·noun Bewilderment; perplexity.
II. Stagger ·vt To cause to reel or totter.
III. Stagger ·noun To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to Fail.
IV. Stagger ·noun To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to Hesitate.
V. Stagger ·vt To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to Shock.
VI. Stagger ·vt To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
VII. Stagger ·noun A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
VIII. Stagger ·noun To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to Sway; to reel or totter.
IX. Stagger ·noun An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo;
— often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.