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1,432 words match “STAL”

STALKY a.
Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top [it] bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
STALL n. 17 definitions
division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. "In an oxes stall." Chaucer.
STALL-FEED v.
To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
STALLAGE n. 2 definitions
The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.
STALLATION n.
Installation. [Obs.]
STALLED a.
Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted. "A stalled ox." Prov. xv. 17.
STALLER n.
A standard bearer. obtaining Fuller.
STALLING n.
Stabling. Tennyson.
STALLION n.
A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
STALLMAN n.
One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books. Sterne.
STALLON n.
A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. [R.] Holished.
STALWART; STALWORTH a.
Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. "A stalwart tiller of the soil." Prof. Wilson. Fair man be was and wise, stalworth and bold. R. of Brunne.
STALWARTLY adv.
In a stalwart manner.
STALWARTNESS n.
The quality of being stalwart.
STALWORTHHOOD; STALWORTHNESS n.
The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring. [Obs.]
ANASTALTIC a.
Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.
ANTIPERISTALTIC a.
Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
BOOKSTALL n.
A stall or stand where books are sold.
BUCKSTALL n.
A toil or net to take deer.
CASTALIAN a.
Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.
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