stalkoes 
|( 'f. Ir. .itiilmire, a 
ully, also a fowler.] 
stalkoes (sUi'koz), . />i. 
lusty, robust fellow, a bul 
See the quotation. 
Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of 
stalkoes, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men 
who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, 
but who style themselves esquire. 
Miss Edgcu'orth, Rosanna, iii. (Dairies.) 
stalky (sta'ki), a. [< stalk- + -;/ 1 .] Formed 
like a stalk ; resembling a stalk. Imp. Diet. 
[Rare.] 
At the top [it] bears a great stalky head. Mortimer. 
stall 1 (stal), ii. [< ME. stal, stall, stalk, stale, 
steal, < AS. uteul (sir-all-'), steel, a station, stall, 
= OFries.*f,, MD.D. MLG. sfa; = OHG.MHG. 
stal (stall-), G. stall = Icel. stallr = Sw. stall 
= Dan. staid (cf. It. xtallo, tttalla OSp. estalo 
= OF. estal, F. eta?, a stall, itau, a vice, = Pr. 
estal, < ML. staUum, a stall, < Teut.), a place, 
stall ; akin to stool, stale 1 , etc., and to Or. 
artXteiv, place, set, ult. from the root of stand, 
L. stare, Gr. iardvat, Skt. / stha, stand: see 
stand. Hence stall 1 , r., and ult. stale*, stallitni, 
etc., as well as stell: see these words.] If. A 
standing-place ; station ; position ; place ; room. 
Gaheries . . . threwe down and slowgh and kepte at 
stall [kept his ground) a longe while, but in the fyn he 
mote yeve grounde a litill, ffor than the saisnes be-gonne 
to recover londe vpon hem. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 286. 
Robyne Hode is euer bond to him, 
Bothe in strete and static [that is, both outdoors and in], 
RoKn Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, V. 16). 
2. A standing-place for horses or cattle; a 
stable or cattle-shed; also, a division of a 
stable, cow-house, or cattle-shed, for the ac- 
commodation of one horse or ox; the stand or 
place in a stable where a horse or an ox is kept 
and fed : as, the stable contains eight stalls. 
But hye God som tyme senden can 
His grace into a litel oxes stall. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 251. 
At last he found a stall where oxen stood. 
Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 223. 
They bind their horses to the stall, 
For forage, food, and tiring call, 
And various clamour fills the hall. 
Scott, Marmion, iii. 2. 
3. A booth, either in the open air or in a build- 
ing, in which merchandise is exposed for sale, 
or in which some business or occupation is car- 
ried on : as, a butcher's stall, 
" Vnkynde and vuknowing ! " quath Crist, and with a rop 
smot hem, 
And ouer-turnede in the temple here tables and here 
stalles. Piers Plowman (C), xix. 157. 
4. A bench or table on which things are ex- 
posed for sale : as, a "book-stall. 
They are nature's coarser wares that lie on the stall, ex- 
posed to the transient view of every common eye. 
Olanmlle. 
5t. A seat or throne ; a bench. 
Thar als a god he sat in stall, 
And so he bad men suld him call. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. 8.), p. 124. 
Stalls Choir of Chester Cathedral. England 
5893 
6. One of a range of fixed scats inclosed cither 
wholly or in part at the back and sides, in the 
choir or chancel of a cathedral or church, mid 
often surmounted by a richly sculptured cano- 
py (see cut in preceding column): mostly ap- 
Sropriated for tne clergy : as, a canon's stall; a 
ean's stall; hence, the position or dignity of 
canon. 
New figures sat in the oaken stalls, 
New voices chanted in the choir. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend. 
The choir ts fitted up with a range of splendid cinque- 
cento stalls. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 129. 
7. In a theater, originally, a seat separated 
from others by arms or rails; now, usually, 
one of the seats in the front division of the 
parquet (sometimes called orchestra stalls); but 
the application of the term is variable. [Eng.] 
The price of seats has enormously gone up. Where 
there were two rows of stalls at the same price as the dress 
circle namely, four shillings there are now a dozen at 
the price of half a guinea. 
W. Bemnt, Fifty Years Ago, p. 126. 
8. In metal., a chamber or compartment in 
which ores are roasted. See roast-stall. 9. A 
working-place in a coal-mine, varying in size 
and shape according to the system adopted. 
