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- English Word Stale Definition Urine, esp. that of beasts.
- English Word Stale Definition Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
- English Word Stale Definition A stalking-horse.
- English Word Stale Definition A stalemate.
- English Word Stale Definition A laughingstock; a dupe.
- English Word Staled Definition of Stale
- English Word Stalely Definition In a state stale manner.
- English Word Stalely Definition Of old; long since.
- English Word Stalemate Definition The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
- English Word Stalemate Definition To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.
- English Word Staleness Definition The quality or state of being stale.
- English Word Staling Definition of Stale
- English Word Stalk Definition The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
- English Word Stalk Definition The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
- English Word Stalk Definition That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
- English Word Stalk Definition An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- English Word Stalk Definition One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- English Word Stalk Definition A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
- English Word Stalk Definition The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- English Word Stalk Definition The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- English Word Stalk Definition An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- English Word Stalk Definition To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
- English Word Stalk Definition To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
- English Word Stalk Definition To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
- English Word Stalk Definition To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
- English Word Stalk Definition A high, proud, stately step or walk.
- English Word Stalk-eyed Definition Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans.
- English Word Stalked Definition of Stalk
- English Word Stalked Definition Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
- English Word Stalker Definition One who stalks.