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Station

STATION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of standing.

Their manner was to stand at prayer--on which their meetings for that purpose received the name of stations.

2. A state of rest.

All progression is preformed by drawing on or impelling forward what was before in station or at quiet. [Rare.]

3. The spot or place where one stands, particularly where a person habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as the station of a sentinel. Each detachment of troops had its station

4. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform. The chief magistrate occupies the first political station in a nation. Other officers fill subordinate stations. The office of bishop is an ecclesiastical station of great importance. It is the duty of the executive to fill all civil and military stations with men of worth.

5. Situation; position.

The fig and date, why love they to remain in middle station?

6. Employment; occupation; business.

By sending the sabbath in retirement and religious exercises, we gain new strength and resolution to perform Gods will in our several stations the week following.

7. Character; state.

The greater part have kept their station

8. Rank; condition of life. He can be contented with a humble station

9. In church history, the fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

10. In the church of Rome, a church where indulgences are to be had on certain days.

STATION, verb transitive To place; to set; or to appoint to the occupation of a post, place or office; as, to station troops on the right or left of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa or in the West Indies; to station a man at the head of the department of finance.

Station-Bill

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

Stational

STATIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a station.

Stationary

STATIONARY, adjective

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

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

3. Respecting place.

The same harmony and stationary constitution---

STATIONARY fever, a fever depending on peculiar seasons.

Stationer

STATIONER, noun [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.

Stationery

STATIONERY, noun The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, ink, quills; etc.

STATIONERY, adjective Belonging to a stationer.

Statist

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

STATISTs indeed, and lovers of their country. [Not now used.]

Statistic

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

Statistical

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

Statistics

STATISTICS, noun 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.

Statuary

STATUARY, noun [Latin , a statue; to set.]

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

[In this sense the word has no plural.]

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

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.

Statue

STATUE, noun [Latin , 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.

STATUE, verb transitive To place, as a statue; to form a statue of.

Statuminate

STATUMINATE, verb transitive [Latin] To prop or support. [Not in use.]

Stature

STATURE, noun [Latin , to set.] The natural highth of an animal body. It is more generally used of the human body.

Foreign men of mighty stature came.

Statured

STATURED, adjective Arrived at full stature. [Little used.]

Statutable

STATUTABLE, adjective [from statute.]

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

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

Statutably

STATUTABLY, adverb In a manner agreeable to statute.

Statute

STATUTE, [Latin , to set.]

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.

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

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

Statute-Merchant

STATUTE-MERCHANT, noun 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.

Statute-Staple

STATUTE-STAPLE, noun 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.

Statutory

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

Staurolite

STAUROLITE, STAUROTIDE, noun [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.

Staurotide

STAUROLITE, STAUROTIDE noun [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.

Stave

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

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.

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

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.

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

STAVE, verb transitive preterit tense stove or staved; participle passive id.

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

2. To push as with a staff; with off.

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

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

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

All the wine in the city has been staved.

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

STAVE, verb intransitive To fight with staves. [Not in use.]

Staves

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

Staw

STAW, verb intransitive To be fixed or set. [Not in use or local.]

Stay

STAY, verb intransitive preterit tense staid, for stayed. [Latin , to stand.]

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.

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

2. To continue in a state.

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

3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

I stay for Turnus.

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

4. To stop; to stand still.

She would command the hasty sun to stay

5. To dwell.

I must stay a little on one action.

6. To rest; to rely; to confide in; to trust.

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

STAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive staid, for stayed.

1. To stop; to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain.

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

To stay these sudden gusts of passion.

2. To delay; to obstruct; to hinder from proceeding.

Your ships are staid at Venice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

STAY, noun

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

Embrace the hero, and his stay implore.

2. Stand; stop; cessation of motion or progression.

Affairs of state seemd rather to stand at a stay

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

3. Stop; obstruction; hinderance from progress.

Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay

4. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

With prudent stay he long deferrd the rough contention.

5. A fixed state.

Alas, what stay is there in human state!

6. Prop; support.

Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.

My only strength and stay!

The Lord is my stay Psalms 18:18.

