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participle of the Saxon fCijanj to ascend; and says, “ that 
perhaps it should be writteu statute, (as we pronounce it), or 
state, (the a, as formerly, broad;) and indeed the / may have 
been introduced to give the broad sound to our modern a. 
This, however, is only my conjecture; being unable other¬ 
wise to account for the introduction of l into this word. 
Div. of Purl. ii. 283. This conjecture and etymology must 
give place to the derivation offered by Serenius, namely, 
the Swedish ste/tc, or stiel/ce, the same as our stalk; 
(and he also mentions “ A Sax. stale,") and this he deduces 
from the ancient word stall, basis, foundation, which is 
from staa, to stand.] The stem on which flowers or fruits 
grow. 
Small store will serve, where store. 
All seasons, ripe lor use hangs on the stalk. Milton. 
The stem of a quill.—Viewed with a glass, they appear 
made up of little bladders like those in the plume or stalk of 
a. quill. Grew. 
STALK, Loch, a lake of Scotland, in Sutherlandshire; 
2 miles long, and half a mile broad, giving rise to the river 
Laxford. 
STA'LKED, adj. Having a stalk: as the long-.rfa/Z-erf 
pear. See Pear. 
STA'LKER, s. One who stalks. — Let’s ha’ good cheer 
to-morrow night at supper, stalk stalker, and then we’ll 
talk; good capon, and plover, do you hear, sirrah? B. 
Jonson. —A kind of fishing net. Stat. 13 Rich. 11. ch. 20. 
STA'LKINGHORSE, s. A horse either real or fictitious, 
by which a fowler shelters himself from the sight of the 
game; a mask ; a pretence.—Hypocrisy is the devil’s stalk- 
inghorse, under an affectation of simplicity and religion. 
L‘ Estrange. 
STA'LKY, adj. Hard like a stalk. — It grows upon a 
round stalk, and at the top bears a great stalky head. 
Mortimer. 
STALL, s. [peal, pteal, Saxon; stal, Dutch; stalla, 
Italian.] A crib in which an ox is fed, or a horse is kept in 
the stable. , 
Duncan’s horses. 
Beauteous and swift, the minions of the race. 
Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out. 
Contending ’gainst obedience. Shakspeare. 
A bench or form where any thing is set to sale. 
Stalls, bulks, windows. 
Are smothered up, leads fill’d, and ridges hors’d 
With variable complections; all agreeing 
In earnestness to see him. Shakspeare. 
[Stall, Swedish; stat, Armoric.] A small house or shed 
in which certain trades are practised. 
All these together in one heap were thrown, 
Like carcases of beasts in butcher’s stall-. 
And in another corner wide were strown 
The antique ruins of the Roman’s fall. Spenser. 
The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.—The pope 
creates a canon beyond the number limited, and commands 
the chapter to assign unto such canon a stall in the choir 
and place in the chapter. Ay life. 
To STALL, v. a. To keep in a stall or stable.—For my 
part, he keeps me rustically at home; or, to speak more 
properly, sties me here at home unkept: for call you that 
keeping, for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from 
the stalling of an ox ? Shakspeare. —[For install .] To 
invest. 
Long may’st thou live to wail thy children’s loss; 
And see another as I see thee now, 
Ueck’d in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine. 
Shakspeare. 
To STALL, v. n. To inhabit; to dwell. — We could not 
stall together in the world. Shakspeare. —To kennel. 
STA'LLAGE, s. Rent paid for a stall. — [In old books.] 
Laystall; dung ; compost. 
STALL A'TION, s. [From the second sense of To stall]. 
Installation. Obsolete. —Then prepared he has fast for his 
translation from the see of Lincoln to the see of Yorke, as he 
did before to his stallation. Cavendish. 
STA'LLFED, adj. Fed not with grass, but dry feed. 
Every one must every day sustaine 
The load of one beast, the most fat and best 
Of all the stallfed, to the wooer’s feast. Chapman. 
