Word Meanings - STIRRAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of stirring; stir; commotion. T. Granger.

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• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• STIRRING
  Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing;
• STIRRAGE
  The act of stirring; stir; commotion. T. Granger.
• COMMOTION
  1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
• GRANGERISM
  The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. (more info) "Biographical History of England" was a favorite book for
• STIRRER
  One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.
• GRANGERITE
  One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.
• STIRRUP
  Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron. (more info) + rap a rope; akin to G. stegreif a stirrup. *164. See Sty, v. i., 1. A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather,
• GRANGER STOCKS; GRANGER SHARES
  Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.
• GRANGERIZE
  To collect for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala.
• GRANGER RAILROADS; GRANGER ROADS
  Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul;