Stalk"-eyed` (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or
peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous
crustaceans.
Stalk-eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.
Stalk"ing-horse (?), n. 1. A horse, or a figure resembling a horse,
behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to
kill.
2. Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a
pretense.
Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under an affectation of
simplicity and religion.
L'Estrange.
How much more abominable is it to make of him [Christ] and religion
a stalking-horse, to get and enjoy the world!
Bunyan.
Stalk"less, a. Having no stalk.
Stalk"y (?), a. Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.
At the top [it] bears a great stalky head.
Mortimer.
Stall (stl), n. [OE. stal, AS. steall, stall, a place, seat, or
station, a stable; akin to D. & OHG. stal, G. & Sw. stall, Icel.
stallr, Dan. stald, originally, a standing place; akin to G. stelle a
place, stellen to place, Gr. ste`llein to set, place, send, and E.
stand. √163. See Stand, and cf. Apostle, Epistle, Forestall,
Install, Stale, a. & v. i., 1st Stalk, Stallion, Still.] 1. A stand; a
station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox
is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one
horse, ox, or other animal. "In an oxes stall." Chaucer.