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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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14 words match “STICKLE”

STICKLE v. 6 definitions
angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. Dryden.
STICKLEBACK n.
ines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
STICKLER n. 3 definitions
One who stickles. Specifically: --
BANSTICKLE n.
A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
BURNSTICKLE n.
A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
DISCIPLINARIAN n.
ning, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.
HEMIBRANCHI n.
An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.
HIGGLE v.
To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. A person accustomed to higgle about taps. Jeffry. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.
PRICKLEBACK; PRICKLEFISH n.
The stickleback.
RULE-MONGER n.
A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.
SALMON n.
from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salm…
SEA ADDER n.
The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
SHARPLING n.
A stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]
TITTLEBAT n.
The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]