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English Dictionary: stalked by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stalked
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): pedunculate, stalked
    Antonym(s): sessile, stalkless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stalked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Stalking}.] [AS. st[91]lcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf.
      stels high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to
      1st stalk.]
      1. 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.         --Dryden.
  
      2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of
            approaching game; to proceed under clover.
  
                     The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led
                     horse; . . . [bd]I must stalk,[b8] said he. --Bacon.
  
                     One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
                                                                              --Drayton.
  
      3. 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. --Mericale.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stalked \Stalked\, a.
      Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
  
      {Stalked barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer;
            -- called also {stalk barnacle}.
  
      {Stalked crinoid} (Zo[94]l.), any crinoid having a jointed
            stem.
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