STELLIFEROUS — STICH NWAD STELLIFEROUS.1
STELLIFEROUS, a. [L., a star; to produce.] Having or abounding with stars. NWAD STELLIFEROUS.1
STELLIFORM, a. [L., a star; to produce.] Like a star; radiated. NWAD STELLIFORM.1
STELLIFY, v.t. To turn into a star. [Not in use.] NWAD STELLIFY.1
STELLION, n. [L.] A newt. NWAD STELLION.1
STELLIONATE, n. [Low L.] In law, the crime of selling a thing deceitfully for what it is not, as to sell that for ones own which belongs to another. [Not in use.] NWAD STELLIONATE.1
STELLITE, n. [L., a star.] A name given by some writers to a white stone found on Mount Libanus, containing the lineaments of the star-fish. NWAD STELLITE.1
STELOCHITE, n. A name given to the osteocolla. NWAD STELOCHITE.1
STELOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., a pillar; to write.] The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. NWAD STELOGRAPHY.1
STEM, n. [G., stock, stem, race. The primary sense is to set, to fix.] NWAD STEM.1
1. The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant of any kind; the main stock; the firm part which supports the branches. NWAD STEM.2
After thy are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough or twig on the stem. NWAD STEM.3
The lowring spring with lavish rain, beats down the slender stem and bearded grain. NWAD STEM.4
2. The peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicle of a flower; that which supports the flower or the fruit of a planet. NWAD STEM.5
3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors; as a noble stem. NWAD STEM.6
Learn well their lineage and their ancient stem. NWAD STEM.7
4. Progeny; branch of a family. NWAD STEM.8
Of that victorious stock. NWAD STEM.9
5. In a ship, a circular piece of timber, to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. From stem to stern, is from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length. NWAD STEM.10
STEM, v.t. NWAD STEM.11
1. To oppose or resist, as a current; or to make progress against a current. We say, the ship was not able with all her sails to stem the tide. NWAD STEM.12
They stem the flood with their erected breasts. NWAD STEM.13
2. To stop; to check; as a stream or moving force. NWAD STEM.14
At length Erasmus, that great injurd name, stemmd the wild torrent of a barbrous age, and drove those holy Vandals off the stage. NWAD STEM.15
STEM-CLASPING, a. Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole. NWAD STEM-CLASPING.1
STEM-LEAF, n. A leaf inserted into the stem. NWAD STEM-LEAF.1
STEMLESS, a. Having no stem. NWAD STEMLESS.1
STEMMED, pp. Opposed, as a current; stopped. NWAD STEMMED.1
STEMMING, ppr. Opposing, as a stream; stopping. NWAD STEMMING.1
STEMPLE, n. In mining, a cross bar of wood in a shaft. NWAD STEMPLE.1
STENCH, n. [See Stink.] An ill smell; offensive odor. NWAD STENCH.1
STENCH, v.t. NWAD STENCH.2
1. To cause to emit a hateful smell. [Not in use.] NWAD STENCH.3
2. To stanch; to stop. [Not in use.] NWAD STENCH.4
STENCHY, a. Having an offensive smell. [Not in use.] NWAD STENCHY.1
STENCIL, n. A piece of thin lether or oil cloth, used in painting paper hangings. NWAD STENCIL.1
STENCIL, v.t. To paint or color in figures with stencils. NWAD STENCIL.2
STENOGRAPHER, n. [Gr., close, narrow; to write.] One who is skilled in the art of short hand writing. NWAD STENOGRAPHER.1
STENOGRAPHIC, STENOGRAPHICAL, a. [supra.] Pertaining to the art of writing in short hand; expressing in characters or short hand. NWAD STENOGRAPHIC.1
STENOGRAPHY, n. [supra.] The art of writing in short hand by using abbreviations or characters for whole words. NWAD STENOGRAPHY.1
STENT, for stint. [See Stint.] NWAD STENT.1
STENTORIAN, a. [from Stentor.] NWAD STENTORIAN.1
1. Extremely loud; as a stentorian voice. NWAD STENTORIAN.2
2. Able to utter a very loud sound; as stentorian lungs. NWAD STENTORIAN.3
STENTOROPHONIC, a. [from Stentor, a herald in Homer, whose voice was as loud as that of fifty other men, and Gr., voice.] Speaking or sounding very loud. NWAD STENTOROPHONIC.1
Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a figure preserved in the Vatican. NWAD STENTOROPHONIC.2
STEP, v.i. [Gr., the foot. The sense is to set, as the foot, or move probably to open or part, to stretch or extend.] NWAD STEP.1
