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Definition of Stale
1. Adjective. Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age. "The beer was stale"
Similar to: Addled, Bad, Spoiled, Spoilt, Cold, Day-old, Hard, Flyblown, Maggoty, Limp, Wilted, Moldy, Mouldy, Musty, Rancid, Rotten, Corrupt, Tainted, Putrid, Putrescent
Also: Old, Unoriginal
Antonyms: Fresh
Derivative terms: Staleness
2. Verb. Urinate, of cattle and horses.
3. Adjective. Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new. "Stale news"
Definition of Stale
1. n. The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
2. a. Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
3. v. t. To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
4. v. i. To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
5. n. That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
6. n. Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
Definition of Stale
1. Adjective. Having lost its freshness from age; (of food) still edible, but hard or unpleasant from age. ¹
2. Adjective. No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) Any trap or lure. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) A low class of prostitute (originally used as a decoy by other criminals). ¹
6. Noun. (obsolete) A person's position, especially in a battle-line. ¹
7. Noun. (obsolete) An ambush. ¹
8. Noun. (obsolete) A division of armed men posted in a specific place, either for an ambush or for other reasons. ¹
9. Noun. a handle of a broom or rake ¹
10. Noun. Urine, especially of horses or cattle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stale
1. not fresh [adj STALER, STALEST] : STALELY [adv] / to become stale [v STALED, STALING, STALES] - See also: stale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stale
Literary usage of Stale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"He ventures little for so great a stale. More. Th' increasing sound is borne to
cither shore, And for their states the throwing natious fear. ..."
2. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis (1890)
"The stale-beer dives were the object of the raid. The policemen buckled their
belts tighter, and with expressive grunts of disgust took up their march ..."
3. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"The hygienist must here ask above all things what was the nature of such stale
bread ; if it consisted of refuse or mouldy fragments, the bread produced ..."
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