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S T A 
A place in which rest is taken on a journey; as much of a 
journey as is performed Without intermission. [Perhaps from 
the Goth, staiga, a way, a road;' ptige, Sax. the same.] 
Our next stage brought us to the mouth of the Tiber. Ad¬ 
dison. —■A single step of gradual process.—The changes and 
vicissitudes in wars are many; but chiefly in the seats or 
stages of the war, the weapons, and the manner of the 
conduct. Bacon. 
To STAGE, v. a. To exhibit publicly. Out of use. 
I love the people; 
But do not like to stage me to their eyes; 
Though it do well, I do not relish well 
Their loud applause. Shakspeare. 
STAGE ISLAND, a small island near the coast of Maine, 
not far from Casco bay, remarkable for being the first land 
inhabited by Europeans in New England. It is very small, 
and now uninhabited. 
STAGECOA'CH, s. A coach that keeps its stages; a 
coach that passes and repasses on certain days for the accom¬ 
modation of passengers.—The story was told me by a priest, 
as we travelled in a stagecoach. Addison. 
STA'GELY, adj. Belonging to the stage; befitting the 
stage.—Nor may this be called an histrionic parada, or 
stagcly visard and hypocrisy, while women seek to appear 
advantaged in stature, or in beauty. Bp. Taylor. 
STA'GEPLAY, s. Theatrical entertainment.—This rough¬ 
cast unhewn poetry was instead of stageplays for one hun¬ 
dred and twenty years. Dry den. 
STA'GEPLAYER, s. One who publicly represents ac¬ 
tions on the stage.—Among slaves, who exercised the polite 
arts, none sold so dear as stagcplayers or actors. Arbuth- 
not. 
STA'GER, s. A player. 
You safe in your stage clothes, 
Dare quit, upon your oaths. 
The stagers and the stage-wrights too. B. Jonson. 
One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; 
a person of cunning. 
I’ve heard old cunning stagers 
Say, fools for argument use wagers. Hudibras. 
One cries out, these stagers 
Come in good time to make more work for wagers. Dry den. 
STA'GERY, s. Scenic exhibition; show on the stage.— 
Likening those grave controversies to a piece of stagery, or 
scene-work. Milton. 
STA'GEVIL, s. A disease in horses. Diet. 
STA'GGARD, s. A four year old stag. Ainsworth. 
To STA'GGER, v. n. [staggeren, Dutch.] To reel; 
not to stand or walk steadily. 
He struck with all his might 
Full on the helmet of th’ unwary knight: 
Deep was the wound; he stagger'd with the blow. Dry den. 
To faint; to begin to give way.—The enemy staggers: 
if you follow your blow, he falls at your feet; but if you allow 
him respite, he will recover his strength. Addison .—To 
hesitate; to fall into doubt; to become less confident or de¬ 
termined.—A man may, if he were fearful, stagger in this 
attempt. Shakspeare. 
To STA'GGER, v. a. To make to stagger; to make to 
reel. 
That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire. 
That staggers thus my person. Shakspeare. 
To shock; to alarm; to make less steady or confident. 
The question did at first so stagger me, 
Bearing a state of mighty moment in’t. Shakspeare. 
STA'GGERING, s. Act of reeling.—The immediate 
forerunners of an apoplexy are a vertigo, staggering, and 
loss of memory. Arhuthnot .—.Cause of staggeringor making 
to stagger.—This shall be no grief unto thee, [in the margin, 
no staggering, or stumbling.] 1 Samuel. 
STA'GGERINGLY, adv. In a reeling manner. Huloet. 
—Drunkards go staggeringly when they are top-heavy. 
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Granger. —With hesitation.—While we are but stagger¬ 
ingly evil, we are not left without parentheses of considera¬ 
tion, thoughtful rebukes, and merciful interventions, to recall 
us to ourselves. Brown. 
STA'GGERS, s. A kind of horse apoplexy.—His horse 
past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers. Shak¬ 
speare.' —Madness; wild conduct; irregular behaviour. Out 
of use. 
I will throw thee from my care for ever 
Into the staggers, and the careless lapse 
Of youth and ignorance. Shakspeare 
STAGHIGLIHOLE, a small town of the Sardinian states, 
in the Milanese, in the province of Bobbio, on the river 
Coppa. Population 1000. 
STAGIRA, a small town of European Turkey, in Mace- 
don, remarkable only as the birthplace of Aristotle, whence 
he is called the Stagirite. It is situated on the gulf of Con- 
tessa ; 16 miles west-north-west of that town, and 46 east- 
south-east of Salonica. 
STA'GNANCY, s. The state of being without motion or 
ventilation. 
Though the country people are so wise 
To call these rivers, they’re but stagnancies. 
Left by the flood. Cotton. 
ST A'GN ANT, adj. [stagnans, Lat.] Motionless; still; 
not agitated; not flowing; not running. 
Immur’d and buried in perpetual sloth, 
That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul. Irene. 
To ST A'GN ATE, v. n. [stagno, Lat.] To lie motion¬ 
less ; to have no course or stream. 
Where creeping waters ooze, 
Where marshes stagnate. Thomson. 
STAGNATION, s. Stop of course; cessation of motion. 
It is often applied figuratively to moral or civil images.—As 
the Alps surround Geneva on all sides, they form a vast bason, 
where there would be a constant stagnation of vapours, did 
not the north wind scatter them from time to time, Addison. 
STAGNO, a small town of the Austrian states in Dalmatia, 
on the isthmus which joins the peninsula of Sabioncello 
with the continent. It is a bishop’s see; and about a mile 
from the town is a fortress called Stagno Piccolo, or Little 
Stagno. It has considerable fisheries, and a good harbour, 
but is unhealthy; 30 miles north-west of Ragusa. 
STAGNOV1CH, a village in the west ot European 
Turkey, in Romania, the residence of the bishop of 
Montenegro. 
STAGOUS, an inland town of European Turkey, in 
Albania, not far from Trikala. It contains about 4000 
inhabitants, and in the environs are several of the monas¬ 
teries called Meteora, situated on steep rocks. 
STAGS, rocks on the south coast of Ireland, at the en¬ 
trance into Cork harbour. Lat. 51. 48. N. long. 8. 15. W. 
STAGS, or Broadhaven, rocks in the Atlantic, near 
the west coast of Ireland. Lat. 55. 22. N. long. 9. 36. W. 
STAGS, of Castlehavem, rocks on the southern coast 
of Ireland; 7 miles south of Castlehaven Lat. 51, 26. N. 
long. 9. 7. W. 
STAGSDEN, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 5 
miles west-by-south of Bedford. Population 517. 
STAGSIIAW, or Stagshawbank, a small hamlet of 
England, in Northumberland, where there are considerable 
fairs for horses annually on Whitsun Eve, and 4th July. 
STAGVILLE, a post village of the United States, in 
Orange county, North Carolina. 
STAHL (George Ernest), a celebrated physician and 
chemist, was born at Anspach, in Franconia, in October, 
1660. He studied medicine at the university of Jena, and 
laid the foundation of his fame, immediately after his gradu¬ 
ation in 1684, by commencing a course of private lectures 
among the students of that place. His advancing reputation 
procured for him the appointment of physician in ordinary 
to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1687. On the establish- 
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