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stalking


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stalk  \Stalk\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Stalked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Stalking}.]  [AS.  st[ae]lcan,  stealcian  to  go  slowly;  cf 
  stels  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. 
 
  Into  the  chamber  he  stalked  him  full  still 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  [Bertran]  stalks  close  behind  her  like  a  witch's 
  fiend,  Pressing  to  be  employed.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stalking 
  adj  :  moving  silently  and  deliberately;  especially  pursuing 
  stealthily  and  persistently;  "we  watched  the  stalking 
  tiger  approach  his  prey";  "a  stalking  specter  on  the 
  castle  walls  at  midnight" 
  n  1:  a  hunt  for  game  carried  on  by  stalking  or  waiting  in  ambush 
  [syn:  {stalk},  {still  hunt}] 
  2:  the  act  of  following  prey  stealthily  [syn:  {stalk}] 




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