Stereotype (v. t.) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
Stereotype (v. t.) Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Stereotyped (a.) Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.
Stereotyped (a.) Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.
Stereotyper (n.) One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.
Stereotypery (n.) A place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.
Stereotypic (a.) Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.
Stereotypist (n.) A stereotyper.
Stereotypographer (n.) A stereotype printer.
Stereotypography (n.) The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
Stereotypy (n.) The art or process of making stereotype plates.
Sterhydraulic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.
Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
Sterile (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
Sterile (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
Sterility (n.) The quality or condition of being sterile.
Sterility (n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
Sterilization (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.
Sterilized (imp. & p. p.) of Sterilize
Sterilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sterilize
Sterilize (v. t.) To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
Sterilize (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
Sterilize (v. t.) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
Sterlet (n.) A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.
Sterling (n.) Same as Starling, 3.
Sterling (n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
Sterling (n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.
Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
Sterling (a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
Stern (n.) The black tern.
Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
Stern (v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
Stern (v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
Stern (v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
Stern (v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
Stern (v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
Stern (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Sternage (n.) Stern.
Sternal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.
Sternbergite (n.) A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.
Sternebrae (pl. ) of Sternebra
Sternebra (n.) One of the segments of the sternum.
Sterned (a.) Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
Sterner (n.) A director.
Sternforemost (adv.) With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.
Sternite (n.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.
Sternly (adv.) In a stern manner.
Sternmost (a.) Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
Sternness (n.) The quality or state of being stern.
Sterno- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.
Sternocoracoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.
Sternocostal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
Sternohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
Sternomastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
Sternothyroid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
Sternsman (n.) A steersman.
Sternson (n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
Sterna (pl. ) of Sternum
Sternums (pl. ) of Sternum
Sternum (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
Sternum (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Sternutation (n.) The act of sneezing.
Sternutative (a.) Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
Sternutatory (a.) Sternutative.
Sternutatory (n.) A sternutatory substance or medicine.
Sternway (n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
Stern-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.
Stern-wheeler (n.) A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.
Sterquilinous (a.) Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.
Sterre (n.) A star.
Sterrink (n.) The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.
Sterrometal (n.) Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.
Stert (p. p.) Started.
Sterte () p. p. of Start.
Stertorious (a.) Stertorous.
Stertorous (a.) Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
Sterve (v. t. & i.) To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.
Stet (subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
Stetted (imp. & p. p.) of Stet
Stetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stet
Stet (v. t.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
Stethal (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.
Stethograph (n.) See Pneumatograph.
Stethometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.
Stethoscope (n.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
Stethoscope (v. t.) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
Stethoscopic (a.) Alt. of Stethoscopical
Stethoscopical (a.) Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.
Stethoscopist (n.) One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.
Stethoscopy (n.) The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.
Steve (v. t.) To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.
Stevedore (n.) One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.
Steven (n.) Voice; speech; language.
Steven (n.) An outcry; a loud call; a clamor.
Stew (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
Stew (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
Stewed (imp. & p. p.) of Stew