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ental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling.

Before; sooner than. [Archaic or Poetic] Myself was stirring ere the break of day. Shak. Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore. Dryden. Sir, come down ere my child die. John iv. 49.

To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

To stir up; to agitate. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle. Talfowrd.

; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

A stirring up; a rousing. [Obs.] Hallywell.

To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace. Fanning machine, or Fanning mill, a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner.

To run about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.] He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions. Latimer.

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron. Flip dog, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.

To excite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.

The stirrup of a woman's saddle.

th iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. [U. S.]

One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.

en larger than themselves, and suck their blood. Called also hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. [Colloq.]

A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.