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Sticking
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a. & n. from Stick, v.
Stickit
a.
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Stuck; spoiled in making.
Stick-lac
n.
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See the Note under Lac.
Stickled
imp. & p. p.
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of Stickle
Stickling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Stickle
Stickle
v. i.
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To separate combatants by intervening.
Stickle
v. i.
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To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
Stickle
v. i.
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To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Stickle
v. t.
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To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
Stickle
v. t.
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To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
Stickle
v. t. & i.
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A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Stickleback
v. t.
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Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
Stickler
v. t.
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One who stickles.
Stickler
v. t.
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One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
Stickler
v. t.
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One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
Stick-seed
n.
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A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
Sticktail
n.
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The ruddy duck.
Stick-tight
n.
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Beggar's ticks.
Sticky
superl.
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Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Stiddy
n.
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An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.
Stiff
superl.
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Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Stiff
superl.
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Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Stiff
superl.
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Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Stiff
superl.
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Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Stiff
superl.
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Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Stiff
superl.
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Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Stiff
superl.
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Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Stiff
superl.
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Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Stiff-backed
a.
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Obstinate.
Stiffened
imp. & p. p.
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of Stiffen