stalk eyed

Zobl .: Having the eyes fixed on movable footstalks, as in the Crabs, Lobsters, and Shrimps. A term applied to the Pod ophthalmia, and opposed to se ile-eyed (q. v.). stâlk ( l silent), (2), s . [STALK, v .] 1. A high, proud, stately walk or step. "With martial stalk . "- Shakesp .: Hamlet , i. 1. 2. The act of stalking wild animals. "Cartridges with heavy shot were chosen, and we commenced our stalk ."- Field , Feb. 19, 1887. stalk ( l silent), stalke, i. & t. [A. S. stælcan = animal; and under cover of this the sportsmen stole so nigh the game, that they could easily bring it down with shaft or bullet." -Knight: Pictorial Hist . Eng ., ii. 887. 2. Fig .: Anything thrust or put forward to conceal some more important object; a mask. "Let the counseller give counsel not for faction but for conscience, forbearing to make the good of the state the stalking -horse of his private ends."- Hake will : On Providence, bk. iv., ch. xiv.