LekhoriLekhoriClear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
The stronger Beere is divided into two parts (viz.) mild and stale; the first may ease a man of a drought, but the later is like water cast into a Smiths forge, and breeds more heartburning, and as rust eates into Iron, so overstale Beere gnawes auletholes in the entrales, or else my skill failes, and what I have written of it is to be held as a jest.
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
Stale as breed or drinke is, rassis. Stale as meate is that begynneth to savoure, viel.
At a standstill; stalemated.
Then drawith he & is stale.
Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite.
A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.
In Case your Cask is a Butt,...have ready boiling...Water, which put in, and, with a long Stale and a little Birch fastened to its End, scrub the Bottom.
From Middle English stale, from Old French estal (“fixed position, place”), but probably originally from Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): compare West Flemish stel in the same sense for ‘beer’ and ...
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One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.
Stales, the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable.
A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
Wherefore they had a great avauntage, but in coclusion thie french menne were slayne, and their horses taken, and so the lyght horsement came wyth their catail, nere to the embushment, and the frenchimen folowed, that seyng the englyshmen that kept the stale, came in al hast & rescued their light horsemen, and draue the frenchemen backe, & then made returne to their beastes
A stalemate; a stalemated game.
They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre.
Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
[…]That they be not compelled to eate their owne donge, and drinke their owne stale with you?
A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
Like vnto the fowlers, that by their stales draw other birdes into their nets.
Ile goe tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth.
To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
For stalyng of the ladders of the Churche xx d.
To stalemate.
He shall stale þe black kyng in the pointe þer the crosse standith.
To be stalemated.
For vnder cuire I got sik check, that I micht neither muife nor neck, bot ather stale or mait.
To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
Gif ony stal in the yet of the gilde...he sall gif iiijd. to the mendis.
To serve as a decoy, to lure.
The eye...Doth serue to stale her here and there where she doth come and go.