STATIONARY — STELLED NWAD STATIONARY.1

STATIONARY, a. NWAD STATIONARY.1

1. Fixed; not moving, progressive or regressive; not appearing to move. The sun becomes stationary in Cancer, in its advance into the northern signs. The court in England which was formerly itinerary, is now stationary. NWAD STATIONARY.2

2. Not advancing, in a moral sense; not improving; not growing wiser, greater or better; not becoming greater or more excellent. NWAD STATIONARY.3

3. Respecting place. NWAD STATIONARY.4

The same harmony and stationary constitution--- NWAD STATIONARY.5

Stationary fever, a fever depending on peculiar seasons. NWAD STATIONARY.6

STATION-BILL, n. In seamens language, a list containing the appointed posts of the ships company, when navigating the ship. NWAD STATION-BILL.1

STATIONER, n. [from station, a state.] A bookseller; one who sells books, paper, quills, inkstands, pencils and other furniture for writing. The business of the bookseller and stationer is usually carried on by the same person. NWAD STATIONER.1

STATIONERY, n. The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, ink, quills; etc. NWAD STATIONERY.1

STATIONERY, a. Belonging to a stationer. NWAD STATIONERY.2

STATIST, n. [from state.] A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. NWAD STATIST.1

Statists indeed, and lovers of their country. [Not now used.] NWAD STATIST.2

STATISTIC, STATISTICAL, a. [from state or statist.] Pertaining to the state of society, the condition of the people, their economy, their property and resources. NWAD STATISTIC.1

STATISTICS, n. A collection of facts respecting the state of society, the condition of the people in a nation or country, their health, longevity, domestic economy, arts, property and political strength, the state of the country, etc. NWAD STATISTICS.1

STATUARY, n. [L., a statue; to set.] NWAD STATUARY.1

1. The art of carving images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. NWAD STATUARY.2

[In this sense the word has no plural.] NWAD STATUARY.3

2. One professes or practices the art of carving images or making statues. NWAD STATUARY.4

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets. NWAD STATUARY.5

STATUE, n. [L., to set; that which is set or fixed.] An image; a solid substance formed by carving into the likeness of a whole living being; as a statue of Hercules or of a lion. NWAD STATUE.1

STATUE, v.t. To place, as a statue; to form a statue of. NWAD STATUE.2

STATUMINATE, v.t. [L.] To prop or support. [Not in use.] NWAD STATUMINATE.1

STATURE, n. [L., to set.] The natural highth of an animal body. It is more generally used of the human body. NWAD STATURE.1

Foreign men of mighty stature came. NWAD STATURE.2

STATURED, a. Arrived at full stature. [Little used.] NWAD STATURED.1

STATUTABLE, a. [from statute.] NWAD STATUTABLE.1

1. Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legislature; as a statutable provision or remedy. NWAD STATUTABLE.2

2. Made or being in conformity to statute; as statutable measures. NWAD STATUTABLE.3

STATUTABLY, adv. In a manner agreeable to statute. NWAD STATUTABLY.1

STATUTE, [L., to set.] NWAD STATUTE.1

1. An act of the legislature of a state that extends its binding force to all the citizens or subjects of that state, as distinguished from an act which extends only to an individual or company; an act of the legislature commanding or prohibiting something; a positive law. Statutes are distinguished from common law. The latter owes its binding force to the principles of justice, to long use and the consent of a nation. The former owe their binding force to a positive command or declaration of the supreme power. Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies, the laws of the sovereign are called edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc. NWAD STATUTE.2

2. A special act of the supreme power, of a private nature, or intended to operate only on an individual or company. NWAD STATUTE.3

3. The act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as the statutes of a university. NWAD STATUTE.4

STATUTE-MERCHANT, n. In English law, a bond of record pursuant to the Stat. 13 Edw. 1. acknowledged before one of the clerks of the statutes-merchant and the mayor or chief warden of London, or before certain persons appointed for the purpose; on which, if not paid at the day, an execution may be awarded against the body, lands and goods of the obligor. NWAD STATUTE-MERCHANT.1

