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STALK, n. [G., a handle, and a stalk or stem. Gr. from the root of stall; to set.]

1. The stem, culm or main body of an herbaceous plant. Thus we speak of a stalk of wheat, rye or oats, the stalks of maiz or hemp. The stalk of herbaceous plants, answers to the stem of shrubs and tress, and denotes that which is set, the fixed part of a plant, its support; or it is a shoot.

2. The pedicle of a flower, or the peduncle that supports the fructification of a plant.

3. The stem of a quill.

STALK, v.i.

1. To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and hence the word usually expresses dislike. The poets however use the word to express dignity of step.

With manly mein he stalkd along the ground.

Then stalking through the deep he fords the ocean.

2. It is used with some insinuation of contempt or abhorrence.

Stalks close behind her, like a witchs fiend, pressing to be employd.

Tis not to stalk about and draw fresh air from time to time.

3. To walk behind a stalking horse or behind a cover.

The king crept under the shoulder of his led horse, and said, I must stalk.

STALK, n. A high, proud, stately step or walk.

1913 Definition
Stalk (stalk)
n.(?)
Stalk
[OE. stalke, fr. AS. stæl, stel, a stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall.]
  1. The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
    (b)
  2. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
    Grew.
  3. 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. A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
    (b)
  6. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

    Stalk borer (Zoöl.), 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.

  7. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
    Shak.

    Into the chamber he stalked him full still. Chaucer.

    [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend,
    Pressing to be employed.     Dryden.

  8. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.

    The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. Bacon.

    One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.

  9. 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.

    With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Dryden.

    Then stalking through the deep,
    He fords the ocean.     Addison.

    I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. Mericale.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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