He by the authority which he hath, as king of heraulds and armes: giueth to him his heires these and these armes : which being done, I think he may be called a squire, for he beareth euer after those armes. Smith. Commonwealth, b. i. c. 20. Amo. From squiring to tilt-yards, play-houses pageants, and all such publique places. Chorus. Good Mercury defend us. B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act v. sc. 11. Bp. Hall, Sat. 2. SQUIRR, v. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xx. The origin of this word must be the A. S. Scyr-an, to cut, to divide. See SHIRE, SHEER. To squir, is to scur,-to cut along, to cause to cut along; to move as any thing cutting through the air; (to shoot, sheer away.) Squirt (squirred, squir'd, squirt)—is that which is scurred or sent cutting along. To squirt, (formed upon the n.)— To send, to cast, to eject,-(cutting through, dividing the air.) A squirt, (the instrument)—that which casts, ejects, &c. If a man be never so apt to shoote, nor never so well taughte in his youth to shoote, yet if he geve it over, and not use to shoote, truly when he shall be eyther compelled in warre time for his countrys sake, or else provoked at home for his pleasure sake, to faule to his bowe: he shall become of a fayre archer, a starke squyrter and dribber Ascham. Toxophilus, b. i. And [I judge therefore the likeliest way to be] the watring of those lumps of dung, with squirts of an infusion of the medicine in dunged water, once in three or four dayes. Bacon. Naturall Hist. § 500. Quoth warlike Warwickshire, I'll bind the sturdy bear.' Quoth Wor'stershire again, And I will squirt the pear.' Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 23. The like devise to this, namely of clystres, we learned first of a foule in the same Egypt, which is called Ibis (or the black storke.) This bird having a crooked and hooked bill, useth it in stead of a syringe or pipe, to squirt water into that part, whereby it is most kind and holsome to void the doung and excrements of meat, and so purgeth and cleanseth her bodie.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 27. Yet stay, I think that I to mind recal, Duke. Ep. to Mr. Otway. The squirters were at it with their kennel water, for they were mad for the loss of their bubble.-Arbuthnot. One single red coat centinel And, with his squirt-fire, could disperse Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 2. Spectator, No. 77. There might menne does and roes isee From bough to bough alway leping -Chaucer. R. of the R. Coridon unto her brought Or litle sparrowes stolen from their nest, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 9. The squirrils also foresee a tempest comming, and where the wind will blow: for looke in what corner the wind is like to stand, on that side they stop up the mouth of their oles. & make an orerlure on the other side against it. Moreover a goodly broad busht taile they have, where with they cover their whole bodie-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 38. There are few readers that are not as well acquainted with the figure of a squirrel as that of the rabbit; but supposing it unknown to any, we might give them some idea of its from, by comparing it to a rabbit, with shorter ears, and a longer tail-Goldsmith. Animated Nature, b. v. c. 1. The morning came when neighbour Hodge, And bore the worthless prize away.-Cowper. A Fable. How now, goodman squitter-breech, why do you lean on me?-Beaum. & Fletch. A King & No King, Act ii. STAB, v. Whan this was set & stabled, & pes cried on hil, R. Brunne, p. 139 Therfor rightfulnesse is of the feith, that bi grace biheest be stable to ech seed.—Wiclif. Romayns, c. 4. And ech dai thei dwelliden stabli with oo wille in the Skinner says, perhaps from the in bering, in chere, and in dede. To all that are engendred in this place." Id. The Knighles Tale, v. 2997. Wiste thou not well that all the lawe of kinde is my lawe, Id. The Testament of Lone. it was a short spear or javelin, the iron whereof and by God ordeined and stablished to dure by kinde reasoun. A stab, seems to be The wound inflicted (by a staffsword, or) by a Clarence is come, false, fleeting, periur'd Clarence, Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 4. Whit. Speak Captaine, shall I stab the forlorn swain. But issues, ere the fight, his dread command, Dryden. Palamon & Arcile, b. iii. Critics of old, a manly liberal race, Approv'd or censur'd with an open face: Nor stabb'd, conceal'd beneath a ruffian's mask. Lloyd. Epistle to C. Churchill. But there is one species of manslaughter which is punished And as he and ys conseil stable conseil nome, Id. p. 123. Id. p. 551. Whan this thing was grant, Henry dred disceite, If it [pitee] be medled with justice, And ben of vertue most vailable To make a kinges roylme stable.