Withered sticks to gather, which might serve
Against a winter's day. Milton.

A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stick chimney, a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. [U.S.] -- Stick insect, (Zoöl.), any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ, which have a long round body, resembling a stick in form and color, and long legs, which are often held rigidly in such positions as to make them resemble small twigs. They thus imitate the branches and twigs of the trees on which they live. The common American species is Diapheromera femorata. Some of the Asiatic species are more than a foot long. -- To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, to run away. [Slang] De Quincey.

And sticked him with bodkins anon. Chaucer.

It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray. Sir W. Scott.

Thou stickest a dagger in me. Shak.

My shroud of white, stuck all with yew. Shak.

The points of spears are stuck within the shield. Dryden.

To stick out, to cause to project or protrude; to render prominent.

The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh. Bacon.

A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.

I am a kind of bur; I shall stick. Shak.

If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown,
'T will ever stick through malice of your own. Young.

I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"
Stuck in my throat. Shak.

The trembling weapon passed
Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last. Dryden.

They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas. Locke.

Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will. Arbuthnot.

This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable. Swift.

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." Davenant. (b) To be troublesome by adhering. "I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me." Pope. -- To stick out. (a) To project; to be prominent. "His bones that were not seen stick out." Job xxxiii. 21. (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." Addison. -- 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." Locke.