1. [n]  a rapid bustling commotion
2. [n]  emotional agitation and excitement
3. [n]  a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
4. [v]  stir the feelings or emotions of; "These stories shook the community"
5. [v]  mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
6. [v]  evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
7. [v]  affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
8. [v]  move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
9. [v]  to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
10. [v]  move an implement through with a circular motion; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"
11. [v]  stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"

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1. \Stir\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stirred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stirring}.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian;
   probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st["o]ren, OHG.
   st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]166.]
   1. To change the place of in any manner; to move.
            My foot I had never yet in five days been able to
            stir.                                 --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
   2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as
      of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate;
      as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
            My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
                                                  --Shak.
   3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
            Stir not questions of jurisdiction.   --Bacon.
   4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt;
      to excite. ``To stir men to devotion.'' --Chaucer.
            An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. --Shak.
            And for her sake some mutiny will stir. --Dryden.
   Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed
         by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to
         stir up sedition.
   Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate;
        excite; provoke.
   

2. \Stir\, v. i.
   1. To move; to change one's position.
            I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I
            was still alive.                      --Byron.
   2. To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or
      busy one's self.
            All are not fit with them to stir and toil. --Byron.
            The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from
            resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring
            anxiously in his behalf.              --Merivale.
   3. To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
            They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon
            everything that stirs or appears.     --I. Watts.
   4. To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] --Shak.
   

3. \Stir\, n.
   1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle;
      noise or various movements.
            Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?
                                                  --Denham.
            Consider, after so much stir about genus and
            species, how few words we have yet settled
            definitions of.                       --Locke.
   2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder;
      seditious uproar.
            Being advertised of some stirs raised by his
            unnatural sons in England.            --Sir J.
                                                  Davies.
   3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.