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St int. World English Historical Dictionary

St int. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. St int. Also 7 ’st. [repr. a checked sibilation, instinctively felt as expressive; less exactly rendered by HIST, † IST ints. Cf. L. st (Plautus, Terence, etc.).]

1   1.  An exclamation used to impose silence; = HUSH, WHIST.

2 1552.  Huloet, St, a voyce of silence or taciturnitye or thus husht, or else it may be sayde st, st, wherby dogge incited or prouoked to fight.

3 1598.  Florio, Zita, an aduerbe to commaund or perswade silence, as we say isse, whosht or st.

4 1762.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, V. i. 14. St, st,—said a second,—hush, quoth a third.

5 1841.  Browning, Pippa Passes, I. St—st!

6   † b.  Used as adj. Hushed, silent. Cf. WHIST a.

7 1654.  H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 69. For three dayes all was so ’st, so calm on both sides.

8   2.  An exclamation used to drive away an animal, or to urge it to attack.

9 1552.  [see 1].

10 1841.  S. Warren, Ten Thousand a Year, III. ii. 36. Off! off!… Go home! ah! ah!… St! St!

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