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Steinbock

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

Stela

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

Stele

A stale, or handle; a stalk.

Stelene

Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.

Stell

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

Stellary Stellar

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

steller

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

Stellerida

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

Stellify

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

Stellion

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.

Stellionate

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.

Stellular

Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

Stelography

The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

Stem

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

Stem-clasping

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

Stem-winding

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

Stemma

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

Stemmer

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

Stemmery

A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.

Stemmy

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

Stemple

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

Stemson

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

Stench

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

Stencil

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

Stenciler

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

Stenoderm

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.

Stenodermine

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

Stenograph

A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

Stenographer

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

Stenography

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

Stenosis

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.

Stenostome

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

Stent

An allotted portion; a stint.

Stenting

An opening in a wall in a coal mine.

Stentor

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

Stentorian

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

Stentorin

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

Step

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

Step-down

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

Step-up

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

Stepbrother

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

Stepchild

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

Stepdaughter

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

Stepfather

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

Stephanion

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

Stephanite

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

Stephanotis

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

Stepmother

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

Steppe

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.

Stepped

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

Stepper

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

Stepping-stone

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

Stepsister

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

Stepson

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

Stepstone

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

Stercobilin

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

Stercoraceous

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

Stercoranist

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.

Stercorary

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

Sterculiaceous

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.

Stere

Helmsman. See 6th Steer.

Stereo-chemical Stereo-chemic

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

Stereo-chemistry

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

Stereobate

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

Stereochromic

Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy.

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).

Stereoelectric

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.

Stereogram

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

Stereograph

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

Stereography

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.

Stereometer

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

Stereometry

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

Stereomonoscope

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.

Stereoplasm

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

Stereopticon

An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.

Stereoscope

An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.

Stereoscopical Stereoscopic

Of or pertaining to the stereoscope; characteristic of, or adapted to, the stereoscope; as, a stereoscopic effect; the stereoscopic function of the eyeglasses; stereoscopic views.

Stereoscopist

One skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.

Stereoscopy

The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.

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