=Staggchase= (_Mrs. Frederick_), descendant of an old Boston family, and one of the cleverest women in her set.--Arlo Bates, _The Philistines_ (1888). =Stagirite= (3 _syl._). Aristotle is called the Stagirite, because he was born at Stagīra, in Macedon. Almost all our English poets call the word Stagĭrite: as Pope, Thomson, Swift, Byron, Wordsworth, B. Browning, etc. The Greek would be Stag´īrite. Thick like a glory round the Stagyrite, Your rivals throng, the Sages. R. Browning, _Paracelsus_, i. All the wisdom of the Stagirite. Wordsworth. Plato, the Stagyrite, and Tully joined. Thomson. As if the Stagirite o’erlooked the line. Pope. Is rightly censured by the Stagirite, Who says his numbers do not fadge aright. Swift, _To Dr. Sheridan_ (1718). =Stammerer= (_The_). Louis II. of France, _le Bégué_ (846, 877-879). Michael II., Emperor of the East (*, 820-829). Notker or Notger, of St. Gall (830-912). =Stanchells=, head jailer at the Glasgow tolbooth.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.). =Standard.= A substantial building for water supplies, as the Water Standard of Cornhill, the Standard in Cheap, opposite Honey Lane, “which John Wells, grocer, caused to be made [? _rebuilt_] in his mayoralty, 1430.”--Stow, _Survey_ (“Cheapside”). _The Cheapside Standard._ This Standard was in existence in the reign of Edward I. In the reign of Edward III. two fishmongers were beheaded at the Cheapside Standard, for aiding in a riot. Henry IV. caused “the blank charter of Richard II.” to be burnt at this place. _The Standard, Cornhill._ This was a conduit with four spouts, made by Peter Morris, a German, in 1582, and supplied with Thames water, conveyed by leaden pipes over the steeple of St. Magnus’s Church. It stood at the east end of Cornhill, at its junction with Gracechurch Street, Bishopsgate Street, and Leadenhall Street. The water ceased to run between 1598 and 1603, but the Standard itself remained long after. Distances from London were measured from this spot. In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London, measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, or rather from the spot on which the Standard used to be, a house of public entertainment, called the Maypole.--Dickens, _Barnaby Rudge_, i. (1841).