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The other tree was griev’d. 
Grew scrubby, dry’d a-top, was stunted; 
So the next parson stubb'd and burnt it. Swift. 
STU'BBED, adj. Truncated; short and thick. 
A pain he in his head-piece feels. 
Against a stubbed tree he reels. 
And up went poor Hobgoblin’s heels. Drayton. 
Hardy ; not delicate ; not nice.—The hardness of stubbed 
vulgar constitutions renders them insensible of a thousand 
things, that fret and gall those delicate people, who, as if 
their skin was peeled off, feel to the quick every thing that 
touches them. Bp. Berkeley. 
STU'BBEDNESS, s. The state of being short, thick, 
and truncated. 
STUBBEKIOBING, a small sea-port of Denmark, in the 
island of Laaland. It carries on some trade with Copen¬ 
hagen, Norway, and Lubeck ; 10 miles north-east of Nye- 
kiobing; 
STUBBENKAMMAR, a promontory of the island of 
Rugen, in the peninsula of Jasmund. 
STU'BBLE, s. [estouble , French; stoppel, Dutch; sti- 
pula, Latin. Serenius here recommends the derivation as¬ 
signed to stub ; which see. Chaucer’s word is stoble.] The 
stalks of corn left in the field by the reaper. 
This suggested 
At some time, when his soaring insolence 
Shall reach the people, will be the fire 
To kindle their dry stubble, and their blaze 
Shall darken him for ever. 1 Shakspeare. 
STU'BBLEGOOSE, s. A goose fed on the stubbles.— 
I’ll make you a stubble-goose. Beaum. and FI. 
STUBBORN, adj. [This word, of which no obvious 
etymology appears, is derived by Minsheu from stoutborn, 
referred by Junius to o-nfiocpot;, and deduced better by Lye, 
from stub ; perhaps from stub-born.'] Obstinate; inflexible ; 
contumacious. 
The queen is obstinate, 
Stubborn to justice, apt t’ accuse it, and 
Disdainful to be tried by’t. ' Shakspeare. 
Persisting; persevering; steady.—All this is to be had 
only from the epistles themselves, with stubborn attention, 
and more than common application. Locke. —Stiff; not 
pliable; inflexible; not easily admitting impression. 
Love softens me, and blows up fires which pass 
Through my tough heart, and melt the stubborn mass. 
Dry den t 
Hardy; firm. 
Patience under torturing pain. 
Where stubborn stoicks would complain. Swift. 
Harsh ; rough; rugged.—We will not oppose any thing 
that is hard and stubborn, but by a soft answer deaden their 
force. Burnet. —In all its uses it commonly implies some¬ 
thing of a bad quality, though Locke has used it in a sense 
of praise. 
STUBBORNLY, adv. Obstinately ; contumaciously ; 
inflexibly. 
Stubbornly he did repugn the truth. 
About a certain question in the law. Shakspeare. 
He wilfully neglects his book, and stubbornly refuses any 
thing he can do. Locke. 
So close they cling, so stubbornly retire, 
Their love’s more violent than the chymist’s fire. Garth. 
STUBBORNNESS, s. Obstinacy; vicious stoutness; 
contumacy; inflexibility. Dryden has used it in commenda¬ 
tion. 
Happy is your grace. 
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune 
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shakspeare. 
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STUBBS (George), an eminent painter of animals, wa s 
born ai Liverpool, in 1724. He particularly excelled in the 
knowledge of the anatomy of animals, for which he took 
great pains in dissection, as well as design. It is unfortu¬ 
nate, that the exercise of his talents was confined to 
animal painting, and particularly of race-horses, as he was 
capable of much higher productions: witness his picture of 
Phaeton with the horses of the sun, and those of the horse 
and lion. His knowledge of the nature and actions of 
various animals, inspire his pictures with peculiar interest. 
Sometimes his colouring was very good, though never excel¬ 
lent; and he was defective in the execution of back-grounds. 
His long life was most laboriously and usefully employed. 
In 1766 he published his Anatomy of the Horse, the most 
perfect work upon the subject; which he drew, and etched 
himself, from a natural figure which he dissected for the pur¬ 
pose. He died in 1806, at the age of 82. He was an asso¬ 
ciate of the Royal Academy. 
STUBBS, a township of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 7 miles north-west of Doncaster. 
STUBBY, adj. Short and thick; short and strong.—The 
The base is surrounded with a garland of black and stubby 
bristles. Grew. 
STUBBY-LANE, a township of England, in Stafford¬ 
shire ; 4 miles south-east of Uttoxeter. 
STUBIIAMPTON, a hamlet of England, in Dorsetshire, 
near the source of the river Tarent, a little north of Tarent- 
Gunvil. 
STUBIIILL, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Ar- 
thuret, Cumberland. 
STUBLACH, a township of England, in Cheshire; 3 
miles north of Middlewich. 
STUBLEY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Dron- 
field, Derbyshire. 
STUBNA and STUBNYA, two villages in the north¬ 
west of Hungary; 8 miles north of Cremnitz. They have 
in the vicinity warm mineral springs; also iron and copper 
mines. 
STU'BNAIL, s. A nail broken off; a short thick 
nail. 
STUBTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 10 
miles north-by-west of Grantham. 
STUCCO, s. [Italian; stuc, Fr.] A kind of fine plas¬ 
ter for walls. 
Palladian walls, Venetian doors, 
Grotesco roofs, and stucco floors. Pope. 
To STUCCO, v. a. To plaster walls with stucco.—Pa¬ 
laces, as adorned with tapestry, are here contrasted with 
lowly sheds and smoky rafters. A modern poet would have 
written stuccoed halls. Warton. 
STUCK. The preterite and participle passive of stick. 
Stuck o’er with titles, and hung round with strings, 
That thou may’st be by kings, or whores of kings. Pope. 
STUCK, s. A thrust.—I had a pass with rapier, scabbard 
and all, and he gives me the stuck in which such a mortal 
motion, that it is inevitable. Shakspeare. 
STU'CKLE, s. A number of sheaves laid together in 
the field to dry. Ainsworth. 
STUD, s. [fcubu, Saxon.] A post; a stake. A 
prop. 
Seest not thilke same hawthorne studde. 
How bragly it begins to budde, 
And utter his tender head ? Spenser. 
A nail with a large head driven for ornament; any orna¬ 
mental knob or protuberance. 
Crystal and myrrhine cups emboss’d with gems, 
And studs of pearl. Milton. 
[fcob, Sax.; stod, Icel,, is a stallion.] A collection of 
breeding horses and mares. —In the studs of Ireland, where 
care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour 
and size. Temple. 
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