measure of a moving force; and he confiders them. A knowledge of both is indifpenfably ne every kind of preffure as competent to the pro- ceffary for acquiring any useful practical know. duction of fuch changes. He contented himself ledge of machines: and it was ignorance of the with the application of this principle to the mo. doctrines of accelerated and retarded motions tion of bodies by the action of gravity, and gave which made the progrefs of practical mechanical the theory of projectiles, which remains to this knowledge fo very flow and imperfect. The me day without change, and only improved by con- chanics, even of the moderns, before Galileo, went fidering the changes which are produced in it by no further than to ftate the proportion of the the refiftance of the air. (See PROJECTILES, Part power and resistance which would be balanced by I. Sec. III-VI.) Sir ISAAC NEWTON took up the intervention of a given machine, or the prothis fubject nearly as Galileo had left it. For, if portion of the parts of a machine by which two we except the theory of the centrifugal forces known forces may balance each other. This view arifing from rotation, and the theory of pendu of the matter introduced a principle, which even Jums, published by Huygens, hardly any thing Galielo confidered as a mechanical axiom, viz. that had been added to the fcience of motion. New- what is gained in force by means of a machine is ton considered the fubject in its utmost extent; exactly compenfated by the additional time which it and in his mathematical principles of natural phi- obliges us to employ. This is falfe in every instance, lofophy he confiders every conceivable variation and not only prevents improvement in the con of moving force, and determines the motion re- ftruction of machines, but leads us into erroneous fulting from its action.-His firft application of maxims of conftruction. The true principles of thefe doctrines was to explain the celeftial mo- dynamics teach us, that there is a certain proportions; and the magnificence of this fubject caufed tion of the machine, dependant on the kind and it to occupy for a while the whole attention of proportion of the power and refiftance, which the mathematicians. But the fame work contain- enables the machine to perform the greatest pofed propofitions equally conducive to the improve- fible work. It is highly proper therefore to keep Lent of common mechanics, and to the complete feparate these two ways of confidering machines, understanding of the mechanical actions of bodies. that both may be improved to the utmoft, and Philofophers began to make thefe applications alfo. then to blend them together in every practical They faw that every kind of work which is to be difcuffion. Statics therefore is preparatory to the performed by a machine may be confidered ab- proper ftudy of mechanics; but it does not hence tractedly as a retarding force; that the impulfe of derive all its importance. It is the fole foundation water or wind, which are employed as moving of many useful parts of knowledge. This will be powers, act by means of preffures which they beft feen by a brief enumeration. 1. It compreexert on the impelled point of the machine; and hends all the doctrines of the excitement and prothat the machine itself may be confidcred as an pagation of preffure through the parts of folid affemblage of bodies moveable in certain limited bodies, by which the energies of machines are circumstances, with determined directions and produced. A preffure is exerted on the impelled proportions of velocity. From all thefe confider- point of a machine, fuch as the float-boards or ations refulted a general abstract condition of a buckets of a mill-wheel. This excites a preffure body acted on by known powers. And they at the pivots of its axle, which act on the points of found, that after all conditions of equilibrium fupport. This must be understood, both as to diwere fatisfied, there remains a furplus of moving rection and intenfity, that it may be effectually reforce. They could now ftate the motion which fifted. A preffure is alfo excited at the acting will enfue, the new refiftance which this will ex- tooth of the cog-wheel on the fame axle, by which cite, the additional power which this will abforb; it urges round another wheel, exciting fimilar and they at laft determined a new kind of equili- preflures on its pivots and on the acting tooth brium, not thought of by the ancient mechanici- perhaps of a third wheel. Thus a preffure is ulans, between the refiftance to the machine perfor- timately excited in the working point of the maning work and the moving power, which exactly chine, perhaps a wiper, which lifts a heavy stambalance cach other, and is indicated, not by the per, to let it fall again on fome matter to be reft, but by the uniform motion of the machine.