Stag (n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
Stag (n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
Stag (n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
Stag (n.) The European wren.
Stag (v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
Stag (v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Stage (n.) A floor or story of a house.
Stage (n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
Stage (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
Stage (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
Stage (n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
Stage (n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
Stage (n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
Stage (n.) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.
Stage (n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
Stage (n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
Stage (n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
Stage (v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
Stagecoach (n.) A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
Stagecoachmen (pl. ) of Stagecoachman
Stagecoachman (n.) One who drives a stagecoach.
Stagehouse (n.) A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
Stagely (a.) Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.
Stageplay (n.) A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.
Stageplayer (n.) An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
Stager (n.) A player.
Stager (n.) One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
Stager (n.) A horse used in drawing a stage.
Stagery (n.) Exhibition on the stage.
Stage-struck (a.) Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
Stag-evil (n.) A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.
Staggard (n.) The male red deer when four years old.
Staggered (imp. & p. p.) of Stagger
Staggering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stagger
Stagger (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
Stagger (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Stagger (n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
Stagger (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
Stagger (n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
Staggerbush (n.) An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.
Staggeringly (adv.) In a staggering manner.
Staggerwort (n.) A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea).
Stag-horn coral () Alt. of Stag-horn fern
Stag-horn fern () See under Stag.
Stag-horned (a.) Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
Staghound (n.) A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
Staging (n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
Staging (n.) The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.
Stagirite (n.) A native of, or resident in, Stagira, in ancient Macedonia; especially, Aristotle.
Stagnancy (n.) State of being stagnant.
Stagnant (a.) That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.
Stagnant (a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
Stagnantly (adv.) In a stagnant manner.
Stagnated (imp. & p. p.) of Stagnate
Stagnating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stagnate
Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
Stagnate (a.) Stagnant.
Stagnation (n.) The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.
Stagnation (n.) The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.
Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.
Stahlian (a.) Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.
Stahlian (n.) A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.
Stahlism (n.) Alt. of Stahlianism
Stahlianism (n.) The Stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul.
Stail () imp. & p. p. of Stay.
Staid (a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
Staidly (adv.) In a staid manner, sedately.
Staidness (n.) The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or levity.
Stail (n.) A handle, as of a mop; a stale.
Stained (imp. & p. p.) of Stain
Staining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stain
Stain (v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
Stain (v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
Stain (v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
Stain (v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
Stain (v. i.) To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
Stain (n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
Stain (n.) A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
Stain (n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
Stain (n.) Cause of reproach; shame.
Stain (n.) A tincture; a tinge.
Stainer (n.) One who stains or tarnishes.
Stainer (n.) A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
Stainless (a.) Free from stain; immaculate.
Stainlessly (adv.) In a stainless manner.
Stair (n.) One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
Stair (n.) A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.
Staircase (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
Stairhead (n.) The head or top of a staircase.
Stairway (n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
Staith (n.) A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
Staithman (n.) A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.
Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.