Stick
King James Dictionary [1]
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 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; - often with at.
(2): ( v. t.) A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
(3): ( v. i.) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
(4): ( v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
(5): ( v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.
(6): ( n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
(7): ( n.) To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
(8): ( n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
(9): ( n.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
(10): ( v. t.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
(11): ( v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
(12): ( v. t.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
(13): ( n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
(14): ( v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
(15): ( v. t.) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
(16): ( v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
(17): ( n.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.
(18): ( n.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.
(19): ( n.) To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.
(20): ( n.) To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
(21): ( n.) To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
(22): ( n.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
denotes "a dry stick" (from phrugo, "to parch"); in the plural, "brushwood," Acts 28:3 .
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
2 Kings 6:6 (c) This may be taken to represent the Cross by which we recover that which was lost, either through sin, neglect, carelessness or indifference. When Calvary comes into the life, we recover those blessed graces and gifts that make us useful to others.
Ezekiel 37:16 (a) These dead sticks represent Judah and Israel who were fruitless, dead, helpless and separated. In the hand of the Lord, they become united and alive. This is being fulfilled at the present time, for the present nation of Israel is one united people, not separated into tribes.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
( עֵוֹ , Ets, a piece of Wood, for fuel, Numbers 15:32; 1 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 6:6; Lamentations 4:8; Φρύγανον , a twig, Acts 28:3). The use of billets or staves of wood for writing upon, as illustrated in Ezekiel 37:16-20, is a frequent practice with primitive nations. This, indeed, is not the first instance of the practice in Scripture; for, so early as the time of Moses, we find a parallel example of writing upon rods ( Numbers 17:6). The custom existed among the early Greeks; as we are informed that the laws of Solon, preserved at Athens, were inscribed on billets of wood called Axones. The custom has also existed in various applications in England and other Northern countries. The ancient Britons used to cut their alphabet with a knife upon a stick, which, thus inscribed, was called Coelbren Y Beirdd, "the billet of signs of the bards," or the Bardic alphabet. And not only were the alphabets such, but compositions and memorials were registered in the same manner.
These sticks were commonly squared, but sometimes were three-sided, and consequently a single stick would contain either three or four lines. The squares were used for general subjects and for stanzas of four lines in poetry; the trilateral ones being adapted to triads and to a peculiar kind of ancient meter called Triban, or triplet, and Englyn-Milwyr, or the warrior's verse. Several sticks with writing upon them were united together in a kind of frame or table, in the manner of a book. This was called Peithynen, or Elucidator, and was so constructed that each stick might be turned for the facility of reading, the end of each running out alternately on both sides. A continuation, or different application, of the same practice was offered by the Runic clog (a corruption of log) almanacs, the use of which has been preserved to a comparatively recent period, being described by Dr. Plot in his History of Staffordshire (1686) as still in common use in that county; some, of large size, being usually hung up at one side of the mantel tree of the chimney, while others were smaller and carried in the pocket. Other examples of the use of notched or marked sticks for the purpose of records are the Reine Pole, still or lately used in the island of Portland for collecting the yearly rent paid to the sovereign as lord of the manse, and the Exchequer Tally, which still gives name to the office of certain functionaries in England known as the "tellers" (talliers) of the exchequer. (See Rod); (See Staff); (See Walk).
