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▪ I. † stagne, n. Obs.
[a refashioning of stang, stank n., after L. stagnum pond. Cf. OF. stagne (one example in Godef.).]
A pond, esp. a fish-pond; also, a weir or dam. = stank n.
c1470Harding Chron. iv. iii, They gatte eche daye with nettes,..The fyshe in stagnes. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) 38 Menerue..shewid her self in this tyme by the stagne or riuer callid triton by the gretenes and subtilte of her engyne. 1483― Golden Leg., St. Andrew 83 b/2 After thys he called them the seconde tyme by the stagne of genezareth, whyche is named the see of galylee. 1512Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 50 He arived nigh to a stagne or ponde where as he sawe vi. fayre swannes. 1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 21 §1 Noblemen..have..made..Pooles, Stagnes, Stewis, Motes, Pittes or Pondes for thonelye encrease of Fishe. 1627H. Burton Baiting of Pope's Bull To Rdr. 4 Becomming as a stagne or pond, not stirring, for feare of discovering mine owne filth. 16365th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 419/2 Bulkley..and Cheadle..have stayed and diuerted the said river by means of a stagne, placed across and athwart the stream. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Stagnes, a statute term for pools of standing water.
▪ II. † stagne, v. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. stagnāre to stagnate.]
intr. To form a pool.
a1552Leland Itin. (1769) V. 90 Thes Pooles for the most part in Morisch Groundes..dreane the moist Places about them, and so having no Place to issue owt stagne there. |