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Her death ! 
I’ll stand betwixt: it first shall pierce my heart: 
We will be stuck together on his dart. Dry den. 
To set with something pointed. 
A lofty pile they rear; 
The fabrick’s front with cypress twigs they strew, 
And stick the sides with boughs of baleful yew. Dry den. 
STICKFORD, a parish in Lincolnshire; 5 miles south¬ 
west of Spilsby. 
STI'CKINESS, s. Adhesive quality ; viscosity; glutin¬ 
ousness; tenacity. 
STICKLAND, Winterborne, a parish in Dorsetshire; 
5 miles west-south-west of Blandford Forum. 
To STI'CKLE, v. n. [from the practice of prize-fighters, 
formerly who placed seconds with staves or sticks to inter¬ 
pose occasionally.] To take part with one side or other. 
Fortune, as she’s wont, turn’d fickle, 
And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. 
To contest; to altercate; to contend rather with obstinacy 
than vehemence. 
Heralds stickle, who got who, 
So many hundred years ago. Hudibras. 
To trim ; to play fast and loose; to act a part between 
opposites.—When he sees half of the Christians killed, and 
the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the 
remainder of God’s host and the race of fiends. Dry den. 
To STI'CKLE, v. a. To arbitrate. See CotgraVe in V. 
Arbitrer. “ To stickle, to compound, to award, to ad¬ 
judge by award.” 
Here Weever, as a flood affecting godly peace, 
His place of speech resigns; and to the Muse refers 
The hearing of the cause, to stickle all these stirs. Drayton. 
STI'CKLEBAG, s. [Properly stickleback from stick, to 
prick ; pungitius, Lat.] The smallest of fresh- water fish.— 
A little fish called a sticklebag, without scales, hath his 
body fenced with several prickles. Walton. See Gas- 
TEROSTEUS ACULEATUS. 
STI'CKLER, A sidesman to fencers; a second to a 
duellist; one who stands to judge a combat; an arbitrator. 
—Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets, 
whom the others should obey. Sidney. —An obstinate con¬ 
tender about any thing.—All place themselves in the list 
of the national church, though they are great sticklers for 
liberty of conscience. Swift. —A small officer who cut wood 
for the priory of Ederose within the king’s parks of Claren¬ 
don. Rot. Pari. 1 Hen. 6. Coivel. 
STICKNEY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 7 
miles south-west of Spilsby. 
STICKNEY, a small island on the south coast of New 
Holland, in Spencer’s gulf. 
STI'CKY, adj. Viscous; adhesive; glutinous.—Herbs 
which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a 
sticky stalk. Bacon. 
STICTA, in Botany, from ;tik7oo-, dotted, alluding to the 
minute impressions on the under side of the frond ; a name 
given by Schreber to one of the sections into which he pro¬ 
poses to divide the Linnsean genus of Lichen ; which see. 
STIDD, a village of England, in Derbyshire, on the river 
Dove, south-west of Derby. 
STIDDCOT, a hamlet in the parish of Titherington, 
Gloucestershire. 
STI'DDY, s. [stedia, Icel.] An anvil; also a smith’s 
shop. North. See Stithy. 
STIECHOWITZ, a small town in the interior of Bohemia, 
on the river Moldau; 15 miles south of Prague, aud remark¬ 
able chiefly for its pow’der mills. 
STIEGE, a small town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Brunswick, with 900 inhabitants; 9 miles south of Blan- 
kenburg, on the Hartz. 
STIEL, a village in the east of France, in Alsace, with 
900 inhabitants. 
STIENZ, a village in the north-west of the Netherlands 
in the province of Friesland, with 1200 inhabitants; 5 miles 
north-north-west of Leeuwarden. 
STIERNHIELM (George), a learned Swede, was born in 
Dalecarlia, in the year 1598. Enjoying the friendship of 
Buraeus, tutor to Gustavus Adolphus, he made great progress 
in literature and the sciences. Queen Christina treated him 
with respect, and nominated him antiquary of the kingdom; 
entrusted him also with the care of the public records, and 
conferring on him the title of “ Custos Regni.” In 1658 he 
was appointed by Charles X. provincial judge of Drontheim, 
in Norway ; but when Drontheim was restored to Denmark, 
he became in 1661, a member of the council of war; and when 
the college of antiquities was established at Upsal, in 1666, 
he was appointed director. He died at Stockholm in 1672, 
at the age of 74. Stiernhielm was a man of great learning, 
and excelled in an extensive knowledge of languages. All 
languages, in his opinion, were derived from the Scythian, 
which he maintained to be older than the Hebrew itself. 
Among his numerous works were, “ Magog Arainaoo Go- 
thicus, sive origines Vocabularum in Linguis psenia omnibus, 
ex Lingua Svetica veteri;” “ Leges Vestrogothicae antique, 
cum Praefatione et Indice Vocabulorum obscuriorum,” Stock. 
1663, fob; “Ulphilas, seu Versio quatuor Evangeliorum 
Gothica, Literis Latinis quam Gothicis ediderat F. Junius, 
cum Versionibus parallelis, Sveogothica, Islandica, et vul- 
gata Latina,” &c. 1671; ibid. 4to.; “ Epistola ad Olaum 
Verelium de Origine Vocabulorum Gothi et Svedi,” prefixed 
to Hervaro Saga; Anticluverius, sive de Originibus Sveo- 
Gothicis,” Holm. 1685, 8vo. “Archimedes Reformatus.” 
He introduced hexameter or heroic verse, and Stiernhielm’s 
“ Hercules,” is and will continue to be considered a master¬ 
piece. Gen. Biog* 
STIFF, adj. [jfcip, Sax.; stiff, Dan.; styf Swed.; 
stifur, Icel; stiff, Dutch.] Rigid: inflexible; resisting 
flexure; not flaccid; not limber; not easily flexible; not 
pliant. 
They, rising on stiff pinions, tower 
The mid aerial sky. Milton. 
The glittering robe 
Hung floating loose, or stiff with mazy gold. Thomson. 
Not soft; not giving way ; not fluid; not easily yielding 
to the touch.—Mingling with that oily liquor, they were 
wholly incorporate, and so grew more stiff and firm, making 
but one substance. Burnet. —Strong; not easily resisted. 
On a stiff gale 
The Theban swan extends his wings. Denham. 
Hardy; stubborn ; not easily subdued. 
How stiff is my vile sense, 
That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling 
Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract! Shakspeare. 
Obstinate: pertinacious.—We neither allow unmeet nor 
purpose the stiff defence of any unnecessary custom hereto¬ 
fore received. Hooker. —Harsh ; not written with ease; 
constrained.— Stiff, formal style. Gondibert. —Formal; 
rigorous in certain ceremonies; not disengaged in behavi¬ 
our; starched; affected.—The French are open, familiar, 
and talkative ; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved, 
Addison. —In Shakspeare it seems to mean strongly main¬ 
tained, or asserted with good evidence.—This is stiff news. 
Shakspeare. 
To STl'FFEN, v. a. [pcipian, Sax.] To make stiff; to 
make inflexible; to make unpliant. 
When the blast of war blows in our ears. 
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, 
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage. Shakspeare. 
To make torpid. 
Her stiffening grief, 
Who saw her children slaughter’d all at once. 
Was dull to mine. Dry den and Lee. 
To STl'FFEN, v. n. To grow stiff; to grow rigid : to 
become unpliant. 
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