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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.

Stereotomy

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

Stereotype

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

Stereotyped

Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.

Stereotyper

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

Stereotypery

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

Stereotypic

Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.

Stereotypy

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

Sterhydraulic

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

Sterile

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

Sterility

The quality or condition of being sterile.

Sterilization

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

Sterilize

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

Sterilizer

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

Sterlet

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.

Sterling

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.

Stern

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

Stern-wheel

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

Stern-wheeler

A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

Sternal

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

Sternbergite

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

Sterned

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

Sternforemost

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

Sternite

The sternum of an arthropod somite.

Sternmost

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

Sternness

The quality or state of being stern.

Sternocostal

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

Sternohyoid

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

Sternomastoid

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.

Sternothyroid

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

Sternpost

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.

Sternson

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

Sternum

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.

Sternutatory

Sternutative. A sternutatory substance or medicine.

Sternway

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

Sterquilinous

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

Sterrink

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

Sterrometal

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

Stertorous

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

Sterve

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

Stet

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.

Stethal

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.

Stethometer

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

Stethoscope

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

Stethoscopy

The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

Steve

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

Stevedore

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

Steven

Voice; speech; language.

Stew

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

Stewardess

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

Stewardly

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

Sthenic

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.

Stiacciato

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

Stian

A sty on the eye. See Styan.

Stibial

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

Stibiated

Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).

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