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triking lines fquare to other lines. Moxon. 3. Cornered; having angles of whatever content; as three fquare, five fquare.

Catching up in hafte his three square field.

Spenfer. -The clavicle is a crooked bone, in the figure of an S, one end of which being thicker and aimoft three fquare, is inferted into the first bone of the fternon. Wifeman. 4. Parallel; exactly fuitable. -She'ft a moft triumphant lady, if report be Square to her. Shak. 5. Strong; ftout; well fet: as, a fquare man. 6. Equal; exac; honeft; fair: as, fquare dealing.

For thofe that were, it is not square to take On thofe that are, revenge. Shak. 7. in geometry.] Square root of any number is that which, multiplied by itself, produces the fquare, as 4 is the fquare root of 16; becaufe 4X4 16; and likewife 6 the fquare root of 36, as 6X6=36.

(2.) * SQUARE. n. f. [quadra, Latin.] 1. A fi gure with right angles and equal fides.

Then did a tharped fpire of diamond bright, Ten fect each way in fquare appear to me.

Spenfer.

Milton.

Raid of graffy turf their table was; And on her ampie square from fide to fide All Autumn pil'd. 2. An area of four fides, with houfes on each fide. -The ftatue of Alexander VII. ftands in the large square of the town. Addison. 3. Content of an angle. In rectangle triangles the square which is made of the fide that fubtendeth the right angle, is equal to the squares which are made of the files, containing the right angie. Brown. 4. A rule or inftrument by which workmen meature or form their angies. 5. Rule; regularity; exaft proportion; juftnefs of workmanthip or conduct. Not now much used.-In St Paul's time the integrity of Rome was famous: they of Galatia much more out of square. Hooker.-The whole ordinance of that government was at first evil plotted, and came more out of square. Spenfer.

I have not kept my square. Shak. -Nothing fo much fetteth this art of influence out of square and rule as education. Raleigh. 6. Squadron; troops formed square. Not now in ufe.

The brave squares of war.

Shak.

Our fuperfluous lacqueys and our peasants, Who in unneceffary action fwarm About our squares of battle.

Shak.

7. A square number is when another called its roots can be exactly found, which multiplied by itself produces the fquare. The following example is not accurate.

Advance thy golden mountains to the skies, On the broad bafe of fifty thousand rife; Add one round hundred, and, if that's not fair, Add fifty more, and bring it to a square. Pope. 8. Quaternion; number four. Though perhaps in the following lines, fquare may mean only capacity.

I profefs Myfelf an enemy to all other joys Which the most precious square of fenfe pofLeffes.

Shak.

9. Level; equality.-A rich man that converfes upon the fquare with a poor man, fhall certainly, undoe him. L'Etrange.

We live not on the fquare with fuch. Dryd. 10. Quartile; the aftrological fituation of planets, diftant ninety degrees from each other.

In fextile, fquare, and trine and oppofite Of noxious efficacy.

Milton.

11. Rule; conformity. A proverbial ufc.-I fhall break no fquares. L'Efrange. 12. SQUARES go. The game proceeds. Cheisboards being fuli of fquares.-One frog looked about him to fee how fquares went with their new king. L'Eftrange.

(3.) SQUARE, in geometry, a quadrilateral fi gure both equilateral and equiangular. See GEO

METRY.

(4.) SQUARE, among mechanics, an inftrument confiiting of two rules or branches, fastened perpendicularly at one end of their extremities, fo as to form a right angie. It is of great use in the de. feription and menfuration of right angles, and laying down perpendiculars.

(5.) SQUARE, HOLLOW, in the military art, a body of foot drawn up with an empty space in the middle, for the colours, drums, and baggage, faced and covered by the pikes every way, to keep off the horse.

(6.) SQUARE ROOT. See ALGEBRA, Part I Chap. IV. and ARITHMETIC, Index. (7.) SQUARE T. See T.

(1.) To SQUARE. v. a. (quadro, Lat. from the noun.] 1. To form with right angles. 2. To reduce to a fquare.

Prior.

Circles to fquare, and cubes to double, Wou'd give a man exceffive trouble. 3. To measure; to reduce to a measure.— Stubborn criticks, apt, without a theme For depravation, to square all the fex By Cretlid's rule.

Shak

4. To adjust; to regulate; to mould; to fhape. I will be fquar'd by this.

How frantickly I jquare my taik ! Thou'rt faid to have a ftubborn foul, And quart thy life accordingly.

Shak.

Shak.

Shak.