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

7. Steadiness of conduct.

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.

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.

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

Stay-Sail

STAY-SAIL, noun [stay and sail.] Any sail extended on a stay.

Stay-Tackle

STAY-TACKLE, noun [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.

Stayed

STAYED, participle passive Staid; fixed; settle; sober. It is now written staid, which see.

Stayedly

STAYEDLY, adverb Composedly; gravely; moderately; prudently; soberly. [Little used.]

Stayedness

STAYEDNESS, noun

1. Moderation; gravity; sobriety; prudence. [See Staidness.]

2. Solidity; weight. [Little used.]

Stayer

STAYER, noun One that stops or restrains; one who upholds or supports; that which props.

Staylace

STAYLACE, noun A lace for fastening the bodice in female dress.

Stayless

STAYLESS, adjective Without stop or delay. [Little used.]

Staymaker

STAYMAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make stays.

Stays

STAYS, noun plural

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

2. stays of a ship. [See Stay.]

3. Station; fixed anchorage.

4. Any support; that which keeps another extended.

Weavers, stretch your stays upon the weft.

Stead

STEAD, STED, noun [G. See Stay.]

1. Place; in general.

Fly this fearful stead

[In this sense not used.]

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.

God hath appointed me another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 4:1.

3. The frame on which a bed is laid.

Sallow the feet, the borders and the sted.

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

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

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead

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.

STEAD, verb transitive sted.

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

2. To fill the place of another.

Steadfast

STEADFAST, STEDFAST, adjective [stead and fast.]

Steadfastly

STEADFASTLY, STEDFASTLY, adverb Firmly; with constancy or steadiness of mind.

Steadfastness

STEADFASTNESS, STEDFASTNESS, noun

Steadily

STEADILY, STEDDILY, adverb

Steadiness

STEADINESS, STEDDINESS, n. 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.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.3. Consistent uniform conduct.Steddiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage.

Steady

STEADY, STEDDY, a. 1. Firm in standing or position; fixed; not tottering or shaking; applicable to any object.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.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.4. Regular; not fluctuating; as a steddy breeze of wind. STEADY, STEDDY, v.t. To hold or keep from shaking, reeling or falling; to support; to make or keep firm. Steddy my hand.

Steak

STEAK, noun [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.]

Steal

STEAL, verb transitive preterit tense stole; participle passive stolen, stole. [G. L, to take, to lift.]

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.

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

2. To Withdraw or convey without notice or clandestinely.

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

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

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

So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 2 Samuel 15:1.

STEAL, verb intransitive

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

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

From whom you now must steal and take no leave.

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

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

Thou shalt not steal Exodus 20:15.

Stealer

STEALER, noun One that steals; a thief.

Stealing

STEALING, participle present tense Taking the goods of another feloniously; withdrawing imperceptibly; gaining gradually.

Stealingly

STEALINGLY, adverb Slyly; privately, or by an invisible motion. [Little used.]

Stealth

STEALTH, noun stelth.

1. The act of stealing; theft.

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

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

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

Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.

The monarch blinded with desire of wealth, with steel invades the brothers life by stealth

Stealthy

STEALTHY, adjective Stelthy. Done by stealth; clandestine; unperceived.

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

Steam

STEAM, noun

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

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

STEAM, verb intransitive

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

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

2. To send off visible vapor.

Ye mists that rise from steaming lake.

3. To pass off in visible vapor.

The dissolved amber--steamed away into the air.

STEAM, verb transitive

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

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.

Steam-Boat

STEAM-BOAT, STEAM-VESSEL, noun A vessel propelled through the water by steam.

Steam-Boiler

STEAM-BOILER, noun A boiler for steaming food for cattle.

Steam-Engine

STEAM-ENGINE, noun An engine worked by steam.

Steam-Vessel

STEAM-BOAT, STEAM-VESSEL noun A vessel propelled through the water by steam.

Steamed

STEAMED, participle passive Exposed to steam; cooked or dressed by steam.

Steaming

STEAMING, participle present tense Exposing to steam; cooking or dressing by steam; preparing for cattle by steam, as roots.

