STAG • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Stag

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Stag

noun

A male deer, especially an adult male red deer. Synonym: hart.

Adult male deer.

verb

Attend a dance or a party without a female companion.

Give away information about somebody. Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, tell on.

Watch, observe, or inquire secretly. Synonyms: sleuth, snoop, spy.

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"Stag" Quotes from Famous Books

... as follows:—"A king of England of happy memory, who loved his people and his God better than kings in general are wont to do, occasionally took the exercise of hunting. Being out one day for this purpose, the chase lay through the shrubs of the forest. The stag had been hard run; and, to escape the dogs, had crossed the river in a deep part. As the dogs could not be brought to follow, it became necessary, in order to come up with it, to make a circuitous route along the banks of the river, through ...

— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith

... entreaties to kill him rather than to leave him to the mercy of the peasants, put his musket to his head and finish him at once. No one straggled, except to search a deserted cottage on the line, for all who fell into the hands of the peasants—who followed the army like wolves after a wounded stag—were either put to death by atrocious tortures, or stripped and left to perish by cold. All the sufferings inflicted by the army in its advance upon the peasantry were now repaid an hundredfold, and the atrocities perpetrated upon all who fell into ...

— Through Russian Snows - A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow • G. A Henty

... hunting," observed Gan, "and the stag is killed. He is at the old pastime that he was so fond ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt

... his inn, fleet as a stag, rushed up to his room, took out a hundred crowns, and went down again to the Palais Royal, where his future elegance lay scattered over half a score of shops. The first tailor whose door he entered tried as many coats upon him as he would ...

— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... their totem animal. Some of the groups have two divisions, male and female, which practically rank as separate septs. Instances of these are the Nagbans Andura and the Nagbans Mai or male and female cobra septs; the Karsayal Singhara and Karsayal Mundi or stag and doe deer septs; and the Baghchhal Andura and Baghchhal Mai or tiger and tigress septs. These may simply be instances of subdivisions arising owing to the boundaries of the sept having become too large ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell

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