Only to fquare and fashion our hard and tubborn hearts. Boyle.-God has defigned us his word and law, by the proportions whereof we. are to fquare our actions. Decay of Piety.-The oracle was inforced to proclaim Socrates the wifeft man in the world, because he applied his ftudies to the fquaring men's lives. Hammond.For this by rules fevere his fe he fquar'd.

Dryden. This muft convince a'l fuch who have prefumed to square opinions by theirs. Swift. 5. To accommodate; to fit.

Eye me, bleft providence, and fquare my trial To my proportion'd strength. Milton. -Some profeffions can equaily Square themselves to all revolutions of governinent. South. 6. To refpect in quartile.

The icy goat and crab that square the fcales. Creech. (2.) To SQUARE. v. n. 1. To fuit with; to fit with.

I fet them by the rule, and, as they square, Or deviate from undoubted doctrine, fare.

Dryden.

-His defcription squares exactly to lime. Woodward.-Thefe marine bodies do not fquare with thofe opinious. Woodward. 2. To quarrel; to go to oppofite files. Obfolete.— Are you fuch fools

To fquare for this?

Shak. But they do square. Shak. *SQUARENESS. n. f. {from square.] The ftate of being fanare.-Try the squareness of their work. Moxon.--Motion, squareness, or any particular fhape, are the accidents of body. Watts. SQUARE RIGGED, adi. (square and rig.) an e-pithet applied to a fhip whofe yards are very long. It is alfo ufed in contradiftinction to all weffels whofe fails are extended by ftays or lateenyards, or by booms and gaffs; the ufual fituation of which is nearly in the plane of the keel; and hence,

SQUARE SAIL, is a fail extended to a yard which hangs parallel to the horizon, as dutinquifhed from the other fails which are extended by booms and ftays placed obliquely. This fail is only und in fair winds, or to fçud under in a tempeft. In the former cafe, it is furnifted with a large additional part cailed the bonnet, which is then attached to its hottom, and removed when it is neceflary to scun. See SCUDDING.

* SQUASH. n. f. {trom quash.] 1. Any thing foft and easily crushed.-Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy, as a squab is before it is a peafood. Shak. 2. (Melopepo.) A plant. Mriler.-Squash is an Indian kind of pumpion that grows apace. Boyle. 3. Any thing unripe; ; any thing foft. In contempt.--How like I then was to this kernel, This quafe, this gentleman.

Shak.

4. A fudden falı.-1 fhali throw down the burden with a fquafe among them. Arbuthnot. 5. A shock of foft bodies.-My fail was ftopped by a terrible Squash. Swift.

*To SQUASH. V. A. To crufh into pulp. (1.) * SQUAT. adj. (from the verb.] 1. Cowering; close to the ground.

Squat like a toad, clofe at the ear of Eve.

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2. Short and thick; having one part close to another, as thofe of an animal contracted and cowering. The fquill-infect is fo calied from fome fimilitude to the fquill-fish: the head is broad and fquat. Grew.

Alma in verfe, in profe. the mind, Throughout the body fquat or tali, Is bona fide, all in all.

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SQUEAK. n. . [from the verb.] A fhrill quick cry; a cry of pain.

Ran cow and calf, and family of hogs, With many a deadly grunt and doleful squeak. Dryden. *To SQUFAR. v. n. [sgavaka, Swedish.] 1. To fet up a fu den dolorous cry; to cry out with pain. 2. To cry with a fhrill acute tone.— The sheeted dead

Did fqueak and gibber in the Roman ftreets. Shak.

Cart wheels squeak not when they are liquored. Bacon.

The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dryden. -Blunderbuffes planted in every loop-hole, go off at the squeaking of a fiddle. Dryden.-Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch? ALdifon.—

They grant, if higher pow'rs think fit, A bear might foon be made a wit; And that for any thing in nature, Pigs might squeak love odes, dogs bark fatyr. Prior.

As the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks.

Pope.

Zoilus calls the companions of Ulyffes the squeaking pigs of Homer. Pepe. 3. To break filence or fecrecy for fear or pain.-Put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him. Dryden.

* To SQUEAL. v. n. [sqwala, Swedish.] To cry with a thrill tharp voice; to cry with pain. Squeak feems a short fudden cry, and squeal a cry continued.

SQUEAMISH. adi. [for quamish, or qual mish, from qualm.] Nice; faftidious; eafily dif gufted; having the ftomach cafily turned; being apt to take offence without much reafon. It is ufed always in dil ke either real or ironical.-He feemed very squeamish in respect of the charge he had of the princefs Pamela. Sidney.