Stean

STEAN, for stone. [Not in use.]

Stearin

STEARIN, noun 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.

Steatite

STEATITE, noun [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.

Steatitic

STEATITIC, adjective Pertaining to soapstone; of the nature of steatite, or resembling it.

Steatocele

STEATOCELE, noun [Gr., fat, a tumor.] A swelling of the scrotum, containing fat.

Steatoma

STEATOMA, noun [Gr.] A species of tumor containing matter like suet.

Sted

STED, STEDFAST. [See Stead.]

Steddily

STEADILY, STEDDILY adverb

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

2. Without wavering, inconstancy or irregularity; without deviating. He STEDDILY pursues his studies.

Steddiness

STEADINESS, STEDDINESS noun

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

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.

3. Consistent uniform conduct.

Steddiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage.

Steddy

STEADY, STEDDY adjective

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

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.

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.

4. Regular; not fluctuating; as a STEDDY breeze of wind.

STEADY, STEDDY, verb transitive To hold or keep from shaking, reeling or falling; to support; to make or keep firm. STEDDY my hand.

Stedfast

STEADFAST, STEDFAST adjective [stead and fast.]

1. Fast fixed; firm; firmly fixed or established; as the STEDFAST globe of earth.

2. Constant; firm; resolute; not fickle or wavering.

Abide STEDFAST to thy neighbor in the time of his trouble.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith. 1 Peter 5:9.

3. Steady; as STEDFAST sight.

Stedfastly

STEADFASTLY, STEDFASTLY adverb Firmly; with constancy or steadiness of mind.

Steadfastly believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true.

Stedfastness

STEADFASTNESS, STEDFASTNESS noun

1. Firmness of standing; fixedness in place.

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

Steed

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

Stout are our men, and warlike are our steeds.

Steel

STEEL, noun [G.]

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.

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

Brave Macbeth with his brandishd steel

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

3. Medicines composed of steel as steel fillings.

After relaxing, steel strengthens the solids.

4. Extreme hardness; as heads or hearts of steel

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

STEEL, verb transitive

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

2. To make hard or extremely hard.

O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts.

Lies well steeld with weighty arguments.

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.

Steeled

STEELED, participle passive Pointed or edged with steel; hardened; made insensible.

Steeliness

STEELINESS, noun [from steely. ] Great hardness.

Steeling

STEELING, participle present tense Pointing or edging with steel; hardening; making insensible or unfeeling.

Steely

STEELY, adjective

1. Made of steel; consisting of steel.

Broachd with the steely point of Cliffords lance.

Around his shop the steely sparkles flew.

2. Hard; firm.

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

Steelyard

STEELYARD, noun [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.

Steen

STEEN, STEAN, noun A vessel of clay or stone. [Not in use.]

Steenkirk

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

Steep

STEEP, adjective 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.

STEEP, noun 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.

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

STEEP, verb transitive [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.

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

Steeped

STEEPED, participle passive Soaked; macerated; imbued.

Steeper

STEEPER, noun A vessel, vat or cistern in which things are steeped.

Steeping

STEEPING, participle present tense Soaking; macerating.

Steeple

STEEPLE, noun 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

They, far from steeples and their sacred sound---

Steeple-House

STEEPLE-HOUSE, noun A church. [Not in use.]

Steepled

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

Steeply

STEEPLY, adverb With steepness; with precipitous declivity.

Steepness

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

Steepy

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

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

Steer

STEER, noun 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.

With solemn pomp then sacrificd a steer

STEER, verb transitive [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.]

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

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

That with a staff his feeble steps did steer

STEER, verb intransitive

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.

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

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

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

STEER, noun A rudder or helm. [Not in use.]

Steerage

STEERAGE, noun

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

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

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

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.

4. The part of a ship where the tiller traverses.

5. Direction; regulation.

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

6. Regulation or management.

You raise the honor of the peerage, proud to attend you at the steerage

7. That by which a course is directed.

Here he hung on high the steerage of his wings---

[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.]

Steerage-Way

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

Steered

STEERED, participle passive Directed and governed in a course; guided; conducted.

