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An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

Play; idle jingle. An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome.

circle of light used to illuminate brilliantly a single person or object or group on the stage; leaving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated; hence, conspicuous public notice. [Cant or Colloq.]

To leap; to bound; to jump. The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. Philips.

Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document. To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion.

To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless. Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden.

Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.

A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

A gander. [Written also stag.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

ing in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. There stumble steeds strong and down go all. Chaucer. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. Prov. iv. 19.

A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago.

Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. Addison.

fically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.

Hence, a substitute; a hostage. Cowper.

One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.

Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment. "The syllabic stage of writing." Earle.