An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

Staurolite.

To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

pl. of Staff. pl. of Stave.

A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.

A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

A casing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

To be fixed or set; to stay.

That which serves as a prop; a support.

Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.

Staidly. See Staidly.

Staidness.

One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, as in a race.

A lace for fastening stays.

Without stop or delay.

One whose occupation is to make stays.

The European starling.

Any sail extended on a stay.

A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm.

In a steadfast manner; firmly.

The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.

In a steady manner.

The quality or state of being steady.

The barns, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.

To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.

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.

To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

One who steals; a thief.

The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion.

The act of stealing; theft.

Given to stealth; stealthy.

In a stealthy manner.

The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.

Stealthy; sly.

Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.

To exhale.

To cause to be covered by a translucent layer of condensed water in fine droplets, such as by breathing on a cold window; to fog; as, to steam up one's eyeglasses.

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.

The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.

The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistiness.

A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

Consisting of, or resembling, steam; vaporous; misty.

See Steen.

See Steening.

An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.

A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.

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.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearic acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.

The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elaeoptene.

Seborrhea.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

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.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.

A cyst containing matter like suet.

A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot (Khoikhoi) women.

Having fat buttocks.

See Stead, Steadfast, etc.

A ladder.

A horse, especially a spirited horse for state or war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.

Having no steed; without a horse.

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

Same as Stealer.

A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preestl.

The quality of being steely.

The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.

Made of steel; consisting of steel.

A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.

See 1st and 2nd Stem.

A gleam of light; flame.

To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.

Same as Steinbock.

A lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well.

A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.

Deep and precipitous; having steep descent.

Lofty and precipitous.

To become steep or steeper.

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

Steepness.

Somewhat steep.

A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.

Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.

The act of riding steeple chases.

Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.

In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.

Steep; precipitous.

A helmsman; a pilot.

Capable of being steered; dirigible.

The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

One who steers; as, a boat steerer.

a. n. from Steer, v.

Having no rudder.

A young or small steer.

One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.

One who steers; steersman.

The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving. A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.

The act or practice of one who steeves.

A gander.

One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.

The Discophora, or Phanerocarpae. Called also Steganophthalmia.

One of the Steganopodes.

A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.

Having all four toes webbed together.

Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally. A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.

A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

See Steek.

To pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to sew; also, to fix; to fasten.

See Steen.

The European ibex. A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.