a. Obs. [f. STIRIA + -OUS.] Pertaining to or formed like an icicle or a ‘stiria.’
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 56. Crystall is … not much unlike the stirious or stillicidious dependencies of Ice.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Stirious, pertaining to a drop of ice, or an Icesickle.
1670. E. Brown, in Phil. Trans., V. 1193. A third [salt], to be found of somewhat stirious or long shoots.
