STEG
STEG, noun A gander. [Local.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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STEGANOGRAPHIST
STEGANOGRAPHIST, noun [Gr., secret, and to write.] One who practices the art of writing in cipher.
STEGANOGRAPHY
STEGANOGRAPHY, noun [supra.] The art of writing in ciphers or characters which are not intelligible, except to the persons who correspond with each other.
STEGNOTIC
STEGNOTIC, adjective [Gr.] Tending to bind or render costive.STEGNOTIC, noun A medicine proper to stop the orifices of the vessels or emunctories of the body, when relaxed or la...
STEINHEILITE
STEINHEILITE, noun A mineral, a variety or iolite.
STELE
STELE, noun A stale or handle; a stalk.
STELECHITE
STELECHITE, noun A fine kind of storax, in larger pieces than the calamite.
STELLAR
STELLAR, STELLARY, adjective [Latin, a star.]
STELLARY
STELLAR, STELLARY adjective [Latin, a star.]1. Pertaining to stars; astral; as stellar virute; stellar figure.2. Starry; full of stars; set with stars; as STELLARY regions.
STELLATE
STELLATE, STELLATED, adjective [Latin]
STELLATED
STELLATE, STELLATED adjective [Latin]1. Resembling a star; radiated.2. In botany, stellate or verticillate leaves are when more leaves than two surround the stem in a whorl, or ...
STELLATION
STELLATION, noun [Latin, a star.] Radiation of light. [Not in use.]
STELLED
STELLED, adjective Starry. [Not in use.]
STELLIFEROUS
STELLIFEROUS, adjective [Latin, a star; to produce.] Having or abounding with stars.
STELLIFORM
STELLIFORM, adjective [Latin, a star; to produce.] Like a star; radiated.
STELLIFY
STELLIFY, verb transitive To turn into a star. [Not in use.]
STELLION
STELLION, noun [Latin] A newt.
STELLIONATE
STELLIONATE, noun [Low Latin] In law, the crime of selling a thing deceitfully for what it is not, as to sell that for ones own which belongs to another. [Not in use.]
STELLITE
STELLITE, noun [Latin, a star.] A name given by some writers to a white stone found on Mount Libanus, containing the lineaments of the star-fish.
STELOCHITE
STELOCHITE, noun A name given to the osteocolla.
STELOGRAPHY
STELOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., a pillar; to write.] The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
STEM
STEM, noun [G., stock, stem race. The primary sense is to set, to fix.]1. The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant of any kind; the main stock; the firm part which supports ...
STEM-CLASPING
STEM-CLASPING, adjective Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
STEM-LEAF
STEM-LEAF, noun A leaf inserted into the stem.
STEMLESS
STEMLESS, adjective Having no stem.
STEMMED
STEMMED, participle passive Opposed, as a current; stopped.
STEMMING
STEMMING, participle present tense Opposing, as a stream; stopping.