stale

stale

  1. ummehtunut

  2. väljähtynyt

  3. yhteys|ruoasta vanhentunut, pilaantunut

Synonyymisanakirja

stale

kuivahtanut, vanhentunut, väljähtynyt, väljähtänyt, kulunut, ummehtunut, jäähtynyt, kova, vanha, arkinen, tavanomainen, pilaantunut, vanhentuneisuus.

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Englannin sanakirja

stale (englanti > suomi)

  1. väljähtänyt, ummehtunut, vanhentunut

  2. väljähtänyt, tympeä, kulunut

  3. varsi|sc=Cyrl

stale englanniksi

  1. puhekieltä clear Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.

  2. (circa) K. Horn (Laud), 383:

    3. be Bi forn the þe king abench abenche Red wine win to schenche And after meat mete stale both Boþe wine win and ale.

  3. (circa) w:Geoffrey Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 52:

    4. nutmeg Notemuge to putte in ale, Whether it be moist moyste or stale

  4. no No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.

  5. 1530, w:John Palsgrave|John Palsgrave, http://books.google.fr/books?id=8asFAAAAQAAJ Léclaircissement de la langue française'', 325 2:

    6. Stale as breed or drinke is, rassis. Stale as meate is that begynneth to savoure, viel.

  6. (circa) Wyll of Deuill, C 2 b:

    7. New freshe blood to ouersprinkle their stale meat mete that it may seem seme...newly kylled.

  7. no No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.

  8. 1562, in J. Heywood, Proverbs & Epigrams (1867), 95:

    9. Better is...be it new or stale, A harmelesse lie, than a harmefull true tale.

  9. 1579, in G. Harvey, letter book, 60:

    10. doest Doist thou smyle to reade this stale and beggarlye stuffe.

  10. 1604, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, w:Hamlet Hamlet, I ii 133:

    11. How wary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable Seeme to me all the vses of this world?

  11. 1822 March, w:Charles Lamb|Charles Lamb, London Magazine, 284 1:

    12. A two-days-old newspaper. You resent the stale thing as an affront.

  12. no No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.

  13. (circa) J. Jeffere, Bugbears, I ii 108:

    14. Rosimunda...hathe an vncle a stale batcheler.

  14. 1742, T. Short, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 42 226:

    15. In barren Women, and stale Maids, Tapping should be very cautiously undertaken.

  15. puhekieltä fallow Fallow, in reference to land.

  16. 1764, Museum Rusticum, II 306:

    17. Lime would do very little or no good on stale ploughed lands.

  17. puhekieltä unreasonably Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.

    18. a stale affidavit

    a stale demand

  18. 1769, w:William Blackstone|William Blackstone, Common Laws of England, IV xv 211:

    19. The jury will rarely give credit to a stale complaint.

  19. worn out|Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.

  20. 1856, "Stonehenge", Manual of British Rural Sports, II i vi §7 335:

    21. By this means the horse's legs are not made more stale than necessary.

  21. 1885 May 28, Truth, 853 2:

    22. Dame Agnes will probably be stale after her exertions in the Derby.

  22. puhekieltä out of date|Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.

  23. 1901, Business Terms & Phrases second edition, 199:

    24. Stale cheque,...a cheque which has remained unpaid for some considerable time.

  24. puhekieltä something Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.

  25. 1874, w:Thomas Hardy|Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, II iii 39:

    26. I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite.

  26. 1937, w:George Orwell|George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier, I i 15:

    27. Frayed-looking sweet-cakes...bought as ‘stales’ from the baker.

  27. puhekieltä To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).

  28. (circa) Promp. Parv., 472 1:

    29. Stalyn, or make stale drynke, defeco.

  29. 1826, Art of Brewing, second edition, 106:

    30. A stock of old porter should be kept, sufficient for staling the consumption of twelve months.

  30. puhekieltä To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.

  31. 1601, w:Ben Jonson|Ben Jonson, Fountaine of Self-love, 36:

    32. I'll|Ile goe tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth.

  32. 1601, Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humor, I iv:

    33. Not content To stale himselfe in all societies, He makes my house as common as a Mart.

  33. (circa) w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra, II ii 241:

    34. Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale Her infinite variety.

  34. 1863, W. W. Story, Roba di Roma, I i 7:

    35. Pictures and statues have been staled by copy and description.

  35. puhekieltä To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.

