Obs. Also erron. styria. Pl. stiriæ, stirias. [L. stīria, icicle.] A concretion (e.g., a stalactite, an efflorescence) resembling an icicle.
1666. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., 267. The copious shining Styriæ [1667 Stiriæ] that enoble the darker Body.
1681. Cotton, Wond. Peake, 9.
| By which the Stiria longer, bigger grows, | |
| And must touch ground at last, but when, who knows. |
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 8. The atoms of heterogeneous juices will sometimes shoot themselves up in different angular stirias.