STATUTE-STAPLE, n. A bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may forthwith have execution against the body, lands and goods of the debtor, on non-payment. NWAD STATUTE-STAPLE.1

STATUTORY, a. Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as a statutory provision or remedy. NWAD STATUTORY.1

STAUROLITE, STAUROTIDE, n. [Gr., a cross, a stone.] The granatit of Werner or grenatite of Jameson; a mineral crystalized in prisms, either single or intersecting each other at right angles. Its color is white or gray, reddish or brown. It is often opake, sometimes translucent. Its form and infusibility distinguish it from the garnet. It is called by the French, harmotome. NWAD STAUROLITE.1

STAVE, n. [from staff. It has the sound of a, as in save.] NWAD STAVE.1

1. A thin narrow piece of timber, of which casks are made. Staves make a considerable articles of export from New England to the West Indies. NWAD STAVE.2

2. A staff; a metrical portion; a part of a psalm appointed to be sung in churches. NWAD STAVE.3

3. In music, the five horizontal and parallel lines on which the notes of tunes are written or printed; the staff, as it is now more generally written. NWAD STAVE.4

To stave and tail, to part dogs by interposing a staff and by pulling the tail. NWAD STAVE.5

STAVE, v.t. pret. stove or staved; pp. id. NWAD STAVE.6

1. To break a hole in; to break; to burst; primarily, to thrust through with a staff; as, to stave a cask. NWAD STAVE.7

2. To push as with a staff; with off. NWAD STAVE.8

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. NWAD STAVE.9

3. To delay; as, to stave off the execution of a project. NWAD STAVE.10

4. To pour out; to suffer to be lost by breaking the cask. NWAD STAVE.11

All the wine in the city has been staved. NWAD STAVE.12

5. To furnish with staves or rundles. [Not in use.] NWAD STAVE.13

STAVE, v.i. To fight with staves. [Not in use.] NWAD STAVE.14

STAVES, plu. of staff, when applied to a stick, is pronounced with a as in ask, the Italian sound. NWAD STAVES.1

STAW, v.i. To be fixed or set. [Not in use or local.] NWAD STAW.1

STAY, v.i. pret. staid, for stayed. [L., to stand.] NWAD STAY.1

1. To remain; to continue in a place; to abide for any indefinite time. Do you stay here, while I go to the next house. Stay here a week. We staid at the Hotel Montmorenci. NWAD STAY.2

Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first. NWAD STAY.3

2. To continue in a state. NWAD STAY.4

The flames augment, and stay at their full highth, then languish to decay. NWAD STAY.5

3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. NWAD STAY.6

I stay for Turnus. NWAD STAY.7

Would ye stay for them from having husbands? Ruth 1:13. NWAD STAY.8

4. To stop; to stand still. NWAD STAY.9

She would command the hasty sun to stay. NWAD STAY.10

5. To dwell. NWAD STAY.11

I must stay a little on one action. NWAD STAY.12

6. To rest; to rely; to confide in; to trust. NWAD STAY.13

Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression, and stay thereon-- Isaiah 30:12. NWAD STAY.14

STAY, v.t. pret. and pp. staid, for stayed. NWAD STAY.15

1. To stop; to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain. NWAD STAY.16

All that may stay the mind from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false. NWAD STAY.17

To stay these sudden gusts of passion. NWAD STAY.18

2. To delay; to obstruct; to hinder from proceeding. NWAD STAY.19

Your ships are staid at Venice. NWAD STAY.20

I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me to be new. NWAD STAY.21

3. To keep from departure; as, you might have staid me here. NWAD STAY.22

4. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to hold up; to support. NWAD STAY.23

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands. Exodus 17:12. NWAD STAY.24

Sallows and reeds for vineyards useful found to stay thy vines. NWAD STAY.25

5. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; as, to take a luncheon to stay the stomach. NWAD STAY.26

