S T I 
STIPENDIARY, s. [ stipendiaire, Fr., stipendiarius, 
Lat.] One who performs any service for a settled payment. 
—This whole country is called the kingdom of Tunis; the 
king whereof is a kind of stipendiary unto the Turk. 
Abbot. 
If thou art become 
A tyrant’s vile stipendiary, with grief 
That valour thus triumphant I behold. 
Which after all its danger and brave toil, 
Deserves no honour from the gods or men. Glover. 
To STI'PPLE, v. n. To engrave, not in stroke or line, 
but in dots. A term of art. 
STI'PTICK. See Styptic. 
To STI'PULATE, v. n. [ stipulor , Lat.; stipuler, Fr. 
This word is derived by some Latin etymologists from stipe , 
the ablative of stips, or stipis, a piece of money; or from 
stipes, a stake or landmark. But it comes from the Lat. 
stipula, a straw : “ Dicta autem stipulatio a stipuld ; 
veteres enim quando sibi aliquid promittebant, stipnlam 
tenentes frangebant, quant- iterum jungentes, sponsiones 
suas agnoscebant." Du Cange in V. Stipulatio. So 
an old English writer ; “ Their bargains (m the Isle of 
Man) are compleated, and confirmed, by the giving and 
taking of as mean a matter as a straw ; as of old also, per 
traditionern stipulw ; from whence the phrase of stipula¬ 
tion came. Sadler, Rights of the Kingdom, 1649. Cole, 
iv. 69.] To contract; to bargain ; to settle terms.—The 
Romans very much neglected their maritime affairs; for 
they stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with 
ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot. 
STIPULATION, s. [ stipulation , Fr.] Bargain.—We 
promise obediently to keep all God’s commandments; the 
hopes given by the gospel depend on our performance of 
that stipulation. . Rogers. 
STI'PULATOR, s. [ stipulateur , Fr.] One who con¬ 
tracts or bargains. Sherwood. 
To STIR, v. a. [jxquan, Sax.; stooren, Teut. For¬ 
merly written stere; and by Spencer more than once, for 
the sake of his rhyme, stire. Butler, in his English Gram¬ 
mar, 1634, states our western dialect to be stoor .]—To 
move; to remove from its place.-—My foot I had never yet 
in five days been able to stir but as it was lifted. Temple. 
—To agitate; to bring into debate.—Preserve the right of 
thy place, but stir not questions of jurisdiction, and rather 
assume thy right in silence than voice it with claims. 
Bacon. —To incite; to instigate; to animate. 
With him is come the mother queen ; 
An Ate stirring him to blood and strife. Shakspeare. 
To raise; to excite. 
The soldiers love her brother’s memory; 
And for her sake some mutiny will stir. Dry den. 
To Stir up. To incite; to animate; to instigate by 
inflaming the passions.—This would seem a dangerous com¬ 
mission, and ready to stir up all the Irish in rebellion. 
Spenser. —To stir the factious rabble up to arms. Rowe. 
To Stir up. To put in action; to excite; to quicken. 
—Hell is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it 
stirreth up the dead for thee. Isa. —The use of the pas¬ 
sions is to stir up the mind, and put it upon action, to 
awake the understanding and to enforce the will. Addi¬ 
son. 
To STIR, v.n. To move one’s self; to go out of the 
place ; to change place.—No power he had to stir, nor 
will to rise. Spenser. —To be in motion ; not to be still; 
to pass from inactivity to motion.—To become the object 
of notice.—If they happen to have any superior character, 
they fancy they have a right to talk freely upon every thing 
that stirs or appears. Watts. —To rise in the morning. 
This is a colloquial and familiar use.—If the gentlewoman 
that attends the general’s wife be stirring, tell her, there’s 
one Cassio entreats of her a little favour of speech. Shak¬ 
speare. 
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STIR, s. [stur, Runic, a battle; ystvirf, noise, Welsh.] 
Tumult; bustle. 
What halloing and what stir is this to day ? 
These are my mates, that make their wills their law. 
Have some unhappy passenger in chase. Shakspeare. 
Commotion ; public disturbance; tumultuous disorder ; 
seditious uproar. 
Raphael, thou heard’st what stir on earth, 
Satan from hell ’scap’d through the darksome gulf, 
Hath rais’d in paradise, and how disturb’d 
This night the human pair. Milton. 
Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passion. 
He did keep 
The deck, with glove or hat, or handkerchief. 
Still waving, as the stirs and fits of’s mind 
Could best express how slow his soul sail’d on, 
How swift his ship. Shakspeare. 
STI'RABOUT, s. A Yorkshire dish, formed of oatmeal 
boiled in water to a certain consistency, and then eaten 
either with a bit of cold butter put into it and salt, or with 
milk. It is also a common breakfast among the lower 
orders in the north of Ireland. Malone. 
STIRCHLEY, a parish of England, in Salop, near 
Shrewsbury. 
STI'RIOUS, adj. [from stiria, Lat.] Resembling 
icicles.—Chrystal is found sometimes in rocks, and in some 
places not much unlike the stirious or stillicidious depen¬ 
dencies of ice. Brown. 
STIRK. See Sturk. 
STIRLING, a county of Scotland, formerly making part 
of what was called the shire or county of Lennox, bounded 
on the north by the shires of Perth and Clackmannan, from 
which it is separated by the Forth; on the east by the frith 
of Forth and Linlithgowshire; on the south and west by the 
shires of Lanark and Dumbarton; lying between 55. 55. 
and 56. 17. N. latitude, and between 3. 17. and 4. 40. W. 
longitude from Greenwich; being from 12 to 17 miles from 
north to south, and 35 from east to west; consisting of 
about 560 square miles, or 237,200 English acres. This 
shire occupies the central country between the friths already 
mentioned ; and the face of it is diversified with mountains, 
hills, and plains, shaded with natural woods and plantations, 
the former covering about 13,000, and the latter 10,000 
acres. An extensive plain, 40 miles in length, stretches 
from the water of Avon towards the north-west, terminated 
by the mountain of Benlomond, and intersected by the 
Forth, winding with placid dignity, and forming the beau¬ 
tiful links for which it is so remarkable. In this track, 
which includes the carses or valleys of Stirling and Falkirk, 
is the greatest quantity of fine land to be found in the king¬ 
dom, producing the most luxuriant crops'. It is most ele¬ 
vated in proportion to its distance from either frith ; so that 
in the parishes of Kilsyth, Campsie, and Fintry, the waters 
descend both towards the east and west. There are several 
considerable ridges of hills. Those of Lennox, Kirkintul- 
loch, and Dumbartonshire, extend from the neighbourhood 
of Dumbarton north-east, through the centre of the shire, to 
the vicinity of Stirling. Northward of that ridge lies the fer¬ 
tile valley of the Forth. The central and southern districts 
are partly mountainous, and partly level and fertile. An ex¬ 
tensive moor stretches from Sauchie in the parish of St. 
Ninian’s, westward to the parish of Balfron, a distance of 
16 miles, and from one to four in breadth. Another ex¬ 
tends from Denny on the east about 30 miles, to the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Dumbarton on the west. In the north -west 
district, which includes Benlomond, there is a bleak and un¬ 
cultivated track, 10 miles in length, and 3 in breadth. The 
southern district, consisting of peat mosses and uncultivated 
moors, occupies the space of 8 by 2J miles, viz., from 
Muiravonside to Cumbernauld. The whole of these moun¬ 
tains and moors may consist of 100,000 acres nearly. In 
former times, the greater part of this county was covered 
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