n. 1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To move; to change one's position. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had not power to stir or strive,
But felt that I was still alive. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

All are not fit with them to stir and toil. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. Merivale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become the object of notice; to be on foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To rise, or be up, in the morning. [ Colloq. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stirred p. pr. & vb. n. Stirring. ] [ OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian; probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. stören, OHG. stōren to scatter, destroy. √166. ] 1. To change the place of in any manner; to move. [ 1913 Webster ]

My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stir not questions of jurisdiction. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. “To stir men to devotion.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And for her sake some mutiny will stir. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stiria an icicle. ] Adorned with pendants like icicles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stiria an icicle. ] Resembling icicles. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. stric, from steór a steer. See Steer a young ox. ] A young bullock or heifer. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without stirring; very quiet; motionless. “Lying helpless and stirless.” Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stirps, stirpis. ] Stock; race; family. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stirps, stirpis, stem, stock, race + cultura culture. ] The breeding of special stocks or races. [ 1913 Webster ]