Chapter Stelvio to Still Waters Run Deep of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Villani (ditto); Mary Magdalen di Pazzi; Mechtildis von Stanz; Ursula of Valencia; Veronica Guliani (all the marks), 1694; Vincenza Ferreri of Valencia, etc.

Stigmatise To puncture, to brand (Greek, stigma, a puncture). Slaves used to be branded, sometimes for the sake of recognising them, and sometimes by way of punishment. The branding was effected by applying a red-hot iron marked with certain letters to their forehead, and then rubbing some colouring matter into the wound. A slave that had been branded was by the Romans called a stigmatic, and the brand was called the stigma.

Stigmites, or St. Stephen's Stones, are chalcedonies with brown and red spots.

Stiletto of the Storm (The). Lightning.

Still Cornelius Tacitus is called Cornelius the Still in the Fardle of Facions, “still” being a translation of the Latin word tacitus.

“Cornelius the Stylle in his first book of his yerely exploietes called in Latine Ansales ...”.- Ch. iii s. 3 (1555).

Still Sow A man cunning and selfish; one wise in his own interest; one who avoids talking at meals that he may enjoy his food the better. So called from the old proverb, “The still sow eats the wash” or “draff.”

“We do not act that often jest and laugh;
`This old but true, `Still swine eat all the draugh.”
Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2.

Still Waters Run Deep Silent and quiet conspirators or traitors are most dangerous; barking dogs never bite; the fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep:
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb;
No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit.”
Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., III. f.