continued to be nis em famuf-mest till a very few years before his death, on the 231 Jan. 1785, at the age of 68. (19) STEWART, Dr Gilbert. See STUART, (20.) STEWART, the Hon. Admiral Keith, a Jate brave British naval officer, only brother of the earl of Galloway, was born in 1739. He was -appointed a captain in the roy 1 navy in 1762; commanded the Berwick of 74 guns, with a commodore's broad pendant, at the action of the Dogger Bank in 1781; and the Cambridge in Lord Howe's fquadron, fent to the relief of Gibraltar, in 1782. He reprefented the county of Wagten in 4 fuccessive parliaments. He married Mis D'Aquilar, a jewels, by whom he got a fortune, and left iffue. He was afterwards raised to be vice-admiral of the White, and was appointed Iceiver-general of the land-rents in Scotland. Lake many other great men he was addicted to deep garing; but, though often fuccefstu', did not increase his fortune by it. He died at Glafferton, in Wigtonfhire, on the 5th March, 1795, aged 56. (21.) STEWART, in Scots law. See LAW, part III. chap. 1. ject. III. § 5. (22.) STEWART DENHAM. See STLUART. STEWARTFIELD, a confiderable village of Scotland, in Aberdeenshire, in the diftrict of Buchan, erected on the eftate of W. Burnet of Denns, who has erected a bleachfied near it. It contains 800 inhabitants, and les 12 miles from Peter. head. STEWARTIA. See STEWARTIA. It is abfurd to put w, a letter which the ancient Latins and Romans never knew, into even a modern Latin word. In coining new words for a dead language, the peculiarities of that language thould be attended to. (1.) STEWARTOws, a parish of Scotland, in Ayrshire, about 15 miles long, and 4 broad, where broadeft. The furface is level, with a gentle flope towards the fea, adorned with extenfive plantations. It abounds with limeftone. The populatron, in 1793, was 3000; the increafe 181, fince STEYNBOROUGH, a town if the ifle of Wight, in E Medina. STEYNING, a borough of Englan1, in Suffix. which finds two members to the imperial parliament. It has a market on Wednesday, and hes 10 miles NW. of Brighthelmstone, 15 W. of Lewes, and 51 S. by W. of London. Lon. o.15. W. Lat. 50. 56. N. (1.) STEYR, a river of Germany, in Auftria, which joins the Ens near STEYR. (2) STEYR, or a well built trading town of STEYRE, Auftria, at the conflux of the Steyr and of the Ens. In 1502, 1522, 1554, and 1727, it suffered much by fire. It is 8 miles S. of Eus, 20 SE. of Lintz, and 80 W. of Vienna, It has a great trade in iron and feel. Lon. 14. 23. E. Lat. 48. 6. N. STEYREGG, a town in the empire of Austria, on the N. bank of the Danube; 84 miles W. of Vienna, and 36 ESE. of Palau. Lon. 33. 4. E. Ferro. Lat. 48. 15. N. STEYRSPERG, a town of Auftria; 5 miles E. of Glagnitz. STHENELUS, in fabulous hiftory, the fon of Perf us and Andromeda, king of Mycene. He married Nicippe, the daughter of PELOPS, by whom he had Euryftheus, and 2 daughters. See EURYSTHEUS. Sthenelus made war against AMPHITRYON, king of Argos, because he had accidentally killed his father-in-law Electryon, Sthenelus's brother, and took him prifoner. And, according to the poets, it was during this war, that Jupiter put on the appearance of Amphitryon, and went to his wife Alcmena. See ALCMENA. (1.) STHENIC, adj. (from E, Strength.] Of or belonging to, or arifing from ftrength, or a ftrong conftitution or babit; the oppofite of Af thenic. Dr Brown, in the firft edition of his Elementa Medicine, made ufe of the word Phlogistic, to exprefs this idea; because this clafs of difeafes includes many of the inflammatory kind; but as it does not include them all, many difeafes apparently inflammatory being in fact Aftbenic, or difeafes of debility, he adopted the terms Sthenic and Afilenic; and totally laid afide the terms Phlogistic and antiphlogistic. (2.) STHENIC DIATHESIS, in the new system of medicine, that state of the body, which produces STHENIC DISEASES. "The caufe of fthenic diathefis (fays Dr Brown) is too great an excitement of the whole living fyftem, by the ftimulant pow. ers. All the functions are firft increased; a difturbance or irregularity then takes place in fome; others are impaired; but not as long as this d ́athefis lafts, by a debilitating operation." (Elem. Mrd. I. 136.) See BRUNONIAN SYSTEM, § 4. (3.) STHENIC DISEASES, "general difeales arifing from exceffive excitement," the