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Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), n. [OF. estage, F. ['e]tage, (assumed)
LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf.
{Static}.]
1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play
be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.

3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work,
or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.

5. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing
dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.

Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the
stage. --Pope.

Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C.
Sprague.

6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable
affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on
the public stage.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. --Shak.

Music and ethereal mirth
Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
--Miton.

7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is
placed to be viewed. See Illust. of {Microscope}.

8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage
house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

9. 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 stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a
road. --Jeffrey.

He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite
horse performing the journey by easy stages.
--Smiles.

10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.

Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage
in the progress of society. --Macaulay.

11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
``A parcel sent you by the stage.'' --Cowper.
[Obsolescent]

I went in the sixpenny stage. --Swift.

12. (Biol.) One of several marked phases or periods in the
development and growth of many animals and plants; as,
the larval stage; pupa stage; z[oe]a stage.

{Stage box}, a box close to the stage in a theater.

{Stage carriage}, a stagecoach.

{Stage door}, the actors' and workmen's entrance to a
theater.

{Stage lights}, the lights by which the stage in a theater is
illuminated.

{Stage micrometer}, a graduated device applied to the stage
of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.

{Stage wagon}, a wagon which runs between two places for
conveying passengers or goods.

{Stage whisper}, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater,
supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or
more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an
aside.