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Stalk
Stalk Stalk, n.
The act or process of stalking.
When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and
ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
--T.
Roosevelt.
Stalk
Stalk Stalk, v. t.
To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the
purpose of killing, as game.
As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly
like to stalking a deer. --Sir W.
Scott.
Stalk
Stalk Stalk, n.
A high, proud, stately step or walk.
Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he
gone by our watch. --Shak.
The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.
--Spenser.
StalkStalk Stalk, n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. st[ae]l, stel, a stalk.
See Stale a handle, Stall.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of
wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
(b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
2. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a
quill. --Grew.
3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling
the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices
spring.
4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.]
To climd by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer.
5. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and
crinoids.
(b) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a
hymenopterous insect.
(c) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core
to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stalk borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a noctuid moth
(Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the
raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other
garden plants, often doing much injury.
Meaning of Stalks from wikipedia
- Look up
stalk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Stalk or
stalking may
refer to:
Stalk, the
stealthy approach (phase) of a
predator towards its prey...
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Stalking is
unwanted and/or
repeated surveillance or
contact by an
individual or
group toward another person.
Stalking behaviors are
interrelated to har****ment...
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person
shooter survival horror video game
franchise developed by
Ukrainian game
developer GSC Game World. The
series is set...
- The
connecting stalk, or body
stalk, is an
embryonic structure that is
formed by the
third w**** of
development and
connects the
embryo to its s**** of...
- Gang
stalking or group-
stalking is a set of ****cutory
beliefs in
which those affected believe they are
being followed,
stalked, and har****ed by a large...
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Pickover stalks are
certain kinds of
details to be
found empirically in the
Mandelbrot set, in the
study of
fractal geometry. They are so
named after the...
- ISBN 9780521207843.
stalk in nLab The
Stacks Project authors. "6.11
Stalks". The
Stacks Project authors. "6.27 Skys****er
sheaves and
stalks". Goresky, Mark...
- The
pituitary stalk, also
known as the
infundibular stalk, infundibulum, or Fenderson's funnel, is the
connection between the
hypothalamus and the posterior...
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Night Stalker(s) or Nightstalker(s) may
refer to:
Richard Ramirez (1960–2013),
serial killer whose murder spree in
California in the mid-1980s led to...
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former optic stalk is then
called the
optic nerve. In short, the
optic stalks are the
structures that
precede the
optic nerves embryologically. This article...