- pounded. Now ftatics teaches us the intensities In like manner, the mathematician was enabled to and direction of all thofe preffures, and therefore calculate that prec fe motion of water which how much remains at the working point of the would completely abforb, or, in the new language, machine unbalanced by refiftance. 2. It comprebalance the fuperiority of preffure by which wa hends every circumftance which influences the ftater is forced through a fluice, a pipe, or canal, bility of heavy bodies; the inveftigation and prowith a conftant velocity. Thus the general doc-perties of the centre of gravity; the theory of the frines of motion came to be confidered in two points of view, according as they balanced each other in a state of reft or of uniform motion. Thefe two ways of confidering the fame fubject required both different principles and a different manner of reafoning. The firft has been named STATICS, as expreffing that reft which is the teft of this kind of equilibrium. The fecond has been called DYNAMICS or UNIVERSAL MECHANICS, because the different kinds of motion are characteriftic of the powers or forces which produce conftruction of arches, vaults, and domes; the attitudes of animals. 3. The ftrength of materials, and the principles of conftruction, so as to make the proper adjustment of ftrength and strain in every part of a machine, edifice, or ftructure of any kind. Statics therefore furnishes us with what may be called a theory of carpentry, and gives us proper inftructions for framing floors, roofs, centres, &c. 4. Statics comprehends the whole doctrine of the preffure of fluids, whether liquid or aeriform, whether arifing from their weight or from STATIONES, [Latin.] Poft-offices, in Roman antiquity. See POST, § 6. from any external action. Hence therefore we derive our knowledge of the ftability of ships, or their power of maintaining themselves in a pofition nearly upright, in oppofition to the action of the wind on their fails. We learn on what circumftances of figure and ftowage this quality depends, and what will augment or diminish it. See WATER-WORKS. * STATION. n f. [station, French; statio, Lat.] 1. The act of ftanding. The manner was to ftand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose had the names of ftations given them. Hooker. Shak. la ftation like the herald, Mercury, New-lighted on a heav'n-kiffing hill. 1. A state of reft.-All progreffion is performed by drawing on or impelling forward fome part which was before in ftation. Brown. 3. A place where any one is placed.-The feditious remain ed within their station. Hayward. The planets in their station lift'ning stood. Milton. 4. Poft affigned; office.-The cherubims taking their ftations to guard the place. Milton., 5. Si. tuation; pofition. To fingle stations now what years belong. The fig and date, why love they to remain The greater part have kept their station. Milt. 8. Rank; condition of life.-I can be contented with an humbler Station in the temple of virtue, than to be fet on the pinnacle. Dryden. To STATION. v. a. [from the noun.] To place in a certain post, rank, or place. (1.) * STATIONARY. adj. [from station.] 1. Fixed; not progreffive.-Between the defcent and afcent, where the image feemed ftationary, I topped the prifm. Newton. 2. Refpecting place. The fame harmony and Stationary conftitution, as it happened in many species, fo doth it fall out in individuals. Brown. 3. Belonging to a stationer. (2.) STATIONARY, in aftronomy, the ftate of a planet when, to an obferver on the earth, it appears for fome time to ftand ftill, or remain immoveable in the fame place in the heavens. For as the planets, to fuch an obferver, have fometimes a progreffive motion, and fometimes a retrograde one, there must be fome point between the two where they must appear stationary. * STATIONER. 2. f. [from station.] A bookfeller. Some modern tragedies are beautiful on the ftage, and yet Tryphon the ftationer complains they are feldom afked for in his fhop. Dryd. With authors, Stationers obey'd the call. Pope. 2. A feller of paper. STATIRA, the daughter of Darius Codoman- Statist though I am none, nor like to be, Shak. Their orators thou then extoll'ft, as thofe, Milton. (1.) STATISTICAL, adj. [from ftatus, Latin, ftate, circumstance, or condition; Of or belonging to the ftate, circumstances, or Ondition, of a pecple or country of or belonging to STATISTICS. (2.) STATISTICAL PHILOSOPHY, an expreffive term, very properly applied by Sir John Sinclair, to that new and important branch of science, STATISTICS, which he has recently introduced to the knowledge of his countrymen :-a branch of fcience or philofophy, the moft ufeful and comprehenfive of all others, as it comprehends indeed every thing interefting and