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Ine þise heste is vorbode roberie]], [[theft, þiefþe, stale , and gavel.

Hire wune is to cumen bi stale ...hwen me least cweneð.

Noun

Ansae et ansulae alicuius rei sunt illa eminentia in illa re per quam capi possit .i. ‘stale ’.

And lerede men a ladel bygge with a long stale .

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.

You came to me with the axe head in one hand and the stale in the other.

Scheome. and pine...beoð þe two leddre]] stalen'. þet beoð upriht to þe heouene. and bitweonen þeos ' stalen beoð þe tindes i-vestned of alle gode þeauwes. bi hwuche me of [[heaven, heouene.

Þis]] ilke laddre is charite, [[the, Þe stales gode þeawis.

Stales , the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable.

The Surgians]] cut of the stale of that shaft in suche wise, that they moued not the heade that was [[within, wythin the fleshe.

...seeing th'arrowes stale without.

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And at pavelen...þe]] Erle of Dorzet helde is stale , and he [[took, toke prisoners.

And syr]] Florence with his C knyghtes [[always, alwey kepte the stale and foughte manly.

‘Off mate?’ quod sche...‘thou has fundin stale This mony day’.

They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre.

And he in stale howyd al stil.

It is a stelling place and sovir harbry, Quhar ost in staill or embuschment may ly.

The erle]] of Essex...with C. speares was layde in a stale , if the Frenchmen had come [[nearer, neerer.

[Every time that it shall be ordered..that armed men..shall land on the enemy's coast to seek victuals... then there shall be ordained a sufficient ‘stale ’ of armed men and archers who shall wait together on the land until the ‘forreiours’ return to them].

[Gawayne] sterttes owtte to hys stede, and with his stale wendes.

The staill past]] throw the wod with sic noyis...yat all the bestis wer rasit fra thair [[dens, dennys.

The Lard of Drunlanrig lying al]] thys while in ambush...forbare to breake out to gyue anye charge vppon his enimies, doubting least the Earle of Lennox hadde kept a stale [[behind, behynde.

Neveryeles I knaw asweill by Englisemen as Scottishmen that their stale was no les then thre thowsand men.

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In werd ben men & womenþat þer stale mown not holde.

That they be not compelled to eate their owne donge, and drinke their owne stale with you?

The stale of Camel]]s and Goatsis good for them that have the [[dropsy, dropsie.

Or annoint thy selfe with the stale of a mule.

Those of Crotta'' being hardly besieged by ''Metellus , were reduced to so hard a pinch, and strait necessitie of all manner of other beverage, that they were forced to drinke the stale or urine of their horses.

Thou did'st drinke The stale of Horses.

Mice and Weasels by their poysonous Stale infect the Trees so, that they produce Worms.

Sheep, whose Dung and Stale is of most Virtue in the Nourishment of all Trees.

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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.

Frayed-looking sweet-cakes...bought as ‘stales ’ from the baker.

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Stale , of fowlynge or byrdys takynge, stacionaria .

Like vnto the fowlers, that by their stales draw other birdes into their nets.

A wife thats more then faire is like a stale , Or chanting whistle which brings birds to thrall.

She ran in all the hast]]
Vnbrased and vnlast...
It was a stale to take
the [[devil, deuyll in a brake.

The Britaynes]] woulde oftentimes...lay their Cattell...in places conueniente, to bee as a stale to the [[Romans, Romaynes, and when the Romaynes shoulde make to them to fetche the same away,...they would fall vpon them.

Her daughter Margerit was the stale to lure...them that otherwise flewe hyghe...and could not be gotten.

...many of the Coffamen keeping beaytifull boyes, who ?erue as ?tales to procure them cu?tomers.

Six-pence or a shilling to put into the Box, for a stale to decoy in the rest of the Parish.

Their mynisters, be false bretherne]] or false sustern, stales of the [[devil, deuyll.

This is Captain Whibble, the Towne stale , For all cheating imployments.

I perceiue Lucilla (sayd he) that I was made thy stale , and Philautus thy laughinge stocke.

Was I then chose and wedded for his stale ?

Did I for this loose all my friends...to be made A stale to a common whore?

But, too vnruly Deere, he breakes the pale And feedes from home; poore I am but his stale .

This comes of rutting: Are we made stales to one another?

That of the two nominated, one should be an unfit Man, and as it were a Stale , to bring the Office to the other.

Had he none else to make a stale but me?

Eurydice...meaning nothing lesse than to let her husband serue as a Stale , keeping the throne warme till another were growne old enough to sit in it.

A pretence of kindness is the universal stale to all base projects.

Spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio...to a contaminated stale .

But to be leaft for such a one as she, The stale of all, what will folke thinke of me?

...detesting as he said the insatiable impudency of a prostitute Stale .

'Tis the living bird that makes the best stale to draw others into the net.

If my live birds aren't all drownded and my stales spoiled.