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adj (English)
1. (alcoholic beverages, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.Examples: "The stronger Beere is divided into two parts (viz.) mild and stale; the first may ease a man of a drought, but the later is like water cast into a Smiths forge, and breeds more heartburning, and as rust eates into Iron, so overstale Beere gnawes auletholes in the entrales, or else my skill failes, and what I have written of it is to be held as a jest."; "Particular care must be taken that the stale beer in which the isinglass is dissolved be perfectly clear and stale."; "Is not that hard or stale beer mixed to give the porter the appearance of age at once, which formerly was allowed to be matured by time?"obsolete
2. (obsolete) No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.Examples: "Rosimunda...hathe an vncle a stale batcheler."; "In barren Women, and stale Maids, Tapping should be very cautiously undertaken."obsolete
3. (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.Examples: "In most states, you can be ticketed for failing to clear the intersection, even if you are hemmed in by traffic. One good clue to a stale green light is the pedestrian signal."usually
4. (agriculture, obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land.Examples: "Lime would do very little or no good on stale ploughed lands."obsolete
5. (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.Examples: "a stale affidavit"; "a stale demand"; "The jury will rarely give credit to a stale complaint."
6. (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.Examples: "Stale cheque,...a cheque which has remained unpaid for some considerable time."
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.Examples: "I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite."; "Frayed-looking sweet-cakes...bought as ‘stales’ from the baker."colloquial
verb (English)
1. (of alcohol, obsolete, transitive) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).Examples: "Stalyn, or make stale drynke, defeco."; "A stock of old porter should be kept, sufficient for staling the consumption of twelve months."obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.Examples: "Ile goe tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth."; "Not content To stale himselfe in all societies, He makes my house as common as a Mart."; "Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale Her infinite variety."transitive
3. (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.Examples: "They have got so much of Christ as to be staled of his company."; "Philanthropy was beginning to stale."; "Vi's penchant for puns had struck him as cute when he first met her, but it had staled somewhat over the years."intransitive
4. (alcoholic beverages, intransitive) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.Examples: "The Drink from that Time flattens and stales."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (dialectal) One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.Examples: "Stales, the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable."; "Fruit ladders should be provided beforehand. They differ from the ordinary ladder by having the bottom rungs a little longer and the top of the side stales meeting together so is to rest in the fork of a limb."; "The zigzag determines the order of the currents from [1] which occur on the stales of the ladder and their relation with the currents from [0] which occur on the rungs and ringles between them."dialectal
2. (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.Examples: "For stalyng of the ladders of the Churche xx d."obsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (military, obsolete) A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.Examples: "Wherefore they had a great avauntage, but in coclusion thie french menne were slayne, and their horses taken, and so the lyght horsement came wyth their catail, nere to the embushment, and the frenchimen folowed, that seyng the englyshmen that kept the stale, came in al hast & rescued their light horsemen, and draue the frenchemen backe, & then made returne to their beastes"; "All these in great hast came to Newnam bridge, where they found other Englishmen that had woone the bridge of the Frenchmen, and so all togither set foward to assaile the Frenchmen that kept the stale, and tarie till the residue of their companie which were gone a forraging vnto Calis walles were come: for the other that had spoiled the marishes were returned with a great bootie."; "You cannot take the queen without giving a stale, therefore you lose the game."obsolete
2. (chess, uncommon) A stalemate; a stalemated game.Examples: "They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre."uncommon
3. (military, obsolete) An ambush.Examples: "It is a stelling place and sovir harbry, Quhar ost in staill or embuschment may ly."; "The erle of Essex...with .ii. C. speares was layde in a stale, if the Frenchmen had come neerer."obsolete
4. (obsolete) A band of armed men or hunters.Examples: "The staill past throw the wod with sic noyis...yat all the bestis wer rasit fra thair dennys."; "The Lard of Drunlanrig lying al thys while in ambush...forbare to breake out to gyue anye charge vppon his enimies, doubting least the Earle of Lennox hadde kept a stale behynde."obsolete
5. (Scotland, military, obsolete) The main force of an army.Examples: "Neveryeles I knaw asweill by Englisemen as Scottishmen that their stale was no les then thre thowsand men."Scotlandobsolete
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