-Gower. Con. A. b vii. That in my fleshe, for terrour of thy yre, Is not one poynt of ferme stabilytye.—Wyatt, Ps. 38. And all this he teacheth hys church by himself and hys owne spirite, accordyng to hys owne promise euermore abiding therin to leade it into al necessary truth, to thetent that his catholike church may be to euery man that wil learne therof & giue credence therunto as himself com. maŭdeth eueri mã to do, a very sure stablishment and a stronge pyller of trouthe, as wel in perceining which is ye true scripture, as the necessary learnyng of ye true vnderstandyng of the scrypture.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 665. But nowe what great cause should moue mee to beare that great affeccion to the pope, as to faine al these thinges for stablishemet of his kyngdome-Id. p. 1120. My nature, is subuect vnto corruption and voide of all stablenesse.-Fryth. Workes. p. 83. This is a doubtie kind of accusation, which they vrge against me, wherein they are stabled and mired at my first deniall.-Holinshed. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1524. Thinking this [the bare title of Christians] sufficient for their soules health, and the stablishment of his monachisme, of which kind of profession, the holie scriptures of God can in no wise like or allow-Id. Description of Britaine, c. 9. First hauing followed ore the stable ground, My course I next did hold, In hope the truth t'vnfold —Stirling. Aurora, Son. 3. But lightly treading thereupon, doth shift, Drayton. The Monn-Calf. My weake estate to stablish come thou art, And this very observation will give good light in our questions and disputes: and I give my instance in episcopal long a blessing, hath its firmament by the principles of government, which hath been of so lasting an abode, of so Christianity, hath been blessed by the issues of that stabili ment.-Bp. Taylor, vol iii. Ser. 6. Jews in circumcision. Which number [eight] being the first cube, is a fit hiero- Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3, Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, d. iil. The highest possible stability is to be absolutely independant, absolutely uncaused: this is the strongest security against all possible chances or failures. Waterland. Works, vol. iv p. 4. The church, to which our Lord premises stability and a final conquest over the power of the grave, is the building raised by himself, as the master-builder. STABLE, n. STA'BLE, V. STA'BLING, N. STA'BLERESS. Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 13. Fr. Estable; It. Stilla; Sp. Establia; Lat. Stabulum, a stando. A standing or station for cattle, &c., or a place where cattle stand. See STALL. And that hous of Malmesbury, that an old hous was tho, Is stole. than he taketh hede, As soon as you alight at the inn, deliver your horses to the stable-boy, and let him gallop them to the next pond. Swift Directions to Servants. Smit with the calm, The dead serene of prosperous fortune, pin'd. First see it well fenced, ere hewers begin, Id. Ib. For it is commonlie seene that those yoong staddles which we leaue standing at one & twentie yeeres fall, are vsuallie at the next sale cut downe. Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 22. Like to coppice woods, that if you leaue in them staddles too thicke, they will runne to bushes and briars, and haue little cleane vnder-wood.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 74. So towards old Sylvanus they her bring; STAD-HOLDER. STA'DHOLDERship. Dut. Stad-houder, locum tenens, one holding the stead or place (sc. of another). The stadholders were stewards, or vicegerents to the various princes who possessed the sovereignty. Neither stadtholder or governor, or any person in military charge, has session in the States-general. Sir W. Temple. Works, vol. i. p. 107. In Holland, soon after the exaltation of the late prince of Orange to the stadtholdership, a tax of two per cent. or the fiftieth penny, as it was called, was imposed upon the whole substance of every citizen. STAFF. STAVE, n. STAVE, V. STA'FFER. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 2. With rapid speed Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxii. Any thing stiff, strong or firma prop or support; a stick used to walk with; used as a badge of office. See TIP-STAFF. A staff of officers,—a set or established number. A staff or stave, in poetry or musick,—a set, established, regular series or succession of verse or lines. To stave, to do any thing with staves; to make with staves, to part or fence off (with staves); { to strike with, to break or separate, to burst Surrey. Virgile. Encis, b. iv. through-the staves. Stack pease upon hovell, abroad in the yard, Tusser. Husbandry. August. In stacking of bavin, and piling of logs, And though in winter we to moisture much incline, The Indians (I meane the sect of their wise men) lay themselves quietly upon a stacke of wood, and so sacrifice themselves by fire.