STAY, n. NWAD STAY.27

1. Continuance in a place; abode for a time indefinite; as, you make a short stay in this city. NWAD STAY.28

Embrace the hero, and his stay implore. NWAD STAY.29

2. Stand; stop; cessation of motion or progression. NWAD STAY.30

Affairs of state seemd rather to stand at a stay. NWAD STAY.31

[But in this sense, we now use stand; to be at a stand.] NWAD STAY.32

3. Stop; obstruction; hinderance from progress. NWAD STAY.33

Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay. NWAD STAY.34

4. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. NWAD STAY.35

With prudent stay, he long deferrd the rough contention. NWAD STAY.36

5. A fixed state. NWAD STAY.37

Alas, what stay is there in human state! NWAD STAY.38

6. Prop; support. NWAD STAY.39

Trees serve as so many stays for their vines. NWAD STAY.40

My only strength and stay! NWAD STAY.41

The Lord is my stay. Psalm 18:18. NWAD STAY.42

The stay and the staff, the means of supporting and preserving life. Isaiah 3:1. NWAD STAY.43

7. Steadiness of conduct. NWAD STAY.44

8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship. The fore-stay reaches from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end; the main-stay extends to the ships stem; the mizen-stay is stretched to a collar on the main-mast, above the quarter deck, etc. NWAD STAY.45

Stays, in seamanship, implies the operation of going about or changing the course of a ship, with a shifting of the sails. To be in stays, is to lie with the head to the wind, and the sails so arranged as to check her progress. NWAD STAY.46

To miss stays, to fail in the attempt to go about. NWAD STAY.47

STAYED, pp. Staid; fixed; settle; sober. It is now written staid, which see. NWAD STAYED.1

STAYEDLY, adv. Composedly; gravely; moderately; prudently; soberly. [Little used.] NWAD STAYEDLY.1

STAYEDNESS, n. NWAD STAYEDNESS.1

1. Moderation; gravity; sobriety; prudence. [See Staidness.] NWAD STAYEDNESS.2

2. Solidity; weight. [Little used.] NWAD STAYEDNESS.3

STAYER, n. One that stops or restrains; one who upholds or supports; that which props. NWAD STAYER.1

STAYLACE, n. A lace for fastening the bodice in female dress. NWAD STAYLACE.1

STAYLESS, a. Without stop or delay. [Little used.] NWAD STAYLESS.1

STAYMAKER, n. One whose occupation is to make stays. NWAD STAYMAKER.1

STAYS, n. plu. NWAD STAYS.1

1. A bodice; a kind of waistcoat stiffened with whalebone or other thing, worn by females. NWAD STAYS.2

2. Stays, of a ship. [See Stay.] NWAD STAYS.3

3. Station; fixed anchorage. NWAD STAYS.4

4. Any support; that which keeps another extended. NWAD STAYS.5

Weavers, stretch your stays upon the weft. NWAD STAYS.6

STAY-SAIL, n. [stay and sail.] Any sail extended on a stay. NWAD STAY-SAIL.1

STAY-TACKLE, n. [stay and tackle.] A large tackle attached to the main-stay by means of a pendant, and used to hoist heavy bodies, as boats, butts of water and the like. NWAD STAY-TACKLE.1

STEAD, STED, n. [G. See Stay.] NWAD STEAD.1

1. Place; in general. NWAD STEAD.2

Fly this fearful stead. NWAD STEAD.3

[In this sense not used.] NWAD STEAD.4

2. Place or room which another had or might have, noting substitution, replacing or filling the place of another, as, David died and Solomon reigned in his sted. NWAD STEAD.5

God hath appointed me another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 4:25. NWAD STEAD.6

3. The frame on which a bed is laid. NWAD STEAD.7

Sallow the feet, the borders and the sted. NWAD STEAD.8

[But we never use this word by itself in this sense. We always use bedstead.] NWAD STEAD.9

