524 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language 
STALKS. See Corn-staik. 
Yo STARVE; “to perish or kill with hunger ; (with cold ; England.)” Webst. 
“ This [* with cold’] applies to conversation only.” Month. Anth. vii. 262. 
STEAL (pron. sail); the handle of various implements; as, a rake-steal, a 
Sork-steal, &c. Used by the farmers in some parts of New England. It 
is a frovincial word in England: “The s¢eai of any thing, i. e. manubrium, 
The handle, or fediculus, the foot-stalk: @ Belg. steel, stele: Teut. stiel, 
fretiolus.” Ray’s South and East Country Words. 
STOCKHOLDER; a proprietor, ina Bank or other incorporated Company. 
The words fropfrrietor and member are sometimes used here, but stock- 
holder is the most common. In England, when speaking of the East India 
Company, they uniformly say froprietors or members ; andthe same words 
are also used in most other cases. Sometimes, however, the term share-hol- 
ders is used. The word stock-holder is not in the dictionaries, nor do I re- 
collect meeting with it in any British publication, except ‘in the following 
instance, where it is used to signify the holders of the fudiic stock or funds : 
“The stock-holders, who allow inferior capitalists to derive a profit from 
chcages will diminish that allowance.” Edin, Rev, vol. ili. p. 475. 
® several si and warehouses, called. stores, for 
the male or erie nor ere ogg &c. Kend. Trav. vol. i. p. 128, & A druggist’s 
shop is sometimes called an afothecary’s store,” yol. iii. p. 128. This 
word is used in the same manner in the British province of Canada. See 
also Book-store. 
STRICKEN. This antiquated peaticinls is much used in our legislative 
assemblies. A member moves, that certain parts of a bill should be 
stricken out, &c. It has long been considered as an obsolete word in 
England: Dr. Johnson many years ago called it “the ancient partici- 
ple of strike.” But some individuals in that country, as well as in this, 
occasionally use it, The latest instance I have seen is the following, from 
a London newspaper: “ Many of the foreigners were much stricken with 
the splendour of the scene.” The Statesman of June 10, 1814, in the ae- 
count of the“ Court at Carlton House”? Our own critics have all condemn- 
ed the use of it, and I do not reccollect: meeting with it in any of our best 
writers. 
