Stomach staggers

Stomach staggers
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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

{Stomach staggers} (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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