Steady (n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
Steady (n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
Steady (n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
Steadied (imp. & p. p.) of Steady
Steadying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steady
Steady (v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
Steady (v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
Steak (v. t.) A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.
Steal (n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.
Stole (imp.) of Steal
Stolen (p. p.) of Steal
Stealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steal
Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
Steal (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
Steal (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
Steal (v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
Steal (v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
Steal (v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
Steal (v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
Stealer (n.) One who steals; a thief.
Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Stealing (n.) The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
Stealing (n.) That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Stealingly (adv.) By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion.
Stealth (v. t.) The act of stealing; theft.
Stealth (v. t.) The thing stolen; stolen property.
Stealth (v. t.) The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
Stealthful (a.) Given to stealth; stealthy.
Stealthily (adv.) In a stealthy manner.
Stealthiness (n.) The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
Stealthlike (a.) Stealthy; sly.
Stealthy (superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.
Steam (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
Steam (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
Steam (n.) Any exhalation.
Steamed (imp. & p. p.) of Steam
Steaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steam
Steam (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.
Steam (v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
Steam (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam.
Steam (v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
Steam (v. t.) To exhale.
Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
Steamboat (n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
Steamboating (n.) The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards.
Steam engine () An engine moved by steam.
Steamer (n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
Steamer (n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
Steamer (n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
Steamer (n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
Steamer (n.) The steamer duck.
Steaminess (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
Steamship (n.) A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
Steamy (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.
Stean (n. & v.) See Steen.
Steaningp (n.) See Steening.
Steapsin (n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.
Stearate (n.) A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
Stearic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.
Stearin (n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.
Stearolic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.
Stearone (n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
Stearoptene (n.) The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elaeoptene.
Stearrhea (n.) seborrhea.
Stearyl (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.
Steatite (n.) A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.
Steatitic (n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.
Steatoma (n.) A cyst containing matter like suet.
Steatomatous (a.) Of the nature of steatoma.
Steatopyga (n.) A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.
Steatopygous (a.) Having fat buttocks.
Sted (adv.) Alt. of Stedfastly
Stedfast (adv.) Alt. of Stedfastly
Stedfastly (adv.) See Stead, Steadfast, etc.
Stee (n.) A ladder.
Steed (n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
Steedless (a.) Having no steed; without a horse.
Steek (v. t.) Alt. of Steik
Steik (v. t.) To pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to sew; also, to fix; to fasten.
Steel (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
Steel (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
Steel (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
Steel (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
Steel (n.) A chalybeate medicine.
Steeled (imp. & p. p.) of Steel
Steeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steel
Steel (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
Steel (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
Steel (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Steelbow goods () Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
Steeler (n.) One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
Steeler (n.) Same as Stealer.
Steelhead (n.) A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
Steelhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
Steeliness (n.) The quality of being steely.
Steeling (n.) The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.