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.

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.

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.

Sternutative. A sternutatory substance or medicine.

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.

A star.

The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.

Started.

p. p. of Start.

Stertorous.

Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompanies inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.

To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.

To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.

See Pneumatograph.

An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Voice; speech; language.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

To manage as a steward.

A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.

The office of a steward.

An overseer or superintendent.

Suiting a stew, or brothel.

A pan used for stewing.

A pot used for stewing.

See Stee.

Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.

The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.

A sty on the eye. See Styan.

Stubborn.

Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.