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   Stall , n. [OE. stal, AS. steall, stall, a place, seat, or station, a stable; akin to D. & OHG. stal, G. & Sw. stall, Icel. stallr, Dan. stald, originally, a standing place; akin also to G. stelle a place, stellen to place, Gr. στέλλειν to set, place, send, and E. stand. √163. See Stand, and cf. Apostle, Epistle, Forestall, Install, Stale, a. & v. i., 1st Stalk, Stallion, Still.]
    A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. “In an oxes stall.” 
   Chaucer.
   
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   A stable; a place for cattle.
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   At last he found a stall where oxen stood.
   Dryden.
   
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   A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
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   A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
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   How peddlers' stalls with glittering toys are laid.
   Gay.
   
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   A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
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   The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls.
   Bp. Warburton.
   
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   Loud the monks sang in their stalls.
   Longfellow.
   
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   In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
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   (Mining) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
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   A covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb; a cot; as, a thumb stall; a finger stall.
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   Stall reader, one who reads books at a stall where they are exposed for sale.
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   Cries the stall reader, “Bless us! what a word on
   A titlepage is this!”
   Milton.
   
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   Stall, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stalled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stalling.] [Cf. Sw. stalla, Dan. stalde.]
   To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
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   Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled.
   Dryden.
   
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   To fatten; as, to stall cattle. [Prov. Eng.]
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   To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
   Burton.
   
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   His horses had been stalled in the snow.
   E. E. Hale.
   
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   To forestall; to anticipate. [Obs.]
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   This is not to be stall'd by my report.
   Massinger.
   
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   To keep close; to keep secret. [Obs.]
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   Stall this in your bosom.
   Shak.
   
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   Stall, v. i. [AS. steallian to have room. See Stall, n.]
   To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell. [Obs.]
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   We could not stall together
   In the whole world.
   Shak.
   
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   To kennel, as dogs.
   Johnson.
   
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   To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
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   To be tired of eating, as cattle. [Prov. Eng.]
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