Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STIRP, n. [sturp; L. stirps.]

Stock; race; family. [Not English.] – Bacon.

STIR'RED, pp.

Moved; agitated; put in action.

STIR'RER, n.

1. One who is in motion.
2. One who puts in motion.
3. A riser in the morning. – Shak.
4. An inciter or exciter; an instigator.
5. A stirrer up, an exciter; an instigator.

STIR'RING, n. [supra.]

The act of moving or putting in motion.

STIR'RING, ppr.

1. Moving; agitating; putting in motion.
2. adj. Active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

STIR-RUP, n. [stur'up; Sax. stige-rapa, step-rope; stigan, to step or ascend, and rap, rope; G. steig-bugel, step-bow or mounting-bow; D. styg-beugel; Sw. steg-bögel; Dan. stig-böjle. The first stirrups appear to have been ropes.]

A kind of ring or bending piece of metal, horizontal on one side for receiving the foot of the rider, and attached to a strap which is fastened to the saddle; used to assist persons in mounting a horse, and to enable them to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve them by supporting a part of the weight of the body.

STIR'RUP-LEATH-ER, n.

A strap that supports a stirrup.

STITCH, n.

1. A single pass of a needle in sewing.
2. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link of yarn; as, to let down a stitch; to take up a stitch.
3. A land; the space between two double furrows in plowed ground.
4. A local sharp pain; an acute lancinating pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.

STITCH, v.i.

To practice stitching.

STITCH, v.t. [G. sticken; D. stikken; Dan. stikker; Sw. sticka. This is another form of stick.]

1. To sew in a particular manner; to sew slightly or loosely; as, to stitch a collar or a wristband; to stitch the leaves of a book and form a pamphlet.
2. To form land into ridges. – New England. To stitch up, to mend or unite with a needle and thread; as, to stitch up a rent; to stitch up an artery. – Wiseman.

STITCH'ED, pp.

Sewed slightly.

STITCH'EL, n.

A kind of hairy wool. [Local.]

STITCH'ER, n.

One that stitches.

STITCH'ER-Y, n.

Needlework; in contempt. – Shak.

STITCH'ES, n.

Sharp twinges of pain.

STITCH'FALL-EN, a.

Fallen, as a stitch in knitting. [Not in use.] – Dryden.

STITCH'ING, n.

1. The act of stitching.
2. Work done by sewing in a particular manner.
3. The forming of land into ridges or divisions.

STITCH'ING, ppr.

Sewing in a particular manner; uniting with a needle and thread.

STITCH'-WORT, n.

1. A plant, chamomile. – Ainsworth.
2. A plant of the genus Stellaria. – Lee.

STITH, a. [Sax.]

Strong; rigid. [Not in use.]

STITH'Y, n. [supra. Ice. stedia.]

1. An anvil. [Local.] – Slade.
2. A disease in oxen.

STITH'Y, v.t.

To forge on an anvil. [Load.]

STITH'Y-ING, ppr.

Forging on an anvil.

STIVE, v.t. [See Stuff and Stew.]

1. To stuff up close. [Not in use.] – Sandys.
2. To make hot, sultry and close. [Not in use.] – Wotton.

STI'VER, n. [Sw. stifver; D. stuiver.]

A Dutch coin of about the value of a half-penny sterling, or the cent of the United States. It is also a money of account in Holland and Flanders. – Encyc.