opposite of Afhenic Difcates, or Difeats of Debility. Dr Brown calculates the proportion of Sthenic Difeafes to Afthenic, in our country and climate, where there is little to ftimulate the majority of the people very highly, to be as three in the 100. But with all the poverty, poor diet, and debilitating powers of the climate in Sectiand, it is thought be might have tafely made the proportion, to in the hundre. See BRUNONIAN SYSTEM, § 4. .STRENO, one of the 3 GORGONS. STI 421 STHENOBOFA, in fabulous bistory, the daughter of JOBATES, king of Lycia, wife of PROETUS, king of Argos, and itep-mother to Bellerophon, with whom he fell in love. See BELLEROPHON. STIBADIUM, among the Romans, a low kind of table couch, or bed of a circular form, which fucceed to the triclinia, and was of different fizes, according to the number of guests they were defigned for. They were called hexaelina, octaciina, or enneaclina, according as th-y held 6, 8, or 9 guests, and fo of any other number. * STIBIAL. adj. [from flibium, Lat.) Antimoniai. The former depend upon a corupt incine rated melancholy, and the latter upon an aduft fibial or eruginous fulphur. Harvey. * STIBIARIAN. n. f. [from fibium.] A violent man; from the violent operation of antimony. Obfolete. This fibiarian preffèth audaciously upon the royal throne. White. STIBING, a town of Stiria: 7 m. W. of Graz. STIBIUM, [Lat.] ANTIMONY. See ANTIMONY, CHEMISTRY, Index; and MINERALOGY, Part III. Chap. IV. § XI. and Chap. V. § 11. STIBNITZ, a town of Bohemia, in Konigingratz; 24 miles E. of Konigingratz. STICADOS. n. f. \flicadis, Lat.] An herb. Ainfavorth. STICHI, an ancient kind of verfe. See SCRIP TURE, Sec. VIII. STICHOS, a name given by the oid writers to a pectoral confection, the principal ingredient of which was the herb marrubium or hotehound. * (1.) STICK. n. f. [fticca. Saxon; Recco, Italian; feck, Dutch] 1. A piece of wood fmall and long.-The herb, orpin, with which in the country they trim their houfes, binding it to a lath or flick fet against a wall. Bacon. Som gather flicks the kindled flames to feed. Dryden. 2. Many inftruments long and flender are called Sticks. (2.) STICKS, or FOOT-STICKS, in printing, flips of wood that lie between the foot of the page and the chase, to which they are wedged faft by the quoins, to keep the form firm, in conjunction with the fide-sticks, which are placed at the fide of the page, and fixed in the fame manner by means of quo'ps. (1.) *To STICK. v. a. preterite fuck; participle palf. fuck. fican, Saxon.] To faften on fo as that it may adhere.- The points of spears are stuck within the Dryden. fhield. -Would our ladies, insteal of flicking on a patch against their country, facrifice their necklaces against the common enemy, what decrees ought not to be made in their favour? ziddifon. Oh for fome pedant reign, To ftick the doctor's chair unto the throne. Pope, 1. To adhere; to unite (2.) To STICK. V. N. itfelf by its tenacity or penetrating power.-I will caufe the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy feales. Ez.-The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of rofes not blown, where the dow sticketh. Bacon-Though the fword be put into the theath, we must not fuffer it there to stick fo faft as that STI we shall not be able to draw it readily, when 2. If on your fame our fex a blot has thrown, To be infeparable; to be united with any thing. Now does he feel His fecret murthers fticking on his hands. Shak. A note of infamy, to tick by him whilft the world lafteth. Sanderfm.-In their quarrels they proceed to calling names, till they light upon one that is fure to tick. Swift. 3. To reit upon the memory painfully.-The going away of that which had ftaid fo long, doth yet stick with me. Bacon. 4. To ftop; to lofe notion.-None of thofe who stick at this impediment, have any enemies fo bitter and implacable, as they found theirs. Kettle. My blood runs backward, and my fault'ring tongue Sticks at the found. To refift emiffion. I had not need of bleffing, and amen Smith Shak. 6. To be conftant to; to adhere with firmnels: fometimes with to, and fometimes with by.-The knave wid ftick by thee. Shak.-The firft contains afticking fast to Chrift, when the Chriftian profeffon is perfecuted. Hammond. Some stick to you, and fome to t'other fide. Dryden They could not conclude, that to be their intereft, and being fo convinced, pursue it and stick to it. Tillotfon.