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Stag [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The male red deer; the male of the hind.

2. A colt or filly; also, a romping girl. [Local.]

3. In New England, the male of the common ox castrated.

Stag [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

2. The male of certain other species of large deer.

3. A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.

4. A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

5. An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

6. 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.

7. The European wren.

Stag [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.

Stag [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Stag Encyclopedia Britannica

STAG. See Deer.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 444
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Stag-beetle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The Lucanus cervus, a species of insect.

Stag-evil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A disease in horses.

Stag-evil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.

Stag-horn coral Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Stag-horn fern

Stag-horn fern Webster's Dictionary 1913

See under Stag.

Stag-horned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.

Stag-worm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An insect that is troublesome to deer.

Stage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Properly, one step or degree of elevation, and what the French call etage, we call a story. Hence,

2. A floor or platform of any kind elevated above the ground or common surface, as for an exhibition of something to pubic view; as a stage for a mountebank; a stage for speakers in public; a stage for mechanics. Seamen use floating stages, and stages suspended by the side of a ship, for calking and repairing.

3. The floor on which theatrical performances are exhibited, as distinct from the pit, etc. Hence,

4. The theater; the place of scenic entertainments.

5. Knights, squires and steeds must enter on the stage

6. Theatrical representations. It is contended that the stage is a school or morality. Let it be inquired, where is the person whom the stage has reformed?

7. A place where any thing is publicly exhibited.

8. When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

9. Place of action or performance; as the stage of life.

10. A place of rest on a journey, or where a relay of horses is taken. When we arrive at the next stage we will take some refreshment. Hence,

11. The distance between two places of rest on a road; as a stage of fifteen miles.

12. A single step; degree of advance; degree of progression, either in increase or decrease, in rising or falling, or in any change of state; as the several stages of a war; the stages of civilization or improvement; stages of growth in an animal or plant; stages of a disease, of decline or recovery; the several stages of human life.

13. [instead of stage-coach, or stage-wagon.] A coach or other carriage running regularly from one place to another for the conveyance of passengers.

14. I went in the six-penny stage

15. A parcel sent by the stage American usage.

Stage [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To exhibit publicly. [Not in use.]

Stage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A floor or story of a house.

2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.

3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.

5. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.

6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.

7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.

8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

9. 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.

10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.

11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.

12. 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 [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Stage-coach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A coach that runs by stages; or a coach that runs regularly every day or on stated days, for the conveyance of passengers.

Stage-play [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Theatrical entertainment.

Stage-player [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage. Garrick was a celebrated stage-player

Stage-struck [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.

Stagecoach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

Stagecoachman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who drives a stagecoach.

Stagecoachmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stagecoachman

Stagehouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

Stagely [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater. [Little used.]

Stagely [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.

Stageplay [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.

Stageplayer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

Stager [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A player. [Little used.]

2. One that has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of cunning; as an old cunning stager; an experienced stager; a stager of the wiser sort.

3. [I do not recollect to have ever heard this word used in America.]

Stager [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A player.

2. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.

3. A horse used in drawing a stage.

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Exodus 40:36

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.

Numbers 33:2

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:

Job 12:25

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

Psalms 60:3

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

Psalms 107:27

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.

They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

Song of Solomon 2:9

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

Song of Solomon 2:17

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Isaiah 29:9

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”

Jeremiah 25:16

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Lamentations 5:13

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Ezekiel 35:5

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

Ezekiel 41:7

And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

Amos 4:8

So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.