1. To move the foot; to advance or recede by a movement of the foot or feet; as, to step forward, or to step backward. NWAD STEP.2
2. To go; to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors. NWAD STEP.3
3. To walk gravely, slowly or resolutely. NWAD STEP.4
Home the swain retreats, his flock before him stepping to the fold. NWAD STEP.5
To step forth, to move or come forth. NWAD STEP.6
To step aside, to walk to a little distance; to retire from company. NWAD STEP.7
To step in or into, NWAD STEP.8
1. To walk or advance into a place or state; or to advance suddenly in John 5:4. NWAD STEP.9
2. To enter for a short time. I just stepped into the house for a moment. NWAD STEP.10
3. To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon suddenly; as, to step into an estate. NWAD STEP.11
To step back, to move mentally; to carry the mind back. NWAD STEP.12
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. NWAD STEP.13
STEP, v.t. NWAD STEP.14
1. To set, as the foot. NWAD STEP.15
2. To fix the foot of a mast in the keel; to erect. NWAD STEP.16
STEP, n. [G., to form a step or ledge.] NWAD STEP.17
1. A pace; an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot. NWAD STEP.18
2. One remove in ascending or descending; a stair. NWAD STEP.19
The breadth of every single step or stair should be neer less than one foot. NWAD STEP.20
3. The space passed by the foot in walking or running. The step of one foot is generally five feet; it may be more or less. NWAD STEP.21
4. A small space or distance. Let us go to the gardens; it is but a step. NWAD STEP.22
5. The distance between the feet in walking or running. NWAD STEP.23
6. Gradation; degree. We advance improvement step by step, or by steps. NWAD STEP.24
7. Progression; act of advancing. NWAD STEP.25
To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, could be a great step in philosophy. NWAD STEP.26
8. Footstep; print or impression of the foot; track. NWAD STEP.27
9. Gait; manner of walking. The approach of a man is often known by his step. NWAD STEP.28
10. Proceeding; measure; action. NWAD STEP.29
The reputation of a man depends of the first steps he makes in the world. NWAD STEP.30
11. The round of a ladder. NWAD STEP.31
12. Steps in the plural, walk; passage. NWAD STEP.32
Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree in this deep forest. NWAD STEP.33
13. Pieces of timber in which the foot of a mast is fixed. NWAD STEP.34
STEP, STEPP, n. In Russ, an uncultivated desert of large extent. NWAD STEP.35
STEP, Sax. Steop, from stepan, to deprive, is prefixed to certain words to express a relation by marriage. NWAD STEP.36
STEP-BROTHER, n. A brother-in-law, or by marriage. NWAD STEP-BROTHER.1
STEP-CHILD, n. [step and child.] A son-in-law or daughter-in-law, [a child deprived of its parent.] NWAD STEP-CHILD.1
STEP-DAME, n. A mother by marriage, [the mother of an orphan or one deprived.] NWAD STEP-DAME.1
STEP-DAUGHTER, n. A daughter by marriage, [an orphan daughter.] NWAD STEP-DAUGHTER.1
STEP-FATHER, n. A father-in-law; a father by marriage only; [the father of an orphan.] NWAD STEP-FATHER.1
STEP-MOTHER, n. A mother by marriage only; a mother-in-law; [the mother of an orphan.] NWAD STEP-MOTHER.1
STEP-SISTER, n. A sister-in-law, or by marriage, [an orphan sister.] NWAD STEP-SISTER.1
STEP-SON, n. A son-in-law, [an orphan son.] NWAD STEP-SON.1
[In the foregoing explication of step, I have followed Lye. The D. And G. Write stief, and the Swedes styf, before the name; a word which does not appear to be connected with any verb signifying to bereave, and the word is not without some difficulties. I have given the explanation which appears to be most probably correct. If the radical sense of step, a pace, is to part or open, the word coincides with Sax. Stepan, to deprive, and in the compounds above, step may imply removal or distance.] NWAD STEP-SON.2
STEPPED, pp. Set; placed; erected; fixed in the keel, as a mast. NWAD STEPPED.1
STEPPING, ppr. Moving, or advancing by a movement of the foot or feet; placing; fixing or erecting, as a mast. NWAD STEPPING.1
STEPPING, n. The act of walking or running by steps. NWAD STEPPING.2
