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A stick for stirring a tan vat.

or that which, potches. Potcher engine (Paper Making), a machine in which washed rags are stirred in a bleaching solution.

confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also potter, and pudder.] "What a pother and stir!" Oldham. "Coming on with a terrible pother." Wordsworth.

l wave is best marked in a hard pulse, i. e., where the blood pressure is high. Landois & Stirling.

nsequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. Landois & Stirling.

To make a dirty stir. [Obs.] R. Junius.

erting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wr…

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i. [Obs.]

A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.

To stir. [Obs.] He could not move nor quich at all. Spenser.

In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They . . . were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. Judg. xvi. 2.

To stir; to wince. [Obs.] Spenser.

To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. [R.] Stirling. "Truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power." J. A. Symonds.

An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden.

e or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. [Obs.] He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray. Pope.…

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.