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To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.

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

ior; bearing; deportment; personal manners. His gallant carriage all the rest did grace. Stirling.

lasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert. [My joys] are still confected with some fears. Stirling.

ght have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.

To unbend. [Obs.] Stirling.

To disallow; to disapprove of. [Obs.] Stirling.

ntal; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

ness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish. Both strived for death; magnanimous debate. Stirling. There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. Washington.

rt; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life. Stirling. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin.

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

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

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.

to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something. [Obs.] Stirling.

n affected may be able to see quite well, speak fluently, and write correctly. Landois & Stirling. -- Word deafness (Physiol.), inability to understand spoken words, though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence is not deaf. -- Word dumbness (Physiol.), inability to express ideas in verbal lang…