STALLINGBOROUGH, a parish of England, in Lin¬ 
colnshire; 6 miles north-west of Great Grimsby. 
STA'LLION, s. [ysdalwyn, an old Welsh word : the one 
is derived from the other ; but which from which I certainly 
cannot tell. Wotton. — Stalon, old Fr.; stallone, Ital.; 
stalhengst, Dutch.—Junius thinks it derived from peaelan, 
to leap. Dr. Johnson. —Serenius derives it from stall, 
stallr, Su. Goth. Our ancient word is stalaunt: “ To be 
turned out for a stalaunt." Transl. of Bp. Gardiner's De 
Ver. Obed. 1563.] A horse kept for mares. 
If fleet Dragon’s progeny at last 
Prove jaded, and in frequent matches cast. 
No favour for the stallion we retain, 
And no respect for the degenerate train. Dry den. 
STALLUPONEN, a small town of East Prussia, in the 
government of Gumbinnen. Population 2300; 40 miles 
south-east of Tilsit, and 80 east of Konigsberg. Lat.54. 37. 
7. N. long.22. 34.12. E. 
STALMYEE, a township of England, in Lancashire; 5 
miles north-north-east of Poulton. Population 438. 
STALOWICZI, a small town of Russian Lithuania, in 
the government of Minsk; 10 miles from Pinsk. In 1780 
the Poles under Oginski were defeated here with great loss, 
by the Russians under Suwarrow. 
STA'LWORTH, adj. [jxeel-pypS Sax. of uncertain 
origin. Dr. Johnson notices this word under stall-worn, 
believing the latter to be a mistake for stalworth. War- 
burton, in a note on Shakspeare had printed a line from 
Fairfax, (which Dr. Johnson inadvertently assigned to Shak¬ 
speare), upon which Mr. Edwards in referring to that author, 
found the real word to be stalworth. There is, perhaps, no 
such word as sta/lworn. Todd.] Stout; strong; brave. 
Used by Wicliffe. Now wholly obsolete. —His stalworth 
steed the champion stout bestrode. Fairfax. 
STAMATA, or Stamati, a small village between Athens 
and Marathon, at the distance of 15 miles from the former. 
STAMBACH, a small town of Bavarian Franconia, in 
the principality of Bayreuth; 18 miles north-north-east of 
Bamberg. 
STAMBOURNE, a parish of England, in Essex; 5 miles 
north-west of Castle Hedingham. Population 1356. 
STAMBRIDGE, Great and Little, two adjoining 
parishes of England, in Essex; 2 miles north-east of Roch- 
ford. 
STA'MEN, s. [Lat.] Threads; foundation.—You are 
to know, that all, who enter human life, have a certain date 
or stamen given to their being. Tatler 
STAMFORD, or Stanford, an ancient and consider¬ 
able market and borough town of England, in the county 
of Lincoln. It is situated on the banks of the river Welland, 
at the south-western angle of the county, on the borders of 
Rutlandshire and Northamptonshire. One of its parishes, 
St. Martin’s or Stamford Baron, is in Northamptonshire, but 
the greater part of the town is built on the slope of a hill 
on the Lincoln side of th# river. The town is large but 
irregularly built; most of the houses are of freestone, covered 
with slate. When approached from the south, it presents 
an interesting and picturesque appearance, several of the old 
buildings being grouped together with the towers and steeples 
of the churches. Stamford appears anciently to have been 
divided into 14 wards or parishes, but in 1461 some of the 
churches and houses were consumed by fire; and in 1547 
the northern part of the town was divided, by act of parli¬ 
ament, into five parishes; St. Martin’s constituting a sixth. 
The former are St. Michael’s, St. Mary’s, St. George's, Ail 
Saints, and St. John the Baptist St. Michael’s church 
stands near the centre of the town, and is supposed to hava 
been 
