[steyl] 
,adjective, stal⋅er, stal⋅est, verb, staled, stal⋅ing.| 1. | not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread. |
| 2. | musty; stagnant: stale air. |
| 3. | having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke. |
| 4. | having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation. |
| 5. | Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim. |
| 6. | to make or become stale. |
[steyl] ,| (of livestock, esp. horses) to urinate. |
| stale 1 (stāl) adj. stal·er, stal·est
To make or become stale. [Middle English, settled, clear (used of beer or wine), probably from Old French estale, slack, settled, clear, from estaler, to come to a standstill, halt, from estal, standing place, stand, of Germanic origin; see stel- in Indo-European roots.] stale'ly adv., stale'ness n. |
| stale 2 (stāl) intr.v. staled, stal·ing, stales To urinate. Used especially of horses and camels. n. The urine of certain animals, especially horses and camels. [Middle English stalen, possibly of Low German origin; akin to Middle Low German stallen.] |