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STAGE, n. G. Properly, one step or degree of elevation, and what the French call etage, we call a story. Hence,

1. A floor or platform of any kind elevated above the ground or common surface, as for an exhibition of something to pubic view as a stage for a mountebank a stage for speakers in public a stage for mechanics. Seamen use floating stages, and stages suspended by the side of a ship, for calking and repairing.

2. The floor on which theatrical performances are exhibited, as distinct from the pit, &c. Hence,

3. The theater the place of scenic entertainments.

Knights, squires and steeds must enter on the stage.

4. Theatrical representations. It is contended that the stage is a school or morality. Let it be inquired, where is the person whom the stage has reformed?

5. A place where any thing is publicly exhibited.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

6. Place of action or performance as the stage of life.

7. A place of rest on a journey, or where a relay of horses is taken. When we arrive at the next stage, we will take some refreshment. Hence,

8. The distance between two places of rest on a road as a stage of fifteen miles.

9. A single step degree of advance degree of progression, either in increase or decrease, in rising or falling, or in any change of state as the several stages of a war the stages of civilization or improvement stages of growth in an animal or plant stages of a disease, of decline or recovery the several stages of human life.

10. instead of stage-coach, or stage-wagon. A coach or other carriage running regularly from one place to another for the conveyance of passengers.

I went in the six-penny stage.

A parcel sent by the stage. American usage.

STAGE, To exhibit publicly. Not in use.