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to climb, and pap, a cord.~\ An iron hoop suspended by 
a strap, in which the horseman sets his foot when he mounts 
or rides. 
My friend, judge not me. 
Thou see'st I judge not thee. 
Between the stirrup and the ground, 
Mercy I ask’d, mercy I found. Camden. 
STIRTON, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 1 mile from Skipton. 
STISTED, a parish of England, in Essex ; 3 miles east- 
north-east of Braintree. Population 574. 
To STITCH, v. a. [sticke, Danish; sticken, Dutch.] 
To sew; to work with a needle on any thing.—To join; 
to unite, generally with some degree of clumsiness or inac¬ 
curacy.—Having stitched together these animadversions 
touching architecture and their ornaments. Wotton. 
To Stitch up. To mend what was rent.—It is in 
your hand as well to stitch up his life again, as it was 
before to rent it. Sidney. —I with a needle and thread 
stitch'd up the artery and the wound. Wiseman. 
To STITCH, v. n. To practice needlework. 
STITCH, A pass of the needle and thread through 
any thing.—[from fdcian, Sax.] A sharp lancinating pain. 
—If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself into 
stitches, follow me; yonder gullMalvolio is turned heathen, 
a very renegado. Shakspeare. —A link of yam in knit¬ 
ting.—There fell twenty stitches in his stocking. Mot- 
teux. —In Chapman it seems to mean furrows or ridges. 
Many men at plow he made, and drave earth here and there* 
And turn’d up stitches orderly. Chapman. 
In the following line allusiou is made to a knit stock. 
A stitch-iz\\'n cheek, that hangs below 1 he jaw, 
Such wrinkles as a skilful hand would draw. 
For an old grandam ape. Dryden. 
STITCHEL AND HUME, a united parish of Scotland, 
in the counties of Roxburgh and Berwick, of an irregular 
figure, five or six miles long, and between three and four 
broad. Population 930. 
STITCHERY, s. Needlework. In contempt.—Come 
lay aside your stitchery; play the idle housewife with me 
this afternoon. Shakspeare. 
STI'TCHWORT, s. Camomile. Ainsworth. See Ax- 
THEMIS. 
STITH, adj. [pcrS, Saxon.] Strong; stiff: a stithe 
cheese, i. e. strong cheese. North. Bay. 
STITH, s. [from the Sax. ptiS, strong.} An anvil. 
The smith 
That forgeth sharpe swerdes on his stith. Chaucer. 
STITHIAN’S, St., a parish of England, in Cornwall; 4 
miles north west of Penryn. Population 139.4. 
STI'THY, s. [stedie, Icelandic; j ci3, hard. Sax.] A 
smith's shop; and sometimes merely an anvil, as in parts of 
the north of England. 
My imaginations are as foul 
As vulcan’s stithy. Shakspeare. 
To STITHY, v. a. To form on the anvil.—The forge 
that stithied Mars his helm. Shakspeare. 
STITTENHAM, a hamlet of England, North Riding 
of Yorkshire; 7| miles west-south-west of New Malton. 
To STIVE, v. a. [supposed of the same original with 
stew.'} —To stuff up close.—You would admire, if you saw 
them stive it in their ships. Sandys. —To make hot or sul¬ 
try.—His chamber was commonly stived with friends or 
suitors of one kind or other. Wotton. 
STIVER, s. [Dutch.] A Dutch coin about the value of 
a halfpenny. 
STIVICHALL, a parish of England, in Warwickshire, 
1 J mile south-by-west of Coventry. 
ST1XWOULD, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
64 miles west-south-west of Horncastle. 
ST02E [a-Toai, Gr.], in Antiquity, the porticoes at Athens. 
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These were full of exedrae, [efe&yeai, Gr.], and side buildings, 
furnished with seats fit for study or discourse. 
STOAKHAM, a hamlet of England, in the parish of East 
Drayton, near Tuxford. 
STOAT, s. A small stinking animal, ofthe weasel kind. 
Ne armed knight ydrad in war 
With lion fierce will I compare : 
Ne judge unjust with furred fox 
Harming in secret guise the flocks: 
Ne priest unworth of Goddes coat 
To swine ydrunk, or filthy stoat. Prior. 
STOBiEUS (Joannes), a Greek writer, supposed to have 
flourished in the beginning of the fifth century, about A.D., 
405, was the author of several works, none of which have 
come entire to modern times, except the fragments of a col¬ 
lection of extracts from ancient poets and philosophers. 
These have been published at various times, under the titles 
of “ Eclogae,” “ Sententise,” and “ Sermones.” The “ Sen- 
tentise” were published by Gesner with a Latin version, 
Tigur. 1659, fob; and Grotiusgave an edition of “Dicta 
Poetarum apud Stobaeum,” Gr. and Lat., Paris, 1623, 4 to. 
The latest edition of Stobaeus is that entitled “ Sermones,” 
Lips. 1797. The writer seems to have been a mere compi¬ 
ler. Fabricius thinks that he was not a Christian, since his 
extracts are exclusively from heathen authors. Fab. Bibl. 
Grcec. 
STOBO, a parish of Scotland, in the county of Peebles; 
six miles long, and from three to four broad. Population 
422. 
STOCAH, s. [Irish; stochk, Erse.] An attendant; a 
wallet-boy. Not in use. —He holdeth himself a gentleman, 
and scometh to work;—which he saith is the life of a pea¬ 
sant : but thenceforth becometh an horseboy, or a stocah to 
some kern, inuring himself to his sword, and the gentle¬ 
manly trade of stealing. Spenser. 
STOCCA'DE, s. [stockade, Teut. (vulgo stoccada,) 
a dagger. Kilian.] An enclosure or fence made with 
pointed stakes. 
Extend a rail of elm securely arm’d. 
With spiculated paling, in such sort 
As round some citadel, the engineer 
Directs his sharp stoccade. Mason. 
STOCCA'DO, s. [ estoccade, Fr., a thrust. See Stoc¬ 
cade. From the Teut. stock, a sword, a dagger ; stocco. 
Ital.] A thrust with a rapier.—You stand on distance, your 
passes, stoccados, and I know not what. Shakspeare. 
STOCHSTADT, a small town in the west of Germany, 
in the Bavarian states, on the Maine; 3 miles west of 
Aschaffenburgh, and 15 south-east of Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 
Population liOO. 
STOCK, s. [stockr , stocks, Su Goth, truncus, trabs; 
]‘toc, Saxon; stock, Dutch; estoc, Fr.] The trunk; the 
body of a plant. 
That furious beast 
His precious hour, sought of his enemies. 
Strikes in the stock, ne thence can be releas’d. Spenser. 
The trunk into which a graft is inserted. 
As fruits, ungrateful to the planter’s care. 
On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear; 
The surest virtues thus from passions shoot. 
Wild nature’s vigour working at the root. Pope. 
A log; a post.—Men, serving either calamity or tyranny, 
did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable 
Name. Wisd. —A man proverbially stupid. 
While we admire 
This virtue and this moral discipline, 
Let’s be no stoicks, nor no stocks. Shakspeare. 
The handle of any thing.—A support of a ship while it is 
building. 
Fresh supplies of ships, 
And such as fitted since the fight had been, 
Or new from stocks were fall’n into the road. Dryden. 
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