Stich
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. In poetry, a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
2. STICH is used in numbering the books of Scripture.
3. In rural affairs, an order or rank of trees. [In New England, as much land as lies between double furrows, is called a
stitch, or a land.]
Stich
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
2. A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the
rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
3. A row, line, or rank of trees.
A plant of the genus Stellaria.
Stichic
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
A special podlike or
fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red
algae.
Of or pertaining to
stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.
A catalogue of the books of Scriptures, with the number of verses which each book contains.
1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
2. Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines
accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before
punctuation was adopted.