Quoth he, that honour's very squeamish, That takes 2 bafting for a blemish. Hudib. His mufick's ruftick, and perhaps too plain, The men of squeamish tafte to entertain.

Southern.

It is rare to fee a man at once squeamish and voracious. South.-There is no occafion to oppose the ancients and the moderns, or to be squeamish on either fide. Locke.

SQUEAMISHLY. adv. [from squeamish.] In Prior. a faftidious manner.

(2.) SQUAT. n. f. 1. The pofture of cowering lying clofe.

Such wrinkles as a fkilful hand would draw For an old grandam ape, when with a grace She fits at fquat.

Dryden., 2. A fudden fail.-Bruifes, fquats and fails, which often kill others, can bring little hurt to thofe that are temperate. Herbert.

(3.) SQUAT. n.f. A fort of mineral.-The squat confifts of tin ore and fpar incorporated. Woodsward.

*To SQUAT. v. n. [quattare, Italian.] To fit cowering to fit close to the ground. SQUATINA. See SQUALUS, N° 28.

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SQUEAMISHNESS. n. ƒ. [from squeamish.} Nicenefs; delicacy; faftidioufne fs.-The therough-pac'd politician muft laugh at the squeamishness of his confcience. South.-It is but conquering a little squeamishness of ftomach. Stilling feet.-To adminifter this dofe, 50,000 operators, confidering the squeamishness of fome ftomachs, is but reasonable. Swift.

* SQUEEZE. n. f. [from the verb.] Compreffion; preffure.

Peaceful they fleep; but let the tuneful squeeze

Of lab'ring elbow roufe them, out they fly.

Philips. (1.) * Ta

root like an onion; the leaves are broad; the flowers are like thofe of ornithogalum, or the ftarry hyacinth: they grow in a long spike, and come out before the leaves. Miller.-Seed or kernels of apples and pears put into a quill, will come up earlier than in the earth itself. Bacon.'Twill down like oxymel of quills.

(1.) To SQUEEZE. v. a. (cwifan, Saxon; ys gwafgu, Welth. 1. To prefs; to crush between two bodies.-It is applied to the squeezing or preffing of things downwards. Wilkins.-That crack muft fo thake or squeeze the atmosphere, as to bring down all the remaining vapours. Burnet. He reap'd the product of his labour'd ground, And fqueez'd the combs. Dryden.

None acted mournings forc'd to show, Or fqueeze his eyes.

What virgin could withstand,

Dryden.

If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand?

Pope. i. To opprefs; to crush; to harass by extortion. In a civil war people must expect to be crufhed and fqueezed. L'Eftrange. 3. To force between clofe bodies.

(2.) * To SQUEEZE. V. n. 1. To act or pass, in confequence of compreffion.-A concave fphere of gold fill'd with water and folder'd up, upon preffing the sphere with great force, let the water Jueeze through it, and ftand all over its outfide in multitudes of fmall drops, like dew, without burfting. Newton.

Still run on poets, in a raging vein,
Ev'n to the dregs and squeezings of the brain.

Pope. 2. To force way through close bodies.-When he has crammed his guts, he is fain to Squeeze hard before he can get off. L'Etrange. *SQUELCH. n. f. Heavy fall. A low ludierous word.

He tore the earth which he had fav'd From Squelch of knight. Hudibras. -So foon as the poor devil had recovered the fquelch, away he fcampers. L'Etrange.

* SQUIB. n. f. [fschieben, German, to push for ward. This etymology, though the beft that I have found, is not very probable.] 1. A small pipe of paper filled with wildfire. Ufed in fport. -The armada at Calais, Sir Walter Raleigh was wont prettily to fay, were fuddenly driven away with quibs. Bacon.-The foreft of the fouth, compareth the French valour to a squib. Howel.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a prefent
blaze;

But time, and thunder, pay respect to bays.
Waller.

Furious he begins his march,
With fquibs and crackers arm'd to throw
Among the trembling crowd below. Swift.
Criticks on verfe, as fquibs on triumphs wait,*
Proclaim the glory, and augment the state.

2. Any petty fellow. Not in use.—

Young.

Afked for their pass by every fquib. Spenfer -The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libellers. Tatler.

