? what but unbuild TO STANCH. v. a. [estancher, French ; A living temple, built by faith to stand? Milt. stagnare, Italian.) To stop blood; tó ģ. To be placed as an edifice. hinder from running. This poet's tomb stood on the other side of Iron or a stone, laid to the neck, doth stanch Naples, which looks towards Vesuvio. Addiset. the bleeding of the nose. Bacon. 4. To remain erect; not to fall. Of veins of earth medicinal are terra lemnia, To stand or fall, terra sigillata, communis, and bolus armenus; Free in thy own arbitrement it lies. Milton. whereof terra lemnia is the chief: the virtues of Chariot and charioteer lay overturn'd, them are for curing of wounds, stanching of And fiery foaming steeds: what stood, recoil'd blood, and stopping of Auxes and rheums. Bacon, O'erwearied through the faint Satanick host, Leeches, inwardly taken, fasten upon the Defensive scarce; or, with pale fear surpris'd, veins, and occasion an effusion of blood, which Fled ignominious. Miltes. cannot be easily stancbed. Brown. s. To become erect. He fought to hinder fighting, and assay'd Mute, and amaz'd, my hair with horror stood; To stanch the blood by breathing of the vein. Dryden. Dryden. TO STANCH. v. n. To stop. Her hair stood up; convulsive rage possess'd A woman touched the hem of his garment, Her trembling limbs. Drydes. and immediately her issue stanched. Luke. 6. To stop ; to halt; not to go forward. STANCH. adj. [This seems to come from The leaders, having charge from you to the verb.) stand, 1. Sound; such as will not run out. Will not go off until they hear you speak. What we endeavoured in vain may be per Sbakspears. formed by some virtuoso, that shall have stancher Sun in Gideon stand, vessels, and more sunny days. Boyle. And thou moon in the vale of Ajalon. Milten 2. Firm; sound of principle; trusty ; Mortal, who this forbidden path In arms presum'st to tread, I charge thee stand, hearty ; determined. And tell thy name. The standing absurdity, without the belief of Drydes. which no man is reckoned a stanch churchean, 7. To be at a stationary point, without is, that there is a calf's-head club. Addison. progress or regression. In politicks, I hear, you 're stanch, This nation of Spain runs a race still of emDirectly bent against the French. Prior. pire, when all other states of Christendom stand They mean to convince, not the grovelling at a stay Bacon, herd, or giddy populace, but the grave and Immense the pow'r, immense were the de stanch men, men of sobriety and firmness. mand; Waterland. Say, at what part of nature will they stand? Each staunch polemick stubborn as a rock, Pepee Each fierce logician still expelling Locke, 8. To be in a state of firmness, not vacil. Came whip and spur. lation. 3. In this sense is used a stanch hound. A Commonwealths by virtue ever stood. Davies. dog that follows the scent without er My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd, rour or remissness. And stable as the fabrick of the world, 4. Strong; not to be broken. Propt on itself. Dryder. If I knew 9. To be in any posture of resistance or What hoop would hold us stanch from edge to defence. edge Seeing how lothly opposite I stood O'th' world, I would pursue it. Shakspears. To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion You will lose their love : this is to be kept With his prepared sword he charges home stanch, and carefully watched. Locke. Sbakspeers. STA'NCHER. n. s. [from stanch.) One that From enemies heav'n keep your majesty ; stops blood. And when they stand against you, may they fall. STA'NCHION. n. 5- [estançon, French.) A Sbakspeare. {: prop; a support. 10. To be in a state of hostility ; to keep STA'NCHLESS. adj. [from stanch.] Not the ground. to be stopped. If he would presently yield, Barbarossa proThere grows, mised to let him go free; but if he should stard In my most ill-compos'd affection, such upon his defence, he threatened to make him repent his foolish hardiness. Knolla. A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, The king granted the Jews to gather theme I should cut off the nobles for their lands. Shakspeare. selves together, and stand for their life. Esiber. We are often constrained to stand alone against She unto Scythia sent, for hunger him to the strength of opinion. Brown. gnaw, And thrust her down his throat, into his staunch It was by the sword they should die, if they less maw. Drayton. stood upon defence; and by the halter, if they should yield. TO STAND. v. n. preterit I stood, I have Hayward. II. Not to yield; not to fly; not to give stood. (standan, Gothick and Saxon; way: staen, Dutch; stare, Italian ; estar, Who before him stood so to it? for the Lord Spanish; stare, Latin.] brought his enemies unto him, Eecksiautinuidia Pope. All which grace The sea, Put on the whole armour of God, that ye If it stand may be able to stand against the wiles of the Within the eye of honour, be assur'd devil. Ephesians. My purse, my person, my extremest means, Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, Lie all unlock'd to your occasions. Shakspeare. whether they stood to it or ran away. Bacon. My very enemy's dog, 12. To stay; not to fly. Though he had bit me, should have stood that Then the lightning-loving Deity cast night A foule flight on my soldiers: nor stood fast Against my fire. Sbakspeare. One man of all. Chapman. This excellent man, who stood not on the ad. At the soldierly word stand, the flyers halted vantage-ground before, provoked men of all a little. Clarendon. qualities. Clarendon. 