-Bucon. Ess. Of Custom & Education. While the marquess (Buckingham] and his servant (being both on foot) were chasing the kid about the stack, the prince from horseback killed him in the head with a Scottish pistol. Reliquiæ Wotton. p. 216. His prædia in like maner were tributes, tolles, portage, bankage, stackage, coinage, profits by saltpits, milles, water courses (and whatsoeuer emoluments grew by them) and such like.-Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. By being obliged to sell his corn by retail, he was obliged to keep a great part of his capital in his granaries and stackyard through the year, and could not therefore cultivate so well as with the same capital he might otherwise have done. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 5. STA'DDLE, n. Į A. S. Stath-ol, (stad-dal,) STA'DDLE, V. stede, a place, a standing place. That on which any thing stands or has stood the bottom, the foundation; any thing that remains standing, as young trees left uncut, and (as in Spenser) a staff cut from such trees. And mid staues of hegges, defondede hem a boute, And slow of this luther men monyon in the route. R. Gloucester, p. 126. He taughte Thomme Stone. to take two staves And fetche Felice home. Piers Ploukman, p. 82. And Jhesus answerde and seide to hem; as to a theef ye han gon out with swerdis and staves to take me. Wiclif. Mark, c. 14. And Jesus answered and sayd vnto them: ye bee come out as vnto a thefe with sweardes & with staues, for to take me.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Ful longe were his legges, and ful lene, Chaucer. Prol, to the Canterbury Tales, v. 573. Sire Thopas drow abak ful fast; Gower. Con. A. Prol. The hunting staues with their brod heads of steele. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. A witte in youth, that is not over dulle, heavie, knottie, and lumpishe, but hard, tough, though somewhat staffishe. Ascham. The Schole-master, b. i. If the searchers find any irreverent expressions] in the cargo, let them be staved or forfeited like contraband goods. Id. Preface to the Fables. A cask in one place and a cask in another; some on the shore, and some half a mile in the woods; and some stav'd Dampier. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. iii. c. 6. But it is high time now to come to antiquity; which has been so long staved off.-Waterland. Works, vol. iii. p. 67. "The fox, the wicked fox!" was all the cry; Out from his house ran every neighbour nigh; The vicar first, and after him the crew With forks and staves, the felon to pursue. against the trees and leek'd out. Dryden. The Cock and the Fox. But I saw, with regret, that the attempt could not be made at either place, unless at the risk of having our boats filled with water, or even staved to pieces. Cook. Second Voyage, b. ii. c. 1. Seems now the sad requiem, loads the gale; Last, o'er the warrior's closing grave, Rung the full choir in choral stave. Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 5. STAG. Skinner suggests Stig-an, to stick, pungere, from the sharp horns. Junius,-the Gr. Στειχ- ειν, Tooke believes it to to go in order. be "the past part. of the A. S. Stig-an, to raise; the raised and lofty head of the animal being the most striking circumstance at the first sight of him." See STAGE; and see the quotation from Drayton and Milton. The bucke or stag, albeit that he be the most gentle and mild beast in the world, yet is he as envious as the rest, and loth to part with that which is good for others. Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 32. When as those fallow deer, and huge-haunch'd stags that graz'd Upon her shaggy heaths, the passenger amaz'd Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 12. We apply stage-1. To any elevated place; to scaffoldings or buildings raised for various purposes: 2. To corporeal progress, as, at this stage of my journey; at this stage of the business; at this stage of life: 3. To degrees of mental advancement in or toward any knowledge, talent, or excellence; and formerly also as we now use story Spenser, Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8. (of a house.) See STY. At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came Stager, one accustomed to act a part on the stage; an experienced performer or person. Staged man, (Holinshed),-a performer on a stage. And a ghoung man Euticus bi name sat on the wyndowe whanne he was fallun into an heuy sleep while Poul disputide longe, al slepynge he fel doun fro the thridde stage. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 20. Than syr Henry, and iiii. with hym, issued out and came to syr Bartilmewe, and to John de Guystelles, and they brought hym to the myne, and there shewed hym how the great toure stode but on stages of tymbre. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 208. But yet as a siaged man can not alwaies dissemble and cloke himselfe, so this man, who to haue his will ouer me & to depraue me, inueigheth against the second point, thinking and meaning by reproouing me to be a lier therein, to condemne all the rest. Holinshed. The Conquest of Ireland, Pref. Me thought I seighe vpon a stage, Gower. Con. A. Prol. Aloft if thou do liue, as one appointed here Vncertaine Auctors. The Praise of a True Frende. O if my temples were distain'd with wine, Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. October This world they'd think a fable, e'en as we Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 32. Your prince, I say, may beat you, so far forth as his dominion reacheth, that's for the distance, the time, ten miles a day, I take it. 2. Brother, you err, 'tis fifteen miles a day, His stage is ten, his beatings are fifteen. Beaum. & Fletch. A King and no King, Act iv. Nor may this be called an histrionick parada, or stagely visard and hypocrysy, while women seek to appear advantaged in stature, or in beauty. Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 168. And safe in your stage-cloaths Dare quit upon your oaths, The stagers, and the stage-wrights too (your peers) B. Jonson. The just Indignation of the Author. While he is so over greedy to fix a name of ill sound upon another, note how stupid he is to expose himself or his own friends to the same ignominy; likening those grave controversies to a piece of stagery, or scene-work. Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuns. 'Tis true, some stagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. The clause in the beginning of it ("without a series of action") distinguishes satire properly from stage-plays, which are all of one action, and one continued series of action-Id. Juvenal, Ded. To pay my duty to sweet Mrs. Page, A place was taken in the Stamford stage. Our coachman Dick, the shades of night to shun, Fawkes. The Stage Coach. O sweet retirement, who would balk the thought, Cowper. Retirement. She riste her vp, and stakkereth here & there. Than sir Bouciquaut, to acoplisshe sir Peters desire, came forthe, and ran and met eche other in ye myddes of their sheldes so rudely, yt both their horses stakered in the place. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 168. Then the disciples and apostles (because they were yet but fieble in the faythe) must nedes haue woondered, stonned, and staggered, and haue been more inquisitiue therin then they were.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1112. My writhled cheekes beuraye, that pride of heate is past, If sundrie of our predecessours, or elders haue donne certaine thinges, which at that time might wel be donne without hurte, and afterwarde are turned into errour, and superstition, withoute any staggeringe, and with greate authoritie let them be destroled, and abolished by the successours.-Jewell. Defence of the Apologie, p. 309. "Thrise happy man." said then the father grave, "Whose staggering steps thy steady hand doth lead, And shewes the way his sinfull soule to save!" Spenser. Faerie Queene, b i. c. 10. Tydides rais'd a stone, With his one hand, of wondrous weight, and pour'd it manly on The hip of Anchisiades, wherein the ioynt doth moue The thigh, tis cald the huckle bone, which all in sherds it drove ; Brake both the nerves, and with the edge, cut all the flesh away: It staggerd him upon his knees, and made th' Heroe stay His strooke-blind temples on his hand, his elbow on the earth. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v. Cym. Does the world go round? Posth. How comes these staggers on mee? Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 5. While we are but staggeringly evil, we are not left without parentheses of consideration. thoughtful rebukes, and merciful interventions to recall us to ourselves. Brown. Christian Morals, vol. i. p. 30. The immediate forerunners of an apoplexy are commonly a vertigo, staggering, loss of memory, stupor, &c. Arbuthnot. On Diet, c. 5. At this they were so much staggered, that they plainly discovered their ignorance of the effect of fire arms. Cook. Third Voyage, b. iv. c. 3. To fly for refuge from distracting thought STAGNANT. STA'GNATE, V. Cowper. Task, b. v. Fr. Stagnant; It. Stagnante; Lat. Stagnans, from Stagnum, which Vossius derives from the Gr. Σreyvov, and this from σrey-ew, continere, non sinere elabi, to hold or keep in; to stay, to prevent from flowing or moving. Held or retained from motion; still, calm, motionless, inert. Though the country people are so wise To call these rivers, they're but stagnancies, They run, they fly, till flying on obscure, They remain here till the water drains off from the land; and then confine themselves to the stagnant ponds; and when they are dry, they ramble away to some creek or river. