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Propagation and Culture. —Most of the sorts are hardy, 
and may be propagated by seeds sown in March upon a bed 
of light fresh earlh: when the plants come up, set them out 
into beds six inches asunder, watering them till they have 
taken root, and keeping them clear from weeds. 
Stachys sylvatica, palustris and Germanica are wild 
creeping plants, and spread very much where they have 
liberty. 
Annua and arvensis are annual; the rest are perennial. 
Glutinosa, iEthiopica and rugosa require to be sheltered in 
winter in a glass case or dry stove. 
STACK, s. [stacca , Ital. Dr. Johnson. —Mr. H. Tooke 
deduces it from the Sax. jxigan, to ascend; making it the 
past participle, with the pronunciation of k for g. Div. of 
Purl. ii. 276. 283. The word, however, appears to be a 
northern substantive, viz. stack , Icel. stack-gardur , an en¬ 
closure in which corn or hay stacks are erected. See Dr. 
Jamieson in V. Stackyard.] A large quantity of hay, corn, 
or wood, heaped up regularly together. 
While the cock 
To the stack or the barn-door. 
Stoutly struts, his dame before. Milton. 
A number of chimneys or funnels standing together.—A 
mason making a stack of chimneys, the foundation of the 
house sunk. Wiseman. 
To STACK, v. a. To pile up regularly in ricks. 
So likewise a hovel will serve for a room, 
To stack on the pease. Tusser. 
STACKHOUSE, a village of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire ; 1£ mile north-west of Settle. 
STACKS OF BURGH, rocks near the east part of Scot¬ 
land ; 1 mile west of Duncansby Head. Lat. 58. 23. N. 
long. 2. 57. W. 
STACKS OF DUNCANSBY, rocks in the North Sea, 
near the east coast of Scotland; If mile south from the 
Wick river. Lat. 58. 36. N. long. 2. 57. W. 
STACKS OF HEMPRIGGS, rocks in the North Sea, 
near the east coast of Scotland; 2 miles south from the 
mouth of Wick river. Lat. 58. 21. N. long. 2. 57. W. 
STA'CTE, s. {(TiaKT’q, Gr., stacte, Lat., pfcacce, Sax.] 
An aromatic; the gum that distills from the tree which 
produces myrrh.—Take sweet spices, stacte, and galbanum. 
Ex. 
STAD, a village in the north of Switzerland, in the can¬ 
ton of St. Gall, with a small harbour for shipping, and a 
fishery on the south bank of the lake of Constance; 20 miles 
east-south-east of Constance. 
STADE, s. [stadium , Lat.] A furlong.—The greatness 
of the town, by that we could judge, stretcheth in circuit some 
forty stades. Donne. 
STADE, a town in the north of Germany, in Hanover, 
situated on the Schwinge, a navigable river, which falls into 
the Elbe at the distance of four miles from the town. Stade 
was formerly well fortified, but the works were blown up 
towards the end of the 18th century. It has several good 
buildings, such as the council-house, merchants’-hall, and 
gymnasium. It has two churches, in which are several ele¬ 
gant monuments; an orphan-house, and 4800 inhabitants, 
with manufactures of lace, flanneh stockings, and hats; also 
of beer and spirituous liquors. Stade is the seat of the diffe¬ 
rent public offices for the provinces of Bremen and Yerden. 
The foreign trade, once considerable, is now confined chiefly 
to the transit business; and a vessel goes daily from this 
town to Hamburgh. At the confluence of the Schwinge and 
the Elbe, is a fort called Schwingerschanze, where an armed 
vessel is stationed for collecting the dues imposed by the 
Hanoverian government, on all vessels sailing up or down 
the Elbe; 22 miles west-by-north of Hamburgh, and 85 
north of Hanover. Lat. 55. 36. 5. N. long. 9. 23. 30. E. 
STADELKIRCHEN, a fortress of Upper Austria, in the 
circle of Traun, on the Ens. Near it is the small town of 
Stadel, inhabited chiefly by boatmen. 