Steerer

STEERER, noun One that steers; a pilot. [Little used.]

Steering

STEERING, participle present tense Directing and governing in a course, as a ship; guiding; conducting.

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

Steering-Wheel

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

Steerless

STEERLESS, adjective Having no steer or rudder. [Not in use.]

Steersman

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

Steersmate

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

Steeving

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

Steg

STEG, noun A gander. [Local.]

Steganographist

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

Steganography

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

Stegnotic

STEGNOTIC, adjective [Gr.] Tending to bind or render costive.

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

Steinheilite

STEINHEILITE, noun A mineral, a variety or iolite.

Stele

STELE, noun A stale or handle; a stalk.

Stelechite

STELECHITE, noun A fine kind of storax, in larger pieces than the calamite.

Stellar

STELLAR, STELLARY, adjective [Latin , a star.]

Stellary

STELLAR, STELLARY adjective [Latin , a star.]

1. Pertaining to stars; astral; as stellar virute; stellar figure.

2. Starry; full of stars; set with stars; as STELLARY regions.

Stellate

STELLATE, STELLATED, adjective [Latin]

Stellated

STELLATE, STELLATED adjective [Latin]

1. Resembling a star; radiated.

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.

Stellation

STELLATION, noun [Latin , a star.] Radiation of light. [Not in use.]

Stelled

STELLED, adjective Starry. [Not in use.]

Stelliferous

STELLIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a star; to produce.] Having or abounding with stars.

Stelliform

STELLIFORM, adjective [Latin , a star; to produce.] Like a star; radiated.

Stellify

STELLIFY, verb transitive To turn into a star. [Not in use.]

Stellion

STELLION, noun [Latin] A newt.

Stellionate

STELLIONATE, noun [Low Latin ] 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.]

Stellite

STELLITE, noun [Latin , a star.] A name given by some writers to a white stone found on Mount Libanus, containing the lineaments of the star-fish.

Stelochite

STELOCHITE, noun A name given to the osteocolla.

Stelography

STELOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., a pillar; to write.] The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

Stem

STEM, noun [G., stock, stem race. The primary sense is to set, to fix.]

1. The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant of any kind; the main stock; the firm part which supports the branches.

After thy are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough or twig on the stem

The lowring spring with lavish rain, beats down the slender stem and bearded grain.

2. The peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicle of a flower; that which supports the flower or the fruit of a planet.

3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors; as a noble stem

Learn well their lineage and their ancient stem

4. Progeny; branch of a family.

Of that victorious stock.

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.

STEM, verb transitive

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.

They stem the flood with their erected breasts.

2. To stop; to check; as a stream or moving force.

At length Erasmus, that great injurd name, stemmd the wild torrent of a barbrous age, and drove those holy Vandals off the stage.

Stem-Clasping

STEM-CLASPING, adjective Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

Stem-Leaf

STEM-LEAF, noun A leaf inserted into the stem.

Stemless

STEMLESS, adjective Having no stem.

Stemmed

STEMMED, participle passive Opposed, as a current; stopped.

Stemming

STEMMING, participle present tense Opposing, as a stream; stopping.

Stemple

STEMPLE, noun In mining, a cross bar of wood in a shaft.

Stench

STENCH, noun [See Stink.] An ill smell; offensive odor.

STENCH, verb transitive

1. To cause to emit a hateful smell. [Not in use.]

2. To stanch; to stop. [Not in use.]

Stenchy

STENCHY, adjective Having an offensive smell. [Not in use.]

Stencil

STENCIL, noun A piece of thin lether or oil cloth, used in painting paper hangings.

STENCIL, verb transitive To paint or color in figures with stencils.

Stenographer

STENOGRAPHER, noun [Gr., close, narrow; to write.] One who is skilled in the art of short hand writing.

Stenographic

STENOGRAPHIC, STENOGRAPHICAL, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the art of writing in short hand; expressing in characters or short hand.

Stenographical

STENOGRAPHIC, STENOGRAPHICAL adjective [supra.] Pertaining to the art of writing in short hand; expressing in characters or short hand.