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1676. Unexercised reason will melt away in sloth and idleness, and all its vital powers freeze for want of motion, and, like standing water, stagnate and gather mire, and by degrees corrupt and putrify.-Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 3. If the water runneth, it holdeth clear, sweet, and fresh ; but stagnation turneth it into a noisome puddle. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 18. The divers affirmed to him, that sometimes at the bottom of the deep waters, there seemed to be a stagnation of the sea for a great depth.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 354. nant, putrid air of the country, All but Tupia fell a sacrifice to the unwholesome, stag Cook. First Voyage, b. iii. c. 10. It sleeps; and th' icy touch Of unprolific winter has impress'd Cowper. Task, b. vi 'Stain is formed from distain, as 'sdain from disdain, (see DisTAIN,) from the Fr. Des-teindre, -to dead or take away the colour of Fr. Teindre, from Lat. Tingere. STAIN, v. STAIN, n. STA'INER. STAINLESS. To tinge, to dye, to sully; (met.) to sully with disgrace, dishonour, infamy; to disgrace, to dishonour. So that wt the goldsmythes toke partie the felysshep or craft of and with the tayllours helde ye craft of stayners-Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 1270 My Tirians eke for thee Ar wroth; by thee my shamefastnes eke stained, Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. With which infami he wold not haue his honoure stayned for any crowne.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 65. The phoenix wings are not so rare Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii. "But if she had her least helpe to thee lent, T' adorne thy forme according thy desart, For from thy wombe a famous progenee The hare-belle for her stainlesse azur'd hue, See what reward the grateful senate yield, Rowe. Lucan's Pharsalia b. i. Yet not entirely from their censure free, Crabbe. Tales of the Hall, b. viii. STAIR, n. Dut. Steghe, stegher; Ger. Steg; Sw. Steg; A. S. Stag-er; from Dut. Steghen; Ger. Steigen; A. S. Stig-an, to go up, to ascend, (Skinner.) And see Tooke, and STIE. (or as Chaucer and Fabyan write, steyer,) means An ascender, that which or that by which we ascend, go or come up, climb, mount. But by a venturous grace, I rise and walkt, sought pace and pace, Till I a winding staire found. Stair, Chaucer. Dreame. It is so hie from thens I lie, and the common yerth, there ne is cable in no land maked, that might stretche to me, to drawe me into blisse, ne steyers to steye on is none, so that without recouer endlesse, here to endure I wote well I purueide.-Id. The Testament of Love, b. i. At Bedforde this yere at the keping of a shire daie by the falling of a steyer, were xviii murdered and slaine. Fabyan. Chronycle, vol. ii. p. 434. But, ere my hoped day of spousall shone, My dearest lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone, And cruelly was slaine.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c.2. The Thames, by water when I took the air, That danc'd my barge, in lanching from the stair? Drayton. Elenor Cobham to Duke Humphry To make a compleat stair-case, is a curious piece of archi. tecture; the vulgar cautions are these: that it have a very liberal light; that the space above the head be large and aery; that the half paces be well distributed; that the whole stair-case have no nigard latitude. Reliquia Wolloniana, p. 35, The troop retires, the lovers close the rear, With forward faces not confessing fear: Backward they move, but scorn their pace to mend, Dryden. Cymon & Iphigenia. STAKE, n. STAKE, V. Skinner, from the verb to stick ;-Dut. Steken, Ger. Steken; A. S. Stican; and of this verb Tooke considers stake to be the past participle. STEAK. Stake, sudes, and stake, pignus depositum, are both derived by See A stake in a hedge; stack or stuck there,-to which beasts are fastened to be baited; i. e. any thing stuck or fixed in the ground for that purpose; a deposit, paid down or fixed to answer the event; (met.) a risk, any thing fixed or engaged to answer an event. To stake, formed upon the noun, To do any thing with stakes; to pledge, to risk. First the nemnid alle the, the purale suld make, That thorgh the reame suld go, the boundes forto stake. R. Brunne, p. 309. After many examinations, at the last they condemned him by vertue of the emperours decree made in the assembly at Ausbrough, and shortly after brought him forth to the place of execution, and there tyed him to a stake, where with a feruent zeale, and a loud voyce hee cried, Lord open the eyes of the king of Englande.