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Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.

Stickler :: Stickleback (v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback..

Disciplinarian :: Disciplinarian (n.) One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar..

Stick-seed :: Stickler (v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony..

Stickling :: Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickl.

Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..

Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..

Stickleback :: Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall..

Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate..

Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

Banstickle :: Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback..

Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who stickles.

Tittlebat :: Tittlebat (n.) The three-spined stickleback.

Sharpling :: Sharpling (n.) A stickleback.

Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds..

Sea Adder :: Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.

Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.

Rule-monger :: Rule-monger (n.) A stickler for rules; a slave of rule.

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