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.

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 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.

The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.

Same as Serolin (b).

Excrement; dung.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.

Helmsman. See 6th Steer.

Same as Platyelminthes.

Pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.

Stereochromic picture.

Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy.

A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).

Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.

A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.

Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.

Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth.

In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.

Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry.

The art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.

An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.

The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm.