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Show ST S T forility of the foil, and becaufe their natiyes are ex "haufted by fo many employments in fuch vaft terBacon's War aith Spain ritories An eternal ferility muft bave poffefied the w m"‘:d where all things had been faftened everlaftingly wit the adamantinechains of fpecifick gravity, if th Almighty had not faid, Let the earch bring fort grafs, the herb yielding feed, and the fruit-tre Bentley's Sermons yielding fruit He had more frequent occafion for repetitio than any poet ; yet one cannot afcribe this to an flerility of expreflion, but to the genius of his times "which delighted in thefe reiterated ve-fe Pope's EfJay on Homer mak T [from feril v. a To STE'RILIZE. barren ; to deprive of fecundity or the power of production May we not as weil fuppof the fleri/izing th was {ufpended for fome time, till the delug eart became the executioner of it Waoodward's Natural Hiftory Go! flerilize the fertile with thy rage. Sawvage ST RLING. adj. [Of this word many derivation offered ; the moi bee hav probable of which is that offered b Camden, who derives it from the Ea/ferlings, who were employed as coiners. 1. An epithet by which genuine Englif money is difcriminated The king's treafure, that he left at his death amounted unto eighteen hundred thoufand pound Bacon Sfrerling Several of them would rather chufe to count qu a fum in fefterses than in pounds flerling. Addifon 2. Genuine; having pafled the teft There is not one fingle witty phrafe in this colle@ion, which hath not received the ftamp and approbation of one hundred years : he may therefor be fecure to find them all genuine, fler/ing, an Saift's Polite Converfation authentick TE'RLING. 7. fu [ ferlingum from the adjective. low Lat 1. Englifh coin; money And knows that to be rich is to be wife By ufeful obfervation he can tei The facred charms that in true ferl/ing dwell How gold makesa patrician of a flave But firft begs pardon : will you flerner b Than he that deals and lives by bloody drops Shakefpeare Did this in Ceefar feem ambitious When that the poor have cried, Ceefar hath wept Ambition fhould be made of flerner ftuft Shakepeare's Fulius Cefar The fhall the war, and ffern debate, and ftrif Immortal, be the bus'nefs of my life An in thy fame, the dufty fpoils among High on the burnifh'd roof my banner fhall be hung Dryden How, flern as tutors, and as uncles hard ‘We lath the pupil, and defraud the ward Dryden's Perfius 3. Hard ; afli&tive If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that ffern time Tho fhouldft have faid, Go, porter, turn the key All cruels elfe fubferib'd And with his ffern fteele drew in ftreames the blood Chapiman STERN. z /. [yceon, Saxon : of the fam original with /eer. 1. The hind part of the fhip where the rudder is placed he would form but a very lame idea of it Watts on the Mind They turn their heads to fea, their feras to land Drydcn 2. Poft of management diretion The king from Eltam I intend to fend And fit at chiefeft ffern of publick weal Shake[peare's Henry V1 3. The hinder part of any thing forces high above the ground Though wrappin up her wreathed ffern around Spenfer STE'RNAGE. 2./. [from ffern.] The fteerage or ftern Not ufed STE'RNLY. adv [from flern. manner; {feverely In a fter truculently No mountaine lion tor Great name ! which in our rolls recorded ftands Leads honours, and prote¢ts the learned bands Accept this offering to thy bounty due Tw And Roma Yet fure thou art not, nor thy face, the lame Nor thy limbs moulded in fo foft a frame wealth in Englith ferling view Co Arbuthnot 2. Standard rate STERN. zdj. [ycypm, Saxon. 1. Severe of countenance ; truculen afpect o look you ftill fo ffern and tragical Shakefjeare's Henry V1 1 would outftare the ferneft eyes that look Outbrave the heart moft daring on the ecarth Pluck the young fucking cubs from the fhe-bear Yea, moc the lion whe It fhall not b roars for prey Shakefp. . Merchant of Venice To win thee, lady here to prefen amif but lively countenance of this £ famou the fler a man Knolles's Hiftory of the Turks God and me Fear'd her ffern frown, and fhe wasqueen'o' th' woods Milion The judge fupreme foon caft a ftedfaft eye Harte Stern, yet attemper'd with benignity 2. Severe of manners ing; cruel harfh ; unrelent commo Sternly he pronounc' The rigid interdition Milter's Paradife Lof Dryden STE'RNNESS. #. /i [from fern. 1. Severity of look Of ftature huge, and eke of courage bold