-Fox. Life of Tyndall, p. 10. Thou weart that only stake, whereby I ment to stay. Gascoigne. In Trust is Treason. Th' increasing sound is borne to either shore, Dam. To bring it to the trial, will you dare Id. Virgil, Past. 3. The desperate gamester, who had staked his person and liberty on a last throw of the dice, patiently submitted to the decision of fortune, and suffered himself to be bound, chastised, and sold into remote slavery, by his weaker but more lucky antagonist.-Gibbon. Decline & Fall, c. 9. STALACTICAL. Gr. EraλAKTIKOS, from σraλağ-ew, stillare, to drop. Applied to Dropping or dripping water-congealed; an icicle. Hard by the cave is one or more vast stones, which (if I mistake not) are incrustrated with this sparry, stalactical substance, if not wholly made of it. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iii. c. 1. STALE. Dut. Stallen; Ger. Stallen; It. Stallàre, from stabulum, quia quum recenter veniunt in stabulum, quod stallam vocant Germani, tunc fere urinam solent emittere, (Scaliger.) Junius thinks Dut. Stel bier, vetus cerevisia et defecata; Eng. Stale beer, originates from this source. Their [mares] staling is no hinderance to their pace in running their carriere, as it doth the horse, who must needs then stand still.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 42. Thou did'st drinke The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at. Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Aet i. sc. 4. STALE, adj. STALE, n. STALE, v. STA'LELY. Dut. Stal; Ger. Stal; A.S. Stal, steal, is a place,—a place in which things are exposed for sale. The Dut. Stullen, staellen; Fr. Estaller, is-to set upon a stall, to expose unto the view (as Cotgrave expresses) of all passengers, comers, or customers. STA'LENESS. Stale then is, Exposed (sc.) till seen by every one; till become a common sight or spectacle; till it has lost its youth, novelty or freshness; and hence, old or aged, obsolete. Stale, n. any thing exposed, held out or offered, (sc. as a lure or enticement; a decoy, Fr. Estalon,) any thing much used or worn. To stale, to expose, to make public or common, old or obsolete; to wear out. No, this thrise worthy and right valiant Lord, Here wont the dean, when he's to seek, STALK, v. STALK, n. STA'LKY. Swift. Past. Dialogue A. S. Stalc-an, to go warily, fairly, and softly; to stalke as fowlers do: also,-to go on stilts, (Somner.) See the quotation from Drayton; whence it appears that walking on stilts over ditches was the common practice in pursuit of moor-fowl G. Douglas uses stalker for pastor agens telis, (En. 4.) The A. S. verb Stalc-an seems to have been formed upon the verb stæl-an, (stal-ig-an, stælg- or stælc-an,) to steal or creep upon; and the modern application to-lofty, stately walking, to have been derived from walking upon stilts. Stalk, the noun,-Tooke thinks should be written stawk, and that the I may have been introduced (see the quotations from Chaucer) for Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cres. Act ii. sc. 3. the sake of the rhime to balkes; he concludes it to Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale Id. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 2. He's grown a stranger to all due respect, For giddy humour, and diseased riot. B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1. I'll go tell all the argument of his play afore-hand, and so stale his invention to the auditory, before it come forth. Id. Cynthia's Revels, Induction. The lard of Drumlanrig lieng all this while in ambush with seuen hundred men, forbeare to breake out to giue anie charge vpon his enimies, least the earle of Lennox had kept a stale behind.-Holinshed. Hist, of Scotland, an. 1547. Still, as he went, he craftie stales did lay, To weete what course he takes, and how he fares; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. li. c. 1. To make a stale of me amongst these mates? B. Jonson. The Case is altered, Act v. sc. 3. In bashfulnesse the spirits do a little go and come; but with bold men, upon like occasion, they stand at a stay ; like a stale at chesse, where it is no mate, but yet the game cannot stir.-Bacon. Ess. Of Boldness. So Fabius thought, that putting these fellows out for a prey to Hannibal (as a stale to draw him from those quarters) he should pluck him by this means from Tarentum; and so it came to pass.--North. Plutarch, p. 160. Nappy ale, good and state, in a browne bowle, I stink like a stal-fish shambles, or an oyle-shop. The proof hath been, that both the beer, and the wine, (as well within water, as above,) have not been palled or deaded at all; but as good or somewhat better than bottles of the same drinks, and staleness, kept in a celler. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 385. So that more than necessitie compelled him he could not eat, by reason that the stalenesse tooke awaie the pleasant tast thereof, and lesse prouoked his appetite. Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 20. All your promis'd mountains This easie fool must be my stale, set up I'd rather read Orlando's comic tale, Id. Art of Poetry. 1 be the past part. of Stig-an, to ascend, to climb. We now apply it only to plants; Chaucer,-to the rounds, steps or stairs of a ladder. To move or go warily, or creepingly; to go with or behind (a horse painted on cloth, used to conceal and deceive, and called) a stalking horse; to walk as if on stilts, with lofty, stately steps. Stalk, n.-the rising (stem of plants). The night was short, and faste by the day, That nedes cost he moste himselven hide. And to a grove faste ther beside With dredful foot than stalketh Palamon Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1478. His owen hond than made he ladders three, Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3624. But ere he could his armour on him dight, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 7. Come hither Leonato, what was it you told me of to day, that your niece Beatrice was in loue with signior Benedicke? Cla. O 1, stalke on, stalke on, the foule sits. I did neuer thinke that lady would haue loued any man. Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act ii. sc. 3. Being lent the reins, would take away all thought B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act iii. sc. 2. Like as the seeded field greene grasse first showes, Then from greene grasse into a stalke doth spring, And from a stalke into an eare forth-growes, Which eare the frutefull graine doth shortly bring. Spenser. The Ruines of Rome. These cranes if they be made tame and gentle, are very playfull and wanton birds; and they will one by one dance (as it were) and run the round with their long shankes staulking full untowardly.-Holland. Plinie, b. x. c. 23. The fowler is employed his limed twigs to set. Drayton, Poly-Olbion, s. 25. Let the counsellour shew that hee beleeues it, by gluing counsell rather wholsome then pleasing, not for faction but for conscience, and by forbearing to make the good of the state the stalking horse of his private ends. Hakewell. Apologie, b. iv. c. 14. At least where vetches, pulse and tares have stood, The bearded product of the golden year. Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. 1. It grows upon a round stalk, and at the top bears a great stalky head.-Mortimer. Protestant dissenters were therefore to serve as stalking horses, that papists might creep behind them, and have hopes of being some time or other admitted with them. Bolingbroke. Dissert. upon Parties, Let. 2. STALL, v. STALL, n. The A. S. Stall, stæl, appears to be the diminutive of Goth. Stads; A. S. Sted, (stad-dal,) STALLATION. and to be applied generally to STAʼLLING, n. any place; so are the Dut. and STA'LLON. Ger. Stal, including the Lat. Stabulum, a stable, (qv.) The Fr. Estal is the stall of a shop or booth. Dut. and Ger. Stallen; A. S. Styll-an, stabulare, in stabulo locare, to stall or stable, to stall oxen, or put them into a stall or stable; to feed, to fatten them. Place, station; the place in which any thing stands, (horses, cattle;) any thing on or in which wares are placed, laid, spread for sale. A stall is part of the stable each division in which an animal may stand: also-the seat appropriated in the choir to certain ranks of the clergy. To stall, (generally,) is-to place, to station, to stand. (See INSTALE.) And To stall, in Lincolnshire, (says Skinner,) and in other northern parts of England, is to satiate, a met. from cattle fed in a stall. Stallon, (Holinshed) seems to be-a scion, a cutting, to be graffed or planted It is not alle brouht to stalle for no powere. R. Brunne, p. 282. The plough oxe in winter stalleth.-Gower. Con. A. b.vii. So that if any of our batayls breke, or dis-aray by any aduenture, than if ye se any suche nede, drawe thyder and confort them, and whan ye haue done, kepe agayne your stall and ye can, for this day ye can nat do better seruyce. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 225. But if I gain the maid, three victims are decreed; It may be stamin, Fr. Estamine, from stamen, (qv.),—a kind of woollen stuff. Is't not a misery, and the greatest of our age, to see a Fawkes. Theocritus. A Vow to Priapus. [Taxes used to be levied upon the persons and goods of travellers] when they erected in it a booth or stall to sell them in. These different taxes were known in Eugland by humble her self, in an old stammel petticoat, standing posthe names of passage, pontage, lastage, and stallage. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iii. c. 3. STALLION. Fr. Estalone; It. Stallone, quasi stabuli dominus, lord of the stable or stall, says Skinner; but Junius and Ihre derive from the A. S. Stal-an, salire, saltare, (Ihre in v. Bespringa.) A great sort of the quenes true harted subiectes in Commonly the stalion and the mare are put together, Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. iii. In heuen to be stallyd with moost felicite. The munkys of ye house of Crystys Churche of Caubery chas hym to the archebysshopys see, & had ye palle, & was stalled soone after.