Also called chamber, room, breast, etc. Post and 
Stall, pillar and Stall. Same as pillar and 6rwt(which 
see. under piHar). Prebendal stall. See prebendal. 
Stall 1 (stal), v. [< ME. stallen, < AS. steallian, 
place, set, = Sw. stalla, put into a stall, = Dan. 
stalle, stall-feed, fatten, = MHG. G. stallen, 
stable, stall ; from the noun. Cf . stell. Hence 
forestall, install, installation, etc.] I. trans. If. 
To place; set; fix; install. 
Among foles of rijt he may be stallyd. 
Book of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 83. 
Stall this in your bosom. Shak., All's Well, i. 3. 131. 
2. To place in an office with the customary for- 
malities ; induct into office ; install. 
And see another, as I see thee now, 
Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine. 
Shall., filch. III., i. 3. 206. 
But in his State yer he [Josua] be stall'd (almost)* 
Set in the midst of Ood's beloved Hoast, 
He thus dilates. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captaines. 
3. To put into or keep in a stall or stable : as, 
to stall a horse. 
Where king Latinus then his oxen stall'd. 
Dryden, JSaeid, ix. 526. 
4. To set fast in the mire; cause to stick in the 
mud; mire: as, to stall horses or a carriage. 
Yet many times in many wordes haue been so xtall'd 
and stabled as such sticking made me blushinglie con- 
fesse my ignorance. Florio, Ital. Diet, Epis. l>ed., p. [5]. 
To pray alone, and reject ordinary meanes. is to do like 
him in jEsop, that when his cart was stalled, lay flat on 
his back, and cried aloud, Help, Hercules. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 222. 
Mathematics he [the general artist] moderately studi- 
eth, to his great contentment. Using it as ballast for his 
soul ; yet to fix it, not to stall it. 
Fuller, Holy State, II. vii. 6. 
5. To corner; bring to bay; secure. 
When as thine eye hath chose the dame, 
And ttall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike. 
Shak. , Passionate Pilgrim, 1. 300. 
6f. To forestall. 
We are not pleased in this sad accident, 
That thus hath stalled and abused our mercy, 
Intended to preserve thee. B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
7f. To fatten ; fatten with stall-feeding. 
It is tyme to stall your oxyn that you entend to sel after 
Ester. Palsgrave. (HaUiwell.) 
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled 
ox and hatred therewith. Prov. xv. 17. 
8t. To postpone the payment of; forbear to 
claim payment for a time; allow to be paid by 
instalments. 
That he might not be stuck on ground, he petition'd 
that his Majesty would stall his fine, and take it up, as his 
estate would bear it, by a thousand pounds a year. 
Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, ii. 128. (Dames.) 
To be stalled to the roguet, to be formally received 
into the order of rogues ; be installed or initiated as a 
rogue. 
This done, the Grand Signior called for a Gage of Bowse, 
which belike signified a quart of drinke, for presently, a 
pot of Ale being put into his hand, hee made the yong 
Squire kneele downe, and powring the full pot on his pate, 
Tttered these wordes : I doe stall thee to the Rogue by ver- 
tue of this soueraigne English liquor, so that henceforth 
it shall be lawful! for thee to Cant that is to say. to be a 
Vagabond and Beg. Dekker, Belman of London (1608). 
II. intrans. If. To come to a stand ; take up 
a position. 
And ther the! stalleden and foughten the ton vpon the 
tother till the! were bothe wery for travaile. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 161. 
2t. To live as in a stall ; dwell ; inhabit. 
We could not stall together 
III the whole world. Shak., A. and C., v. 1. 30. 
stallion 
3. To stick or be set last in the mire. 4. To 
kennel, as dogs. Jiihiixnii. 5. To be tired of 
fating, as cattle, liiiji. Diet. 
Stall'-' (stal), H. [A var. of stale. 1 , a decoy, etc., 
appar. confused with stall 1 .'] It. An ambush. 
The great Prince Bias, . . . when he happened to fall 
into the stall of his enimies, anil hi- souldiours beganne 
to criu What shall we doe? he made aunswere : that you 
make reporte to those that are aliue that I die fighting, 
and I will say there to the dead that you scapte nyiiiL 1 . 
Guevara, Letters (tr. liy Hellowts, 1577), p. -1-2. 
2f. A stale ; a stalking-horse ; cover ; mark ; 
pretext. 
This tyranny 
Is strange, to take mine ears up by commission 
(Whether I will or no), and make them stalls 
To his lewd solecisms and worded trash. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, ill. 1. 