important to mankind, here and hereafter. Men of letters, in all ages and nations, have spent much time and labour, in inveftigating the antiquities of their respective countries. The knowledge of thefe is ufeful in its place, nor docs the fcience of statistics exclude antiquities; but it is only by a thorough knowledge of the prefent ftate of a country, and its inhabitants, with their prefent cuftoms, habits, morals, grievances, and manner of living, (which are the chief objects of ftatistical philofophy,) that a country can be improved, or the condition and circumftances of the people ameliorated. See the next article. STATISTICS, n. f. plur. [from status, Latin, State, condition, &c.] a new and important branch of fcience lately introduced, and the term invented, or at least highly improved and extended in its fignification, by Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Baronet. The definition and illuftration of the term and its adjective, we thall give in his own words :—“ Many people," (fays he, Stat. Acc. Vol. XX, p. xiii.) "were at firft furprifed at my ufing the new words, Statistics and Statistical, as it was fuppofed, that fome term, in our own language, might have expreffed the fame meaning. But, in the courie of a very extenfive tour, through the northern parts of Europe, which I happened to take in 1786, I found, that in Germany they were engaged in a fpecies of political inquiry, to which they had given the name of Statistics; and though I apply a different idea to that word, for by stati tical is meant, in Germany, an inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining the political strength of a country, or queftions refpecting matters of State; whereas, the idea I annex to the term, is an in-quiry into the ftate of a country, for the purpose of afcertaining the quantum of happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants, and the means of its future improvement; yet, as I thought that a new word might Zz 2 attract 66 413 accounts were fill wanting. From the be ginning of the publication, the public-fpirited Baronet had devoted the profits of the work to the Society for the Benefit of the Sons of the Clergy. (See SOCIETY, Part II. Sect. I. § IV.) He had alfo, by the recommendation of Mr Secretary Dundas, procured his Majefty's royal grant of L. 2000 to that Society. Still, however, a great number of the Clergy continued dilatory in giving in their statistical reports, though the measure was publicly approved and recommended by the General Aflembly; as well as by the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Leven, the Earl of Fife, and other great men and patrons in the Church. Sir John, however, being determined to complete the work, fent Statistical Mifionaries to those parts of the kingdom, from which he had received no returns; and thus, "At last,” (fays he,) on the ift day of Jan. 1798, or 7 years, 7 months, and 7 days, from the commencement of the attempt, an account of every parish in Scotland was either given in, or might be relied on in a few days." Sir John adds, in a Note, (p. xix.) "only four accounts were wanting on that day." This important work, unparalleled in the annals of literature, the work of an individual, who had the courage and perfe verance to procure the affiftant exertions of above 900 of the most learned men in the nation, was completed by the publication of the 21ft vol. en the 20th May, 1799.-" If fimilar furveys," (fays the founder of British Statiflics,-we fay British, becaufe the Parliamentary Survey of ENGLAND and WALES, in 1801, was also a suggestion of Sir John Sinclair's,) were intituted in the other kingdoms of Europe, it might be the means of eRablishing, on fure foundations, the principles of that most important of all sciences, viz. political or STATISTICAL PHILOSOPHY; that is the fcience, which, in preference to every other, ought to be held in reverence. No fcience can furnith, to any mind capable of receiving ufeful Information, fo much real entertainment; none can yield fuch important hints for the improvement of agriculture, for the extenfion of commercial induftry, for regulating the conduct of individuals, or for extending the profperity of the frate; none can tend so much to promote the general happineis of the fpecies." We have only to add, that Sir John, in his 21ft vol. announces, that it is his "intention, as foon as leifure from other purfuits will admit of it, to draw up the refult of the whole inquiry, in a publication to be entitled, " Analyfis of the POLITI CAL STATE OF SCOTLAND, with a view of the PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL PHILOSOPHY." attract more public attention, I refolved on adoping it, and I hope that it is now completely naturalized and incorporated with our lar guage."