Crossword clues for stalked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stalked \Stalked\ (st[add]kt), a. Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
Stalked barnacle (Zo["o]l.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle.
Stalked crinoid (Zo["o]l.), any crinoid having a jointed stem.
Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. st[ae]lcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk.]
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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.
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To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
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.
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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.
--Merivale.
Wiktionary
Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. v
(en-past of: stalk)
WordNet
adj. having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk; "a pedunculate flower"; "a pedunculate barnacle is attached to the substrate by a fleshy foot or stalk" [syn: pedunculate] [ant: sessile]
Usage examples of "stalked".
She stalked on and shortly came to the Tube branch leading to her allotment, and went down to see how her own crops were doing.
Cursing angrily, he strapped the pipes, to his side and stalked out into the twilight.
The barghest casually tossed Bartholemew and his pitiful weapon across the kitchen and stalked over to the old man.
Solo stood up, flipped a couple of credits to the bartender, and stalked out before BoShek could catch his attention.
THAT evening, following dinner in the gloomy old Bartram dining room, where Mahinda silently stalked about the table, serving food, Willard Saybrook mentioned to Grace Bartram that he had made a very interesting acquaintance in the person of Harry Vincent.
Carson called, and Bult leapt off his pony and stalked over to look at my footprints.
Baal Burra burrowing through the long grass, painfully slow and cheeping plaintively, while Sultan stalked ahead mewing encouragingly.
They had stalked to within twenty paces of the enormous, ancient beast as he fed on the fruits of a morula tree.
She got up and stalked out of the room as the board members gathered around the panty hose in awe.
I stalked back over the fields, vowing to pay her back for it, with Piney walking along with me grinning like an idiot.
Her dreamy, contemplative mood changed to one closely akin to panic, as out of the shadows tall and dominant in his Potlatch robes, the White Chief stalked toward her.
Having thus spoken, Master Prout rose, and deliberately clapping his steeple-crowned hat upon his head, stalked demurely out of the apartment, satisfied that after his rebuke the company would be unable to obtain any more strong potations.
Ehrik rebuckled his blood-smeared belt, snapped on the weapons, wrapped a rich coverlet about his wife, then gathered her up and stalked out of Horse Hall.
The recruitment planets aligned, Malik stalked until the time was right.
The restauranteur gave the bar a defiant glare, then stalked into his office.