Stenography

STENOGRAPHY, noun [supra.] The art of writing in short hand by using abbreviations or characters for whole words.

Stent

STENT, for stint. [See Stint.]

Stentorian

STENTORIAN, adjective [from Stentor.]

1. Extremely loud; as a stentorian voice.

2. Able to utter a very loud sound; as stentorian lungs.

Stentorophonic

STENTOROPHONIC, adjective [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.

Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a figure preserved in the Vatican.

Step

STEP, verb intransitive [Gr., the foot. The sense is to set, as the foot, or move probably to open or part, to stretch or extend.]

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.

2. To go; to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.

3. To walk gravely, slowly or resolutely.

Home the swain retreats, his flock before him stepping to the fold.

To step forth, to move or come forth.

To step aside, to walk to a little distance; to retire from company.

To step in or into,

1. To walk or advance into a place or state; or to advance suddenly in John 5:1.

2. To enter for a short time. I just stepped into the house for a moment.

3. To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon suddenly; as, to step into an estate.

To step back, to move mentally; to carry the mind back.

They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.

STEP, verb transitive

1. To set, as the foot.

2. To fix the foot of a mast in the keel; to erect.

STEP, noun [G., to form a step or ledge.]

1. A pace; an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot.

2. One remove in ascending or descending; a stair.

The breadth of every single step or stair should be neer less than one foot.

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.

4. A small space or distance. Let us go to the gardens; it is but a step

5. The distance between the feet in walking or running.

6. Gradation; degree. We advance improvement step by step or by steps.

7. Progression; act of advancing.

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.

8. Footstep; print or impression of the foot; track.

9. Gait; manner of walking. The approach of a man is often known by his step

10. Proceeding; measure; action.

The reputation of a man depends of the first steps he makes in the world.

11. The round of a ladder.

12. Steps in the plural, walk; passage.

Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree in this deep forest.

13. Pieces of timber in which the foot of a mast is fixed.

Step-Brother

STEP-BROTHER, noun A brother-in-law, or by marriage.

Step-Child

STEP-CHILD, noun [step and child.[ A son-in-law or daughter-in-law, [a child deprived of its parent.]

Step-Dame

STEP-DAME, noun A mother by marriage, [the mother of an orphan or one deprived.]

Step-Daughter

STEP-DAUGHTER, noun A daughter by marriage, [an orphan daughter.]

Step-Father

STEP-FATHER, noun A father-in-law; a father by marriage only; [the father of an orphan.]

Step-Mother

STEP-MOTHER, noun A mother by marriage only; a mother-in-law; [the mother of an orphan.]

Step-Sister

STEP-SISTER, noun A sister-in-law, or by marriage, [an orphan sister.]

Step-Son

STEP-SON, noun A son-in-law, [an orphan son.]

[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.]

Step-Stone

STEP-STONE, noun A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

Stepp

STEP, STEPP noun In Russ, an uncultivated desert of large extent.

STEP, Sax. Steop, from stepan, to deprive, is prefixed to certain words to express a relation by marriage.

Stepped

STEPPED, participle passive Set; placed; erected; fixed in the keel, as a mast.

Stepping

STEPPING, participle present tense Moving, or advancing by a movement of the foot or feet; placing; fixing or erecting, as a mast.

STEPPING, noun The act of walking or running by steps.

Stepping-Stone

STEPPING-STONE, noun A stone to raise the feet above the dirt and mud in walking.

Ster

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 Latin 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.

Stercoraceous

STERCORACEOUS, adjective [Latin , dung.] Pertaining to dung, or partaking of its nature.

Stercoranist

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST noun [Latin , dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

Stercorarian

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST, noun [Latin , dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

Stercorary

STERCORARY, noun A place properly secured from the weather for containing dung.

Stercoration

STERCORATION, noun [Latin] The act of manuring with dung.

Stere

STERE, noun In the new French system of measures, the unit for solid measure, equal to a cubic meter.

Stereographic

STEREOGRAPHIC, STEREOGRAPHICAL, adjective [from stereography.] Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as a stereographic chart of the earth.