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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush;
[syn: stalk, stalking, still hunt]

2. the act of following prey stealthily;
[syn: stalk, stalking]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stalking n 1: a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush [syn: stalk, stalking, still hunt] 2: the act of following prey stealthily [syn: stalk, stalking]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "stalking": chase, chevy, chivy, clandestine behavior, clandestinity, coursing, covertness, cynegetics, dogging, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, falconry, follow, follow-up, following, forage, fox hunting, frisk, furtiveness, gunning, hawking, house-search, hue and cry, hunt, hunting, perquisition, posse, probe, prosecution, prowl, prowling, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, ransacking, rummage, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, seeking, shadowing, shiftiness, shikar, shooting, slinkiness, slyness, sneakiness, sport, sporting, stalk, stealth, stealthiness, still hunt, surreptitiousness, tracking, tracking down, trailing, turning over, underground activity, underhand dealing, venery