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Nervousness felt before an audience.

One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage director.

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

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

One who drives a stagecoach.

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

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. Dryden.

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

One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W. Scott.

Exhibition on the stage. [Obs.]

The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship. He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the common wealth. Milton.

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

Stern. [R.] Shak.

A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.

The act of stirring; stir; commotion. [Obs.] T. Granger.

or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

The price changed for keeping goods in a store. Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.