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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.

To quiet. [Obs.] Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. Bacon.

A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.

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

Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]

Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South.

An active, stirring person.

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. [Obs.] "The concitation of humors." Sir T. Browne.

dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [R.] "A deedful life." Tennyson.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

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.

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

To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance. [R.]

One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]

ther, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. Shak.

To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.

That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.