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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stagger \Stag"ger\, n.
1. 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.
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2. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended
by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic
staggers; apopletic or sleepy staggers.
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3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak.
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{Stomach staggers} (Far.), distention of the stomach with
food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in
death.
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