-Stick by us and we will stick by you. Davenant.-The advantage will be on our tide, if we ftick to its effentiais. Addifon. 7. To be troublefome by adhering with by or to.-I am fatisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it ftick by me. Pope. 8. To remain; not to be loft.-Proverbial fentences are formed into verse, whereby they stick upon the memory. Watts. 9. To dwell upon; not to forfake.-If the matter be knotty, the mind muft ftop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labour and thought. Locke.--Every 10. To caufe difficulties man has beloved ftudies which the mind wil more clofely stick to. Locke. or fcruple.-This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable of those who refufe to join with the Revolution. Swift. 11. To feruple; to hesitate.-It makes the other party stick the lets. Bacon.-The church of Rome, under pretext of expofition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter. Bacon.-Rather than impute our mifcarriages to our own corruption, we do not frick to atraign providence itself. L'Estrange. Every one without he fitation fuppofes eternity, and fricks not to afcribe infinity to duration. Locke. That two bodies cannot be in the fame place is a truth that no body any more fticks at, than at this inaxim, that it is impoffible for the fame thing to be, and not to be. Locke.-To ftick at nothing for the publick intereft is reprefented as the refined part of the Venetian witlom. Addifon.-Some stick not to fay, that the parfon and attorney forged a will. 12. To be stopped; to be unable to Arbuthnot. proceed. But fcrew your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. -They ! STI 422 + STI They never doubted the commons; but heard been the profeffed ficklers, for such as have acted all ftuck in the lords houfe. Clarendon.The trembling weapon pais'd Through nine bull hides, each under other On his broad fhield, and stuck within the last. * 15. (3.) To STICK. v. a. [stician, Saxon; fteken, Dutch.] 1. To ftab; to pierce with a pointed in ftrument.-The Heruli when their old kindred fell fick, stuck them with a dagger. Grew. fix upon a pointed body; as, he ftuck the fruit u2. To pon his knife. 3. To faften by transfixion.We will be stuck together on his dart. Dryd. 4. To fet with fomething pointed. The fabrick's front with cypress twigs they ftrew, And stick the fides with boughs of baleful yew. STICKELSTA, a town of Norway, in DronDryden. theim; 46 miles ENE. of Drontheim. * STICKINESS. n. . [from sticky.] Adhesive quality; vifcofity; glutinoufnels; tenacity. To STICKLE. v. a. [from the practice of prizefighters, who placed feconds with staves or ticks to interpofe occafionally.] 1. To take part with one fide or other. Fortune, as the's wont, turn'd fickle, And for the foe began to ftickle. 2. To conteft; to altercate; to contend rather Hudibras. with obftinacy than vehemence. Let them go to't, and tickle. Cleaveland. So many hundred years ago. * (1.) STICKLEBACK, or in ichthyology. See (1.) STICKLEBAG, GASTEROSTEUS. (2.) STICKLEBAG. n. f. [Properly tickleback, from stick, to prick; pungitius, Lat.] The smallest of fresh-water fish.-A little fish called a ficklebag, without fcales, hath his body fenced with feveral prickles. Walton. STICKLER. n. f. [from fickle.] 1. A fidefman to fencers; a fecond to a duellift; one who fands to judge a combat.-Bafilius came to part them, the fickler's authority being unable to perfuade cholerick hearers. Sidney.-Bafilius, the judge, appointed ficklers and trumpets. Sidney.- Our former chiefs, like fticklers of the war, Fought first t' inflame the parties, then to poife. 2. An obftinate contender about any thing.. Dryden. Quercetanus, though the grand fickler for the tria prima, has this conceffion of the irrefoluble.efs of alamonds. Boyle.-Women have, in most reigns, against the true intereft of the nation. Addijon.ticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of king The tory or high church clergy were the greatest James II. Swift.-They are great flicklers for liberty of confcience. Swift. five; glutinous.