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  1. Template:Transitive To change the place of in any manner; to move.
    My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. —Sir W. Temple
  2. Template:Transitive To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate
    She stired a pudding with a spoon.
    My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. —Shak
  3. Template:Transitive To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
    Stir not questions of jurisdiction. —Bacon
  4. Template:Transitive To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
    To stir men to devotion. —Chaucer
    An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. —Shak.
    And for her sake some mutiny will stir. —Dryden.
  5. Template:Intransitive To move; to change one’s position.
    I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. —Byron.
  6. Template:Intransitive To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
    All are not fit with them to stir and toil. —Byron.
    The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. —Merivale.
  7. Template:Intransitive To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
    They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. —I. Watts.
  8. Template:Intransitive To rise, or be up, in the morning. —Shak.




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