  36. 1717, E. Erskine, Serm. in Wks., 50 1:

    37. They have got so much of Christ as to be staled of his company.

  37. 1893, "Q", Delectable Duchy, 325:

    38. Philanthropy was beginning to stale.

  38. puhekieltä To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.

  39. 1742, W. Ellis, London & Country Brewer, 4th ed., I 64:

    40. The Drink from that Time flattens and stales.

  40. A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)

  41. 12th century, Sidonius Glosses in Anecd. Oxon., I v 59 22:

    42. Ansae et ansulae alicuius rei sunt illa eminentia in illa re per quam capi possit .i. ‘stale’.

  42. (circa) Langland, Piers Plowman (Vesp. MS), C xxii 279:

    43. And lerede men a ladel bygge with a long stale.

  43. 1742, W. Ellis, London & Country Brewer 4th ed., I 61:

    44. In Case your Cask is a Butt,...have ready boiling...Water, which put in, and, with a long Stale and a little Birch fastened to its End, scrub the Bottom.

  44. 1890 February 4, Manchester Guardian, 12 3:

    45. You came to me with the axe head in one hand and the stale in the other.

  45. puhekieltä The posts and rungs composing a ladder.

  46. 13th century, Ancrene Riwle, 160:

    47. Scheome. and pine...beoð þe two ladder leddre stalen. þet beoð upriht to þe heouene. and bitweonen þeos stalen beoð þe tindes i-vestned of alle gode þeauwes. by bi which hwuche I me climbed climbeð to the þe blisse of heaven heouene.

  47. (circa) Shoreham Poems, I 49:

    48. this Þis ilke ladder laddre is charity charite, the Þe stales gode þeawis.

  48. 1887, W. D. Parish & al., Kentish Dial.

    49. Stales, the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable.

  49. puhekieltä The stem of a plant.

  50. The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.

  51. 1553, J. Brende translating Q. Curtius Rufus, Hist., IX

    52. The surgeons Surgians cut off of the stale of that shaft in suche wise, that they moued not the heade that was within wythin the fleshe.

  52. (circa) G. Chapman translating Homer, Iliad, IV 173:

    53. ...seeing th'arrowes stale without.

  53. puhekieltä To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.

  54. 1492 in Archæol. Cant., XVI 304:

    55. For stalyng of the ladders of the Churche twenty xx old penny|d.

  55. puhekieltä A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.

  56. (circa) in C. L. Kingsford, Chrons. London (1905), 123:

    57. And at pavelen...the þe earl Erle of Dorset Dorzet held helde his is stale, and there þer he took toke prisoners.

  57. 1485, w:Thomas Malory|Thomas Malory, Le Morte dArthur'', V xi 179

    58. And sir syr Florence with his hundred C knights knyghtes always alwey kepte the stale and foughte manly.

  58. puhekieltä A stalemate; a stalemated game.

  59. 1423, Kingis Quair, CLXIX:

    60. ‘Off mate?’ quod sche...‘thou has fundin stale This mony day’.

  60. 1625, w:Francis Bacon|Francis Bacon, Essays, 65

    61. They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre.

  61. puhekieltä An ambush.

  62. (circa) Wyntoun Cron., IX viii 811:

    63. And he in stale howyd al stil.

  63. 1513, G. Douglas translating Virgil, Æneid, XI x 96:

    64. It is a stelling place and sovir harbry, Quhar ost in staill or embuschment may lie ly.

  64. 1577, R. Holinshed, Chron., II 1479 2:

    65. The earl erle of Essex...with two .ii. hundred C. speares was layde in a stale, if the Frenchmen had come nearer neerer.

  65. puhekieltä A band of armed men or hunters.

  66. (circa) in N. H. Nicolas, Hist. Royal Navy (1847), II 491:

    67. Every time that it shall be ordered..that armed men..shall land on the enemy's coast to seek victuals... then there shall be ordained a sufficient ‘stale’ of armed men and archers who shall wait together on the land until the ‘forreiours’ return to them.

  67. 14th century, Morte Arthur, 1355:

    68. Gawayne sterttes owtte to hys stede, and with his stale wendes.

  68. (circa) J. Bellenden translating H. Boece, Hyst. & Cron. Scotl., XII xvi 184:

    69. The staill passed past through throw the wood wod with such sic noise noyis...that yat all the beasts bestis were wer raised rasit from fra their thair dens dennys.

