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Sticking   /stˈɪkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Stick  v. t.  (past & past part. stuck, obs. sticked; pres. part. sticking)  
1.
To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast. "And sticked him with bodkins anon." "It was a shame... to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray."
2.
To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger. "Thou stickest a dagger in me."
3.
To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve. "My shroud of white, stuck all with yew." "The points of spears are stuck within the shield."
4.
To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
5.
To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
6.
To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
7.
To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
8.
(Print.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type. (Cant)
9.
(Joinery) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
10.
To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem. (Colloq.)
11.
To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat. (Slang)
To stick out, to cause to project or protrude; to render prominent.


Stick  v. i.  (past & past part. stuck, obs. sticked; pres. part. sticking)  
1.
To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall. "The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh."
2.
To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely. "A friend that sticketh closer than a brother." "I am a kind of bur; I shall stick." "If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick through malice of your own."
3.
To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed. "I had most need of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat." "The trembling weapon passed Through nine bull hides,... and stuck within the last."
4.
To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; often with at. "They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas." "Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will."
5.
To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation. "This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable."
To stick by.
(a)
To adhere closely to; to be firm in supporting. "We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you."
(b)
To be troublesome by adhering. "I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me."
To stick out.
(a)
To project; to be prominent. "His bones that were not seen stick out."
(b)
To persevere in a purpose; to hold out; as, the garrison stuck out until relieved. (Colloq.)
To stick to, to be persevering in holding to; as, to stick to a party or cause. "The advantage will be on our side if we stick to its essentials."
To stick up, to stand erect; as, his hair sticks up.
To stick up for, to assert and defend; as, to stick up for one's rights or for a friend. (Colloq.)
To stick upon, to dwell upon; not to forsake. "If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought."


noun
Sticking  n.  A. & n. from Stick, v.
Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. (Eng.)
Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. "But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail."
Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.
Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above.





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"Sticking" Quotes from Famous Books



... she's a-talkin' ter, I reckon," said Viny, stealing off on her tiptoes down the hall, and sticking her fingers in her ears that she might hear no more troublesome conscience calls; "I seen him on de rug when I peeked in de crack. ...
— Twilight Stories • Various
... had taken place. The next turn of the road brought us to two graves, one on each side of the road, the resting-place of two who fell that day. They were merely left in the ditch where they fell, and earth from the side was pulled over them. When Miriam passed, parts of their coats were sticking out of the grave; but some kind hand had scattered fresh earth over them when I saw them. Beyond, the sight became more common. I was told that their hands and feet were visible from many. And one poor fellow lay unburied, just as he had fallen, ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
... father, who now, for the first time, inquired the cause of Hohodemi's coming. Thereafter all the fishes of the sea, great and small, were summoned, and being questioned about the lost hook, declared that the tai* had recently complained of something sticking in its throat and preventing it from eating. So the lost hook was recovered, and the ocean Kami instructed Hohodemi, when returning it to his brother, to warn the latter that it was a useless hook which would not serve its purpose, but would rather lead ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
... had finished speaking the six thousand frogs returned, looking so strange with bees sticking to every part of them that, sad as she felt, the poor queen could not help laughing. The bees were all so stupefied with what they had eaten that it was possible to draw their stings without hunting them. So, with the help of her ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Various
... sweetbreads in white poultices, of apothecaries' powders in rice for curry, of pale stewed bits of calf ineffectually relying for an adventitious interest on forcemeat balls. You have had experience of the old- established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry—roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens


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