sturdy beggar

A term used in an old English law to distinguish "beggars able to work" from "beggars impotent to serve;" hence = a vagrant or tramp. By a statute of the Commonwealth, 1656, "all and every idle and di olute persons, vagrant and wandering from their usual place of living or abode without sufficient cause or busine , and fiddlers and minstrels," were adjudged rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars within the meaning of the Act. stur-dỹ, s . [Gaelic stuird , stuad, stuirdean = vertigo, drunkenne , sturdy; sturdan darnel.] 1. Animal Pathol .: A disease in sheep, marked by a disposition to stagger, sit on the rump, turn toward one side, stupor, . It is caused by the presence within the brain of the immature embryo of a species of tapeworm [CŒNURUS], varying in size from that of a pea to that of a pigeon's egg. It generally attacks young sheep under two years old, and is seldom cured. 2. Bot .: Lolium temulentum , Darnel gra , which was formerly believed to produce staggers in the sheep feeding upon it. stür-geon, s . [Old Fr. est urge on, estourgeon , from sturionem , acc us. of Low Lat. sturio a sturgeon, from O. H. Ger. sturo, sturjo (M. H. Ger. "That space the evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remain'd Stupidly good." Milton: P. L., ix. 465. 2. Without the exercise of reason or judgment; foolishly, sensele ly. "How stupidly soever all his interpreters would have Hector (being strooke into a trembling, and almost dead) turne about like a whirlwinde." - Chapman: Homer's stū-pid-ne , s. [English stupid : -ne .] The quality or state of being stupid; stupidity. Iliad , bk. xiv. "Not limiting his rest by the insatiable lust of a slug gish and drowzie stupidne ." -Bp. Hall : The Christian. *stū-pi-fi-er, s . [STUPEFIER.] stū-pi-fỹ, v. t. [STUPEFY.] stu-põr, s . [Lat., from stupeo =to be amazed.] 1. Great diminution or ce ation of sensibility; a state in which the faculties are deadened or dazed; lo or suppre ion of sense. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral deadne ; heedle ne of or inattention to one's interests. stupa (q. v.).] stu-pose, a . [Mod. Latin stuposus , from Latin Bot.: Bearded. Used specially of the filaments in the genus Anther i cum, . [STUPEOUS.] *stu-prāte, v. t. [Latin stupratus , pa. par. of stupro to defile; stuprum =defilement.] To ravish, to violate, to debauch.