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stickle
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Stickle
(gcide) | Stickle \Stic"kle\, n. [Cf. stick, v. t. & i.]
A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a
waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Patient anglers, standing all the day
Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay. --W. Browne.
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Stickle
(gcide) | Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti?tlen, to
dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf.
G. stiften to found, to establish.]
1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
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When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians
killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed,
he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and
the race of fiends. --Dryden.
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2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious
manner on insufficient grounds.
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Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle,
And for the foe began to stickle. --Hudibras.
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While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
--Dryden.
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The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
--Hazlitt.
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3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the
other; to trim.
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Stickle
(gcide) | Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. t.
1. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease,
as disputants. [Obs.]
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Which [question] violently they pursue,
Nor stickled would they be. --Drayton.
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2. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by
intervening; hence, to arbitrate. [Obs.]
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They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force,
stickled that unnatural fray. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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stickle
(wn) | stickle
v 1: dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) |
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stickle
(encz) | stickle, v: |
stickleback
(encz) | stickleback,druh ryby Zdeněk Brož |
stickler
(encz) | stickler,detailista n: Zdeněk Brožstickler,puntičkář n: Zdeněk Brož |
ten-spined stickleback
(encz) | ten-spined stickleback, n: |
three-spined stickleback
(encz) | three-spined stickleback, n: |
Banstickle
(gcide) | Banstickle \Ban"stic`kle\, n. [OE. ban, bon, bone + stickle
prickle, sting. See Bone, n., Stickleback.] (Zool.)
A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
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Burnstickle
(gcide) | Burnstickle \Burn"stic`kle\, n. (Zool.)
A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
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Stickleback
(gcide) | Stickleback \Stic"kle*back`\, n. [OE. & Prov E. stickle a
prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v.
t., and cf. Banstickle.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus
Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two
or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish
water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag,
sharpling, and prickleback.
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sticklebag
(gcide) | Stickleback \Stic"kle*back`\, n. [OE. & Prov E. stickle a
prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v.
t., and cf. Banstickle.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus
Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two
or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish
water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag,
sharpling, and prickleback.
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Stickled
(gcide) | Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti?tlen, to
dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf.
G. stiften to found, to establish.]
1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
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When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians
killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed,
he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and
the race of fiends. --Dryden.
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2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious
manner on insufficient grounds.
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Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle,
And for the foe began to stickle. --Hudibras.
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While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
--Dryden.
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The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
--Hazlitt.
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3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the
other; to trim.
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Stickler
(gcide) | Stickler \Stic"kler\ (st[i^]k"kl[~e]r), n. [See Stickle, v.
t.]
One who stickles. Specifically:
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(a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a
second; an umpire. [Obs.]
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Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and
trumpets whom the others should obey. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war,
First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
--Dryden.
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(b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things,
as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate
contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
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The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers
against the exorbitant proceedings of King James
II. --Swift.
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stickle
(wn) | stickle
v 1: dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) |
stickleback
(wn) | stickleback
n 1: small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed
fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having
elaborate courtship; subjects of much research [syn:
stickleback, prickleback] |
stickler
(wn) | stickler
n 1: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for
promptness" |
ten-spined stickleback
(wn) | ten-spined stickleback
n 1: confined to rivers [syn: ten-spined stickleback,
Gasterosteus pungitius] |
three-spined stickleback
(wn) | three-spined stickleback
n 1: of rivers and coastal regions [syn: {three-spined
stickleback}, Gasterosteus aculeatus] |
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