3. A stool-pigeon; a thief's (especially a pick- 
pocket's) assistant, whose role it is to divert the 
attention of the victim while the thief operates, 
to conceal the crime, assist the escape of the 
thief, make off with the booty, or perform 
similar offices. He is called fore-stall or back- 
stall according to his position before or behind 
the victim. 
Stallage (sta'laj), u. [Formerly also (Sc.) stal- 
lenge, < ME. stallage (?) (ML. stallayiiini, cstal- 
lagium), < OF. estallage, estalage, < estal, stall: 
see stall 1 , n., and -age. Cf. stallinger.^ 1. The 
right of erecting stalls at fairs; rent paid for 
a stall. 
The citizens of Hereford fined, in the second year of 
Henry III., In a hundred marks and two palfreys, to have 
the king's charter, . . . that they migttt be quit through- 
out England of toll and lastage, of passage, pontage, and 
stallage, and of leve, and danegeld, and gaywite, and all 
other customs and exactions. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, I. 26. 
2f. Laystall; dung; compost, 
stallandt, stallantt, . Early modern English . 
forms of stallion. 
stallangerti . Same as stallinger. 
stallationt (sta-la'shon), . [< ML. "stalla- 
tio(n-), < stallare, install, < stallum, place, stall: 
see start 1 , n. Cf. installation.'] Installation. 
As for dilapidacion, I vnderstond the house [Abbey of 
1 1 u 1 1 1 1 c | was endetted at the tyme of his staUacion in grete 
somes of mony. 
Duke of Suffolk, To Cardinal Wolsey, in Ellis's Hist. Let- 
[ters, 3d ser., I. 201. 
Stall-board (stal'bord), n. One of a series of 
floors upon which soil or ore is pitched succes- 
sively in excavating. 
staller (sta'ler), n. [< OF. cstallier, estalier, 
estaillier, one who keeps a stall, < estal, a stall : 
seestoM 1 .] 1. A hostler; a master of the horse. 
The King's dish-thegn, his bower-thegn, his horse- 
thegn or staller, all became great dignitaries of the King- 
dom. E. A . Freeman, Norman Conquest, I. 60. 
2f. A standard-bearer. 
Tovy, a man of great wealth and authority, as being the 
king's staller (that is, standard-bearer), first founded this 
town. Fuller, Waltham Abbey, i. f 5. 
stall-fed (stal'fed), a. Fattened, as oxen, by 
feeding in a stable or on dry fodder. 
You shall have stall-fed doctors, crammed divines. 
B. Jomon, Staple of News, 1. 2. 
Stall-feed (stalled), v. t. To feed and fatten 
in a stall or stable, or 071 dry fodder. 
If you were for the fair, you should be stall-fed, and 
want no weal. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 112. 
Stalling (sta'ling), n. [Verbal n. of stall 1 , r.] 
Stabling. 
Hire us some fair chamber for the night, 
And stalling for the horses. Tennyson, Geraint. 
Stallinger (sta'lin-jer), n. [Formerly also stal- 
langer (ML. stallangiarius); with intrusive n, 
< stallage + -er 1 . Cf. passenger, messenger, 
wharfinger, etc.] One who keeps a stall. [Lo- 
cal, Eng. or Scotch.] 
Vacancies among the Stattingers are filled up in like 
manner from the inhabitants of the town. 
Uunicip. Corp. Report, 1835, p. 1734. 
Stalling-kent (sta'ling-ken), n. A house for re- 
ceiving stolen goods. Dekker. [Old slang.] 
A Stawling-ken that is knowne of purpose to be trusty, 
yea and that in the night too, least they be notified and 
suspected to be scandalizing of the profession. 
Rowlands, Hist. Rogues, quoted in Ribton-Turner's Va- 
(grauts and Vagrancy, p. 585. 
stallion (stal'yon), n. [Early mod. E. also 
tstalion, "stallon, stalland, stallant, stalant, sta- 
lon; < ME. stalyone, stolon, stalun, < OF. estalon, 
F. etalvn = It. Stallone (ML. reflex stalonus), a 
stallion, in ML. also called equus ad stallum, 'a 
horse at stall,' so called because kept in a stall, 
< stallum, a stall, stable: see stall 1 .] The male 
of the horse ; an entire horse ; a horse kept for 
breeding purposes. 
