, _to stare, look
intently
at_: pres.
Beowulf
ge-stapan, _to walk, stride_: pret. sg. hē to forð gestōp dyrnan cræfte,
dracan hēafde nēah (_he_, i. e. the man that robbed the dragon of the
vessel, _had through hidden craft come too near the dragon's head_), 2290.
stapol, st. m. , (= βάσις), _trunk of a tree_; hence, _support, pillar,
column_: dat. sg. stōd on stapole (_stood by_ or _near the wooden middle
column of Heorot_), 927; instr. pl. þā stān-bogan stapulum fæste (_the
arches of stone upheld by pillars_), 2719. See Note.
starian, w. v.
, _to stare, look intently at_: pres. sg. I. þæt ic on þone
hafelan . . . ēagum starige (_that I see the head with my eyes_), 1782; þāra
frætwa . . . þē ic hēr on starie (_for the treasures . . . that I here look
upon_), 2797; III. þonne hē on þæt sine starað, 1486; sg. for pl. þāra þe
on swylc starað, 997; pret.