SQUILACE, or an ancient town of Naples, SQUILACI, in Calabria Ultra, pleasantly feated on the Favelone, 3 miles from the Gulf fo named. It was first fettled by a colony of Athenians. It is a bishop's fee, and contains 11 parishes. It is 30 miles S. of St Severina, and 33 SSE. of Cofenza. Lon. 16. 40. E. Lat. 39. 3. N. (1.) *SQUILL. n. f. [ squilla, scilla, Lat. fquille, Fr.) 1. A plant. It hath a large acrid bulbous VOL. XXI. PART I.

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SQUILLACE. See SQUILACE.

(1.) SQUINANCY. n. f. [quinance, fquinancie, Fr. fquinantia, Italian.] An inflammation in the throat; a quinfey.-Uled for squinancies and inflammations of the throat. Bacon.-In a fquinancy there is danger of fuffocation. Wifeman.

(2.) SQUINANCY. See MEDICINE, Index, under QUINZY.

*SQUINT. adj. fquinte, Dutch, oblique, tranfverfe.] Looking obliquely; looking not directly; looking fufpiciously.

Milton.

I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banith Squint suspicion. (1.) To SQUINT. v. a. i. To form the eye to oblique vifion.-This is the foul Flibertigibbet; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hairlip. Shak. 2. To turn the eye ob. liquely.—Perkin began already to Squint one eye upon the crown. Bacon. (2.) To SQUINT. v. n. To look obliquely; to look not in a direct line of vifion.-Some can Squint when they will; and children fet upon a table with a candle behind them, both eyes will move outwards, to fee the light, and fo induce fquinting. Bacon.—Not a period of this epiftle but quints towards another over against it. Pope.

* SQUINTEYED. adj. [quint and eye.] 1. Having the fight directed oblique.-He was fo fquinteyed, that he feemed fpitefully to look upon them. whom he beheld. Knolles. 2. Indirect; oblique; malignant.

This is a falfe and squinteyed praise. Denham. * SQUINTIFEGO. adj. Squinting. A cant

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STAATSBOROUGH, a town of New York; 10 miles N. of Poughkeepsie.

STAATZ, a town of the empire of Auftria; 5 miles W. of Falkenftein.

* STAB. ". J. [from the verb.] 1. A wound with a fharp pointed weapon,

he graduated and was made rector of Topsfield; in 4 vols 12mo. with 2 of her Comedies, were pubin 1950, rector of St Anne. Weftminster; in 1760, lifhed foon after. dean of Briftol; and in 1761, Bp. of St David's. He died May 7th, 1766. He was a fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and a coralant attendant. His chief works are, 1. An Inquiry into the nature of the English Con/titution, or an Hiftorical Effay on the Anglo-Saxon Government. 2. The Ancient History of the Hebrews vindicated; Camb. 1741. 3. Two Effays: i. A Defence of the ancient Greek Chronology: ii. An Inquiry into the origin of the Greek Language; Camb. 1741. 4. An Essay on the Balance of Civil Power in England, 1742. 5. Plutarchi de fide & Ofride liber, 1744

(2.) * SQUIRE. n. f. [Contraction of efquire; efcuyer, French. See ESQUIRE. 1. A gentieman next in rank to a knight.-Come cut and long tail under the degree of a fquire. Shak.-

The reft are princes, barons, knights, fquires, And gentlemen of blood. Shak.

2. An attendant on a poble warriour.

Old Butes' form he took, Anchifes' fquire.

Dryden.
-Knights, fquires, and fteeds muf. enter on the
Rage. Pope. 3. An attendant at court.--

To knee his throne, and quire-like penfion
beg,

Shak.

To keep bafe life a-foot. (1.) * SQUIRREL. n. f. lefturueil, Fr. fciurus, Lat. A mall anitnal that lives in woods, remarkable for leaping from tree to tree.

Drayton.

One chanc'd to find a nut,
Which lay upon a hazel-root,
There fcatter'd by a squirrel.
(2.) SQUIRREL, in zoology. See SCIURUS.
SQUIRT. ». . [from the verb.] 1. An in-
ftrument by which a quick ftream is ejected.-
He with his fauirt-fire cou'd difperte
Whole troops.

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Hudibras. His weapons are a pin to scratch, and a squirt to befpatter. Pope. 2. A fmall quick ftream.Water those with squirts. Bacon.

(1.) To SQUIRT. v. a. To throw out in a quick ftream. Of uncertain etymology.-Sir Roger the mortally hated, and used to hire feilows to fquirt kennel water upon him. Arbuthnot. (2.) To SQUIRT. v. n. To prate; to let fly. Low cant. You are given to jquirting up and down. L'Etrange.

