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.

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.

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.

A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.

Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.

An allotted portion; a stint.

An opening in a wall in a coal mine.

A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.

Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.

A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.

Stentorian.

Stentorian.

Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.

An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.

Transforming or converting a current of high potential or voltage into one of low voltage; as, a step-down transformer.

Transforming or converting a low-voltage current into one of high voltage; as, a step-up transformer.

A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.

A stepmother.

A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.

The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.

A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.

A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.

A portable set of steps.

The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Stepfather or stepmother.

One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.

Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.

One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.

A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.

A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.

A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.

Same as Serolin (b).

Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.

The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.

A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

A Stercoranist.

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

Excrement; dung.

Manuring with dung.