To encourage a behavior or emotion.
To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
To poke, pierce, thrust.
To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
To raise; to excite; to stir up.
To give (a patient) a general medical examination to assess health and fitness.
To develop.