To stand in sted, to be of use or great advantage. NWAD STEAD.10

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead. NWAD STEAD.11

STEAD, STED, in names of places distant from a river or the sea, signifies place, as above; but in names of places situated on a river or harbor, it is from Sax. Stathe, border, bank, shore, Both words perhaps are from one root. NWAD STEAD.12

STEAD, v.t. sted. NWAD STEAD.13

1. To help; to support; to assist; as, it nothing steads us. NWAD STEAD.14

2. To fill the place of another. NWAD STEAD.15

STEADFAST, STEDFAST, a. [stead and fast.] NWAD STEADFAST.1

1. Fast fixed; firm; firmly fixed or established; as the stedfast globe of earth. NWAD STEADFAST.2

2. Constant; firm; resolute; not fickle or wavering. NWAD STEADFAST.3

Abide stedfast to thy neighbor in the time of his trouble. NWAD STEADFAST.4

Him resist, stedfast in the faith. 1 Peter 5:9. NWAD STEADFAST.5

3. Steady; as stedfast sight. NWAD STEADFAST.6

STEADFASTLY, STEDFASTLY, adv. Firmly; with constancy or steadiness of mind. NWAD STEADFASTLY.1

Steadfastly believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true. NWAD STEADFASTLY.2

STEADFASTNESS, STEDFASTNESS, n. NWAD STEADFASTNESS.1

1. Firmness of standing; fixedness in place. NWAD STEADFASTNESS.2

2. Firmness of mind or purpose; fixedness in principle; constancy; resolution; as the stedfastness of faith. He adhered to his opinions with steadfastness. NWAD STEADFASTNESS.3

STEADILY, STEDDILY, adv. NWAD STEADILY.1

1. With firmness of standing or position; without tottering, shaking or leaning. He kept his arm steddily directed to the object. NWAD STEADILY.2

2. Without wavering, inconstancy or irregularity; without deviating. He steddily pursues his studies. NWAD STEADILY.3

STEADINESS, STEDDINESS, n. NWAD STEADINESS.1

1. Firmness of standing or position; a state of being not tottering or easily moved or shaken. A man stands with steddiness; he walks with steddiness. NWAD STEADINESS.2

2. Firmness of mind or purpose; constancy; resolution. We say, a man has steddiness of mind, steddiness in opinion, steddiness in the pursuit of objects. NWAD STEADINESS.3

3. Consistent uniform conduct. NWAD STEADINESS.4

Steddiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. NWAD STEADINESS.5

STEADY, STEDDY, a. NWAD STEADY.1

1. Firm in standing or position; fixed; not tottering or shaking; applicable to any object. NWAD STEADY.2

2. Constant in mind, purpose or pursuit; not fickle, changeable or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; as a man steddy in his principles, steddy in his purpose, steddy in the pursuit of an object, steddy in his application to business. NWAD STEADY.3

3. Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as the steddy course of the sun. Steer the ship a steddy course. A large river runs with a steddy stream. NWAD STEADY.4

4. Regular; not fluctuating; as a steddy breeze of wind. NWAD STEADY.5

STEADY, STEDDY, v.t. To hold or keep from shaking, reeling or falling; to support; to make or keep firm. Steddy my hand. NWAD STEADY.6

STEAK, n. [G., a piece.] A slice of beef or pork broiled, or cut for broiling. [As far as my observation extends, this word is never applied to any species of meat, except to beef and pork, nor to these dressed in any way except by broiling. Possible it may be used of a piece fried.] NWAD STEAK.1

STEAL, v.t. pret. stole; pp. stolen, stole. [G. L, to take, to lift.] NWAD STEAL.1

1. To take and carry away feloniously, as the personal goods of another. To constitute stealing or theft, the taking must be felonious, that is, with an intent to take what belongs to another, and without his consent. NWAD STEAL.2

Let him that stole, steal no more. Ephesians 4:28. NWAD STEAL.3

2. To Withdraw or convey without notice or clandestinely. NWAD STEAL.4

They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by submission. NWAD STEAL.5

