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lation 526.-7. Sturton, Grange, a township in the parish 
of Aberford, West Riding of Yorkshire.—Also a township 
in the parish of Warkworth, Northumberland. 
To STUT, or To Stu'tter, v. n. [stottern , Germ., the 
same.'] To speak with hesitation ; to stammer. 
She spake somwhat thicke, 
Her felowe did stammer and stut. 
But she was a foule slut. Skelton. 
STU'TTER, or Stu'tterer, s. One that speaks with 
hesitation; a stammerer.—Many stutters are very cholerick, 
choler inducing a dryness in the tongue. Bacon. — Stut¬ 
terers use to stammer more when the wind is in that hole. 
Howell. 
STUTTERTON, a parish in Lincolnshire; 9 miles from 
Spalding. Population 860. 
STUTTESBURY, or Stotesbury, a parish of England, 
in Northamptonshire; 5 miles north-by-west of Brackley. 
STUTTGARD, a city in the south-west of Germany, the 
capital of the kingdom of Wirtemberg. It stands on the 
small river Nisselbach, in a valley, and is only 2 miles from 
the Neckar, over which there is an elegant bridge. It may 
be considered as divided into three parts, the town proper, 
two suburbs adjacent to each other, with the separate suburb 
called Esslingen. The town proper is badly built, the streets 
being narrow, the houses frequently of wood. The suburbs 
being less antique, are somewhat better, particularly that of 
Esslingen, in which are the royal palace, the gymnasium, the 
barracks, and several public buildings. The palace is a 
noble structure, situated near an extensive park. Its interior 
contains a good collection of paintings and statues, while its 
windows command a delightful view of the environs. 
Around the palace are several public establishments, a 
spacious opera-house, a small theatre, a museum, a garden, 
and an academy for painting, sculpture, and architecture. 
The royal library is said to contain 100,000 volumes, new 
and old, among which is an unique collection of bibles, 
comprising editions of every age and every country. The 
gymnasium has an observatory, and a good collection of 
mathematical instruments. The town has also a public 
library; and though it can boast of no handsome streets, 
except King’s-sfreet, which adjoins the palace, it has several 
pleasant walks, particularly that which leads to the royal villa 
of Monrepos. Its public buildings are an old palace, now 
converted into government offices, a mint, a town-house, a 
great church, and the royal stables. Though surrounded by 
a wall and ditch, Stuttgard is a place of no strength; and 
though repeatedly entered by the armies on both sides, be¬ 
tween the years 1796 and 1815, it escaped altogether those 
calamities which pressed so severely on it in the wars of the 
16th and 17th centuries. Here, as in other towns of Wir- 
temburg, manufactures are carried on on a small scale; they 
consist of leather, hats, cotton, silk, plated goods, and snuff. 
The expenditure of the court and nobility forms the chief 
support of the inhabitants. Provisions are abundant and 
reasonable, the surrounding country being equally fertile and 
beautiful, consisting chiefly of eminences covered with vine¬ 
yards, and of valleys laid out in corn culture; 37 miles east- 
south-east of Carlsruhe, and 116 west-north-west of Munich. 
Lat. 48. 46. 15. N. long. 9. 11. 0. E. 
STU'TTINGLY, or Stu'tteringly, ado. With stam¬ 
mering or hesitating speech. 
STUTTON, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire, near Tadcaster. 
STUTTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 6 miles 
south-by-west of Ipswich. 
STY, s. [fcije, Sax.j stia, Icel.] A cabin to keep 
hogs in. 
Tell Richmond, 
That in the sty of this most bloody boar. 
My son George Stanley is frank’d up in hold. Shakspeare. 
Any place of bestial debauchery. 
[They] all their friends and native home forget, 
To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1598. 
[j-Cigenb, Sax.; probably from pagan, to grow up. See 
Etym. Diet. 1691.] A humour in the eyelid: sometimes 
written stian. 
To STY, v. a. [fagean, Sax.] To shut up in a sty. 
Here you sty me 
In this hard rock, while you do keep from me 
The rest of the island. Shakspeare. 
To STY, v. n. [pagan, Sax.; steigan, Goth., to climb.] 
To soar; to ascend; to climb. 
To climbe aloft, and others to excell; 
That was ambition, rash desire to sty. Spenser. 
From this lower tract he dar’d to stie 
Up to the clowdes. Spenser. 
STY'CA, s. [picica, peyea, Sax.; from pticce, a small 
part.] A copper Saxon coin of the lowest value.—They 
had copper stycas also smaller than the penny, having the 
king’s name on one side, and coiner’s on the other, eight of 
which made a penny. Leake. 
STYDD, or Stede, a township of England, in Derby¬ 
shire ; 4f miles south-by-west of Ashborne. 
STYFORD, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland; 
7 miles east-by-south of Hexham. 
STY'GIAN, adj. [stygius, Lat.] Hellish; infernal; per¬ 
taining to Styx, one of the poetical rivers of hell. 
At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng 
Bent their aspect. Milton. 
STYLE, s. [stylus, Lat.] Manner of writing with re¬ 
gard to language. 
Happy 
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune 
Into so quiet, and so sweet a style. Shakspeare. 
Manner of speaking appropriate to particular characters. 
—No style is held for base, where love well named is. 
Sidney. 
There was never yet philosopher. 
That could endure the toothach patiently, 
However they have writ the style of gods, 
And make a pish at chance and sufferance. Shakspeare. 
Mode of painting.—The great stile stands alone, and 
does not require, perhaps does not as well admit, any addi¬ 
tion from inferior beauties. The ornamental stile also pos¬ 
sesses its own peculiar merit: however, though the union of 
the two may make a sort of composite stile, yet that stile is 
likely to be more imperfect than either of those which go to 
its composition. Reynolds. —It is likewise applied to music. 
—Title; appellation.—Ford’s a knave, and I will aggravate 
his stile; thou shalt know him for knave and cuckold. 
Shakspeare. 
O virgin! or what other name you bear 
Above that style; O more than mortal fair! 
Let not an humble suppliant sue in vain. Dry den. 
Course of writing. Unusual. 
While his thoughts the ling’ring day beguile, 
To gentle Arcite let us turn our style. Dry den. 
Style of Court, is properly the practice observed by 
any court in its way of proceeding. Ayliffe. —A pointed 
iron used anciently in writing on fables of wax.—When 
writing began to be common on tables of wood, covered 
over with coloured wax, men made use of a sort of bodkin, 
made of iron, or brass, or bone; which in Latin is called 
stylus: —As to the form of the style, it was made sharp like 
a pointed needle at one end, to write withal; and the other 
end blunt and broad, to scratch out what was written, and 
not approved of, to be amended; so that “ vertere stvlum," 
i. e. to turn the style, signifies, in Latin, to blot out. Mas¬ 
sey. —Any thing with a sharp point, as a graver; the pin of 
a dial.—Placing two stiles or needles of the same steel, 
touched with the same loadstone, when the one is removed 
but half a span, the other would stand like Hercules’s pillars. 
Brown. —The stalk which rises from amid the leaves of a 
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