Definition of Stirre

1. to bolt [v STIRRED, STIRRING, STIRRES] - See also: bolt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirre

stiriated
stiring
stirious
stirk
stirks
stirless
stirp
stirpes
stirpiculture
stirps
stirra
stirrage
stirrah
stirrahs
stirras
stirre (current term)
stirred
stirred(p)
stirred up
stirrer
stirrers
stirres
stirrest
stirreth
stirring
stirring up
stirringly
stirrings
stirrup
stirrup bone

Literary usage of Stirre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Eikōn Basilikē: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes by Charles, John Gauden (1824)
"UPON THE MANY JEALOUSIES RAISED, AND SCANDALS CAST UPON THE KING, TO stirre UP THE PEOPLE AGAINST HIM. IF! had not My owne innocency, and Gods protection, ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"LODE, hope, and death, do stirre in me snch strife, And when death comes at call of inward griefe, First horning lone doth ..."

3. Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent by Richard Hakluyt, John Winter Jones, Robert Fahyan, Robert Thorne, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jean Ribaut, Thomas Hacket (1850)
"... to be committed to print, considering the same may stirre vp considerations of these and of such other thinges, ..."

4. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"... et una fide, they that preache and stirre rather contention, than charitie, though they can defend ..."

5. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1904)
"... thame so as they were unable to stirre." Charge having been given to the persons complained upon, and the pursuer ..."

6. The Relation of Sydnam Poyntz, 1624-1636 by Sydenham Poyntz, Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick (1908)
"His principall ayme in this Warre was to draw at length, to entertaine the Army, to practise diversions, as if hee would remove some Confederates, stirre up ..."

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