3. To gain or win by address or gradual and imperceptible means. NWAD STEAL.6

Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject. NWAD STEAL.7

So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 2 Samuel 15:6. NWAD STEAL.8

STEAL, v.i. NWAD STEAL.9

1. To withdraw or pass privily; to slip along or away unperceived. NWAD STEAL.10

Fixed of mind to fly all company, one night she stole away. NWAD STEAL.11

From whom you now must steal and take no leave. NWAD STEAL.12

A soft and solemn breathing sound rose like a steam of rich distilld perfumes, and stole upon the air. NWAD STEAL.13

2. To practice theft; to take feloniously. He steals for a livelihood. NWAD STEAL.14

Thou shalt not steal. Exodus 20:15. NWAD STEAL.15

STEALER, n. One that steals; a thief. NWAD STEALER.1

STEALING, ppr. Taking the goods of another feloniously; withdrawing imperceptibly; gaining gradually. NWAD STEALING.1

STEALINGLY, adv. Slyly; privately, or by an invisible motion. [Little used.] NWAD STEALINGLY.1

STEALTH, n. stelth. NWAD STEALTH.1

1. The act of stealing; theft. NWAD STEALTH.2

The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed on him by such an outlaw. NWAD STEALTH.3

2. The thing stolen; as cabins that are dens to cover stealth. [Not in use.] NWAD STEALTH.4

3. Secret act; clandestine practice; means unperceived employed to gain an object; way or manner not perceived; used in a good or bad sense. NWAD STEALTH.5

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. NWAD STEALTH.6

The monarch blinded with desire of wealth, with steel invades the brothers life by stealth. NWAD STEALTH.7

STEALTHY, a. Stelthy. Done by stealth; clandestine; unperceived. NWAD STEALTHY.1

Now witherd murder with his stealthy pace moves like a ghost. NWAD STEALTHY.2

STEAM, n. NWAD STEAM.1

1. The vapor of water; or the elastic, aeriform fluid generated by heating water to the boiling point. When produced under the common atmospheric pressure, its elasticity is equivalent to the pressure, its elasticity is equivalent to the pressure of the atmosphere, and it is called low steam; but when heated in a confined state, its elastic force is rapidly augmented, and it is then called high steam. On the application of cold, steam instantly returns to the state of water, and thus forms a sudden vacuum. From this property, and from the facility with which an elastic force is generated by means of steam, this constitutes a mechanical agent at once the most powerful and the most manageable, as is seen in the vast and multiplied uses of the steam engine. Steam is invisible, and is to be distinguished from the cloud or mist which it forms in the air, that being water in a minute state of division, resulting from the condensation of steam. NWAD STEAM.2

2. In popular use, the mist formed by condensed vapor. NWAD STEAM.3

STEAM, v.i. NWAD STEAM.4

1. To rise or pass off in vapor by means of heat; to fume. NWAD STEAM.5

Let the crude humors dance in heated brass, steaming with fire intense. NWAD STEAM.6

2. To send off visible vapor. NWAD STEAM.7

Ye mists that rise from steaming lake. NWAD STEAM.8

3. To pass off in visible vapor. NWAD STEAM.9

The dissolved amber--steamed away into the air. NWAD STEAM.10

STEAM, v.t. NWAD STEAM.11

1. To exhale; to evaporate. [Not much used.] NWAD STEAM.12

2. To expose to steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing or preparing; as, to steam cloth; to steam potatoes instead of boiling the; to steam food for cattle. NWAD STEAM.13

STEAM-BOAT, STEAM-VESSEL, n. A vessel propelled through the water by steam. NWAD STEAM-BOAT.1

STEAM-BOILER, n. A boiler for steaming food for cattle. NWAD STEAM-BOILER.1

STEAMED, pp. Exposed to steam; cooked or dressed by steam. NWAD STEAMED.1

STEAM-ENGINE, n. An engine worked by steam. NWAD STEAM-ENGINE.1

STEAMING, ppr. Exposing to steam; cooking or dressing by steam; preparing for cattle by steam, as roots. NWAD STEAMING.1

