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when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. Stubs sharp and hideous to behold. Chaucer. And prickly stubs instead of trees are found. Dryden.

Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

The quality or state of being stubbed.

The state of being stubby.

stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay.

Covered with stubble; stubbled.

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. "Bow, stubborn knees." Shak. "Stubborn att…

Abounding with stubs.

sdiction or royal prerogatives. They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs.

ucer. To be acknown (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.

Adaptive. Stubbs.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.

; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon.

e of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity. Bulldog bat (zo'94l.), a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; -- so called from the shape of its face.

Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.

Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil. Halliwell.