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A painter's maul-stick.

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. [Colloq.] Tackeray.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

Practice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.

shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. Milton.

See the Note under Lac.

A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.

Beggar's ticks.

Stuck. And in the sand her ship sticked so fast. Chaucer. They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt. Sir T. Browne.

One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

As much set type as fills a composing stick.

The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.

a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. -- Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.…

Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.] Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.

ngel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. Dryden.

nes. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

One who stickles. Specifically: --

The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]

Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk. Bacon.