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Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

Provided with antlers, as a stag.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.

y. -- To beat up and down (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. -- To beat up for recruits, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise.

rson is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.