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

A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Adorned with pendants like icicles.

Resembling icicles. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A young bullock or heifer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Without stirring; very quiet; motionless. "Lying helpless and stirless." Hare.

Stock; race; family. [Obs.] Bacon.

The breeding of special stocks or races.

Stock; race; family. Blackstone.

The act of stirring; stir; commotion. [Obs.] T. Granger.

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.

business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey.

well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body. Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon. Chaucer.

Started; leaped. They privily be stirt into a well. Chaucer.

imp. of Start, v. i. & t. Chaucer.

Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

ction; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

To summer-fallow.

Insurrection; commotion; disturbance. [Obs.] Sir J. Cheke.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.