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Stale
v. t.
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Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
Stale
v. t.
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A stalking-horse.
Stale
v. t.
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A stalemate.
Stale
v. t.
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A laughingstock; a dupe.
Stalely
adv.
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In a state stale manner.
Stalely
adv.
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Of old; long since.
Stalemate
n.
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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.
Stalemate
v. t.
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To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.
Staleness
n.
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The quality or state of being stale.
Stalk
n.
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The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
Stalk
n.
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The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
Stalk
n.
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That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
Stalk
n.
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An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
Stalk
n.
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One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
Stalk
n.
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A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
Stalk
n.
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The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
Stalk
n.
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The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
Stalk
n.
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An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stalked
imp. & p. p.
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of Stalk
Stalking
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Stalk
Stalk
v. i.
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To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
Stalk
v. i.
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To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
Stalk
v. i.
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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.
Stalk
v. t.
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To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
Stalk
n.
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A high, proud, stately step or walk.
Stalked
a.
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Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
Stalker
n.
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One who stalks.
Stalker
n.
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A kind of fishing net.
Stalk-eyed
a.
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Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans.
Stalking-horse
n.
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A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.