-Herbs which last longest are thofe * STICKY. adj. [from flick.] Vifcous; adhe of ftrong fmell, and with a flicky stalk. Bacon. cian, born at Eflingen, in 1509. He publifhed a STIFELIUS, a German divine and mathematiTreatise on Aigebra, in the German language, and 1657, aged 58. another on the Calendar. He died at Jena, in STIFF. adj. [ftif, Saxon; stff, Danish : ƒiƒƒ, gid; inflexible; refifting flexure; not flaccid; not Swedith; fifur, Islandick; slijf, Dutch.] 1. Rilimber; not eafily flexible; not pliant.They rifing on tiff pinions, tower The mid aerial fky. The glittering robe Milton. Hung floating loose, or stiff with mazy gold. yielding to the touch.2. Not foft; not giving way; not fluid; not eafily Thomjon. They were wholly incorporate, and so grew I grow fiff as cooling metals do. Dryden. fly refitted.more fiff and firm. Burnet. 3. Strong; not ea On a stiff gale The Theban fwan extends his wings. Denham. 4. Hardy; stubborn; not easily subdu’d.— How fiff is my vile sense! 5. Obftinate; pertinacious.-We neither allow Shak. nor purpose the stiff defence of any unneceffary cuftom. Hooker. It is a fhame to stand if in a foolish argument. Taylor. A war enfues, the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hofpitable laws. Formal: rigorous in certain ceremonies; not dif6. Harfh; not written with ease; constrained. 7. Dryden. engaged in behaviour; ftarched; affected.-The lians fliff, ceremonious, and referv'd. Addison.French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Ita Stiff forms are bad, but let not worse intrude, 8. In Shakespeare it seems to mean ftrongly mainNor conquer art and nature to be rude. Young. tained, or afferted with good evidence.-This is fiff news. * To make stiff; to make inflexible; to make un- When the blaft of war blows in our ears, 2. To make torpid. Sandys. Dryden. Dryden and Lee. Her fiffning grief, 2. To grow hard; to be hardened. Addifon The F The tender foil, then stiffning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth the bounding feas. Dryden. 3. To grow less susceptible of impreffion; to grow obftinate. Some fouls, we fee, Grow hard and fiffen with adverfity. Dryden. * STIFFHEARTED. adj. Stiff and beart 1 Óbftinate; ftubborn; contumacious.-They are impudent children, and stiff-hearted. Ezek. ii. STIFFLE, n. f. or GREAT MUSCLE, in the manege, is the part of the hind leg of a horfe which advances towards his belly. This is a moft dangerous part to receive a blow upon. STIFFLY. adv. [from Atiff.] Rigidly; inflexibly; ftubbornly.-In matters divine, it is ftill maintained stiffy, that they have no ftiffnecked force. Hooker.-I commended them that stood fo Jtifly for the Lord. 2 Efdr.-The Indian fig of itfelt multiplieth from root to root, the plenty of the fap and the softness of the ftalk making the bough, being overloaden and not stiffly upheld, to weigh down. Bacon. STIFFNECKED. adj. [ stiff and neck.] Stubborn; obtinate; contumacious.-To fend over fuch an army as fhould tread down and lay on the ground all the stiffnecked. Spenfer. bend. This stiffneck'd pride, nor art nor force can Denham. * STIFFNESS. n. f. [from stiff.] 1. Rigidity; inflexibility; hardness; ineptitude to bend.-The Stiffness and drynefs of iron to meit, must be holpen by moistening it. Bacon.-The punishment of that stiffness is one branch of the allegory. L'Eftr. 2. Ineptitude to motion; torpidnefs. My finews flacken, and an icy stiffnes Benumbs my blood. 3. Tenfion; not laxity. Denham. To try new throuds, one mounts into the And one below, their ease or stiffness notes. Dryden. Stifled with kifles, a fweet death he dies. They keep their patients so close and warm, as almoft to ftifle them with care. Baker.- took my leave, being half fried with the clofeness of the room. Swift. 2. To keep in; to hinder from emillion.-They ftop and fife in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. Net. 3. To extinguish by hindering communication. 4. To extinguifh by artful or gentle means.-Every reafonabie man will pay a tax with chearfulness for ftifling a civil war in its birth. Addifen. 5. To fupprefs; to conceal. Trust me, and let me know thy love's fuccefs, That I may ever after stifle mine. Otway. 6. To fupprefs artfully or fraudulently.—With labour and study they had stifled their first convictions. Rogers.-On these two pillars will our faith for ever ftand, firm against all attempts; whether of vain philofophy, to better the doctrine, or of vainer criticism, to corrupt or stifle the evidence. Waterland.