SQUIRTER. n. f. [from squirt.] One that plies a iquirt. The quilters were at it with their kennel water. Arbuthnot.

SREDNEI, a town of Ruffia, in Tobolfk. SRODA, a town of Poland, in Pofuania. SSE-TCHUEN, a town of Afia, in Corea. STAAL, Madame DE, a celebrated French lady, of the 18th century, who wrote her own Memoirs, but without mentioning the year of her birth. She was the daughter of one De Launai, a painter, and was educated in a couvent, by the favour of the abbefs; but her patronets dying, the became waiting maid to the duchefs of Maine. A letter which the wrote to the celebrated Fon tenelle, raised her literary fame, and attracted the attention of the wits of Paris. She married Lieutenant De Staal of the Swifs Guards, afterwards! Marefchal. She died in 1750, and her Memoirs,

Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt at
Rabs
Shak.

Kill the still clofing waters.

To fall beneath a bafe affallin's fab. Row, 2. A dark injury'; a fly mischief. 3. A stroke/ a biow.-Every pertinent text urged home being a direct fub to a temptation. South. (1.) *To STAB. v. a. [staven, oid Dutch.] 1. To pierce with a pointed weapon.—

Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son;
Stabl'd by the leif-fame hand, that made these
wounds.
Shak
Porcius, think, thou seeft thy dying brother
Stabl'd at his heart.
Addifon.

2. To wound mortally or mischievously.—
Then, to compiete her woes, will I espouse
Hermione:-'twill fab her to the heart!
A. Philips.
(2.) To STAB. v. n. 1. To give a wound
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STABBER, n. f. [from slab.] One who ftabs; a privy murderer.

STABBIA, a town of Etruria; 11 miles SSW. of Piftoya.

STABBING, in law. The offence of mortally ftabbing another, though done upon sudden provocation, is punished as murder; the benefit of clergy being taken away from it by ftatute. (Ste MURDER.) For by Ja. I. c. 8. when one thrusts or tabs another, not then having a weapon drawn, or who hath not then first ftricken the party ftabbing, fo that he dies thereof within fix months af ter, the offender fhad not have the benefit of clergy, though he did it not of malice aforethought. This ftatute was made on account of the frequent quarrels and Rabbings with thort daggers between the Scotch and the English, at the acceffion of James I.; and being therefore of a temporary nature, ought to have expired with the mischief which it meant to remedy. For, in point of fo lid and substantial justice, it cannot be faid that the mode of kiding, whether by stabbing, strangling, or fhooting, can either extenuate or enhance the guiit; unless where, as in the case of poiton ing, it carries with it internal evidence of cool and deliberate malice. But the benignity of the law hath conftrued the ftatute fo favourably in bechaif of the fubject, and fo ftrictly when againft him, that the offence of ftabbing now Bands al

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molt upon the fame footing as it did at the common law. Thus, (not to repeat the cafes mentioned under MANSLAUGHTER, of stabbing an adulterefs, &c. which are barely manflaughter, as at common law), in the conftruction of this ftatute it hath been doubted, whether, if the deceafed had ftruck at all before the mortal blow giVen, this does not take it out of the flatute, tho' in the preceding quarrel the ftabber had given the first biow; and it feems to be the better opinion, that this is not within the statute. Also it hath been refolved, that the killing a man, by throwing a hammer or other weapon, is not within the ftature; and whether a fhot with a piftol be so or not is doubted. But if the party flain had a cudgel in his hand, or had thrown a pot or a bottle, or difcharged a piftol at the party ftabbing, this is a fufficient reafon for having a weapon drawn on his fide within the words of the ftatute.

STABEN, Henry, an eminent painter born in Flanders, in 1578. He was a difciple of Tintofetto; was capital in history and perfpective; and died in 168.

* STABILIMENT. n. f. [from stabilis, Lat.] Support; firmness; act of making firm.-They ferve for ftabiliment. Derham.

STABILITY. n. f. ftabilité, Fr. from flabili tas, Lat.] 1. Stableness; fteadiness; ftrength to ftand. The fability of the figure is by the fame leffened. Temple.

These ribs robuft and vaft in order join'd,
Such strength and fuch fability impart,
That ftorms above, and earthquakes under
ground

Break not the pillars.

Blackmore. That hanging ftone's flability. Cotton. 2. Fixednefs; not fiuidity.-Since fluidnefs and Stability are contrary qualities, we may conceive that the firmness or stability of a body confifts in this, that there is among them a mutual cohesion. Boyle. 3. Firmacfs of refolution.