STEPPING-STONE, n. A stone to raise the feet above the dirt and mud in walking. NWAD STEPPING-STONE.1
STEP-STONE, n. A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house. NWAD STEP-STONE.1
STER, in composition, is from the Sax. Steora, a director. See Steer. It seems primarily to have signified chief, principal or director, as in the L. Minister, chief servant; but in other words, as in spinster, we do not recognize the sense of chief, but merely that of a person who carries on the business of spinning. NWAD STER.1
STERCORACEOUS, a. [L., dung.] Pertaining to dung, or partaking of its nature. NWAD STERCORACEOUS.1
STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST, n. [L., dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion. NWAD STERCORARIAN.1
STERCORARY, n. A place properly secured from the weather for containing dung. NWAD STERCORARY.1
STERCORATION, n. [L.] The act of manuring with dung. NWAD STERCORATION.1
STERE, n. In the new French system of measures, the unit for solid measure, equal to a cubic meter. NWAD STERE.1
STEREOGRAPHIC, STEREOGRAPHICAL, a. [from stereography.] Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as a stereographic chart of the earth. NWAD STEREOGRAPHIC.1
STEREOGRAPHICALLY, adv. By delineation on plane. NWAD STEREOGRAPHICALLY.1
STEREOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., firm; to write.] The act or art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined. NWAD STEREOGRAPHY.1
STEREOMETRICAL, a. [See Stereometry.] Pertaining to or performed by stereometry. NWAD STEREOMETRICAL.1
STEREOMETRY, n. [Gr., firm, fixed; to measure.] The art of measuring solid bodies, and finding their solid content. NWAD STEREOMETRY.1
STEREOTOMICAL, a. Pertaining to or performed by stereotomy. NWAD STEREOTOMICAL.1
STEREOTOMY, n. [Gr., fixed; to cut.] The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, etc. NWAD STEREOTOMY.1
STEREOTYPE, n. [Gr., fixed; type, form.] NWAD STEREOTYPE.1
1. Literally, a fixed metal type; hence, a plate of fixed or solid metallic types for printing books. Thus we say, a book is printed on stereotype, or in stereotype. In the latter use, the word seems rather to signify the workmanship or manner of printing, than the plate. NWAD STEREOTYPE.2
2. The art of making plates of fixed metallic types, or of executing work on such plates. NWAD STEREOTYPE.3
STEREOTYPE, a. NWAD STEREOTYPE.4
1. Pertaining to fixed metallic types. NWAD STEREOTYPE.5
2. Done on fixed metallic types, or plates of fixed types; as stereotype work; stereotype printing; a stereotype copy of the Bible. NWAD STEREOTYPE.6
STEREOTYPE, v.t. To make fixed metallic types or plates of type metal, corresponding with the words and letters of a book; to compose a book in fixed types; as, to stereotype the New Testament; certain societies have stereotyped the Bible. NWAD STEREOTYPE.7
STEREOTYPER, n. One who makes stereotype. NWAD STEREOTYPER.1
STEREOTYPING, ppr. Making stereotype plates for any work; or impressing copies on stereotype plates. NWAD STEREOTYPING.1
STEREOTYPOGRAPHER, n. A stereo-type printer. NWAD STEREOTYPOGRAPHER.1
STEREOTYPOGRAPHY, n. The art or practice of printing on stereotype. NWAD STEREOTYPOGRAPHY.1
1. Barren; unfruitful; not fertile; producing little or no crop; as sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. NWAD STERIL.2
2. Barren; producing no young. NWAD STERIL.3
3. Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment, as a sterile production or author. NWAD STERIL.4
Sterile flower, in botany, is a term given by Tournefort to the male flower, or that which bears only stamens. NWAD STERIL.5
STERILITY, n. [L.] NWAD STERILITY.1
1. Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as the sterility of land or soil. NWAD STERILITY.2
2. Barrenness; unfruitfulness; the state of not producing young; as of animals. NWAD STERILITY.3
3. Barrenness of ideas or sentiments, as in writings. NWAD STERILITY.4
4. Want of fertility or the power of producing sentiment; as the sterility of an author or of his mind. NWAD STERILITY.5
STERILIZE, v.t. NWAD STERILIZE.1
1. To make barren; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little used.] NWAD STERILIZE.2
