stubbornness, stubbernesse, stubbornnesse, stubburness

[Eng. stubborn; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being stubborn; perverse obstinacy; contumacy, inflexibility. "But stubbornne , and an obstinate disobedience, must be master'd with force and blows."-Locke: Of Education, Drayton: Nymphidia ; Court of Fairy. 2. Short and thick, like something truncated; § 78. stubby. "While each with stubbed knife remov'd the roots." Swift: A Pastoral Dialogue. 3. Hardy; not over nice or delicate; obtuse. "The hardne of stubbed vulgar constitutions, renders them insensible of a you sand things."-Berkeley: Siris, § 105. stub-běd-ne , s . [Eng. stubbed; -ne .] The quality or state of being stubbed; obtusene . stub-bi-ne , s. [Eng. stubby ; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being stubby. 2. Stubbed ne . stub-ble, *stob-il, *stob-le, s . [O. Fr. estouple , estuble (Fr. éteule ), from O. H. Ger. stupfilá ; Dut. & Ger.stoppel stubble, from Lat. stipula , dim in. of stipes a stock, a stalk.] The stumps of wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat, ., left in the ground when the corn is cut; the part of the stalk left in the ground by the sickle or reaping-machine. "But I suppose, that you by thus much seene, Know by the stubble , what the corne hath bene." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, xiv.