-You excel in the art of stifling and concealing your resentment. Swift. STIGLIANO, or STILIGIANO, a town of Naples, in Bafilicata; famous for its baths: 24 miles SSE. of Acerenza. (1.) * STIGMA. n. f. [Stigma, Latin.] 1. A brand; a mark with a hot iron. 2. A mark of infamy. (2.) STIGMA. See STIGMATIZING. (3.) STIGMA, in botany, the fummit or top of the ftyle, accounted by the fexualifts the female organ of generation in plants, which receives the fecundating duft of the tops of the ftamina, and tranfmits its vapour or effluvia through the ftyle into the heart of the feed-bud, for the purpose of impregnating the feeds. (4.) STIGMATA, plural of ftigma,) in antiquity, certain marks impreffed on the left fhoulders of foldiers when lifted. (5.) STIGMATA were also a kind of notes or abbreviations, confifting only of points, difpofed va4. Obftinacy; stubbornness; contumaciouf efs.rious ways; as in triangles, fquares, croffes, &c. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.-Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth. Locke.-Thefe hold their opinions with the greatest stiffness. Locke. 5. Un. pleafing formality; constraint.-Religion fat eafiy upon him, without any stiffness and constraint. Atterburg. 6. Rigoroufnefs; harthnefs. Speak no word to her of these fad plights, Which her too constant friffness doth conftrain. Spenler. 7. Manner of writing, not eafy but harsh and contrained. That will introduce a stiffness and affectation, which are utterly abhorrent from ali good writing. Felton. To STIFLE. v. a. [eftoufer, Fr.] 1. To opprefs or kill by closeness of air; to fuffocate.I am ftified Shak. With the mere rankness of their joy. (6.) STIGMATA is alfo a term introduced by the Francifcans, to express the marks or prints of our Saviour's wounds, faid to have been miraculously impreffed by him on the body of their feraphic father St Francis. (7.) STIGMATA, in entomology, the apertures in different parts of the bodies of infects communicating with the tracheæ or air-vefleis, and ferving for the office of refpiration. *STIGMATICAL. adj. [from ftigma.] Brand* STIGMATICK. Sed or marked with fome token of infamy. Shak. Thou'rt like a foul mishaper stigmatick. Shak. He is deformed, crooked, o d and ere, Stigmatical in making, worfe in mind. *To STIGMATIZĒ. v. a. [ftigmatifer, Fr. from ftigma.] To mark with a brand; to difgrace with a note of reproach.-The former in reading have been used to find virtue extolled and vice ftigmatized, while the latter have feen vice triumphant and virtue difcountenanced. Addifon.-Sour enthufiasts affe&t to stigmatize the finest and most elegant authors, as dangerous to religion. Addif. The privileges of juries fhould be afcertained, and and whoever violates them ftigmatized by publick Cenfure. Swift. STIGMATIZING, part. n. f. among the ancients, was inflicted upon flaves as a punishment, but more frequently as a mark to know them by: In which cafe, it was done by a plying a red hot iron, marked with certain letters to their fore. heads, till a fair impreffion was made; and then pouring ink into their furrows, that the infuip. tion might be the more confpicuous. Soldiers were branded in the hand with the name or character of their general. It was alfo cuftomary to ftigmatize the worthippers and votaries of fome of the gods. The marks used on thefe occafious were various; fometimes they contained the name of the god, fometimes his particular enfign, as the thunderbolt of Jupiter, the trident of Nep tune, the ivy of Bacchus, &c. or they marked themselves with fome myftical number, whereby the god's name was defcribed. To thefe three ways of ftigmatizing St John is fuppofed to refer in Rev. chap. xi. ver. 16, 17. Theodoret is of a pinion, that the Jews were forbidden to brand Chemfelves with fignat, becaufe the idolaters, by that ceremony, uled to confecrate themfelves ta their faife gods. Among fome nations, ftigmati zing was confidered as a diftinguithing mark of honour and nobility. In Thrace, as Heredotus tells us, it was practifed by none but perfons of credit, nor omitted by any but perfons of the meanest rank. The ancient Britons are alfo aid to have imprinted on the bodies of their infants the figures of animals, and other marks, with hot irons. STIL, . . or STIL DE GRAIN, in the colour trade, the name of a composition ufed for paint ing in oil or water, and is made of a decoction of the lycium or Avignon berry, in alum water, which is mixed with whiting into a pafte, and formed into twifted flicks. It ought to be chofen of a fine gold yellow, very fine, tender, and fria ble, and free from dirt. STILAGO, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of gynundria, and order of triandria. There is one female. The calyx is monophyllous, and almoft three-lobed. There is no corolla, and the berry is globular. There is only one fpecies; viz. STILAGO BUNIUS. * STILAR. adj. from stile.] Belonging to the, file of a diti.