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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

One skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.

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

Geostatic.

Of or pertaining to stereotomy; performed by stereotomy.

The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.

One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.

The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.

Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.

A stereotyper.

A stereotype printer.

The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

The quality or condition of being sterile.

The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.

A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviar is made from its roe.

Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.

Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

Stern.

Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.

One of the segments of the sternum.

Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.

A director.

With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.

The sternum of an arthropod somite.

In a stern manner.

Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.

The quality or state of being stern.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

A steersman.

The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

The act of sneezing.

Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.