stick culture (stikkultur)

A bacterial culture made by thrusting a platinum needle (sterilized and then dipped into a growth of the microbe or other material to be examined) into the culture-medium, as a tube of gelatin. stickedt. An obsolete past participle of stick2. sticker1 (stik'er), n. [ Master Bardell the pig-butcher, and his foreman, or, as he was more commonly called, Sam the Sticker. Hood , Sketches on the Road, The Sudden Death. 2. An anglers' gaff. [Slang.] -3. A sharp remark or an embarra ing question, intended or adapted to silence or pose a person. Thackeray, sticker2 (stik'er), n. [ who adheres, clings, or sticks to anything. Although culture makes us fond stickers to no machinery, not even our own. M. Arnold , Culture and Anarchy, Pref. 2. One who sticks, or causes to adhere, as by pasting. The bill- sticker , whose large flat basket, stuffed with placards, leaned near him against the settle. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xxviii. 3. Same as paster, 2.-4. An article of merchandise which sticks by the dealer and does not meet with a ready sale. [U. S.] -5. In organ-building, a wooden rod serving to transmit motion between the ends of two reciprocating levers. Stickers are usually held in place by the lever-ends. See cut under organ. sticks. See devil .-In a cleft stick. See cleft2 . -Long pins in their ends, which work freely in holes or slots in stick. In measuring British muslins, long stick is the yard- measure of 36 inches and a thumb, equivalent to 37 inches. It is used to measure goods for the home market. Goods for the foreign market are measured by short stick, in which the yard consists of 35 inches and a thumb, or about 36 inches.- Middle stick, a measure containing 35 inches and a thumb to the yard, or about 364 inches. - Stick and 6. pl. The arms of a crank-axis employed to change the plane and direction of a reciprocating motion. For distinction the arms are thus named when they act by compre ion, and are called trackers when they act by tension. The axis is termed a roller. stickleback stickit (stik'it), p. a. [Sc. form of sticked, pp. of stick2 (and stick1 ).] Stuck. [Scotch.]-Stickit minister, in Scotland, a student of theology who fails to obtain license, or a licentiate who fails to obtain a pastoral charge. He became totally incapable of proceeding in his in tended discourse-. shut the Bible - stumbled down the pulpit-stairs, trampling upon the old women who gen erally take their station there-and was ever after designated as a stickit minister. Scott, Guy Manner ing, ii.