STEAN, for stone. [Not in use.] NWAD STEAN.1

STEARIN, n. One of the proximate elements of animal fat, as lard, tallow, etc. The various kinds of animal fat consist of two substances, stearin and elain; of which the former is solid, and the latter liquid. NWAD STEARIN.1

STEATITE, n. [Gr., fat.] Soapstone; so called from its smooth or unctuous feel; a subspecies of rhomboidal mica. It is of two kings, the common, and the pagodite or lard-stone. It is sometimes confounded with talck, to which its is allied. It is a compact stone, white, green of all shades, gray, brown or marbled, and sometimes herborized by black dendrites. It is found in metalliferous veins, with the ores of copper, lead, zink, silver and tin. NWAD STEATITE.1

STEATITIC, a. Pertaining to soapstone; of the nature of steatite, or resembling it. NWAD STEATITIC.1

STEATOCELE, n. [Gr., fat, a tumor.] A swelling of the scrotum, containing fat. NWAD STEATOCELE.1

STEATOMA, n. [Gr.] A species of tumor containing matter like suet. NWAD STEATOMA.1

STED, STEDFAST. [See Stead.] NWAD STED.1

STEED, n. A horse, or a hose for state or war. [This word is not much used in common discourse. It is used in poetry and descriptive prose, and is elegant.] NWAD STEED.1

Stout are our men, and warlike are our steeds. NWAD STEED.2

STEEL, n. [G.] NWAD STEEL.1

1. Iron combined with a small portion of carbon; iron refined and hardened, used in making instruments, and particularly useful as the material of edged tools. It is called in chemistry, carburet of iron; but this is more usually the denomination of plumbago. NWAD STEEL.2

2. Figuratively, weapons; particularly, offensive weapons, swords, spears and the like. NWAD STEEL.3

Brave Macbeth with his brandishd steel. NWAD STEEL.4

-- While doubting thus he stood, receivd the steel bathd in this brothers blood. NWAD STEEL.5

3. Medicines composed of steel, as steel fillings. NWAD STEEL.6

After relaxing, steel strengthens the solids. NWAD STEEL.7

4. Extreme hardness; as heads or hearts of steel. NWAD STEEL.8

STEEL, a. Made of steel; as a steel plate or buckle. NWAD STEEL.9

STEEL, v.t. NWAD STEEL.10

1. To overlay, point or edge with steel; as, to steel the point of a sword; to steel a razor; to steel an ax. NWAD STEEL.11

2. To make hard or extremely hard. NWAD STEEL.12

O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts. NWAD STEEL.13

Lies well steeld with weighty arguments. NWAD STEEL.14

3. To make hard; to make insensible or obdurate; as, to steel the heart against pity; to steel the mind or heart against reproof or admonition. NWAD STEEL.15

STEELED, pp. Pointed or edged with steel; hardened; made insensible. NWAD STEELED.1

STEELINESS, n. [from steely.] Great hardness. NWAD STEELINESS.1

STEELING, ppr. Pointing or edging with steel; hardening; making insensible or unfeeling. NWAD STEELING.1

STEELY, a. NWAD STEELY.1

1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. NWAD STEELY.2

Broachd with the steely point of Cliffords lance. NWAD STEELY.3

Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. NWAD STEELY.4

2. Hard; firm. NWAD STEELY.5

That she would unarm her noble heart of that steely resistance against the sweet blows of love. NWAD STEELY.6

STEELYARD, n. [steel and yard.] The Roman balance; an instrument for weighing bodies, consisting of a rod or bar marked with notches, designating the number of pounds and ounces, and a weight which is movable along this bar, and which is made to balance the weight of the body by being removed at a proper distance from the fulcrum. The principle of the steelyard is that of the lever; where an equilibrium is produced, when the products of the weights on opposite sides into their respective distances from the fulcrum, are equal to one another. Hence a less weight is made to indicate a greater, by being removed to a greater distance from the fulcrum. NWAD STEELYARD.1

