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Stag (The) symbolizes Christ, because (according to fable) it draws serpents by its breath out of their holes, and then tramples them to death.—Pliny: Natural History, viii. 50.

Stag or Hind, emblem of the tribe of Naphtali. In the old church at Totness is a stone pulpit divided into compartments, containing shields bearing the emblems of the Jewish tribes, this being one.

Naphtali is a hind let loose.—Gen. xlix. 21.

Stag’s Horn, considered in Spain a safeguard against the evil eye; hence, a small horn, silver-tipped, is often hung on the neck of a child. If an evil eye is then cast on the child, it enters the horn, which it bursts asunder.

Are you not afraid of the evil eye?
Have you a stag’s horn with you?
Longfellow: The Spanish Student, iii. 5.

Stagg (Benjamin), the proprietor of the cellar in the Barbican where the secret society of “’Prentice Knights” used to convene. He was a blind man, who fawned on Mr. Sim Tappertit, “the ‘prentices’ glory” and captain of the “’Prentice Knights” But there was a disparity between his words and sentiments, if we may judge from this specimen: “Good night, most noble captain! farewell, brave general! bye-bye, illustrious commander!—a conceited, bragging, empty-headed, duck-legged idiot!” Benjamin Stagg was shot by the soldiery in the Gordon riots. —Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Stagirite . Aristotle is called the Stagi rite because he was born at Stagira, in Macedon. Almost all our English poets call the word Stagirite: as Pope, Thomson, Swift, Byron, Wordsworth, B. Browning, etc.; but it should be Stagirite (StageirithV).

Thick like a glory round the Stagyrite,
Your rivals throng, the sages.
   —R. Browning: Paracelsus,

All the wisdom of the Stagirite.
   —Wordsworth.

Plato, the Stagyrite, and Tully joined.
   —Thomson.

As If the Stagirite o’erlooked the Ilno.
   —Popt.

Is rightly censured by the Stagirite,
Who says his numbers do not fadge aright.
   —Swift: To Dr. Sheridan (1718).

Stagirius, a young monk to whom St. Chrysostom addressed three books, and of whom those books give an account. Matthew Arnold has a prayer in verse supposed to be uttered by Stagirius.

Stamboul , Constantinople.

And Stamboul’s minarets must greet my sight. Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).

Stammerer (The), Louis II. of France, le Bégue (846, 877–879).

Michael II. emperor of the East (*, 820–829).

Notker or Notger of St. Gall (830– 912).

Stanchells, head jailer at the Glasgow tolbooth.—Sir W. Scott: Rob Roy (time, George I.).

Standard. A substantial building for water supplies, as the Water Standard of Cornhill, the Standard in Cheap, opposite Honey Lane, “which John Wells, grocer, caused to be made [? rebuilt] in his mayoralty, 1430.”—Stow: Survey (“Cheapside”).