—At fifty one and a half degrees, which is London's latitude, make a mark, and laying a ruser to the center of the plane and to this mark, draw a line for the ftilar line. Moxon. (1.) STILBE, in botany, a genus of plants belouging to the clafs of polygamia, and order of dacia. The exterior calyx of the hermaphrodite flower is trophyllous; the interior is quinquedentate and cartilaginous. corolla is funnel-fhaDed and quinqu fid. The are 4 ftamina; and there is one feed in the inter! r calyx calyptrate. The female flower is fimilar, is no interior calyx or fruit. There are 3 species; I. STILBE CORNUA, which are all fo2. STILBE ERICOIDES, and reign plants. 3. STILBE PINASTRA, (11.) STILBE, or in the mythology, the daugh, STILBIA, ter of the river god Peneus, by Creufa, and fifter of the famous DAPHNE. She was not fo fhy as her fifter, but according to Diodorus, had two fons by her fifter's lover, Apolio, viz. Centaurus and Lapithus, the progenitors of the CENTAURS and LAPITHA. Diod. iv. STILBITE, n. f. Proin skyßw, to shine in mineralogy, a precious ftone dilcovered by Hauy. Se MINERALOGY, Part II. Ch. IV. Ord. I. Gen. XI. Sp. 6. (1.) STILE. n. f. {ftigele, from stigan, Saxon; to climb.] 1. A fet of heps to pals from one enclofure to another.-There comes my master and another gentleman over the ftile this way. Shak They be ready to hang themselves upon every gate or ftile they come at. L'Ekrange. 2. The little ftrutting pile, You fee juft by the church-yard ftile. Swift. [Stile, Fr. A pia to caft the fhadow in a fundial. This fhould rather be style.-Erect the ftile perpendicularly over the fubitilar line. Moxon. (2.) STILE, or STYLE, in language and compofition. See LANGUAGE, Sec, VI-VIII; ORATORY, Part III. Se&. IV—VII; SIMPLICITY, § 2; aud STYLE. STILES, Ezra, D. D. and LL.D. a late learned and pious divine of the United States, born at North Haven in Connecticut, Nov. 19, 1727. O. S. He ftudied at Yale College, and graduated there in 1746; and in 1749, was appointed one of its Tutors, which station he held 6 years, In 1755, he was fetted muiter of Newport, in Rhode Ilan 1, and remained there till 1776, when the difturbances, occafioned by the war, obliged him to remove to Portsmouth, in New Hamphire. In1777, he was elected prefident of Yale College; which he held til his death, and was alfo profelfor of Church Hiftory. He maintained a corref pondence with learned men on both fides of the Atlantic; and was a member of feveral philofophical focieties. He poffeffed in an eminent degrèe the faculty of communicating knowledge to his pupiis. He published fome tracts fuitable to his profeffion; and died much refpected as a citi zen and a minifter, on the 12th May 1795, at Newhaven, Connecticut, of a bilious fever. * STILETTO. n. f. [Italian; ftilet, Fr.) A fmall dagger, of which the blade is not edged but round, with a harp point. He hired one, who entering into the fenate-house, should affault him as an enemy to the ftate; and stabbing him with ftilettoes, leave him to be torn by others. Hakewill on Providence. STILFRIED, a town of Auftria, 7 miles NE. of Weikendorf: memorable for the defeat and death of Ottocar, king of Bohemia, by the emp. Rodolphus, in 1278. STILI, an ifland in the Grecian archipelago. Lon. 40. 37. E. Ferro. Lat. 37. 25. N. STILICHO, a brave general of the Romans, under Theodofius the Great and Honorius; who twice merited and obtained the title of Deliverer of Italy. Yet after all his fervices he fell under the fufpicion of Honorius, who ordered him to be beheaded, and his family extirpated, A. D. 408. From the confufed and partial records of these dark ages, it is difficult to difcover the truth; but cotemporary writers vindicate Stilicho. Claudian is loud in his praifes, and Zofimus denies the truth |