STADEN, or Staaden, a small town of Germany, in 
Hesse Darmstadt, on the Nidda; 18 miles north-north-east 
of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and 11 north of Haunau. Popu¬ 
lation 1000. 
STADEN, or Staaden, a small inland town of the 
Netherlands, in the province of West Flanders, with 3200 
inhabitants; 7 miles south-east of Dixmuyde, and 10 north- 
north-east of Ypres. 
STADHAMPTON, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
8 miles south-east of Oxford. 
STADIUS (John), a German astronomer, was bom in 
1527, and studied at the university of Louvain, where he 
applied himself with so much diligence to mathematical 
pursuits, that he was very soon qualified to become a 
professor; he resided some time at Liege, and was allowed 
a salary by the bishop, for whom he annually calculated an 
ephemeris, adapted to the meridian of Antwerp, beginning 
from the year 1554. The ephemerides of Stadius were much 
used by the celebrated Dutch mathematician Stevin, though 
they were afterwards proved to be, in many respects, inaccu¬ 
rate. From Louvain, Stadius went to Savoy, with a com¬ 
mission as mathematician to the king of Spain, and he 
removed thence to Bruges, in Flanders, where he composed 
his “ Fasti Romanorum,” which were published by Hubert 
Goltzius, whose daughter was married to his son ; after this 
he was invited to France as professor royal of mathematics, 
and lived there in high respect and honour till he became 
ethusiastically attached to judicial astrology, and on the 
faith of that pretended art he began to predict future events. 
He died in the year 1579, in the fifty-second year of his age. 
He is author of some astrological treatises, and translated a 
work of Hermes Trismegistus, entitled “ Jatro-mathematicse, 
ad Amonem iEgyptium conscripta.” 
STA'DLE, s. [pcabel, Sax., a foundation.] Anything 
which serves for support to another.—A staff; a crutch. Ob¬ 
solete. 
He cometh out,—his weak steps governing 
And aged limbs of cypress stadia stout. 
And with an ivy twine his waist is girt about. Spenser ; 
Coppice-woods, if you leave in them stadd/es too thick, 
will run to bushes and briars, and have little clean under¬ 
wood. Bacon. 
To STA'DLE, v. a. To leave sufficient stadles when a 
wood is cut. 
First see it well fenced, ere hewers begin; 
Then see it well staddled without and within. Tusser. 
STADT AM HOF, or Bayerischer Hof, a small town 
of Bavaria, on the left bank of the Danube, opposite to Ratis- 
bon, to which it is now united. It contains 1800 inhabi¬ 
tants, and has a well endowed hospital. During the retreat 
of the Austrians in April 1809, after the battle of Abensberg, 
it was laid in ashes; but has been rebuilt in an improved 
manner. 
STADTBERG, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, on 
the Dymel. Part of the town called Marsberg, stands on a 
hill where was the ancient Saxon temple of Ehresberg, con¬ 
verted by Charlemagne into an imperial residence. A church 
and priory was also built here by that emperor. Population 
2300; 13 miles east-north-east of Briton, and 19 south of 
Paderborn. Lat. 5]. 27. 39. N. long. 8. 49. 33. E. 
STADTELDORF, a small town of Lower Austria, with 
1300 inhabitants; 20 miles north-north-west of Vienna. 
STADTIIAGEN, a small town of Westphalia, and the 
chief place of the county of Schaumburg-Lippe, stands on 
the Dymel, 9 miles east of Minden. It is situated in a plea¬ 
sant valley, is surrounded by an old wall and ditch, and has 
about 1500 inhabitants. 
STATDHOULDER, Stadtholder, or Stadhoeder, a 
governor or lieutenant of a province, in the United Nether¬ 
lands, particularly that of Holland, where the word (now 
indeed almost obsolete) has been most used, by reason 
of the superior importance of the government of that 
province. 