STEEN, STEAN, n. A vessel of clay or stone. [Not in use.] NWAD STEEN.1

STEENKIRK, n. A cant term for a neck-cloth. [Not now in use.] NWAD STEENKIRK.1

STEEP, a. Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending with a great inclination; precipitous; as a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity. NWAD STEEP.1

STEEP, n. A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock or ascent; any elevated object which slopes with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice. NWAD STEEP.2

We had on each side rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steps and precipices. NWAD STEEP.3

STEEP, v.t. [probably formed on the root of dip.] To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to imbue; to keep any thing in a liquid till it has thoroughly imbibed it, or till the liquor has extracted the essential qualities of the substance. Thus cloth is steeped in lye or other liquid in bleaching or dyeing. But plants and drugs are steeped in water, wine and the like, for the purpose of tincturing the liquid with their qualities. NWAD STEEP.4

STEEP, n. A liquid for steeping grain or seeds; also, a runnet bag. [Local.] NWAD STEEP.5

STEEPED, pp. Soaked; macerated; imbued. NWAD STEEPED.1

STEEPER, n. A vessel, vat or cistern in which things are steeped. NWAD STEEPER.1

STEEPING, ppr. Soaking; macerating. NWAD STEEPING.1

STEEPLE, n. A turret of a church, ending in a point; a spire. It differs from a tower, which usually ends in a square form, thought the name is sometimes given to a tower. The bell of a church is usually hung in the steeple. NWAD STEEPLE.1

They, far from steeples and their sacred sound--- NWAD STEEPLE.2

STEEPLED, a. Furnished with a steeple; adorned with steeples or towers. NWAD STEEPLED.1

STEEPLE-HOUSE, n. A church. [Not in use.] NWAD STEEPLE-HOUSE.1

STEEPLY, adv. With steepness; with precipitous declivity. NWAD STEEPLY.1

STEEPNESS, n. The state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as the steepness of a hill, a bank or a roof. NWAD STEEPNESS.1

STEEPY, a. Having a steep or precipitous declivity; as steepy crags; a poetical word. NWAD STEEPY.1

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb the steepy cliffs. NWAD STEEPY.2

STEER, n. A young male of the ox kind or common ox. It is rendered in Dutch, a bull; but in the United States, this name is generally given to a castrated male of the ox kind, from two to four years old. NWAD STEER.1

With solemn pomp then sacrificd a steer. NWAD STEER.2

STEER, v.t. [G., to hinder, restrain, repress, to curb, to steer, to pilot, to aid, help, support. The verb si connected with or derived from steuer, a rudder, a helm, aid, help, subsidy, impost, tax, contribution.] NWAD STEER.3

1. To direct; to govern; particularly, to direct and govern the course of a ship by the movements of the helm. Hence, NWAD STEER.4

2. To direct; to guide; to show the way or course to. NWAD STEER.5

That with a staff his feeble steps did steer. NWAD STEER.6

STEER, v.i. NWAD STEER.7

1. To direct and govern a ship or other vessel in its course. Formerly seamen steered by the stars; they ow steer by the compass. NWAD STEER.8

A ship--where the wind veers oft, as oft so steers and shifts her sail. NWAD STEER.9

2. To be directed and governed; as, a ship steers with ease. NWAD STEER.10

3. To conduct ones self; to take or pursue a course or way. NWAD STEER.11

STEER, n. A rudder or helm. [Not in use.] NWAD STEER.12

STEERAGE, n. NWAD STEERAGE.1

1. The act or practice of directing and governing in a course; as the steerage of a ship. NWAD STEERAGE.2

[In this sense, I believe the word is now little used.] NWAD STEERAGE.3

2. In seamens language, the effort of a helm, or its effect on the ship. NWAD STEERAGE.4

3. In a ship, an apartment forward of the great cabin, from which it is separated by a bulk-head or partition, or an apartment in the fore part of a ship for passengers. In ships of war it serves as a hall or antichamber to the great cabin. NWAD STEERAGE.5

