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.

Of the nature of a steatoma.

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.

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.

The stannel.

See Steening.

Same as Steenkirk.

A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.

The wheater.

A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.

A stale, or handle; a stalk.

Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.

A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.

Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.

Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.

Radiation of light.

Firmly placed or fixed.

The rytina; -- called also stellerine and Steller's sea cow. See rytina.

The rytina; -- called also stellerine and steller. See rytina.

A starfish.

An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

A starfish, or brittle star.

Having, or abounding with, stars.

Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.

To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.

A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.

Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.

Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

Minutely stellate.

Same as Gymnolaemata.

The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul, as a leaf or petiole.

A stem-winding watch.

Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.

Having no stem; acaulescent.

A small or young stem.

One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus. One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.

One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.

Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc.

A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Having a stench.

To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil.

Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.

Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.

A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

Of or pertaining to stenography.

A stenographer.

The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.

Having narrow leaves.