Defn: Stock; race; family. Blackstone.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
STIRRAGE
Stir"rage, n.
Defn: The act of stirring; stir; commotion. [Obs.] T. Granger.
STIRRER
Stir"rer, n.
Defn: 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.
STIRRING
Stir"ring, a.
Defn: 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; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.