That fons of men amaz'd their flernnefs do behold Spenfer How would he look, to fee his work fo nobl Wildly bound up ! or ho Should I, in thefe my borrow'd flaunts, behol The flernnefs of his prefence Shakefpeare 2. Severity or harfhnefs of manners T have ffernnefs in my foul enoug To hear of foldiers work Dyryden's Cleomencs STE'RNON. . /. [sépvov.] The breaft-bone A foldierwas fhotin the/breaft through the flernon W ifeman STERNUTA'TION. . /. [ flernutatio, Liat. The alt of {neezing executioner Whofe heart th* accuftom'd fight of death make hard Falls not the ax upon the humbled neck and mufcles, bccafione in the noftrils by a STERNU'TATORY,7 Jo [fie""utatoire from fernuto, Lat.] Medicine that}g; vokes to fneeze Phbyyficianss, ini perfons near deat it i i ing ; when if the faculty arife, and jiemwu' - enfu5 eth, they conceive hopes of life 3,:::' STE'VEN. n. /. [yrepen, Saxon. or loud clamour . Ay Ne fooner was out, but fwifte Faft by the hide the ;volf Lowder Zgzg;\&wm And had not Roffy renne to the ffeven, o14 Lowder had been flain thilke fame even Zo STEW Spenfer 2. a. [effuver, Fr. Jfloven, Dut. To feeth any thing in a flow moift heat, with little water Ere I was rifen from the place, that fhow' My duty kneeling, came a reeking poft Stew'd in his hafte, half breathiefs. ShaK.kLa . , }iuJ.‘HlF. t I bruifed my fkin with playing at fwerd and E‘;;f;eonfiC a mafte of fence, three veneys for3 difh of flcaw'd prunes 7o STEW @. The earl Shakefpear, Kb fffy To be feethed in aflo moift heat Stew Fr. fufa, ltalian; . /o [efuve eftufa, Spanifh. 1. A bagnio; a hot-houfe As burning Atna from his boiling ffo Doth belch out flames, and rocks in pieces brokey #:6ed frit And ragged ribs of mountains molten new, Sy 4 j.Githy fm.;:;‘g:fgf,. ‘pm{edfor clouds and fiith lac ck cloud Enwr al-bl i coal- T pt i armour, and give themfelves to baths and flew Ablot 2. A brothel ; a houfe of proftitution. [Thi fignification is by {fome imputed to thi, i that there were licenfed brothels neariy, 4 the ffews or fifhponds in Squthwark_; i ; fro like bagnio, took but prebably few bad fignification from bad ufe. It me r i:mgul' an ha i e whet e be doub South ufes it in a plural termination with a fingular fenfe. Shake/peare makes it fingular. 2t wer neve an harlot hat tha b Ther mk never/ an od falfeh abho tha the flezvs Hpcbam promife 1 have feen corruption boil and bubble i Sbnl'gfilfl{' Till it o'er-run the ffeww houfes diffolu n ffezus n ar ther the Wit Bacon's New A‘I‘]"{" no curtefans Her, though fev'n years fhe in the fiews hi.ld aid Sternutation 1s a convulfive fhaking of the nerve Women are {oft, mild, pitiful, and flexible Thou, flern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorfelefs Shakefpeare Th Chapmar fo fernly Thou look'ft more ffernly, doft more ftrongly move And more of awe thou bear'ft, and lefs of love Wh h lamb 4 The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to ufé.any"?l.i.}.. aq/". [ She ali at once her beaftly body rais' double of provoking to fnceze dagger wit Let a barbarous Indian, who had never feen thip, view the feparate and disjointed parts, as th prow and flern, the ribs, mafts, ropes, amd fhrouds Garth Atlas, a Therfites brave Shakefpeare's King Lear Miichiefe ftood Wit STERNU'TATIVE. adi from fernut: o, Lat,]ng'/'vi} &f n a fi ng th qualie tatorics, or fugh medicines as provoke'uz{zfi"m Grapple your minds to ffernage of this navy And leave your England as dead midnight ftiil Shakefpeare This vifionary various projeéts tries dwarf a BT irritation of thof Quincy Concerning flernutation, or fneezing, and th cuftom of faluting upon that motion, it is generall believed to derive its original from a difeafe wherei Sflernutation praved mortal, and fuch as fneezed died Brown's Vulgar Errours A nunnery durft receive and think a mal%,l_ And, though in childbirth's labour fhe di i)fi' Midwives would fwear *twere but a tympar'l)'l :w‘ What mod'rate fop would rake thehparL llf}{";ore ca C SAA Who among troops of faultlefs nymphs Rofimg"' 2 \ Making his own houfe a fiezes, a‘b‘"del' ?r:'ic o nt rudim th inttil t {chool of lewdnefs e d i c o p <inittoo th€ e unwary flexible years of his Qe 3 pon for t B e o f t h t D n w 3. [ f a f f a fma table % n x S STE'WARD. # /. [yci e t p f i f a t 1. One There fat, yclad in rc] f o r p l m c n o Down to the g d g a l m O l' i w O'\I‘llmt in hisha p r e d g He ff:eward was, hi council fage i Spenfer ‘And in demeanour fober, and in i80 Whi i1 |