4. The part of a ship where the tiller traverses. NWAD STEERAGE.6

5. Direction; regulation. NWAD STEERAGE.7

He that hath the steerage of my course. [Little used.] NWAD STEERAGE.8

6. Regulation or management. NWAD STEERAGE.9

You raise the honor of the peerage, proud to attend you at the steerage. NWAD STEERAGE.10

7. That by which a course is directed. NWAD STEERAGE.11

Here he hung on high the steerage of his wings--- NWAD STEERAGE.12

[Steerage, in the general sense of direction or management, is in popular use, but by no means an elegant word. It is said, a young man when he sets out in life, makes bad steerage; but no good writer would introduce the word into elegant writing.] NWAD STEERAGE.13

STEERAGE-WAY, n. In seamens language, that degree of progressive movement of a ship, which renders her governable by the helm. NWAD STEERAGE-WAY.1

STEERED, pp. Directed and governed in a course; guided; conducted. NWAD STEERED.1

STEERER, n. One that steers; a pilot. [Little used.] NWAD STEERER.1

STEERING, ppr. Directing and governing in a course, as a ship; guiding; conducting. NWAD STEERING.1

STEERING, n. The act or art of directing and governing a ship or other vessel in her course; the act of guiding or managing. NWAD STEERING.2

STEERING-WHEEL, n. The wheel by which the rudder of a ship is turned and the ship steered. NWAD STEERING-WHEEL.1

STEERLESS, a. Having no steer or rudder. [Not in use.] NWAD STEERLESS.1

STEERSMAN, n. [steer and man.] One that steers; the helmsman of a ship. NWAD STEERSMAN.1

STEERSMATE, n. [steer and mate.] One who steers; a pilot. [Not in use.] NWAD STEERSMATE.1

STEEVING, n. In seamens language, the angle of elevation which a ships bowsprit makes with the horizon. NWAD STEEVING.1

STEG, n. A gander. [Local.] NWAD STEG.1

STEGANOGRAPHIST, n. [Gr., secret, and to write.] One who practices the art of writing in cipher. NWAD STEGANOGRAPHIST.1

STEGANOGRAPHY, n. [supra.] The art of writing in ciphers or characters which are not intelligible, except to the persons who correspond with each other. NWAD STEGANOGRAPHY.1

STEGNOTIC, a. [Gr.] Tending to bind or render costive. NWAD STEGNOTIC.1

STEGNOTIC, n. A medicine proper to stop the orifices of the vessels or emunctories of the body, when relaxed or lacerated. NWAD STEGNOTIC.2

STEINHEILITE, n. A mineral, a variety or iolite. NWAD STEINHEILITE.1

STELE, n. A stale or handle; a stalk. NWAD STELE.1

STELECHITE, n. A fine kind of storax, in larger pieces than the calamite. NWAD STELECHITE.1

STELLAR, STELLARY, a. [L., a star.] NWAD STELLAR.1

1. Pertaining to stars; astral; as stellar virute; stellar figure. NWAD STELLAR.2

2. Starry; full of stars; set with stars; as stellary regions. NWAD STELLAR.3

STELLATE, STELLATED, a. [L.] NWAD STELLATE.1

1. Resembling a star; radiated. NWAD STELLATE.2

2. In botany, stellate or verticillate leaves are when more leaves than two surround the stem in a whorl, or when they radiate like the spokes of a wheel, or like a star. A stellate bristle is when a little star of smaller hairs is affixed to the end applied also to the stigma. A stellate flower is a radiate flower. NWAD STELLATE.3

STELLATION, n. [L., a star.] Radiation of light. [Not in use.] NWAD STELLATION.1

STELLED, a. Starry. [Not in use.] NWAD STELLED.1