2. To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little used.] NWAD STERILIZE.3
STERLET, n. A fish of the Caspian and of the rivers in Russia, the Acipenser ruthenus of Linne, highly esteemed for its flavor, and from whose roe is made the finest caviare. NWAD STERLET.1
STERLING, a. [probably from Easterling.] NWAD STERLING.1
1. An epithet by which English money of account is distinguished; as a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling. It is not now applied to the coins of England; but sterling cost, sterling value are used. NWAD STERLING.2
2. Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; as a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling wit or good sense. NWAD STERLING.3
STERLING, n. NWAD STERLING.4
1. English money. NWAD STERLING.5
And Roman wealth in English sterling view. NWAD STERLING.6
In this use, sterling may signify English coins. NWAD STERLING.7
2. Standard; rate. [Little used in either sense.] NWAD STERLING.8
STERN, a. [G., staring; stubborn. See Stare, Starch, Stark, with which this word is probably connected.] NWAD STERN.1
1. Severe; austere; fixed with an aspect of severity and authority; as a stern look; a stern countenance; a stern frown. NWAD STERN.2
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. NWAD STERN.3
2. Severe of manner; rigid; harsh; cruel. NWAD STERN.4
Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. NWAD STERN.5
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. NWAD STERN.6
3. Hard; afflictive. NWAD STERN.7
If wolves had at thy gate howld that stern time. NWAD STERN.8
4. Rigidly stedfast; immovable. NWAD STERN.9
Stern virtue is the growth of few soils. NWAD STERN.10
STERN, n. NWAD STERN.11
1. The hind part of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stern or prow. This part of a ship is terminated by the tafferel above, and by the counters below. NWAD STERN.12
2. Post of management; direction. NWAD STERN.13
An sit at chiefest stern of public weal. [Not in use. We now say, to sit at the helm.] NWAD STERN.14
3. The hinder part of any thing. [Not elegant.] NWAD STERN.15
By the stern, is a phrase which denotes that a ship is more deeply laden abaft than forward. NWAD STERN.16
STERNAGE, n. Steerage or stern. [Not in use.] NWAD STERNAGE.1
STERN-BOARD, n. [stern and board.] In seamens language, a loss of way in making a tack. To make a stern-board, is when by a current or other cause, a vessel has fallen back from the point she had gained in the last tack. NWAD STERN-BOARD.1
STERN-CHASE, n. [stern and chase.] A cannon placed in a ships stern, pointing backward and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit of her. NWAD STERN-CHASE.1
STERNED, a. In compounds, having a stern of a particular shape; as square-sterned; pink-sterned, etc. NWAD STERNED.1
STERNER, n. A director. [Not in use.] NWAD STERNER.1
STERN-FAST, n. [stern and fast.] A rope used to confine the stern of a ship or other vessel. NWAD STERN-FAST.1
STERN-FRAME, n. [stern and frame.] The several pieces of timber which form the stern of a ship. NWAD STERN-FRAME.1
STERNLY, adv. [See Stern.] In a stern manner; with an austere or stern countenance; with an air of authority. NWAD STERNLY.1
Sternly he pronouncd the rigid interdiction. NWAD STERNLY.2
STERNNESS, n. NWAD STERNNESS.1
1. Severity of look; a look of austerity, rigor or severe authority; as the sternness of ones presence. NWAD STERNNESS.2
2. Severity or harshness of manner; rigor. NWAD STERNNESS.3
I have sternness in my soul enough to hear of soldiers work. NWAD STERNNESS.4
STERNMOST, a. [stern and most.] Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as the sternmost ship in a convoy. NWAD STERNMOST.1
STERNON, n. [Gr.] The breast bone. But sternum is chiefly or wholly used. NWAD STERNON.1
STERN-PORT, n. [stern and port.] A port or opening in the stern of a ship. NWAD STERN-PORT.1
STERN-POST, n. [stern and post.] A straight piece of timber, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder and terminate the ship behind. NWAD STERN-POST.1
STERN-SHEETS, n. [stern and sheet.] That part of a boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers; usually furnished with seats for passengers. NWAD STERN-SHEETS.1