(1.) * STABLE. adj. [flable, Fr. ftabilis, Lat.] r. Fixed; able to ftand. 2. Steady; conftant; fixed in refolution or conduct.

Even the perfect angels were not fable. Davies. He perfect, ftable; but imperfect we. Dryd. 3. Strong; fixed in ftate or condition; durable.This region of chance and vanity, where nothing is ftable. Rogers.

(2.) *STABLE. n. f. \flabulum, Lat.] A houfe for beafts.-I will make Rabbah a table for camels.

Ezra, XXV. 5.

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Slothful diforder fill'd his fable. Prior. (1.) To STABLE. . a. [fabulo, Lat.] To put into a ftable.

(2.) *To STABLE. v. n. [stabulo, Lat.] To kernel; to dwell as beafts.Where luxury late reign'd, fea monsters whelp'd And stabled. Milton. STABLEBOY. Į n. f. [flable and boy, or man.] STABLEMAN. One who attends in the ftable. -Deliver your horfes to the tableboy. Swift.If the gentleman hath lain a night, get the tablemen and the fcullion to ftand in his way. Swift.

I would carefs fome ftableman of note. Bramt. *STABLENESS. n. f. [from ftable.] 1. Power to ftand. 2. Steadiness; conftancy; itability.

The king becoming graces

As juftice, verity, temp'rance, tableness. Shak. STABLESTAND. n. f. (In law.] Is one of the four evidences or prefumptions, whereby a man is convinced to intend the ftealing of the king's deer in the foreft: and this is when a man is found at his flanding in the foreft with a cross bow bent, ready to shoot at any deer; of with a long bow, or elfe ftanding clofe by a tree with greyhounds in a leafh ready to flip. Cowel.-I'll keep my fableftand where I lodge my wife. Shak.

To STABLISH. v. a. establir, Fr. ftabilio,
Lat.] To establish; to fix; to fettle.-
Then the began a treaty to procure,
And ftablish terms.

Spenfer Shak.

Stabligh quietnefs on ev'ry fide. Stablish you in every good work. 2 Thess. ii. 17. Poor hereticks in love there be, Which think to ftablish conftancy.

Stablish'd as the days of Heav'n. STABLO. Sce STAVELO.

Donne Milton.

STACHYS, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of didynamia, and order of gymnospermia; and in the natural fyftem arranged under the 42d order, Verticillata. The upper lip of the corolla is arched; the lower lip reflexed, and the larger intermediate lacina is marginated. The ftamina, after shedding the farina, are bent towards the fides. There are 16 fpecies, viz. 1. STACHYS ETHIOPS; 2. ALPINA; 3. ANNUA; 4. ARVENSIS; 5. CANARIENSIS; 6. CRETICA; 7. GERMANICA; 8. GLUTINOSA; 9. HIRTA; 10. LANATA; II. MARITIMA; 12. ORIENTALIS; 13. PALESTINA; 14. PALUSTRIS; 15. RECTA; and, 16. SYLVATICA. Of thefe only 4 are natives of Britain; viz.

1. STACHYS ARVENSIS, corn-flachys, petty ironavort, or all-heal. The talk is 10 or 14 inches high, fquare, branched, and hairy. The leaves are heart-shaped, obtufe, bluntly ferrated, and less hairy. The calyx is hairy and feffile, and deeply divided into five acute dents of equal length. The flowers are flesh-coloured, and grow from 3 to 6 in a whirl. The lower lip is trifid; the middle fegment spotted with red, but not emarginated according to the character of the genus. It is frequent in corn-fields, and grows from June to Auguft.

2. STACHYS GERMANICA, base bore-bound. The ftem is downy, and about 2 feet high. The leaves are white, downy, wrinkled, and indented. The flowers are white, purplish within, and grow in multiflorous whirls. It grows in England.

3. STACHYS PALUSTRIS, clown's all-beal. The roots are white and tuberous. The ftalk is branched at the bottom, and 2 or 3 feet high. The flowers are red or purple, from 6 to 10 in a whirl, ending in a long fpike. The leaves are feffile, narrow, pointed, and in part furrounding the stem. This plant has a fetid mell and bitter taste, and is reckoned a good vulnerary. It grows on the fides of rivers and lakes, in low moift grounds, and fometimes in corn fields.

4. STACHYS SYLVATICA, hedge-nettle. The plant is hairy all over, erect, a yard high, and branched; the hairs are jointed. The flowers are of a deep red colour, 6 or 8 in a whirl, which

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