stell

To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.

To portray; delineate; display.

To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled.

Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart […]

A place; station.

A stall; a fold for cattle.

A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.

A still.

Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or limpet shell!

The English stell we could disdain, Secure in valour's station; But English gold has been our bane— Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

A surname.