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To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction Addison.

Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey.

Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.

inely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. [Withered murder] with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.

To move or travel by the agency of steam. The vessel steamed out of port. N. P. Willis.

An engine moved by steam.

To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24. I am a kind of bur; I shall stick. Shak. If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick…

a stiff price. [Slang] Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be moved without difficulty and pain.

t so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

a. He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it. Woodward.

To change the place of in any manner; to move. My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. Sir W. Temple.

One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.

ue either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement. Their heavenly harps a lower strain began. Dryden.

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.