  69. 1577, R. Holinshed, Hist. Scotl., 471 2 in Chron., I:

    70. The Lard of Drunlanrig lying all al this thys while in ambush...forbare to breake out to give gyue anye charge upon vppon his enimies, doubting least the Earle of Lennox hadde kept a stale behind behynde.

  70. puhekieltä The main force of an army.

  71. 1532 in 1836, State Papers Henry VIII, IV 626:

    72. Neveryeles I knaw asweill by Englisemen as Scottishmen that their stale was no les then thre thowsand men.

  72. puhekieltä At a standstill; stalemated.

  73. (circa) Ashmolean MS 344, 21:

    74. Then drawith he & is stale.

  74. puhekieltä To stalemate.

  75. (circa) Ashmole MS 344, 7:

    76. He shall stale the þe black kyng in the pointe þer the crosse standith.

  76. 1903, H. J. R. Murray, Brit. Chess. Mag., 283:

    77. In China, however, a player who stales his opponent's King, wins the game.

  77. puhekieltä To be stalemated.

  78. 1597, A. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 202:

    79. For under vnder cuire I got sik check, that I might micht neither muife nor neck, but bot either ather stale or mate mait.

  79. puhekieltä urine Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.

  80. 14th c., Stockh. Medical MS. in Anglia XVIII.299:

    81. In werd ben men & women(..)þat þer stale mown not holde.

  81. 1535, (w) translating the (w), "Isaiah", XXXVI.100:

    82. (..)That they be not compelled to eate their owne dung donge, and drinke their owne stale with you?

  82. 1548, Robert Record, Vrinal of Physick, XI.89:

    83. The stale of camel Camels and Goats(..)is good for them that have the dropsy dropsie.

  83. 1583, B. Melbancke, Philotimus:

    84. Or annoint thyself thy selfe with the stale of a mule.

  84. (RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), I.48:

    85. Those of Crotta being hardly besieged by Metellus, were reduced to so hard a pinch, and strait necessitie of all manner of other beverage, that they were forced to drinke the stale or urine of their horses.

  85. (circa) (w), Antony & Cleopatra, I.iv.62:

    86. Thou did'st drinke The stale of Horses.

  86. 1698, J. Fryer, New Acct. E.-India & Persia, p.242:

    87. Mice and Weasels by their poysonous Stale infect the Trees so, that they produce Worms.

  87. 1733, W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farming, p.122:

    88. Sheep, whose Dung and Stale is of most Virtue in the Nourishment of all Trees.

  88. puhekieltä To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.

  89. 15th century, Lawis Gild, X in Ancient Laws and Customs of the Burghs of Scotland, 68:

    90. Gif ony stal in the yet of the gilde...he shall sall give gif four iiijold penny|d. to the mendis.

  90. 1530, w:John Palsgrave|John Palsgrave, http://books.google.fr/books?id=8asFAAAAQAAJ Léclaircissement de la langue française'', 732 1:

    91. Tary a whyle, your hors wyll staale.

  91. 1631, w:Ben Jonson|Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fayre I iv 64:

    92. Why a pox o' your boxe, once againe: let your little wife stale in it, and she will.

  92. 1663, T. Killigrew, Parsons Wedding'', I iii:

    93. I wonder the knight's son doth not go on all four too, and hold up his Leg when he stales.

  93. 1903, w:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling, Five Nations, 150:

    94. Cattle-dung where fuel failed; Water where the mules had staled; And sackcloth for their raiment.

  94. (circa) w:Aleister Crowley|Aleister Crowley, "w:Leigh Hirsig|Leigh Sublime":

    95. You stale like a mare
    And fart as you stale

  95. 1928, (w), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 35:

    96. A mile or two before we got to the meet he stopped at an inn, where he put our horses into the stable for twenty minutes, ‘to give them a chance to stale’.

  96. puhekieltä A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.

    97. Stale, of fowling fowlynge or byrdys takynge, stacionaria.

  97. 1579, w:Thomas North|Thomas North, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, "Sylla", 515:

    98. Like vnto the fowlers, that by their stales draw other birdes into their nets.

  98. 1608, R. Tofte translating w:Ludovico Ariosto|Ludovico Ariosto, Satyres, IV 56:

    99. A wife thats more then faire is like a stale, Or chanting whistle which brings birds to thrall.

  99. puhekieltä Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.

