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one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.

The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.

To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. "To stir men to devotion." Chaucer. An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. Shak. And for her sake some mutiny will stir. Dryden.

ne who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.

A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).

Tight; close; closely fitting. Shak.

To make tense, or tight; to tighten. They straiten at each end the cord. Pope.

A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.

n of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. Rankine. Stress is the mutual action between portions…

To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. Shak.

Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Dryden.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

ocure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. Thou art suborned against his honor. Shak. Those who by despair suborn their death. Dryden.

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. His habit fit for speed succinct. Milton.

rons. It is beautifully variegated with white, brown, and black. Called also sunbird, and tiger bittern. -- Sun fever (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sun stroke. -- Sun gem (Zoöl.), a Brazilian humming bird (Heliactin cornutus). Its head is ornamented by two tufts of bright colored feathers, fiery crimson…

To harass; to fatigue. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. Addison.

To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.

To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]

Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.