| stagger | 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. 2. <veterinary> A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers. 3. Bewilderment; perplexity. <veterinary> Stomach staggers, distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| staggerbush | <botany> An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| staggers | 1. A form of decompression sickness in which vertigo, mental confusion, and muscular weakness are the chief symptoms. 2. A disease in sheep, marked by swaying and uncertain gait, caused by the presence of the larva of the tapeworm Multiceps multiceps in the brain, or by other cerebral lesions. Synonym: gid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| staggerwort | <botany> A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |