n. Large dog used for hunting deer.

n. Colloq. All-male celebration held esp. For a man about to marry.

adj. - without stains.

- not liable to stain.

- steel n. Chrome steel resisting rust or tarnish.

n. Flight of stairs and the supporting structure.

n. Shaft for a staircase.

—n. - chess position counting as a draw, in which a player cannot move except into check.

- deadlock. —v. (-ting) 1 chess bring (a player) to a stalemate.

- bring to a deadlock. [obsolete stale: related to *stale, *mate2]

n. Centralized authoritarian form of socialism associated with stalin. stalinist n. & adj. [stalin, a soviet statesman]

n. Duty imposed on certain legal documents.

n. - upright post or support.

- upright bar or frame for confining cattle in a stall. [anglo-french]

n. Vertical pipe extending from a water supply, esp. One connecting a temporary tap to the mains.