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单词 on the stir
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on the stir
1. Movement, considered in contrast to or as an interruption of rest or stillness; slight or momentary movement; movement of disturbance, agitation. (†In quot. 1589 at α. , motion in general.) on the stir (rare): astir, stirring.
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the world > movement > [noun] > specifically in contrast to rest or stillness
stirc1480
moving of the waters1642
the world > action or operation > doing > in action [phrase]
in action1584
on the stir1805
up and about, around1893
α.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxix. sig. Biiv At stur of euery mouse.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 56 Some [words] aske longer, some shorter time to be vttered in, & so by the Philosophers definition, stirre is the true measure of time.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 92 Heterogeneous things, upon their meeting, ordinarily cause that stir which is thought..to have great influence upon vegetation.
1803 R. Southey Inchcape Rock 1 No stir in the air, no stir in the sea.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 22 Hush, there is some one on the stir! 'Tis Benjamin the Waggoner.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 145 No stir of air was there.
1845 R. Browning Time's Revenges in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 58 The stir Of shadow round her mouth.
1885 R. L. Stevenson Child's Garden of Verses 14 Not a stir of child or mouse.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner iii. 32 Presently there was a stir at the door, and Cornish entered the large room.
β. c1480 [see sense 4]. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2066 in Poems (1981) 79 I trou ȝe haue bene tussillit with sum tyke, That garris ȝou ly sa still withoutin steir.
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