Swift.
12. (Biol.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development
and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa
stage; zœa stage.
Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater. -- Stage carriage, a
stagecoach. -- Stage door, the actor's and workmen's entrance to a
theater. -- Stage lights, the lights by which the stage in a theater is
illuminated. -- Stage micrometer, a graduated device applied to the
stage of a microscope for measuring the size of an object. -- Stage
wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for conveying passengers
or goods. -- Stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a
theater, supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or more of
his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an aside.
Stage (?), v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to
display publicly. Shak.
Stage"coach` (?), n. A coach that runs regularly from one stage,
station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
Stage"coach`man (?), n.; pl. Stagecoachmen (&?;). One who drives a
stagecoach.
Stage"house` (?), n. A house where a stage regularly stops for
passengers or a relay of horses.
Stage"ly, a. Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.
[Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Stage"play` (?), n. A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. Dryden.
Stage"play`er (?), n. An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to
represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated
stageplayer.
Sta"ger (?), n. 1. A player. [R.] B. Jonson.
2. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a
person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You
will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W.
Scott.