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A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

The fool's club. [Obs.] "A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.

esent or symbolize; to answer to. The field is the world. Matt. xiii. 38. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Rev. i. 20.

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

imp. & p. p. Bestick.

A small stick of wood, as for firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

Swinish; brutal; cruel. In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

eapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, acc…

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight.

A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small ship stick.

A broomstick. [Obs.] Shak.

onsists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

lly, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. -- Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.

s a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestick Mark iv. 21.

A large candlestick, having several branches.