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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.

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 male red deer when four years old.

not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden.

An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Gray.