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Show B Porcius, think thou feeft thy dying brothe STA'BLE. n. /. [ fabulum, Lat. for beatfts \ $1abb'd at his heart, and all befmear'd with blood \{| Storming at thee Addifon's Cato I will mak To wound mortally or mi{chievoufly What tears will then be fhed An .. To give a wound with a pointed weapon point of the fword firft enter the body, it pafie 25 in England, where it is called ffalbing Locke Thou hid'#t a thoufand daggers in thy thoughts "ety. Which thou haft whetted on thy ftony heart | STA'BLENESS. 7. /. [from fable. The element 1. Power to ftand 2. Steadinefs; conftancy ~OFf whom your fiwords are temper'd, may as wel s i WOUDd the loud winds, or with bemockt at fab Shakefpeare the ftill clofing waters Cleander 4i%Tnworthy was thy fate, thou firft of warriours Rowwe (Lo fall beneath a bafe affaflin's fab i STa'BLEsTAND = A ftroke ; a blow Theyferve for fabiliment, propagation, and fhade ABYLITY. n. /. [ fabilité, Fr. from fa Lat: "Stablenefs ; fteadinefs ; ftrength to ftand Shakefpeare Is on or prefumptions To eftablith to fix to fettle Then fhe began a treaty to procure # By the fame degrees that either of thefe happen the flability of the figure is by the fame leflencd Temple And flablifp terms betwixt both their requefts, Spen Stop eftufion of our Chriftian blood And ffablifh quietnefs on ev'ry fide. Shak. Hen. VI Comfort your hearts, and fgblifb you in ever good work 2 Theff. iie 17 Poor hereticks in love there be Which think to ffablifb dangerous conftancy But I have told them, fince you will be true You fhall be true to them who 're falfe to you Donne His covenant fwor To David, fablifp'd as the days/ of heav''n, Milton Thefe mighty girders which the fabrick bind ,Thefe ribs robuft and vaft in order join'd Such ftrength and fuch fability impart "That ftorms above, and earthquakes under ground _ Break not the pillars Blackniore g He began to tr This and that hanging ftone's fability Cotton # Fixednefs ; not fluidity ' Since fluidnefs and fability are contrary quali- ties, we may conceive that the firmnefs or fabilit Stack.n f. [ facca, Italian. 1. A large quantity of hay, corn, or wood heaped up regularly together 1 4fa body confifts in this, that the particles whic that ther Boyle Againft every pillar was a. ffack of billet a man's height, which the watermen tha wood down the Seine laid there. Bacon's Nat While the marquis. and his fervant on foo chafing the kid about the fack, the princ y F'lrmnefs of refolution "FA BLE. adj, [ ffable, Fr. ffabilis, Lat. # Fixed ; able to ftand clean.sh data import.tsv out README Steady; conflant ; fixed in refolution o s condugt abov brin Hift wer fro horfeback killed him with a piftol. #ot. Buckingh While the coc To the flack or the barn-doo Milton Stoutly ftruts his dame before Stacks of moift corn grow hot by fermentation If man would be invariable He mui'c'be like a rock, or ftone, or tree B For ev'n the perfe angels were not fFable ut had a fall more defperate than we Dawies Newton He perfed, flable; but imperfeét we Subjeét to change Dryden's Knight's Tale An inundation, fays the fable O'erflow'd a farmer's barn and ftable » Strong5 fixed in flate or condition ; durable ‘Wholericks of hay and flacks of cor Were down the fudden current born @. a. [from the noun.] T furnifh with ftadles Firtt fee it well fenced, ere hewers begin Then fee it well ffaddled without and within Tuffer ¢, 18flable, nothing equal ; nothing could be offere ing together | to-day but what to-morrow might deprive us of United Provinces STAFF. . /. plur. faves. [yzep, Saxon JSaff, Dan. ffaf, Dutch. 1. A ftick with which a man fupports himfelf in walking It much would pleafe him That of his fortunes you would make a ffz/ To lean upon Shakefp. Antony and Clespatra Grant me and my people the benefit of thy chaftifements, that thy rod as well as thy ffaff may comKing Charles fort us Is it probable that he, who had met whole armie in battle, fhould now throw away his f#aff out o Broome fear of a dog 2. A prop; a fupport Hope is a lover's ffaff; walk hence with that And manage it againft defpairing thoughts. Shat The boy was the very ffaff of my age, my ver prope Shake[peare If a fubject be a fon, then ought he to be a:faf unto his father fuftain him wherewit not to ftrike, but t Holyday 3. A ftick ufed