Dictionary Entry

stag

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /stæɡ/Used In Literature ↓

An adult male deer.

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Common Phrases

. staghunt stagstag whitestag oldstag youngstag greatstag wounded

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Poetry examples for “stag”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

When, like to boys whom now thy gloom surrounds,
I chas’d the stag, or play’d at fox-and-hounds,
Or wander’d down the lane with many a mate

If I cease Harlequin, I cease from eating.
’Twas thus that Aesop’s stag, a creature blameless,
Yet something vain, like one that shall be nameless,

gu. a lion rampart ar. on a chief or. three mullets sa. Crest:
A stag’s head cabossed ppr.

'A lion laired in the hills, that none could tire;
'Swift as a stag; a stallion of the plain,
'Hungry and fierce with deeds of huge desire.'

My man and I;
'King's Stag', 'Windwhistle' high and dry,
'The Horse' on Hintock Green,

The stag at eve had drunk his fill,
Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,

The noble stag was pausing now
Upon the mountain's southern brow,

For twice that day, from shore to shore,
The gallant stag swam stoutly o'er.
Few were the stragglers, following far,

Now with a trusty mountain-guide,
And his dark stag-hounds by his side,
He parts,--the maid, unconscious still,

While every gasp with sobs he drew,
The laboring stag strained full in view.
Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed,