stirioust (stirius)

[ 5953 The liquid being taken out on a pointed gla rod or stirrer . W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 207. 4. One who incites or instigates; an instigator: often with up : as, a stirrer up of contention. We must give, I say, Unto the motives, and the stirrers up Of humours in the blood. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 1. Stirrers of sedition, without any zeal for freedom. Macaulay , Sir W. Temple.