Stale: Definition and part of speech

Stale

  1. v. i. Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
  2. n. The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
  3. v. i. Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
  4. v. i. Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
  5. v. i. Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
  6. v. i. Urine, esp. that of beasts.
  7. v. t. Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
  8. v. t. A stalking-horse.
  9. v. t. A stalemate.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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