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four transverse streets, which are but poorly built. The 
church, of which the nave only remains, is a building of 
great antiquity, and contains some very curious specimens 
of early Norman architecture. A free grammar school was 
founded here about the middle of the 16th century. Stey- 
ning is a borough by prescription, and sends two members 
to parliament, elected by the householders and inhabitants 
within the borough not receiving alms. The number of 
voters is about SO, and the returning officer is the constable, 
who is besides the chief magistrate of the place, and is 
appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The 
members of this place were formerly elected in conjunction 
with Bramber, and intermitted till 31st Henry VI.; but at 
present each town is entitled to return two representatives, 
although one part of Bramber is in the centre of Steyning. 
At a very remote period, a Benedictine priory for monks 
existed here, founded by Edward the Confessor. Steyning 
derives its name from Steyne-street, an ancient road which 
passed through this part of the county- Market on Wed¬ 
nesday; a monthly one for cattle, and three annual fairs. 
The Michaelmas fair is very considerable for Welsh and 
other cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, wheat, seed, &c. The 
others are pretty large; 15 miles west of Lewes, and 51 south- 
by-west of London. 
STEZYCA, a small town of Poland, on the Vistula; 11 
miles south-south-east of Warsaw. 
STHENIA, [from o-flei 'o;, strength,] a word of great 
import in the Brunonian theory of medicine, implying an 
inflammatory diathesis, and standing in opposition to asthe¬ 
nia, or debility. See Patiiologv. 
STHENIA [20ei/ia], a festival of Argos, supposed to be 
kept in honour of Minerva, surnamed 20ewa?, [from o-0evo';], 
strength. 
STHENIUS, denoting powerful or strong, one of the 
epithets of Jupiter; as Sthenius, or robust, was one of the 
epithets of Minerva. 
STIA, a small town of Tuscany, in the province of 
Florence. 
STIBADIUM, among the Romans, a low kind of table- 
couch, or bed of a circular form, which succeeded to the 
triclina, and was of different sizes, according to the number 
of guests they were designed for. They were called hexa- 
clina, octaclina, or enneaelina, according as they held six, 
eight, or nine guests, and so of any other number. 
STIBBARD, a parish in Norfolk; 5 miles east-by-south 
ofFakenham. 
STI'BIAL, adj. [from stibium, Lat.] Antimonial. Un¬ 
used. 
STIBIA'RIAN, s. [from stibium .] A violent man; from 
the violent operation of antimony. Obsolete. —This stibia- 
rian presseth audaciously upon the royal throne, and after 
some sacrification, tendereth bitter pill of sacrilege and 
cruelty; but when the same was rejected because it was 
violent, then he presents his antimonian potion. White. 
STIBINGTON, a parish in Huntingdonshire; 8 miles 
north-west of Stilton. 
STI'BIUM, s. [Latin.] Antimony. 
Ceruse nor stibium can prevail, 
No art repair where age makes fail. Collop. 
STFCADOS, s. [sticadis,~Lat.~\ An herb. Ainsworth, 
STICH, s. [c-tti%o£, Gr.] In some ancient Greek New Tes¬ 
taments, at the close of the Epistles, there were some numeral 
letters added, signifying how many sticks were in the 
Epistle. What these sticks were, the learned Suicerus 
informs us. A stick in poetry was a verse, whatsoever kinds 
or parts it may consist of: a verse is a measured line, whe¬ 
ther it be iambick, heroick, or any other length. In rural 
affairs, a stick is an order or rank of trees; and a verse a 
furrow, or as much as the plowman turns up in one line. In 
military matters it is an order of ten men. 
STICHOMANTIA, err/ppavieia, in Antiquity, a sort of 
divination by verses, (commonly those of the Sibylline 
oracles), which being wrote on little pieces of paper, and 
thrown into a vessel, the first drawn out was supposed to 
contain the will of the gods. 
STICHO'METRY, s. [;tj%o{ and aeroov, Gr.; sticko - 
metrie, Fr.] A catalogue of books of Scripture, to which is 
added the number of verses which each book contains. 
Chambers. 
STICK, s. [f ticca, Sax., from pcican; as stick a, Swed. 
a stake, from the verb sticka, to pierce, to stick.] A piece 
of wood small and long. 
Some strike from clashing flints their fiery seed, 
Some gather sticks the kindled flames to feed. Dri/den. 
Many instruments long and slender are called sticks ; a 
thrust; a stab. 
To STICK, v. a. preterite stuck ; participle pass, stuck. 
[ptican, ptician, Saxon.] To fasten on so as that it may 
adhere. 
Two troops in fair array one moment show’d ; 
T he next, a field with fallen bodies strow’d: 
The points of spears are stuck within the shield, 
The steeds without their riders scour the field. 
The knights unhors’d. Dry den. 
To STICK, v. n. To adhere; to unite itself by its tena¬ 
city or penetrating power.—The green caterpillar breedeth in 
the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh. 
Bacon. —To be inseparable; to be united with any thing.— 
Generally in an ill sense.—In their quarrels they proceed to 
calling names, till they light upon one that is sure to stick. 
Swift. —To rest upon the memory painfully.—The going 
away of that which had staid so long, doth yet stick with 
me. Bacon. —To stop ; to lose motion. 
I shudder at the name! 
My blood runs backward, and my faltering tongue 
Sticks at the sound. Smith. 
To resist emission. 
Wherefore could I not pronounce amen ? 
I had most need of blessing, and amen 
Stuck in my throat. Shakespeare. 
To be constant to ; to adhere with firmness: sometimes 
with to, and sometimes with by. —The knave will stick by 
thee, I can assure thee that: he will not out, he is true bred. 
Shakspeare. —Some stick to you, and some to t’other side. 
Dryden. —To be troublesome by adhering ; with by or to. 
—I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick 
by me. Pope. —To remain ; not to be lost.—Proverbial 
sentences are formed into a verse, whereby they stick upon 
the memory. Watts. —To dwell upon ; not to forsake.—If 
the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, 
and stick upon it with labour and thought, and not leave it 
till it has mastered the difficulty. Locke. —To cause diffi¬ 
culties or scruple.—This is the difficulty that sticks with the 
most reasonable of those who, from conscience, refuse to 
join with the Revolution. Swift. —T& scruple; to hesitate. 
—Every one without hesitation supposes eternity, and sticks 
not to ascribe infinity to duration. Locke. —To be stopped; 
to be unable to proceed. 
He threw: the trembling weapon pass’d 
Through nine bull-hides, each under other plac’d 
On his broad shield, and stuck within the last. Dryden. 
To be embarrassed; to be puzzled.—They will stick long 
at part of a demonstration, for want of perceiving the con¬ 
nection of two ideas, that, to one more exercised, is as visible 
as any thing. Locke. 
To Stick out. To be prominent with deformity.—His 
flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen, and his bones 
that were not seen stick out. Job. 
To Stick out. To refuse compliance. 
To STICK, v. a. [j-fcician, Sax.; sticken, Teut.] To 
stab; to pierce with a pointed instrument.—The Heruli, 
when their old kindred fell sick, stuck them with a dagger. 
Grew. —To fix upon a pointed body ; as, he stuck the fruit 
upon his knife ; to fasten by transfixion. 
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