Stag
[stæg] or [stæɡ]
Definition
(noun.) adult male deer.
(verb.) attend a dance or a party without a female companion.
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Definition
(n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
(n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.
(n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
(n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
(n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
(n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
(n.) The European wren.
(v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
(v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hart, male red deer (Cervus elaphus).
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Definition
n. the male deer esp. one of the red deer:—fem. Hind: a speculator who applies for shares or stock in new concerns quoted at a premium hoping to obtain an allotment and secure a profit without holding the stock one who sells new securities quoted at a premium before allotment.—v.t. to follow to dog to shadow.—v.i. to act as a stag on the stock-exchange.—ns. Stag′-bee′tle a genus of Lamellicorn beetles nearly allied to the Scarabees the males with large projecting mandibles; Stag′-dance -part′y a dance or party of men only; Stag′hound a name applied both to the buck-hound and the Scottish deer-hound.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see stags in your dream, foretells that you will have honest and true friends, and will enjoy delightful entertainments.
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Examples
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Probably he prepared the ground for his sowing with a pole, or a pole upon which he had stuck a stag's horn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A hornless stag or spurless cock would have a poor chance of leaving numerous offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Even the pale stag seemed to have reminding glances and to mean mutely, Yes, we know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What of this line, 'O heavy with wine, who hast the eyes of a dog and the heart of a stag,' and of the words which follow? Plato. The Republic.
- Man had begun to make spears for use in a pinch, but would you like to tackle a husky bear or a well-horned stag with only a spear for a weapon? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Do men catch a wise stag without hounds? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Carved stags' heads, with real antlers, looked down grotesquely from the walls. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Every one knows how the horns of stags become more and more branched, and the plumes of some birds become more finely developed, as they grow older. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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