Index of English words, starting with "st"

(1) - Stalk (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
(2) - Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
(3) - Stalk (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
(4) - Stalk (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
(5) - Stalk (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
(6) - Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(7) - Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(8) - Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
(9) - Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
(10) - Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
(11) - Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
(12) - Stalk (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
(13) - Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
(14) - Stalk (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

(1) - Stalked (a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
(2) - Stalked (imp. & p. p.) of Stalk

(1) - Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.
(2) - Stalker (n.) One who stalks.

(1) - Stalking-horse (n.) Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.
(2) - Stalking-horse (n.) A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

(1) - Stalkless (a.) Having no stalk.