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walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. Stir the fire with your master's cane. Swift.

vior; bearing; deportment; personal manners. His gallant carriage all the rest did grace. Stirling.

A pair of Straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

y, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

To mix or mingle together; to blend. The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.

To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. [Obs.] "The concitation of humors." Sir T. Browne.

To excite or stir up. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

rlasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert. [My joys] are still confected with some fears. Stirling.

ight have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.

with, cream. Creaming the fragrant cups. Mrs. Whitney. To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.

dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [R.] "A deedful life." Tennyson.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

To unbend. [Obs.] Stirling.

ate of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation. No discomposure stirred her features. Akenside.

To disallow; to disapprove of. [Obs.] Stirling.

Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.] A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble. Selden.

rtical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.