STERNUM, n. [Gr., from fixing, setting. See Starch, Stark.] The breast bone; the bone which forms the front of the human chest from the neck to the stomach. NWAD STERNUM.1
STERNUTATION, n. [L.] The act of sneezing. NWAD STERNUTATION.1
STERNUTATIVE, a. [L., to sneeze.] Having the quality of provoking to sneeze. NWAD STERNUTATIVE.1
STERNUTATORY, a. [L., to sneeze.] Having the quality of exciting to sneeze. NWAD STERNUTATORY.1
STERNUTATORY, n. A substance that provokes sneezing. NWAD STERNUTATORY.2
STERN-WAY, n. [stern and way.] The movement of a ship backwards, or with her stern foremost. NWAD STERN-WAY.1
STERQUILINOUS, a. [L., a dunghill.] Pertaining to a dunghill; mean; dirty; paltry. NWAD STERQUILINOUS.1
STERVEN, to starve, not in use. NWAD STERVEN.1
STETHESCOPE, n. [Gr., the breast; to view.] A tubular instrument for distinguishing diseases of the stomach by sounds. NWAD STETHESCOPE.1
STEVE, v.t. [from the root of stow.] To stow, as cotton or wool in a ships hold. [Local.] NWAD STEVE.1
STEVEDORE, n. One whose occupation is to stow goods, packages, etc. in a ships hold. NWAD STEVEDORE.1
STEVEN, n. An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. [Not in use.] NWAD STEVEN.1
STEW, v.t. NWAD STEW.1
1. To seethe or gently boil; to boil slowly in a moderate manner, or with a simmering heat; as, to stew meat; to stew applies; to stew prunes. NWAD STEW.2
2. To boil in heat. NWAD STEW.3
STEW, v.i. To be seethed in a slow gentle manner, or in heat and moisture. NWAD STEW.4
STEW, n. NWAD STEW.5
1. A hot house; a bagnio. NWAD STEW.6
The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. NWAD STEW.7
2. A brothel; a house of prostitution; but generally or always used int he plural, stews. NWAD STEW.8
3. A prostitute. [Not in use.] NWAD STEW.9
4. [See Stow.] A store pond; a small pond where fish are kept for the table. [Not used.] NWAD STEW.10
5. Meat stewed; as a stew of pigeons. NWAD STEW.11
6. Confusion, as when the air is full of dust. [Not in use or local.] NWAD STEW.12
STEWARD, n. [G., a room. The steward was then originally a chamberlain or a butler.] NWAD STEWARD.1
1. A man employed in great families to manage the domestic concerns, superintend the other servants, collect the rents or income, keep the accounts, etc. See Genesis 15:2 and Genesis 43:19. NWAD STEWARD.2
2. An officer of state; as lord high steward; steward of the household, etc. NWAD STEWARD.3
3. In colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the concerns of the kitchen. NWAD STEWARD.4
4. In a ship of war, an officer who is appointed by the purser to distribute provisions to the officers and crew. In other ships, a man who superintends the provisions and liquors, and supplies the table. NWAD STEWARD.5
5. In Scripture and theology, a minister of Christ, whose duty is to dispense the provisions of the gospel, to preach its doctrines and administer its ordinances. NWAD STEWARD.6
It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 1 Corinthians 4:2. NWAD STEWARD.7
STEWARD, v.t. To manage as a steward. [Not in use.] NWAD STEWARD.8
STEWARDLY, adv. With the care of a steward. [Little used.] NWAD STEWARDLY.1
STEWARDSHIP, n. The office of a steward. NWAD STEWARDSHIP.1
STEWARTRY, n. An overseer or superintendent. NWAD STEWARTRY.1
The stewartry of provisions. NWAD STEWARTRY.2
STEWED, pp. Gently boiled; boiled in heat. NWAD STEWED.1
STEWING, ppr. Boiling in a moderate heat. NWAD STEWING.1
STEWING, n. The act of seething slowly. NWAD STEWING.2
STEWISH, a. Suiting a brothel. NWAD STEWISH.1
STEW-PAN, n. A pan in which things are stewed. NWAD STEW-PAN.1
STIBIAL, a. [L., antimony.] Like or having the qualities of antimony; antimonial. NWAD STIBIAL.1
STIBIARIAN, n. [L.] A violent man. [An improper word and not in use.] NWAD STIBIARIAN.1
STIBIATED, a. Impregnated with anitmony. NWAD STIBIATED.1
STIBIUM, n. [L.] Antimony. NWAD STIBIUM.1
STICADOS, n. A plant. NWAD STICADOS.1
STICH, n. [Gr.] NWAD STICH.1
1. In poetry, a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet. NWAD STICH.2
Stich is used in numbering the books of Scripture. NWAD STICH.3
2. In rural affairs, an order or rank of trees. [In New England, as much land as lies between double furrows, is called a stitch, or a land.] NWAD STICH.4