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growing here into linen cloth and cordage. Bacon. 
Matter or thing. In contempt. 
O proper stuff! 
This is the very painting of your fear. Shahspeare, 
To-morrow will he time enough 
To hear such mortifying stuff. Swift. 
It is now seldom used in any sense but in contempt or 
dislike. 
To STUFF, v. a. To fill very full with any thing. 
Though plenteous, all too little seems 
To sfa^this maw, this vast unhide-bound corps. Milton. 
To fill to uneasiness. 
With some oblivious antidote 
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which weighs upon the heart. Shahspeare. 
To thrust into any thing.—Put roses into a glass with a 
narrow mouth, stuffing them close together, but without 
bruising, and they retain smell and colour fresh a year. 
Bacon. —To fill by being put into any thing. 
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Shahspeare. 
To swell out by putting something in.—I will be the man 
that shall make you great.-1 cannot perceive how, unless 
you give me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. 
Shakspcare .—-To fill with something improper or super¬ 
fluous. 
For thee I dim these eyes, and sf«/Tthis head 
With all such reading as was never read. Pope. 
To obstruct the organs of scent or respiration.—These 
gloves the count sent me; they are an excellent perfume.— 
i am stuff, cousin, I cannot smell. Shahspeare. —To fill 
meat with something of high relish.—She went for parsly to 
stuff a rabbet. Shahspeare. —To form by stuffing.—An 
eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, 
and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed 
upon the tribunal. Swift. 
To STUFF, v. n. To feed gluttonously. 
Wedg’d in a spacious elbow-chair, 
And on her plate a treble share, 
As if she ne’er could have enough, 
Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. Swift. 
STU'FFING, s. That by which any thing is filled.— 
Rome was a farrago out of the neighbouring nations; and 
Greece, though one monarchy under Alexander, yet the 
people that were the stuffing and materials thereof, existed 
before. Hale. — Relishing ingredients put into meat — 
Arrach leaves are very good in pottage and stuffings. Mor¬ 
timer. 
STUHL1NGEN, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Baden; 9 miles west-by-north of Schaffhausen. Popu¬ 
lation 1000. It is the chief place of a lordship belonging 
to the prince of Furstenberg. 
STUHL-WEISSENBURG, a county in the west of Hun¬ 
gary, lying between the counties of Veszprim and Pest, from 
which last it is separated by the Danube. Its territorial 
extent is 1600 square miles; its population 120,000, de¬ 
scended partly from Sclavonians, partly from Magyars and 
German settlers. Except in the north, where it has a few 
hills, it is in general level, and in many places has lakes and 
marshes. Besides the Danube, flowing along its eastern 
boundary, it is watered by the Sarvifz, which having a 
slow motion, is formed into a canal for a considerable part 
of its course. The principal products are wheat, wine, and 
tobacco. 
STUHL-WEISSENBURG, or Szepes-Fejarvar, a 
considerable town of the south-west of Hungary, the capital 
of a palatinate, and a bishop’s see. This town was built by 
king Stephen in the 11th century, and was during five cen¬ 
turies the place where the kings of Hungary were crowned 
and buried. It was called on that account Alba llegalis. 
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and the ruins of its ancient establishment show that it must 
have been a place of note. Three large moles or causeways 
proceeded from it; and between these were churches, houses, 
and gardens, the whole forming extensive suburbs. The 
removal of the court, and still more the misfortunes oc¬ 
casioned by repeated sieges in wars with the Turks, have 
greatly altered it; and though it still contains several re¬ 
spectable buildings, it is, on the whole, a mean place. It 
was formerly traversed by several canals, but these having 
been neglected during the agitated state of the country, are 
choaked up, and the waters have formed marshes, which 
render the town to a certain degree unhealthy. At present 
it has about 13,000 inhabitants, with a gymnasium or high 
school, and barracks for soldiers; but its fortifications were 
demolished in 1702. As to religion, the inhabitants are 
either Catholics, or of the Greek church. Here are some 
woollen manufactures, such as coarse cloth and flannel; 
but gardening and tillage form in this, as in other parts of 
Hungary, a main occupation even of those who live in the 
town. The environs are very fertile, and produce wine. In 
the neighbourhood is a saltpetre work, and at a greater dis¬ 
tance one of spirits distilled partly from grain, partly from 
potatoes and plums; Stuhl-Weissenburgh is 36 miles south¬ 
west of Buda, and 116 east-south-east of Vienna. Lat. 47. 
11. 34. N. long. 18.24. 45. E. 
STUKE, or Stuck, s. [ stuc , Fr., stucco, Italian.] A 
composition of lime and marble, powdered very fine, com¬ 
monly called plaster of Paris, with which figures and other 
ornaments resembling sculpture are made. Unused. 
STUKELEY (William), a physician of eminence, and a 
distinguished antiquary, descended from an ancient family 
in Lincolnshire, was born at Holbeach, in that county, in the 
year 1687. He received his early education at the free- 
school of his native town, and was entered of Bennet College, 
Cambridge, in 1793; and while an under-graduate, evinced 
a strong propensity to drawing, and to the study of antiqui¬ 
ties. Being intended for the medical profession, however, 
his principal attention was directed to botany, and the other 
collateral studies, which he could pursue at the university, 
until he took the degree of M.B. in 1709. He then went 
to London, where he studied anatomy, and acquired a 
knowledge of the practice of medicine under Dr. Mead, at 
St. Thomas’s Hospital. He first settled as a physician at 
Boston, in his native county; but in 1717, he removed to 
London. On the recommendation of Dr. Mead, he was 
elected a fellow of the Royal Society; and he was one of 
the revivers of the Society of Antiquaries in 1718, to which 
he acted as secretary for several years. He took the degree 
of M. D. at Cambridge in 1719, and in the following year 
was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians in Lon¬ 
don. At this time he published his first antiquarian essay, 
containing a description of “ Arthur’s Oon,” and “ Gra¬ 
ham’s Dyke,” in Scotland, with plates. In the year 1722, 
being appointed by the College of Physicians to read the 
Gulstonian lectures, he chose the structure and history of 
the spleen for his subject; and in the following year he pub¬ 
lished the substance of his lectures, in one volume, folio, 
with plates, under the title of “ The Spleen, its Description, 
Uses, and Diseases;” to which he also subjoined, “ Some 
anatomical Observations, made in the Dissection of an 
Elephant.” In this work, however, he had not the credit 
of much originality; for Haller affirms, that the plates 
were copied, without acknowledgment, from Vesalius, and 
contained several errors. Conceiving that there were some 
remains of the Eleusinian mysteries among the secrets of 
free-masonry, he became a member of that fraternity, and 
was constituted master of a lodge. To this society he pre¬ 
sented an account of a Roman amphitheatre at Dorchester. 
His propensity to the investigation of antiquities, indeed, 
continued to influence his pursuits; and being greatly af¬ 
flicted with the gout, which generally attacked him during 
the winter months, he was accustomed to take various 
journies in the spring for the recovery Of his health, which 
afforded him many opportunities of gratifying his curiosity. 
He generally therefore directed his excursions to those places, 
where 
