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Stick
King James Dictionary
or STICK, n. G. This word is connected with the verb to stick, with stock, stack, and other words having the like elements. The primary sense of the root is to thrust, to shoot, and to set.
1. The small shoot or branch of a tree or shrub, cut off a rod also, a staff as, to strike one with a stick.
2. Any stem of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. It is applied in America to any long and slender piece of timber, round or square, from the smallest size to the largest, used in the frames of buildings as a stick of timber for a post, a beam or a rafter.
3. Many instruments, long and slender, are called sticks as the composing stick of printers.
4. A thrust with a pointed instrument that penetrates a body a stab.
Stick of eels, the number of twenty five eels. A bind contains ten sticks.
STICK, pret. and pp. stuck. G., to sting or prick, to stick, to adhere.
1. To pierce to stab to cause to enter, as a pointed instrument hence, to kill by piercing as, to stick a beast in slaughter. A common use of the word.
2. To thrust in to fasten or cause to remain by piercing as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.
3. To fasten to attach by causing to adhere to the surface as, to stick on a patch or plaster to stick on a thing with paste or glue.
4. To set to fix in as, to stick card teeth.
5. To set with something pointed as, to stick cards.
6. To fix on a pointed instrument as, to stick an apple on a fork.
STICK,
1. To adhere to hold to by cleaving to the surface, as by tenacity or attraction as, glue sticks to the fingers paste sticks to the wall, and causes paper to stick.
I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales. Ezekiel 29 .
2. To be united to be inseparable to cling fast to, as something reproachful.
If on your fame our sex a blot has thrown, twill ever stick, through malice of your own.
3. To rest with the memory to abide.
4. To stop to be impeded by adhesion or obstruction as, the carriage sticks in the mire.
5. To stop to be arrested in a course.
My faltering tongue sticks at the sound.
6. To stop to hesitate. He sticks at no difficulty he sticks at the commission of no crime he sticks at nothing.
7. To adhere to remain to resist efforts to remove.
I had most need of blessing, and amen stuck in my throat.
8. To cause difficulties or scruples to cause to hesitate.
This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable--
9. To be stopped or hindered from proceeding as, a bill passed the senate, but stuck in the house of representatives.
They never doubted the commons but heard all stuck in the lords house.
10. To be embarrassed or puzzled.
They will stick long at part of a demonstration, for want of perceiving the connection between two ideals.
11. To adhere closely in friendship and affection.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18 .
To stick to, to adhere closely to be constant to be firm to be persevering as, to stick to a party or cause.
The advantage will be on our side, if we stick to its essentials.
To stick by,
1. To adhere closely to be constant to be firm in supporting.
We are your only friends stick by us, and we will stick by you.
2. To be troublesome by adhering.
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
To stick upon, to dwell upon not to forsake.
If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought. Not elegant.
To stick out, to project to be prominent.
His bones that were not seen, stick out. Job 33 .
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Stick'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/stick.html.
