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The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.

A rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs.

aw to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.

To stagnate; to cease to flow. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Stagnation. [Obs.]

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Shak.

capable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.