'Stalked' definitions:
Definition of 'stalked'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk; "a pedunculate flower"; "a pedunculate barnacle is attached to the substrate by a fleshy foot or stalk" [syn: pedunculate, stalked] [ant: sessile, stalkless]
Definition of 'Stalked'
From: GCIDE
- Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. staelcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk.]
- 1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Into the chamber he stalked him full still. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover. [1913 Webster]
- The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To walk with high and proud steps; -- usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step. [1913 Webster]
- With manly mien he stalked along the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. --Merivale. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stalked'
From: GCIDE
- Stalked \Stalked\ (st[add]kt), a. Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. [1913 Webster]
- Stalked barnacle (Zool.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle.
- Stalked crinoid (Zool.), any crinoid having a jointed stem. [1913 Webster]