  100. (circa) "w:The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng|The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng", 324, in w:John Skelton|John Skelton, Certayne Bokes:

    101. She ran in all the haste hast
    unbraced Vnbrased and unlaced vnlast...
    It was a stale to take
    the devil deuyll in a brake.

  101. 1577, w:Raphael Holinshed|Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles, "The Historie of England, from the Time that It Was First Inhabited, Vntill the Time that It Was Last Conquered", 79 2:

    102. The Britons Britaynes woulde oftentimes...lay their cattle Cattell...in places convenient conueniente, to bee as a stale to the Romans Romaynes, and when the Romaynes shoulde make to them to fetche the same away,...they would fall vpon them.

  102. 1579, J. Stubbs, Discouerie Gaping Gulf

    103. Her daughter Margerit was the stale to lure...them that otherwise flewe hyghe...and could not be gotten.

  103. 1615, w:George Sandys|George Sandys, A Relation of a Iourney begun An: Dom: 1610, I 66:

    104. ...many of the coffeemen Coffamen keeping beaytifull boyes, who ſerue as ſtales to procure them cuſtomers.

  104. 1670, J. Eachard, Grounds Contempt of Clergy, 88:

    105. Six-pence or a shilling to put into the poor box|Box, for a stale to decoy in the rest of the Parish.

  105. puhekieltä An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.

  106. 1526, W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection, III:

    107. Their mynisters, be false brethren bretherne or false sistren sustern, stales of the devil deuyll.

  107. 1633, S. Marmion, Fine Compan., III iv:

    108. This is Captain Whibble, the Towne stale, For all cheating imployments.

  108. puhekieltä a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.

  109. 1578, J. Lyly, Euphues, 33:

    110. I perceiue Lucilla (sayd he) that I was made thy stale, and Philautus thy laughing stock|laughinge stocke.

  110. 1588, T. Hughes, Misfortunes Arthur, I ii 3:

    111. Was I then chose and wedded for his stale?

  111. 1611, T. Middleton & al., Roaring Girle:

    112. Did I for this lose loose all my friends...to be made A stale to a common whore?

  112. (circa) w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, II i 100:

    113. But, too vnruly Deere, he breakes the pale And feedes from home; poore I am but his stale.

  113. (circa) J. Fletcher & al. Little French Lawyer, III iv:

    114. This comes of rutting: Are we made stales to one another?

  114. puhekieltä A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usually usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.

  115. 1580, E. Grindal in 1710, J. Strype, Hist. E. Grindal, 252:

    116. That of the two nominated, one should be an unfit Man, and as it were a Stale, to bring the Office to the other.

  116. 1595, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, w:Henry VI (play)|Henry VI Part 3, III iii 260:

    117. Had he none else to make a stale but me?

  117. 1614, W. Raleigh, Hist. World, I iv iii §19 239:

    118. Eurydice...meaning nothing lesse than to let her husband serue as a Stale, keeping the throne warme till another were growne old enough to sit in it.

  118. 1711, J. Puckle, Club 20:

    119. A pretence of kindness is the universal stale to all base projects.

  119. puhekieltä A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.

  120. 1600, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, w:Much Ado about Nothing|Much Ado about Nothing, II ii 23:

    121. Spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio...to a contaminated stale.

  121. 1606, S. Daniel, Queenes Arcadia, II i:

    122. But to be left leaft for such a one as she, The stale of all, what will folke thinke of me?

  122. (circa) w:Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu|Ralph Montagu, Acts & Monuments, 265:

    123. ...detesting as he said the insatiable impudency of a prostitute Stale.

  123. puhekieltä any Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.

  124. 1681, J. Flavell, Method of Grace, XXXV 588:

    125. 'Tis the living bird that makes the best stale to draw others into the net.

  125. 1888, G. M. Fenn, Dick o the Fens'', 53:

    126. If my live birds aren't all drownded and my stales spoiled.

  126. puhekieltä To serve as a decoy, to lure.

  127. 1557, Tottels Misc.'', 198:

    128. The eye...Doth serue to stale her here and there where she doth come and go.

  128. cowshed

  129. stable, stall

  130. pigsty

  131. theft; the act of stealing

  132. 1340, Ayenbite 9:

    133. Ine þise heste is vorbode robbery roberie, theft þiefþe, stale, and gavel.

  133. stealth (qualifier)

  134. (circa) Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom., 249:

    135. Hire wune is to cumen bi stale...hwen me least cweneð.

  135. constantly, continually

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