13. To be placed with regard to rank or Chariots wing'd order. From th' armoury of God, where stand of old Milton. Amongst liquids endued with this quality of relaxing, warm water stands first. Årbutbrot. 20. To be in any state at the time present. Theology would truly enlarge the mind, were Opprest nature sleeps: it studied with that freedom and that sacred This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses, Watts, Sbakspeare. So it stands ; and this I fear at last, 14. To remain in the present state. Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck. If meat make my brother offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth. 1 Corinthians, Sbakspeare. That sots and knaves should be so vain To wish their vile resemblance may remain; I now will amplify, and tell what case And stand recorded, at their own request, Thy household stands in. Chapman. Our company assembled, I said, My dear To future days a libel or a jest ! Dryden. friends, let us know ourselves, and how it standIS. [estar, Spanish.) To be in any par- etb with us. Bacon. ticular state ; to be, emphatically ex- Gardiner was made king's solicitor, and the pressed. patent, formerly granted to Saint-John, stood revoked. Clarendon. Aw'd by the rod of Moses so to stand Why stand we longer shivering under fears? Divided. Milton, Milten. Accomplish what your signs foreshow : As things now stand with us, we have no I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go. Dryden. power to do good after that illustrious manner He struck the snakes, and stood again our Saviour did. Calama, New sex'd, and straight recover'd into man. 21. To be in a permanent state. Addison. The broil doubtful long stood, They expect to be favoured, who stand not, As two spent swimmers that do cling together, possessed of any one of those qualifications that And choke their art. Sbakspeare. belonged to him. Atterbury. I in thy persevering shall rejoice, Some middle prices shew us in what pro- And all the blest stand fast. Milton. portion the value of their lands stood, in regard 22. To be with regard to condition or for. to those of our own country. Arbuthnot. tune. God, who sees all things intuitively, does not I stand in need of one whose glories may want these helps: he neither stands in need of Redeem my crimes, ally me to his fame. Drod, logick, nor uses it. Baker. Persians and Greeks like turns of nature 23. To have any particular respect. found, Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound. Pope. Mumbling of wicked charms, conj'ring the Narrow capacities, imagining the great capable of being disconcerted by little occasions, To stand's auspicious mistress. Sbakspeare. An utter unsuitableness disobedience has to frame their malignant fables accordingly, and the relation which man necessarily stands in to. stand detected by it, as by an evident mark of Pope. wards his Maker.. ignorance. South. 16. Not to become void ; to remain in 24. To be without action. A philosopher disputed with Adrian the emforce. peror, and did it but weakly: one of his friends, God was not ignorant that the judges, whose that stood by, said, Meihinks you were not like sentence in matters of controversy he ordained yourself last day in argument with the em. should stand, oftentimes would be deceived. peror; I could have answered better myself. Hooker. Why, said the philosopher, would you have me contend with him that commands thirty legions? That no conditions of our peace can stand. Bacon. Sbakspeare. 25. To depend; to rest ; to be supported. I will punish you, that ye may know that my This reply standeth all by conjectures. words shall surely stand against you for evil.fer. My mercy will I keep for him, and my cove Whitgift. nant shall stand fast with him. Psalms. The presbyterians of the kirk, less forward to declare their opinion in the former point, stand 17. To consist ; to have its being or es upon the latter only. Sanderson. sence. He that will know, must by the connexion of That could not make him, that did the service, the proofs see the truth and the ground it stands perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, which Locke. stood only in meats and drinks. Hebrews, 26. To be with regard to state of mind. 18. To be with respect to terms of a con- Stand in awe and sin not: commune with your tract. own heart upon your bed, and be still. Psalms. The hirelings stand at a certain wages. Carew. I desire to be present, and change my voice, ig. To have a place. for I stand in doubt of yoil. Gulal ans, moon on. |