Stalked

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stalked} (st[add]kt); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Stalking}.] [AS. staelcan, stealcian to go slowly;
     cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably
     akin to 1st stalk.]
     1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy,
        noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive


        pronoun. --Shak.
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              Into the chamber he stalked him full still.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's
              fiend,
              Pressing to be employed.              --Dryden.
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     2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of
        approaching game; to proceed under cover.
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              The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led
              horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. --Bacon.
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              One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
                                                    --Drayton.
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     3. 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.
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              With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              Then stalking through the deep,
              He fords the ocean.                   --Addison.
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              I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he
              has long stalked alone and unchallenged. --Merivale.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stalked \Stalked\ (st[add]kt), a.
     Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
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     {Stalked barnacle} (Zool.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; --
        called also {stalk barnacle}.
  
     {Stalked crinoid} (Zool.), any crinoid having a jointed stem.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stalked
       adj : having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk; "a
             pedunculate flower"; "a pedunculate barnacle is
             attached to the substrate by a fleshy foot or stalk"
             [syn: {pedunculate}] [ant: {sessile}]