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Stagger
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
(2):
(n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; - often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
(3):
(n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
(4):
(n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
(5):
(n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
(6):
(v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
(7):
(v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
(8):
(n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
(9):
(v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stagger'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/stagger.html. 1828.
