stag

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The last party of pleasure she made for him, was a stag-hunting; the stag was a man in a skin and horns, worried by twelve men dressed like bloodhounds!

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  1. noun The adult male of various deer, especially the red deer.
  2. noun An animal, especially a pig, castrated after reaching sexual maturity.
  3. noun A person who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner, especially a man who is unaccompanied by a woman.
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  1. Middle English stagge, from Old English stagga; see stegh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. English dial. also steg, Scots also staig; early modern English stagg, stagge; from Middle English steg, stagge, from Icelandic steggr, steggi, a male animal (a male fox, cat, a gander, drake, etc.), literally ‘mounter,’ from stīga = Anglo-Saxon stīgan, mount: see sty. Hence staggard, staggon.
  2. from stag, n.
 

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