-Impreffed with these philanthropic ideas, Sir John Sinclair commenced, carried on, and completed, the Statistical Account of Scotland, a work of the greatest magnitude, importance, and public utility, ever attempted by any individual. Of the immenfe perfonal labour and indefatigable pateverance, exerted in carrying on this work, we have given a hint under the article RURAL ECONOMY, Hist. page 398, col. 2. And fhali here only add a few interefting particulars refpecting the hiftory and nature of this fyftein of STATISTICAL PHILOSOPHY. On the 25th May, 1790, Sir John circulated among the clergymen of the eftabifhed church, a feries of 166 Queries, accompanied by a proper circular letter, refpecting the following and many other important particulars, in their refpective parifhes:-The ancient and modern names of the parish; its fituation and extent; number of acres; the foil and furface; nature and extent of the fea coaft; lakes, rivers, islands, hills, rocks, caves, woods, orchards, &c.; climate and difcafes; inftances of longevity; fate of property; number of proprictors, refident and non-refi, dent; mode of cultivation; implements of huibandry; manures, feed time and harvest; remarkable good and bad feafons; quantity and value of crops; total value of the whole annual produce; total real and valed vent; prices of grain and provitions, quantity of grain and other articles confumed; wages and pines of labour; fervices exacted or abolithed; commerce; manufactures; kelp, its amount, and the number em ployed in it; fisheries; towns and villages; police; inns and alehoufes; roads and bridges; harbours; ferries, and their flate; number of hips, veffels, and feamen; Rate of the church; ftipend, manfe, glebe, and patron; number of poor; parochial funds, and management; fchools, and number of fcholars; ancient and prefent ftate of population, caufes of its increase or decreafe; number of fa. milies; divifion of the inhabitants; by their birth places, ages, religious perfuafions, occupations and situation in life; refidence, in town, village, or country; number of houfes, inhabited or un. inhabited; number of dove-cots, and to what extent they are deftructive to the crops; number of horfes, cattle, fheep, and fwine, with their nature and value; minerals; mineral fprings; fuel; eminent men; antiquities; parochial records; mifcellaneous obfervations; character of the people; manners, customs, ftature, &c.; advantages and difadvantages; means by which their fituation could be meliorated.”—Sir John, having received a number of returns to thefe queries, in 1790, commenced the work in Jan. 1791, by printing Statifical Accounts of the four firft parishes he ad received, and difperfing 1000 extra copies of them with a 23 circular letter among the clergy. By fuch great and continued exertions, the 1ft vol. as published on the 25th May, 1791, and gave tery general fatisfaction. It is unneceffary to detail the hiftory of every volume of this important work. After writing many thoufand letters, urging the clergy to tranfmit their accounts, Sir John found, that on the 1ft of June, 1792, no less than (1.) STATIUS, Cæcilius, a comic poet, who flourished in the age of Ennius. He was a native of Gaul, and originally a flave. Of courfe his Latinity was bad, yet he acquired great reputation by his comedies. He died about A. Â. C. 160, a few years after Ennius. (2.) STATIUS, Publius Papinius, a celebrated Latin poet of the first century born at Napies. He was the fon of Statius, a native of Epirus, who went to Rome to teach poetry and eloquence, and had Domitian for his fcholar. Statius the poet alfo obtained the favour and friendship of that prince; and dedicated to him his Thebais in 12 books, and Achilleis in 2. He died at Naples about STATOR, a furname of Jupiter, among the Romans, given him by Romulus because he ftopped their flight, in a battle with the Sabines. Romulus built a temple to Jupiter Stator. Liv. i. C. 12. about the year 100. Befides the above poems, FOUNDERY, 5. Statues are usually diftinguishthere are alfo ftill extant his Sylvæ, in five books; ed into 4 general kinds: 1. Those less than the the style of which is purer, more agreeable, and life; of which kind we have feveral statues of more natural, than that of his Thebais and A- great men, of kings, and of gods themselves. 2. chilleis. Thofe equal to the life; in which manner the ancients, at the public expence, ufed to make ftatues of perfons eminent for virtue, learning, or the fervices they had done. 3. Those that exceed the life; among which thofe that furpaffed the life once and a half were for kings and emperors; STATORES, [Lat.]in Roman antiquity, Pofts. and thofe double the iife, for heroes. 4. Thofe See POST, $6. that exceeded the life twice, thrice, and even (1.) STATUARY. n. S. [statuaire, French; more, and were called coloffufes. See COLOSSUS, from statua, Latin.] 