Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STI-PEND'I-A-RY, n. [supra.]

One who performs services for a settled compensation, either by the day, month, or year. If thou art become / A tyrant's vile stipendiary. – Glover.

STIP'I-TATE, a. [See Stipe.]

In botany, supported by a stipe, elevated on a stipe; as pappus. – Martyn.

STIP'PLE, v.t.

To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. – Todd.

STIP'PLED, pp.

Engraved with dots.

STIP'PLING, n.

A mode of engraving on copper by means of dots. – Cyc.

STIP'PLING, ppr.

Engraving with dots.

STIP'TIC, n. [or adj. See STYPTIC.]

STIP'U-LA, or STIP'ULE, n. [L. stipula, a straw or stubble.]

1. In botany, an appendage at the base of petioles. Stipules are in pairs or solitary; they are lateral, extrafoliaceous, intrafoliaceous, &c. – Martyn.
2. A leafy appendage to the proper leaves or to their foot-stalks; commonly situated at the base of the latter, in pairs. – Smith.

STIP-U-LA'CEOUS, or STIP'U-LAR, a. [from L. stipula, stipularis. See Stipula.]

1. Resembling stipules; consisting of stipules.
2. Growing on stipules, or close to them; as, stipular glands. – Martyn. Lee.

STIP'U-LATE, a. [from stipula.]

Having stipules on it; as, a stipulate stalk.

STIP'U-LATE, v.i. [L. stipulor, from stipes, or from the primary sense of the root, as in stipo, to crowd; whence the sense of agreement, binding, making fast.]

1. To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear any thing; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France. Great Britain and the United States stipulate to oppose and restrain the African slave trade. A. has stipulated to build a bridge within a given time. B. has stipulated not to annoy or interdict our trade.
2. To bargain. A. has stipulated to deliver me his horse for fifty guineas.

STIP'U-LA-TED, pp.

Agreed; contracted; covenanted. It was stipulated that Great Britain should retain Gibraltar.

STIP'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Agreeing; contracting; bargaining.

STIP-U-LA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. stipulatio.]

1. The act of agreeing and covenanting; a contracting or bargaining.
2. An agreement or covenant made by one person with another for the performance or forbearance of some act; a contract or bargain; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.
3. In botany, the situation and structure of the stipules. – Martyn.

STIP'U-LA-TOR, n.

One who stipulates, contracts or covenants.

STI'PULE, n. [See STIPULA.]

STIP'UL-ED, a.

Furnished with stipules. – Smith.

STIR, n. [W. ystwr.]

1. Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. Why all these words, this clamor and this stir? – Denham. Consider, after so much stir, about the genus and species, how few words have yet settled definitions. – Locke.
2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. Being advertised of some stir raised by his unnatural sons in England, he departed from Ireland without a blow. Davies.
3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions. – Shak.

STIR, v.i. [stur.]

1. To move one's self. He is not able to stir.
2. To go or he carried in any manner. He is not able to stir from home, or to stir abroad.
3. To be in motion; not to be still. He is continually stirring.
4. To become the object of notice or conversation. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon every thing that stirs or appears. – Watts.
5. To rise in the morning. [Colloquial.] – Shak.

STIR, v.t. [stur; Sax. stirian, styrian; D. stooren; G. stören, to stir, to disturb; W. ystwriaw. This word gives storm; Ice. stir, war.]

1. To move; to change place in any manner. My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. – Temple.
2. To agitate; to bring into debate. Stir not questions of jurisdiction. – Bacon.
3. To incite to action; to instigate; to prompt. An Até, stirring him to blood and strife. – Shak.
4. To excite; to raise; to put into motion. And for her sake some mutiny will stir. – Dryden. To stir up, to incite; to animate; to instigate by inflaming passions; as, to stir up a nation to rebellion. The words of Judas were good, and able to stir them up to valor. – 2 Macc. #2. To excite; to put into action; to begin; as, to stir up a mutiny or insurrection; to stir up strife. #3. To quicken; to enliven; to make more lively or vigorous; as, to stir up the mind. #4. To disturb; as, to stir up the sediment of liquor.

STIR'A-BOUT, n.

A Yorkshire dish formed of oat-meal boiled in water to a certain consistency. – Malone.

STIR'I-A-TED, a. [L. stiria, an icicle.]

Adorned with pendants like icicles.

STIR'I-OUS, a. [supra.]

Resembling icicles. [Not much used.] – Brown.

STIRK, n. [sturk.]

A young ox or heifer. [Local.]

STIR'LESS, a.

Still without stirring.