as a weapon ; a club ; th handle of an edged or pointed weapon A club properly includes the notion o weight, and the faf of length I cannot ftrike at wretched kernes, whofe arm Are hir'd to bear their faves Shake[p. Macbeth He that bought the fkin ran greater rifque tha t'other that fold it, and had the worfe end of th L'Efiranges Saf With forka and fawes the felon they purfue Dryden 4. Any long piece of woed He forthwith from the glitt'ring faff unfurl' Th' imperial enfign Miltons To his fingle eye, that in his forehead glar' Like a full moon, or a broad burnifh'd fhield A forky. faff we dext'roufly applied Which, in the‘fpacious focket turning round Swift 2. A number of chimneys or funnels ftand 3 This region of chance and vanity, where nothin Rogcrs 70 STA'DLE ToSTA BLISH. w. a. [effablir, Fr. fabilio cbilitas, Latin. Leave growing for ffaddles the likelieft and beft Though feller and buyer difpatched the reft. T Coppice-woods, if you leave in them ffaddles to thick, will run to bufhes and briars, and have littl Bacon clean underwood I'll keep my flableffand where I lodge my wife I'll go in couples with her Shakefpeare Derbam /" Is among them a mutual cohefion 3. A tree fuffered to grow for coarfe an common ufes, as pofts or rails, Of thi meaning I am doubtful ftability 7 /. [In law. Obfolete He cometh on, his weak fteps governin And aged limbs on cyprefs fladle ftout And with an ivy twine his waift is girt about Spenfer Bramfon reft: and this is when a man is foun at his ftanding in the foreft, with a crof bow bent, ready to fhoot at any deer or with a long bow; or elfe ftandin clofe by a tree with greyhounds in a leat ready to {lip Coavel SUESA'BRER. 7. /. [from fab.] One wh " ftabs; a privy murderer © "ABI'LIMENT. 7. /. [from pabilis Lat.] Support; firmnefs; aét of mak gompofe it do fo reft, or are intangled another 2. A ftaff; a crutch houden an fad / # STA'PTHOLDER whereby a man is convinced to intend th o magiftrat chie Th Dutch. the ftealing of the king's deer in the fo South 1. Any thing which ferves for fupport t I have no relifh of them of the four evidence He had a fcripture ready to repel them all ; ever {i%ertinent text urged home being a dire& flab to . perfev'rance 7. /. [yeabel, Saxon, a foun dation. As juftice, verity, temp'rance, flablenefs A dark injury; a {ly mifchief m2d STA'DLE The king becoming graces Bounty the gu Take fweet fpices, faffe, and galbanum Exod. xxX+ 34 1 would carefs fome ffableman of note And imitate his language and his coat Mortimer myrrh And to rough riders give my choiceft wine "aB. #. /. [from the verb. s, A wound with a tharp pointed weapon 7 /. An aromatick thér I fhall giv that diftils from the tree which produce men and the fcullion to ftand in his way Sawift's Diretions to the Butler I would with jockeys from Newmarket dine Sbakg[pmre‘sHemy 1V He fpeaks poinards, and every word fabs. Shak STacTE T If the gentleman hath lain a night, get the fab/e ./ Iy To give a mortal wound i you As foon as you alight at the inn, deliver you horfes to the fableboy Saift 1], To offer a ftab iyey To flab at my frail life Prior 7o STA'BLE. w. a. [ fabulo, Lat.] To pu into a ftable Sta'BLEBOY U7 /. [fable and boy, o Sta'BLEMAN. § man.] One who attend in the ftable . '%4fora diftinét fpecies where it has a diftiné&t nam To ffack on the peafe The prices of flacking up of woo In their palaces Where luxury late reign'd, fea monfters whelp' And flabled Milton None fhall dar r e w o c a i f o t f orrten y W U3"%4 t in fhfa But combat fight." Dryden's Knight's Tale Killiag 2 man with a fword or a hatchet, ar " looked on as no diftin& fpecies of aion ; but i fluttith plenty deck'd her table ‘T So likewife a hovel will ferve for a room Rabbah a flal'e for camels Ezra, xxva 5 70 STA'BLE. w. 7. [ fabulo, Latin. kennel ; to dwell as beafts \‘Hermione: "twill 7ab her to the heart! 4, Philips @. 7 7o Stack. . a. [from the noun. pile up regularly in ricks A houf Slothful diforder fill'd his fable 2%, "Then, to complete her woes, will I efpouf %9 STAB ST ST A mafon making a flack of chimneys, the founWifeman's Surgery dation of the houfe funk, Scoopt out the big round gelly from-its orb...4ddifsn 5. Round or ftep of a ladder Defcending and afcending by ladders, T afcende at! one of) fixX hundred and thirty-nine fawes , eighty-nine fathoms. Brown's Trawels 6 A |