=Stupid Boy= (_The_), St. Thomas Aquinas; also called at school “The Dumb Ox” (1224-1274). =Sturgeon= (_Major_), J.P., “the fishmonger from Brentford,” who turned volunteer. This bragging major makes love to Mrs. Jerry Sneak.--S. Foote, _The Mayor of Garratt_ (1763). We had some desperate duty, Sir Jacob ... such marchings and counter-marchings, from Brentford to Ealing, from Ealing to Acton, from Acton to Uxbridge. Why, there was our last expedition to Hounslow; that day’s work carried off Major Molossas.... But to proceed. On we marched, the men all in high spirits, to attack the gibbet where Gardel is hanging; but, turning down a narrow lane to the left, as it might be about there, in order to possess a pigstye, that we might take the gallows in flank and secure a retreat, who should come by but a drove of fat oxen for Smithfield. The drums beat in front, the dogs barked in the rear, the oxen set up a gallop; on they came, thundering upon us, broke through our ranks in an instant, and threw the whole corps into confusion.--Act i. 1. =Sturmthal= (_Melchoir_), the banneret of Berne, one of the Swiss deputies.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Stutly= (_Will_), sometimes called _Will Stukely_, a companion of Little John. In the morris-dance on May-day, Little John occupied the right hand side of Robin Hood, and Will Stutly the left. His rescue from the sheriff of [Notts.] by Robin Hood forms the subject of one of the Robin Hood Ballads. When Robin Hood in the greenwood lived, Under the greenwood tree, Tidings there came to him with speed, Tidings for certaintie, That Will Stutley surprisëd was, And eke in prison lay; Three varlets that the sheriff hired, Did likely him betray. _Robin Hood’s Rescuing Will Stutly_, iv. 15. =Stuyvesant= (_Peter_). “If, from all I have said, thou dost not gather, worthy reader, that Peter Stuyvesant was a tough, sturdy, valiant, weather-beaten, mettlesome, obstinate, leather-sided, lion-hearted, generous-spirited old governor, either I have written to but little purpose, or thou art very dull at drawing conclusions.”--Diedrich Knickerbocker (Washington Irving), _A History of New York_ (1809). =Styles= (_Tom_ or _John_), or _Tom o’ Styles_, a phrase name at one time used by lawyers in actions of ejectment. Jack Noakes and Tom Styles used to act in law the part that N or M acts in the church. The legal fiction has been abolished. I have no connection with the company further than giving them, for a certain fee and reward, my poor opinion as a medical man, precisely as I may give it to Jack Noakes or Tom Styles.--Dickens. ⁂ Tom Styles, Jack Noakes, John Doe, and Richard Roe, are all Mrs. Harrises of the legal profession, _nomina et præterea nihil_.