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.