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   Stir , 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.]
   To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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   My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.
   Sir W. Temple.
   
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   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.
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   My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
   Shak.
   
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   To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
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   Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
   Bacon.
   
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   To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. “To stir men to devotion.” 
   Chaucer.
   
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   An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
   Shak.
   
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   And for her sake some mutiny will stir.
   Dryden.
   
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   ☞ 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.
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   Syn. -- To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.
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   Stir, v. i.
   To move; to change one's position.
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   I had not power to stir or strive,
   But felt that I was still alive.
   Byron.
   
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   To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
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   All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
   Byron.
   
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   The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
   Merivale.
   
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   To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
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   They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.
   I. Watts.
   
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   To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.]
   Shak.
   
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   Stir, n.
   The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
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   Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?
   Denham.
   
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   Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
   Locke.
   
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   Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
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   Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
   Sir J. Davies.
   
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   Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
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