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

Stagnation. [Obs.]

Scamped work.

Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.

Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.

That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse. Crabb.

See under Stag.

Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.

A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

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.