1. The art of carving ima$ 2. Every ftatue refembling the perfon whom it ges or reprefentations of life.-The northern na- is intended to reprefent is called ftatua iconica. Lions were too barbarous to preferve the remains Statues acquire various other denominations. 1. of learning more carefully than they did thofe of Thus, allegoricai ftatue is that which, under a architecture and ftatuary. Temple. 2. One that human figure, or other fymbol, represents fomepractifes or profefles the art of making ftatues. thing of another kind; as a part of the earth, a On other occafions the ftatuaries took their fub- feafon, age, element, temperment, hour, &c. 2. jects from the poets. Addifon.-How fhall any Curuie ftatues, are thofe which are represented man, who hath a genius for hiftory, undertake in chariots drawn by bigæ or quadrige, that is, fuch a work with spirit and chearfulness, when by two or four horfes; of which kind there were he confiders that he will be read with pleasure feveral in the circufes, hippodromes, &c. or in but a very few years? This is like employing an cars, as we fee fome, with triumphal arches on excellent ftatuary to work upon mouldering ftone. antique medals. 3. Equeftrian ftatue, that which Swift. represents some illuftrious perfon on horseback, as that famous one of Marcus Aurelius at Rome; that of king-Charles I. at Charing-crofs; King George II. in Leicester-Square, &c. 4. Greek ftatue, denotes a figure that is naked and antique; it being in this manner the Greeks reprefented their deities, athlete of the olympic games, and heroes; the ftatues of heroes were particularly called Achillean flatues, by reafon of the great number of figures of Achilles in most of the cities of Greece. 5. Hydraulic ftatue, is any figure placed as an ornament of a fountain or grotto, or that does the office of a jet d'eav, a cock, fpout, or the like, by any of its parts, or by any attribute it holds: the like is to be understood of any animal ferving for the fame ufe. 6. Pedestrian ftatue, a ftatue ftanding on foot; as that of king Charles II. in the Royal Exchange, and of king James II. in the Privy-Gardens. 7. Roman ftatue, is an appellation given to fuch as are clothed, and which receive various names from their various dreffes. Thofe of emperors, with long gowns over their armour, were called ftatuæ paludatæ : thofe of captains and cavaliers, with coats of arms, thoracate; thofe of foldiers with cuiraffes, loricate; thofe of fenators and augurs, trabeate; thofe of magiftrates with long robes, togata; thofe of the people with a plain tunica, tunicate; and, laftly, thofe of women with long trains, folate. In repairing a ftatue caft in a mould, they touch it up with a chifel, graver, or other inftrumert, to finish the places which have not come well of :" they alfo clear off the barb, and what is redundant in the joints and projectures. (2.) STATUARY, (§ 1. def. 1.) a branch of fculpture, employed in the making of flatues. See SCULPTURE and STATUE. Statuary is one of sofe arts wherein the ancients furpafied the moas; and indeed it was much more popular, anore cultivated, among the former than the latter. It is difputed between flatuary and painting, which of the two is the moft difficult and the moft artful. (3.) STATUARY, (§ 1. def. 2.) PHIDIAS was the greateft ftatuary among the ancients, and Michael ANGELO among the moderns. T (1.)* STATUE. n. f. [ statue, Fr. ftatua, Lat.] An image; a folid reprefentation of any living be ing. The princefs heard of her mother's ftatue, a piece many years in doing. Shak.— But like dumb ftatues, or unbreathing ftones, Star'd each on other. Shak. -Architects propounded unto Alexander to cut the mountain Athos into the form of a statue, which in his right hand fhould hold a town capable of containing 10,000 men, and in his left a veffel to receive all the water that flowed from the mountain. Wilkins.-A ftatue of Polycietus, called the rule, 'deferves that name for having fo perfect an agreement in all its parts, that it is not poffible to find a fault in it. Dryden. (2.) A STATUE, is defined to be a piece of fculpture in full relievo, reprefenting a human fi. gure. Daviler more feiedtifically defines ftatue a representation, in‘high relievo and insulate, of fome perfon diftinguished by his birth, meiit, or great actions, placed as an ornament in a fine building, or expofed in a public place, to preferve the memory of his worth. In Greece cne of the highest honours to which a citizen could afpire was to obtain a ftatue., Statues are formed with the chifel, of feveral matters, as stone, marble, plafter, &c. They are alfo caft of various kinds of metal, particularly gold, filver, brafs, and lead. For the method of cafting ftatues, fee *To STATUE. v. a. [from the noun.] To place as a ftatue.- Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kifs'd, lov'd, and And were there fenfe in his idolatry, the STA STA from reading. Ben Jonson.-The condition of a fervant ftaves him off to a diftance. South. 3. To pour out by breaking the cafk.-Divers times all 4. To furnish with rundles or ftaves.-This was the wine in the city hath been stav.d. Sandys. the thameful end of Aloyfus Grittus, Solyman's deputy in Hungary; who climbing too fast up the evil ftaved ladder of ambition, fuddenly fell, and never role more. Knolles. the fame ftate as before; an expreffion much ufed His ftature, and upright with front ferene Milton. Foreign men of mighty ftature came. Dryd, Thyself but duft, thy ftature but a fpan. Prior. -We have certain demonstrations from Egyptian mummies, and Roman urns and rings, and meaLures and edifices, and many other antiquities, that human fature has not diminished for above 2000 years. Bentley. (2.) STATURE. See DWARF and GIANT. *STATUTABLE. adj. [from statute.] According to statute.—I met with one who was three inches above five feet, the ftatutable measure of that club. Guardian. * STATUTABLY. adv. [from statutable.] In a manner agreeable to law. (1.) * STATUTE. n. f. ftatut, French; ftatutum, Latin.] A law; an edict of the legislature. The ftatutes and acts of parliament, were fpe. cially intended for its benefit. Spenfer. Human ftatute purg'd the gen'ral weal. Shak. O queen! induig'd by favour of the gods, (3.) STATUTE, more immediately fignifies an act of parliament made by the three eftates of the realm; and fuch ftatutes are either general, of which the courts at Weftminster must take notice without pleading them; or they are special and private, which last must be pleaded. STAVANGER, a fea port town of Norway, in Chriftianfand, capital of a territory fo named; 85 miles NW. of Chriftianfand, and 86 S. of Bergen. Lon. 6. 45. E. Lat. 58. 46. N. STAUBBACH, a celebrated cataract of the Helvetic republic, in the canton of Bern, near Lauterbrunnen, which rufhes down a precipice 930 feet high, with the most tremenduous impetuofity and noife, difperfing the water in a grand fpray, and occafioning a kind of tempeft by the agitation of the air. The Brook from which this torrent rifes is named Kupfer Bachlein, or Rivulet of Copper. (1.)* 70 STAVE, v. a. In the plural staves. ifrom stuff.) 1. To break in pieces; ufed origin. ally of barrels made of fmall parts or staves.—If an irreverent expreffion, or a thought too wanton, are crept into my verses, let them be stav'd or forfeited like contrabanded goods. Dryden, 2. To push away as with a (taff: with off-How can they escape the contagion of the writings, whom the virulency of the calumnies have not ftaved off (2.) * To STAVE v. n. To fight with ftaves.Equal thame and envy stirr'd Hudibras. I' th' enemy, that one thou'd beard So many warriours, and so ftout, As he had done, and stav'd it out. dogs by interposing a staff, and by pulling the tail. (3.) TO STAVE AND TAIL. . a. To part The conquering foe they foon affail'd, First Truila stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd. Hudib. writer, born at Cuffington, in Leicefter fhire, and STAVELEY, Thomas, Efq. a learned English educated at Cambridge. He entered councillor Leech, and the Hiftory of Churches. He died in in 1654. In 1664, he published the Romish Horse1683. STAVELO, or STABLO, a town of the French devant bifhopric of Liege; feated on the Recht; empire, in the department of the Ourte, and ciFrench in Sept. 1794. Lon. 6. 5. 9 miles S. of Limburg. It was taken by the E. Lat. 50. 29. N. STAVENHAGEN, a town of Germany, in Mecklenburg, 24 miles E. of Guftrow. STAVEREN, an ancient town of the Batavian republic, in the department of Eems, and late province of Friefeland; on the Zuyderzee, 8 miles W. of Slooten, and 15 NE. of Enchuyfen. * STAVES. n.f. The plural of staff.— All in ftrange manner armed, Some ruftick knives, some staves, in fire warm- -They tie teafils up in bundles or ftaves. Mort. (2.) STAVESACRE, a fpecies of DELPHINIUM. (1.) STAUNTON, a poft town of Virginia, of Middle River, 100 miles SW. by S. of Winchcapital of Angufta county, feated on the E. bank efter, and 369 from Philadelphia. Lon. 4. 16. W. of that city. Lat. 38. 12. N. rifes on the W. fide of the Blue Ridge, paffes (2) STAUNTON, a river of Virginia, which through that mountain in a SE. coarfe, and then unites with the Dan, and forms the ROANOKE. rifes in Laurel Mountain, and running SW, falls RALOGY, Part II. Chap. I. Ord. IV. Gen. XI. Sp. 1. lic, in the canton of Underwald: 6 miles SE. of coaft of Caithnefs, one mile S. of Nofs Head, with STAXIGOE, a fea port of Scotland, on the E. a good harbour, near Wick. tinuance in a place; forbearance of departure.(1.) * STAY. n. f. [estage, French.] 1. Con Or |