Word Finder - stag

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An adult male deer.

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A colt, or filly.

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(by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy.

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An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).

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An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

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One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.

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The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

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(usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.

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a stag dance; a stag party

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A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.

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The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

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A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).

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Guard duty.

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To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.

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To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

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• shadow

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Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

Exmoor is noted for its stag hunting.

A stag dragged him from his horse by fixing its antlers in his belt.

At an early period stag hunting was a favourite recreation with English royalty.

The focal point is a royal red deer stag.

Amymone having thrown her spear at a stag, missed it, but hit a satyr asleep in the brake.

Perhaps this maxim was inspired by the stag bounding away from his predators.

There is perpetual confusion in trying to distinguish between the Stags' Leap Winery and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.

Warren Winiarski's Stag's Leap Wine Cellars was the winning Cabernet Sauvignon in the infamous Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, giving the newer winery instantaneous credibility and fame that would overshadow its neighbor.

The first truly "western" jig was in the form of a Texas Stag Dance during a frontier party in 1829.

Bachelor parties, sometimes called stag parties, are thrown for men who are about to get married.

Whether you're organizing a birthday party, a stag or just a casual get together, it is always important to ensure that everyone on your invite list is properly contacted and accounted for.

Of wild animals may be noted the moufflon (Ovis Ammon), the stag, and the wild boar, and among birds various species of the vulture and eagle in the mountains, and the pelican and flamingo (the latter coming in August in large flocks from Africa) in the lagoons.

The tract derives its name from the extensive afforestation carried through in this region by William the Conqueror in 1079; and the deaths of two of his sons within its confines - Richard killed by a stag, and William Rufus by an arrow - were regarded in their generation as a judgment of Heaven for the cruelty and injustice perpetrated by their father when appropriating the forest.

The implements found in the relic bed under it were axe-heads of stone, with their haftings of stag's horn and wood; a flint saw, set in a handle of fir wood and fastened with asphalt; flint flakes and arrow-heads; harpoons of stag's horn with barbs; awls, needles, chisels, fish-hooks and other implements of bone; a comb of yew wood 5 in.

Among the tools of bone and stag's horn were awls, needles, harpoons, scraping tools and haftings for stone axe-heads.

They were fixed by the butt in a socket of stag's horn, mortised into a handle of wood.

Of game there are the roe, stag, boar and hare; the fallow deer and the wild rabbit are less common.

The animals chiefly hunted were the gazelle, ibex, oryx, stag, wild ox, wild sheep, hare and porcupine; also the ostrich for its plumes, and the fox, jackal, wolf, hyaena and leopard for their skins, or as enemies of the farm-yard.

The term "hunting" has come to be applied specially to the pursuit of such quarries as the stag or fox, or to following an artificially laid scent, with horse and hound.

With her left hand she holds a stag, while drawing an arrow from the quiver on her shoulder with the right.

He appears as a great man with stag antlers crowning his head, sometimes leading a pack of spectral hounds.

Colin would also like to hear from volunteers interested in helping survey stag beetle activity in their own patch.

The stag beetle is listed on Annex II of the EC Habitats Directive.

Popular items for the stags include stag antlers, blow up dolls, handcuffs, inflatable sheep, rubber boobs & bare bum shorts.

The rare stag beetle is reliant upon standing deadwood, this tends to rot from the inside to the outside.

The background of royal ermine, the red stag's head and the green chief symbolize the Royal Forest.

Or if you have a damn funny story about a stag do in Chester you could also win.

The comparison between the fox hounds and their kill, against stag hounds standing off their edible quarry, also supports this view.

In previous centuries ivory along with genuine stag, metal, bone, horn, tortoiseshell, and pearl were all popular options.

Synopsis It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank.

Roger Kidney, Stag Weekend, Prague, June 2006 We would all highly recommend a ski (or summer) holiday in Slovenia.

Both carry the powerful image of a hunted stag in water surrounded by hounds with the slogan Hunting is 100% Cruel.

Crash the undergrowth, execute an ambush and shoot the stag - what could be more fun!

Other animals which occur occasionally include the stag, the dog and the crow.

The next best eating is from an August shot, young or middle aged red stag off the hill.

A brilliant stag do facilitated by your good selves.

Now wild animals, from the magnificent stag to the lowliest vole are protected from man's excesses.

Manchester was a perfect place for a perfect stag do.

Whether this is a phantom white stag or a real one is not recorded.

A rotting log can become a world of insect life and a home for beetles, including the increasingly uncommon stag beetle.

He would be very interested if moth trappers have caught any others; in fact any records of Stag beetles would be of interest.

Maximize Stag weekends ensures your stag party will enjoy a fantastic stag weekend in Leeds.

Top Five Pubs You Must Visit The quality of a stag weekend depends a lot on the quality of the pubs.

Great ideas can be found for days out, adventure holidays, stag and hen weekends and corporate events.

It was on Cithaeron that Actaeon was changed into a stag, that Pentheus was torn to pieces by the Bacchantes whose orgies he had been watching, and that the infant Oedipus was exposed.

Burnt wheat, barley and linseed, with many varieties of seeds and fruits, were plentifully mingled with the bones of the stag, the ox, the swine, the sheep and the goat, representing the ordinary food of the inhabitants, while remains of the beaver, the fox, the hare, the dog, the bear, the horse, the elk and the bison were also found.

Among these are two monkeys of the genera Macacus and Cercopithecus, a stag (Cervus hippelaphus), a small hare, a shrewmouse, and the ubiquitous rat.

Tom sidled cautiously up to the body of the stag.

The day had been planned to start the stag day, and 10 blokes turned up to try their hand at snapper fishing.

Crash the undergrowth, execute an ambush and shoot the stag - what could be more fun !