-Id. Ib. an. 1597. Their peeces then are called Petronels, And they themselues by sundrie names are calld; He came of the sanke roiall Skelton. Why come ye not to Court? And now his stallation grew near, when the earl of The fat oxe, that wont ligge in the stall, Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. September. Id. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. Howbeit such a one [rose] was to be seene in Antwarpe 1585, as I haue heard, and I know who might haue had a slip or stallon thereof, if he would haue ventured ten pounds vpon the growth of the same, which should haue been but a tickle hazard.-Holinshed. Desc. of England, b. ii. c. 19. We could not stall together In the whole world. Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act v. sc. 1. Each stall, his herdsman hath: an honest swaine, Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv. Cries the stall-reader, bless us! what a word on Milton, Son. 11. Redoubted, brave or bold, strong, daring, vio- For ther nas knygt in monylonde, ny stalewarde man, The kyng adde by hys vorste wyf one stalwarde sone, STAMMER, v. B. Jonson. Love's Welcome. Dut. Stamelen, stamern; Ger. Stammeln, stammern, Goth. Stamms, balbus, balbutiens; A. S. Stamer, stomore, stomettan-balbutire, titubare, vacillare lingua; also mutire.—to speak imperfectly, mutteringly. To stammer is— STAMMERING, n. To stumble, (sc. in speech,)—to speak lamely, with hindered or obstructed utterance or articu. lation. Parrot is no stamring stare, that men call a starling. Her tongue was verye quicke 1 But she spake somewhat thicke Her felowe did stammer and stut.-Id. Elinour Rumming. That Plowdon selfe might stammer to rehearse. Bp. Taylor. } O frendship, flour of flowers, O liuely sprite of lyfe, Some few of the main stamina, or chief lines, were taken The persons who, Moses tells us, lived to so great an age, were the special favourites of God, and formed and staminated by the immediate hand of God with peculiar principles of vitality.-Biblioth. Bibl. i. 258. Stamina or chives, are the small threads which encompass the style in the centre of flowers, upon the tops of which the apices or summits, which contain the male dust, hang. Stamineous flowers, are such as have a number of slamina or chives, but are destitute of the fine-colour'd leaves, which are called petalia, the stamina being only encompassed by the flower-cup. Miller. Gardener's Dictionary. STA'MMEL. Whalley says, "Stamel is a Coming nearer still, I saw a great deal of meat on the kind of red, inferior both in quality and price to scarlet," "—an interpretation evidently constructed to suit the passage in Jonson. Here you a muckworm of the town might see, Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 1. stalls, that were plac'd at a small distance from the tower. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1688. To strike down firmly with the foot, to impress or mark; to make or fix a mark, sign or impression; to press, force or beat down, to imprint; to form or fashion, (as metal stampt,) to designate or denote (a value-as to coin-for currency.) Thise cokes how they stamp, and strein, and grind, And turnen substance into accident, To fulfill all thy likerous talent! Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,472. I happened upon the side of it, in a little falling of the ceive a young maid, truly of the finest stamp of beauty. ground which was a rampier against the sun's rage. to perSidney. Arcadia, b ifi. The lords at London having tried all kinds of stamping, both of the fineness of 9, 8, 6, 4. and 3, proved that without any loss, but sufferable, the coin might be brought to eleven ounces fine.-Burnet. Records, pt. ii. b. 2. Her twyfold teme (of which two blacke as pitch, Of all his skull, even where the haire, that made his fore- The hurt was deadly, and the paine, so sore the courser stung, (Pierc't to the braine) he stamp! and plung'd. Chapman. Humer. Iliad, b. viii. Concerning gold coined into money, it came up threescore scriptule of gold was taxed and valued at twentie sesterces, and two years after the stamping of silver peeces: and a which ariseth in every pound according to the worth of sesterces as they were rated in those daies, to nine hundred sesterces.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiii. c. 3. It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, korvar evvotar, characters; as it were stamped arst being; and brings into the world with it. upon the mind of man, which the soule receives in its very Locks. On Hum. Underst, b. 1 c & |