stirious

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin stiria (“an icicle”).

Adjective edit

stirious (comparative more stirious, superlative most stirious)

(obsolete) Resembling icicles.
- 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors
  Chrystal is found sometimes in rocks, and in some places not much unlike the stirrious or stillicidious dependencies of ice.

See also edit

stillicidious

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stirious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)