| • | A floor or story of a house. | 
											
															| • | An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be
   performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. | 
											
															| • | A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or
   the like; a scaffold; a staging. | 
											
															| • | A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. | 
											
															| • | The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
   playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic
   compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. | 
											
															| • | A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
   any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair
   occurs. | 
											
															| • | The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed
   to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope. | 
											
															| • | A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house;
   a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. | 
											
															| • | A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several
   portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance
   between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles. | 
											
															| • | A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
   toward an end or result. | 
											
															| • | A large vehicle running from station to station for the
   accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. | 
											
															| • | One of several marked phases or periods in the development
   and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa
   stage; zoea stage. | 
											
															| • | To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display
   publicly. |